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Contact
Information
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Current position:
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Ph.D. Candidate in the
Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California
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Address:
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Information Sciences
Institute of University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite
1001, Marina del Rey, CA, 90292-6601
Phone: (310) 448-9143, Fax:
(310) 822-0751
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Education
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University of Southern California
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2001-present
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Ph.D. Candidate, Computer
Science
Thesis: Exploiting Comparable Corpora
Adviser: Daniel Marcu
Committee: Kevin Knight, Eduard Hovy, Paul Rosenbloom,
Shrinkanth Narayanan
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University of Iowa
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1998-2001
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M.S. in Computer Science
Thesis: Incremental Computation and its Applications to
Language Processing
Adviser: Teodor Rus
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University of Bucharest, Romania
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1993-1997
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B.Sc. in Computer Science
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Work
Experience
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Language Weaver
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May 2005 - August 2005
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Summer intern
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University of Southern California
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August 2001-present
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Research Assistant
Alignment and Processing of Comparable Corpora, with Prof. Daniel Marcu
Machine Translation: the ReWrite project, with Prof. Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu
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University of Iowa
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August 1999 - May 2001
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Research Assistant
Component-Based Language Processing, Prof. Teodor Rus
The HANK Virtual Driving Environment, Prof Joseph Kearney
The Cellular Automata Project, Prof Jarkko Kari
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University of Iowa
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August 1998 - August 2000
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Teaching Assistant
Course instructor for 22C:113 "Programming With Java"
Assistant for 22C:016, "Computer Science I"
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Omnis Group, Romania
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June 1997 - August 1998
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Software developer
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Professional
Activities
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Reviewer for:
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP 2005)
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2005)
Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING 2006)
The International Conference on Computational Linguistics and The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL 2006)
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2006)
Selected outstanding
reviewer for COLING-ACL 2006
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Research
Interests
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Natural Language
Processing: machine translation, comparable corpora, automatic summarization,
information extraction
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Academic
Awards and Fellowships
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Gerard P. Weeg Scholarship (2000) at University of Iowa
Undergraduate Fellowship of Merit (1993-1997) at University of Bucharest
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Publications
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Refereed Journals
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Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Daniel Marcu. Improving Machine Translation
Performance by Exploiting Non-parallel Corpora. 2005. Computational
Linguistics, 31(4):477-504
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Refereed Conference
Proceedings
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Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Daniel Marcu. Extracting Parallel
Sub-Sentential Fragments from Non-Parallel Corpora. 2006. In Proceedings
of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL
2006), Sydney, Australia.
Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, Dragos
Stefan Munteanu, and Eduard Hovy. ParaEval: Using Paraphrases to
Evaluate Summaries Automatically. 2006. In Proceedings of the Human
Language Technology Conference - North American chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT/NAACL-2006), New York City,
NY.
Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Alexander Fraser, Daniel Marcu. Improved
Machine Translation Performace via Parallel Sentence Extraction from
Comparable Corpora. 2004. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology
and North American Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (HLT/NAACL
2004), Boston, MA.
Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Daniel Marcu. Processing Comparable Corpora
With Bilingual Suffix Trees. 2002. In Proceedings of the Conference on
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2002), Pennsylvania , PA
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Invited/Non-Refereed
Papers
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Hal Daume III, Abdessamad
Echihabi, Daniel Marcu, Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Radu Soricut. GLEANS:
A Generator of Logical Extracts and Abstracts for Nice Summaries. 2002. In
Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2002), Philadelphia , PA
Teodor Rus, Robert Kooima, Radu
Soricut, Dragos Stefan Munteanu, James Hunsaker. A Component-Based
Language Processing Environment. 1999. Midwest Society for Programming
Languages and Systems Workshop. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL.
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Patent
Applications
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Dragos Stefan Munteanu and Daniel Marcu. Parallel Text Discovery System.
Submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office 2003
Dragos Stefan Munteanu and Daniel Marcu. Bitext extraction from comparable
corpora. Submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office 2005
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Extracurricular
Activities
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Tennis, basketball, soccer,
windsurfing, skiing, skating.
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Citizenship
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Romanian citizen. Studied
and worked in the U.S. under F-1 student visa.
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References
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Daniel Marcu
Information Sciences
Institute of University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite
1001, Marina del Rey, CA, 90292-6601
Phone: (310) 448-8726, Fax:
(310) 822-0751
http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/
marcu@isi.edu
Kevin Knight
Information Sciences
Institute of University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite
1001, Marina del Rey, CA, 90292-6601
Phone: (310) 448-8716, Fax:
(310) 822-0751
http://www.isi.edu/~knight/
knight@isi.edu
Eduard Hovy
Information Sciences
Institute of University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite
1001, Marina del Rey, CA, 90292-6601
Phone: (310) 448-8731, Fax:
(310) 822-0751
http://www.isi.edu/~hovy/
hovy@isi.edu
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