Photo of your's truly Alok Ulhas Parlikar

First year Graduate student
Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh,
PA 15213, USA.

Email: initials-at-cs.cmu.edu. See also: http://www.parlikar.com

Interests

Languages, Computers. Probably in that order.

Multilingual NLP, and its AI-closure.

Current Work

I am working with Alon Lavie and Stephan Vogel and am trying to make use of Syntactic resources to help improve quality of Machine Translation.
Wrote ATAVI, a set of scripts to visualize alignment among parse trees of parallel sentences in bilingual data.

Background

Masters degree in Language Technologies
Carnegie Mellon University
Expected Completion: Spring 2009
Current QPA: 4.16

Bachelors degree in Information Technology
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad.
GPA: 3.93/4.0. University Gold Medalist for the year 2006.

View my CV  Monkeys of the tenth sea ate my CV.

CMU Courses

Spring 2008

11-712: Algorithms in NLP (Lab)
11-722: Grammar Formalisms
11-734: Advanced MT Seminar
11-761: Language and Statistics - 1

Fall 2007

11-711: Algorithms in NLP
11-721: Grammars and Lexicons

Recent Miscellaneous Readings

[Pinker, Steven A.]
Words and Rules

Random Stuff I am Doing

Switching to DVORAK keyboard completed. Achieved back my original (QWERTY) speed in about 2 months (60 hrs of typing).
Too slow it might be, but I can still type on QWERTY at about 35wpm, and if you allow me to look at the keyboard, I can manage to be faster than that.

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