Ariadna Font Llitjós
aria@cs.cmu.edu
University address:
Language Technologies Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University.
3612
Newell Simon Hall. 5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
+1 (412) 268-4083
EDUCATION
Carnegie
Mellon University. Pittsburgh,
PA, USA
Master`s candidate in the Language Technologies
Institute
Anticipated
graduation: June 2001
University
of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Pompeu
Fabra University
and
Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
Barcelona, Spain
Doctoral candidate in the Program in
Cognitive Science and Language
1997
to current
Pompeu
Fabra University.
Barcelona, Spain
BA with Honors in Translation and
Interpreting
Senior
thesis: A bottom-up chart parser for PATR
unification grammars in prolog (Completion with Honors). September 1992 to July
1996
EXPERIENCE
Language
Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Research on how to improve speech synthesis (and recognition)
of foreign proper names in American English with the hypothesis that origin
class information may help to build better letter to sound rules for the speech
synthesizer.(Master
Thesis) Advisor: Alan Black.
Microsoft Research. Seattle,
WA, USA
Summer
Intern.
Worked with the NLP team in building
the Spanish Generation Module for the general purpose, multilingual Machine
Translation System (NLPWIN). Mentors: Steve Richardson, Carmen Lozano and Maite
Melero. Manager: Karen Jensen.
May-July
2000
Language
Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Grammar writer
for the JANUS (C-STAR) project. Worked on the Generation Grammar for Spanish to be added to the existing
Interlingua Machine Translation System for English, German, French, Italian,
Korean and Japanese on the travel domain. Advisors: Lori Levin and Alon Lavie.
October
1999-May 2000
Translation and Interpreting Faculty, Pompeu Fabra
University Barcelona
Teacher of the Graduate Program: Text Management for
Professionals: Translation and Processing. February-July 1999
Institute for Applied Linguistics,
Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona
Graduate Fellow.
Construction of a Constraint Grammar to
allow morphological and syntactic disambiguation and parsing of the IULA
Technical Corpus, within the project "scientific and technological
terminology: formal and semantic information recognition, analysis and
retrieval" (PB 96 - 0293). Directed by Toni Badia.
September
1997-July 1999
Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, University of
Stuttgart Germany
Research Assistant.
Extraction of subcategorization
patterns of English verbs from the British National Corpus with the tool Xkwic.
Directed by Ulrich Heid. April-August 1997
Institute
for Applied Linguistics, Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona
Graduate Fellow.
Wrote an Analysis Grammar for a
transfer, LFG-based Machine Translation System (LEKTA), within the
European project LS-GRAM (Large Scale Grammars for EC Languages) corresponding
to the European Union subvention LRE-61029. Directed by Toni Badia.
September
1996-March 1997
Information
Systems Department Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Universidad
Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional de Buenos Aires
Research and teaching on Natural Language Processing and Grammars to 4th and last year
Information Systems Engineering students.
August-September1995
SKILLS
Languages:
fluent in Catalan, Spanish and
English, proficient in German and French, written and spoken
understanding of Italian and Portuguese
Programming languages:
C++, Perl, Lisp and Prolog
Operating Systems:
UNIX, DOS and Windows NT/9x/2000
Software:
MS Tools,
HONORS
``La
Caixa`` Fellowship for 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, Spain
Publications
Construction of a
Spanish Generation module in the framework of a General-Purpose, Multilingual
Natural Language Processing System. Maite Melero and Ariadna Font. 7th
International Symposium on Social Communication, Santiago de Cuba, January 2001
Lessons Learned from a Task-Based Evaluation of
Speech-to-Speech MT. Lori Levin, Boris Bartlog, Ariadna Font
Llitjos, Donna Gates, Alon Lavie, Dorcas Wallace, Taro Watanabe and Monika
Woszczyna. LREC 2000, Athens, pages 721-724.
Implementation and coverage of an Analysis Grammar
for Catalan within the Machine Translation System LEKTA.
6th International Symposium on Social Communication, Santiago de
Cuba, January 1998
Natural Language Processing and Toy Grammars.
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional de Buenos Aires.
Information Systems Department. September 1995
Seminars and Summer Schools
Graduate
Seminar on Information Theory, John Lafferty.
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
September-December
2000
Seminar
on Advanced Topics in Statistical NLP, John Lafferty.
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
January-May
2000
6th European Summer School on Language and Speech
Communication: ROBUSTNESS. Real life applications in language and speech.
Barcelona. July 13-24 1998
1st International Conference on Language Resources
and Evaluation. (LREC) Translation and Interpreting Department,
University of Granada, Spain. May 28-30 1998
Computational Linguistics Seminar: Word Order and
Formal Treatment of Prepositions.
Institute for Applied Linguistics, Barcelona (Toni Badia,
Enric Vallduví, Josep M. Fontana, Louise McNally, Àlex Alsina).
September
1997-July 1998
Seminar in Semantics
by Dr. Louise McNally. IULA, UPF, Barcelona. January-March 1996
Computational Linguistics Seminar:
Underspecification as alternative. Corpus Semantics.
IULA, UPF, Barcelona.
September
1996-March 1997