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Eduard H. Hovy

Biographical Information

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Research Interests

Currently heading the Natural Language Processing group at USC/ISI doing research on various aspects of natural language processing, specifically on Machine Translation and automated text planning and generation. Am personally involved in five research directions: the construction of the Pangloss family of machine translation systems (this work originally in conjunction with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and New Mexico State University); the development of theories of discourse structure and the construction of multisentence text and sentence planning systems (this work in collaboration with researchers at the Universities of Waterloo and Toronto in Canada); the development of sentence generation theory and systems, including management of the Penman project; the development of theory to address problems in multimedia human-computer communication (in collaboration with people at ISI); and the development of MEDTRANS, a system to translate and convey forms and information among Health Care providers (this work in collaboration with the DSSA group at ISI).

My Ph.D. (Computer Science, Yale University, 1987) focused on the development of a text generation program that took into account the pragmatic aspects of communication, since the absence of sensitivity toward hearer and context has been a serious shortcoming of generator programs written to date. I am interested in all facets of communication, especially human language, as used to express intelligence.

Member of the Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) for 1993-1995 and Vice President of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA).

Selected Publications

Machine Translation
Church, K.W. and E.H. Hovy. 1993.
Good Applications for Crummy Machine Translation. Machine Translation 8 (239-258).
Hovy, E.H. 1993.
How MT Works. Byte Magazine Special Feature on Machine Translation (167-176).
Text Planning and Multisentence Text Generation
Hovy, E.H. 1993.
Automated Discourse Generation Using Discourse Structure Relations. Artificial Intelligence 63(1-2) Special Issue on Natural Language Processing (341-386).
Hovy, E.H. 1992.
A New Level of Natural Language Generation Technology: Capabilities and Possibilities. IEEE Expert 7(2) (12-17).
Hovy, E.H. 1991.
Recent Trends in Computational Research on Monologic Discourse Structure. Computational Intelligence 7(4) Special Issue on Language Generation (363-366).
Discourse Study and Text Linguistics
Hovy, E.H. and D.R. Scott. 1995.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discourse. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag (NATO Series) (in prep.).
Hovy, E.H. and E. Maier. 1993.
Parsimonious or Profligate: How Many and Which Discourse Structure Relations? Discourse Processes. (to appear).
Sentence Generation
Dale, R., E.H. Hovy, D. Rösner, and O. Stock. 1992.
Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in AI number 587.
Hovy, E.H. 1992.
On the Methodology for Constructing Models of People Using Language Generation. (Translated into French by J. Anis, entitled Sur la Méthodologie pour Construire des Modèles de l'^etre Humain à Travers la Génération de Langage). Langages 106, Special Issue on Language Generation (75-91).
Hovy, E.H. 1990.
Pragmatics and Natural Language Generation. Artificial Intelligence 43(2) (153-198). Also available as USC/Information Sciences Institute Research Report ISI/RS-89-233.
Hovy, E.H. 1988.
Generating Natural Language under Pragmatic Constraints. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Multimedia Human-Computer Interaction
Arens, Y. and E.H. Hovy. 1995.
The Design of a Model-Based Multimedia Interaction Manager. AI Review 8(3) Special Issue on Natural Language and Vision.
Also numerous conference and workshop proceedings papers, book chapters, and other articles.

Information on Penman and Pangloss projects.