Carol (Cari) Sisson

 


Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

3612 Newell Simon Hall
412 268 7945 (lab phone)
csisso [at] cs.cmu.edu

CV/resume

mailing address:
Language Technologies Inst.
4502 Newell Simon Hall
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

 

I am a MLT student at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I will graduate in May 2008.   My research group is Noah's ARK with Professor Noah Smith.
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Recent Courses

Spring 2008:         
    08-764 Web Application Development
    11-899 Summarization and Personal Information Management
    LING 2139 (Pitt) Approaches and Methods in TESOL
    NLP lab

Fall 2007:         
    11-711 Algorithms for NLP
    11-791 Software Engineering for Information Systems
    I also TAed for 11-721 Grammars and Lexicons

Spring 2007: 
    11-761 Langauge and Statistics
    11-752 Speech II: Phonetics, Prosody, Perception and Synthesis
    05-817 Computer Mediated Communication

Fall 2006:
     11-721 Grammars and Lexicons
     05-832 Cognitive Modeling and Intelligent Tutoring Systems
     36-309 Experimental Design for Behavioral and Social Sciences

Academic Work

  • Mixed-mode Multilinguality in TTS: The Case of Canadian French [pdf]
  • Text-to-speech in Vocabulary Acquisition and Student Knowledge
       Models: a Classroom Study Using the REAP intelligent Tutoring System
             - Technical Report [pdf]
             - [pdf] (with references [pdf])
  • Adult L2 Acquisition of French Grammatical Gender: investigating sensitivity to phonological and morphological gender cues [pdf]
             - a related poster[pdf]
  • some other old stuff

About Me

I'm a native of Seattle.   I have a B.A. Honours in Linguistics (2006) with a minor in Computer Science from McGill University, in Montreal, Canada.

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updated 9 February 2008