Ashish Vaswani
I am a PhD Student in the Natural Language Group at the USC Information Sciences Institute. My advisors are Dr. David Chiang and Dr. Liang Huang.
Papers
- Smaller Alignment Models for Better Translations: Unsupervised Word Alignment with the l0-norm. Ashish
Vaswani, Liang Huang, and David Chiang, 2012. In proceedings of ACL [pdf] [code]
- Rule Markov models for fast tree-to-string translation. Ashish
Vaswani, Haitao Mi, Liang Huang, and David Chiang, 2011. In Proceedings
of ACL.[pdf][bib]
- Efficient optimization of an MDL-inspired objective function for
unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. Ashish Vaswani, Adam Pauls, and
David Chiang, 2010. In Proceedings of ACL. [pdf]
- Models and Training for Unsupervised Preposition Sense
Disambiguation. Dirk Hovy, Ashish Vaswani, Stephen Tratz, David Chiang,
and Eduard Hovy, 2011. In Proceedings of ACL. [pdf]
- Fast, greedy model minimization for unsupervised tagging. Sujith
Ravi, Ashish Vaswani, Kevin Knight, and David Chiang, 2010. In
Proceedings of COLING. [pdf]
- Activity Based Dialogue Analysis As Evaluation Method. Bilyana
Martinovski and Ashish Vaswani,2006 In procedings of the Interspeech
Workshop: Dialogue on Dialogue. [pdf]
- Hassan: A Virtual Human For Tactical Questioning. David Traum,
Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Panayiotis Georgiou, Jillian Gerten,
Bilyana Martinovski, Shri Narayanan, Susan Robinson, and Ashish
Vaswani,2007. In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse
and Dialogue. [pdf]
- Evaluation Of A Spoken Dialogue System For Virtual Reality Call
For Fire Training. Susan. Robinson, Antonio Roque, Ashish Vaswani,
Charles Hernandez, Bill Millspaugh, and David Traum, 2006. In
Proceedings of the 25th Army Science Conference. Best paper award. [pdf]
- Radiobot-CFF: A Spoken Dialogue System For Military Training.
Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Vivek Rangarajan, Susan Robinson,
Ashish Vaswani, Shri Narayanan, and David Traum, 2006. In Proceedings
of Interspeech. [pdf]
- Compressing Large Graphs Using Partially Complemented
Representations. Shiva Kintali, Ashish Vaswani, David Kempe, and
Vishal Shah (In Preparation)
Awards
- Best Paper Award at the 25th Army Science Conference, 2006
- Best Paper Award at the Information Sciences Institute Graduate Research Symposium, 2010
- Runner-Up Best Presentation Award at the Information Sciences Institute Graduate Research
Symposium, 2010