Teaching and Advising
Semester courses:
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Spring
2011 and prior: Introduction
to Natural Language Processing (CS 544), University of Southern California.
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Fall
2005: Lexical Semantics (CS 599), University of Southern California.
Specialized programs:
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2007–:
Convenor, Computer Science Masters Degree Program in
Human Language Technology, University of Southern California.
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1999–2007:
Co-Director, Program
for Masters Degree in Computational Linguistics, University of Southern
California.
Multi-day courses:
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Co-Instructor
and organizer, Information Extraction from Text. Week-long
course at University of Southern California. May 2010.
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Instructor,
Natural
Language Semantics and Ontology. Week-long course at KAIST. Seoul, Korea. July 2009.
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Co-Instructor,
Introduction
to Natural Language Processing. Computer
Science 544, University of Southern California. Spring 2010, Spring 2009,
Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Fall 2002, Fall 2001,
Spring 2001, Spring 2000, Spring 1998, Spring 1996, Fall 1994, Spring 1993,
Spring 1001, Spring 1990.
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Co-Instructor,
Lexical
Semantics. Computer Science 599, University of Southern California.
Fall 2005.
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Instructor,
Ontologies. 3-day course in the Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series at
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. March 2005.
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Instructor,
Information Retrieval. Short course, Universitat Internacional Menéndez Pelayo. Barcelona, Spain, July 2003.
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Co-Instructor,
Machine Translation. 3-day course,
University of California at Los Angeles extension course. Spring 1997, Spring 1996.
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Instructor,
Penman Sentence Generation System. 2-day intensive course, University of
Waterloo, Canada, October 1994.
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Co-Instructor,
Multilingual NLP. Specialized 5-day course for selected European students and
faculty, one of four invited lecturers at the Bolzano School, Bolzano, Italy, December 1993.
Tutorials at conferences and universities:
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Instructor,
Corpus Annotation. 3-hour tutorial at Association of Computational Linguistics
Conference (ACL). Uppsala, Sweden. July 2010.
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Co-instructor,
Corpus Annotation. 3-hour tutorial at Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC).
Marrakesh, Morocco. May 2008.
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Co-instructor,
Corpus Annotation. 3-hour tutorial at 7th International Symposium on
Natural Language Processing (SNLP). Pattaya, Thailand.
December 2007.
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Instructor. Automated Text Summarization. 3-hour tutorial at Summer School,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. June 2007.
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Instructor. Ontologies and Corpus Creation. 4 lectures at Hankook
University of Foreign Studies, Linguistics Department. Seoul, Korea. January
2007.
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Instructor,
A Gentle Introduction to Ontologies. 3-hour tutorial at Seventh
Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA).
Boston, MA, August 2006.
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Instructor,
An Introduction to Machine Translation. 3-hour
tutorial at Seventh
International Machine Translation Summit. Singapore, September 1999.
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Co-instructor,
Automated Text Summarization. 3-hour tutorial at SIGIR
conference. Berkeley, CA, August 1999.
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Instructor,
Multilingual Text Summarization. 3-hour
tutorial at Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the
Americas (AMTA). Philadelphia, PA, October 1998.
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Co-Instructor,
Automated Text Summarization. 3-hour tutorial at COLING/ACL
Conference. Montreal, Canada, August 1998.
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Instructor,
An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Machine
Translation. 3-hour tutorial at Sixth International Machine Translation
Summit. San Diego, CA, October 1997.
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Co-Instructor,
Statistical Processing for Machine Translation: A
Primer. 3-hour tutorial at Second Conference of the Association for
Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA). Montreal, Canada, October 1996.
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Co-Instructor,
Machine Translation. 3-hour tutorial at Conference
of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). Santa Cruz, CA, June
1996.
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Co-Instructor,
Intelligent Multimedia Systems. 3-hour tutorial
at Conference
of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Seattle, WA,
August 1994.
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Instructor,
Language Generation. 3-hour tutorial at 4th
Baden-Württemberg Colloquium Sprachverarbeitung in Mensch und Maschine. Herrenberg, Germany, October 1990.
Ph.D. advisor or committee member of:
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Advisor:
Dirk Hovy,
current (Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles). Thesis topic: undecided.
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Advisor:
Stephen Tratz, current (Department of Computer Science,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles). Thesis topic: Semantically-Enriched Parsing for Natural Language
Understanding.
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Committee member: Jason Riesa, current (Department of Computer Science,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh). Thesis: Structured
Models for Automatic Bilingual Alignment.
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External reader: Grace Yang, current (Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh). Thesis: Automated Ontology Construction through Text Mining.
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Co-Advisor: Marta Recasens-Potau,
current (University of Barcelona, Spain).
Thesis: Coreference Resolution.
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External reader: Shane Bergsma, 2010 (University of
Alberta, Canada). Thesis: Large-Scale Semi-Supervised
Learning for Natural Language Processing.
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External
reader: Vit Novacek, 2010 (National University of
Ireland, Galway, Ireland). Thesis: Document Analysis
for the Semantic Web.
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Committee
member: Sudeep Gandhe, 2009 (Department of Computer
Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles). Thesis: Rapid Prototyping
and Evaluation of Dialogue Systems for Virtual Humans.
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External
reader: Vasco
Calais Pedro, 2009 (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh). Thesis: Federated
Ontology Search.
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Advisor:
Rahul Bhagat, 2009 (Department of Computer
Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles). Thesis: Learning Paraphrases from Text.
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External
reader: Zornitsa Kozareva, 2009 (University of Alicante,
Spain). Thesis: Resolving Named Entity Problems: From Recognition and
Discrimination to Semantic Class Learning. External reader: Wauter Bosma, 2008
(University of Twente, Netherlands). Thesis topic:
Query-Based Summarization.
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Advisor:
Donghui Feng, 2007 (Department of Computer
Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles). Thesis: Factorizing Information Extraction from Text Corpora.
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External
reader: Marco
Pennacchiotti, 2007 (University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy). Thesis: Recognizing Textual
Entailment: Methods and Resources.
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Committee
member: Alex
Fraser, 2007 (Department of Computer Science, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles). Thesis: Word Alignment for
Statistical Machine Translation.
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Advisor:
Namhee Kwon, 2007 (Department of Computer Science, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles). Thesis: Text Understanding
via Semantic Structure Analysis.
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Advisor:
Soo-Min Kim, 2007. Department of Computer Science, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles. Thesis: Extracting
Opinions from Text.
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Committee
member: Dragos Stefan Munteanu, 2006 (Department of
Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles). Thesis: Creating Aligned Corpora.
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External
reader: Roberto
Navigli, 2006 (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy). Thesis: Structural Semantic
Interconnections: A Knowledge-Based Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation.
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Committee
member: Shou-de Lin, 2007 (Department of Computer Science, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles). Thesis: Modeling,
Searching, and Explaining Interesting Instances in Multi-Relational Networks.
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Advisor:
Liang Zhou,
2006. Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles. Thesis: Discussion Summarization.
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Committee
member: Radu Soricut, 2006 (Department of Computer
Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles). Thesis: NL Generation for Text-Based Applications using an
Information-Slim Representation.
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Committee
member: Hal Daumé III, 2006 (Department of Computer Science, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles). Thesis: Learning,
Search, and Features for Complex NL Problems: An Exploration in Coreference Resolution.
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External
Reader: Valentin Jijkoun, 2006 (Department of Computer
Science, University of Amsterdam). Thesis: Graph
Transformations for Natural Language Processing.
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Advisor:
Deepak Ravichandran, 2005. Department of Computer Science,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Thesis: Terascale
Knowledge Acquisition.
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Committee
member: Hyun
Shin, 2005 (Department of Computer Science, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles). Thesis: Generality-Based
Information Retrieval.
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Outside
reader: Javier
Farreres, 2004 (LSI Software Department,
Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain). Thesis: Automatic
Construction of Ontologies.
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Committee
member: Philipp
Koehn, 2003 (Department of Computer Science, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles). Thesis: Noun Phrase
Translation.
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External
Reader: Dien Dinh, 2003. University, Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam. Thesis topic: English-to-Vietnamese
Machine Translation.
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Committee
member: Irene
Langkilde, 2002. Department of Computer Science,
University of Southern Califlective. Thesis: Natural Language Generation using Statistics.
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Committee
member: Kenji
Yamada, 2002. Department of Computer Science, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles. Thesis: A Syntax-Based
Statistical Translation Model.
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Committee
member: Iliya Ovsiannikov, 2002. Department of Neuroscience,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Thesis: Annotation of Documents.
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External
Reader: Klaus
Ries. 2001. Department of Computer Science,
Karlsruhe University, Germany. Thesis: Accessing
Spoken Interaction through Dialogue Processing.
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External
Reader: Horacio Saggion. 2000. Departement
d'informatique, University of Montreal, Canada).
Thesis: Génération Automatique de Résumes par Analyse Sélective.
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External
reader: Latifur Khan, 2000 (Department of Computer Science, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles). Thesis: Ontology-Based
Information Retrieval of Audio Material.
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External
Reader: Sam Serutle. 2000. Department of Computer Science,
University of Pretoria, South Africa. Thesis: Sentence
Analysis using a Concept Lattice.
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External
Reader: Dragomir Radev, 1998. Department of Computer
Science, Columbia University, New York. Thesis: Automated
Multi-Document Text Summarization.
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External
Reader: I.
Dan Melamed, 1998. Department of Computer
Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Thesis: Statistical Methods in Machine Translation.
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Committee
member: Ishwar Chander, 1998 (Computer Science
Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles). Thesis: Automatic Post-Editing of Documents.
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Advisor
de facto: Chin-Yew
Lin, 1997. Electrical Engineering Department, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles. Thesis: Topic
Identification for Automated Text Summarization.
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Advisor
de facto: Hercules
Dalianis, 1996. Department of Computer and Systems Science, Royal Institute
of Technology / Stockholm University, Sweden. Thesis: Aggregation
in Automated Language Generation and Sentence Planning.
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Advisor
de facto: Anthony
Gallippi, 1996. Electrical Engineering
Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Thesis: Automatic Cross-Language Proper Name Determination in
Text using Robust Methods.
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External
Reader: Chrysanne DiMarco, 1989. Computer Science
Department, University of Toronto, Canada. Thesis: A
Computational Theory of Style.
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