News

• We have a Twenty Years of Bitext website.

Research

My research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and linguistics. Current research areas include:

• Statistical machine translation
• Computational morphology and phonology
• Statistical language modeling
• Feature induction and representation learning
• Unsupervised learning
• Bayesian models in MT/NLP
• Big data opportunities in NLP

Teaching

• Fall 2013 - 10-710/11-763 Structured Prediction for Language and Other Discrete Data (with Noah Smith)
• Spring 2013 - 11-731 Machine Translation (with Alon Lavie)
• Fall 2012 - 11-732 Self-Paced Lab: MT
• Spring 2011 - 11-411 Natural Language Processing (with Alan W. Black)

Random Stuff

I am originally from Texas, and I have lived in North Carolina, Berlin, Germany, and Washington (DC and state). I play the cello.