5700 Centre Ave. Apt 916
Pittsburgh, PA 15206 		Frank Lin 412-805-6433
lin.frank@gmail.com
Education: Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA
Candidate for Ph.D. in Language Technologies, May 2010

Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA
Masters in Language Technologies, May 2005
Cumulative QPA: 3.92

Full-Time Training in Anaheim, Anaheim, CA
Graduate, December 2001

University of Arizona, Computer Science Department, Tucson, AZ
Bachelor of Science, August 1999
GPA: 3.70 Major GPA: 3.92

Research & Work Experience: Research Assistant October 2007 - Present
Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    		• Research focus: graph-based semi-supervised learning and clustering and applications to weblog and social media.
    		• Maintained MinorThird - an information extraction and text classification learning software package.

    Research Assistant July 2006 - September 2007
    Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    		• Research focus: question analysis, keyword translation, cross-lingual information retrieval and information extraction.
    		• Built components for JAVELIN - a multilingual question-answering system.

    Course Instructor January 2006 - June 2006
    Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Doha, Qatar
    		• Instructor and lecturer for 15-100 Introductory Programming
    		• Designed lectures, homeworks, and other course materials.

    Teaching Assistant September 2005 - December 2005
    Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Doha, Qatar
    		• Teaching assistant for 15-100 Introductory Programming
    		• Teaching assistant for 15-211 Fundamental Data Structures and Algorithms

    Research Assistant September 2003 - August 2005
    Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    		• Research focus: keyword translation, dialog design, and cross-lingual information retrieval and information extraction.
    		• Built components for JAVELIN - a multilingual question-answering system.

    Book Translator August 2002 - August 2003
    Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA
    		• Translated five books from Chinese to English, published by Living Stream Ministry.

    Summer Research Assistant June 1999 - September 1999
    Computer Science Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
    		• Research programmer for the Active Networks project.

    Software Developer June 1998 - September 1998
    Astronomy Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
    		• Developed web-based educational software for the University of Arizona Planetarium.

    Publications: Frank Lin and William W. Cohen. 2008. "The MultiRank Bootstrap Algorithm: Semi-Supervised Political Blog Classification and Ranking Using Semi-Supervised Link Classification", ICWSM 2008 Poster.

    Teruko Mitamura, Frank Lin, Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Matthew Bilotti, Andrew Schlaikjer and Eric Nyberg. 2007. "JAVELIN III: Cross-Lingual Question Answering from Japanese and Chinese Documents", Proceedings of NTICIR-6 Workshop, Tokyo, Japan.

    Teruko Mitamura, Mengqiu Wang, Hideki Shima, Frank Lin. 2006. "Keyword Translation Accuracy and Cross-Lingual Question Answering in Chinese and Japanese", Proceedings of EACL 2006 Workshop on MLQA, Trento, Italy.

    Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang, Frank Lin and Teruko Mitamura. 2006. "Modular Approach to Error Analysis and Evaluation for Multilingual Question Answering", Proceedings of LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy.

    Eric Nyberg, Robert Frederking, Teruko Mitamura, Matthew Bilotti, Kerry Hannan, Laurie Hiyakumoto, Jeongwoo Ko, Frank Lin, Lucian Lita, Vasco Pedro, and Andrew Schlaikjer. 2005. "JAVELIN I and II Systems at TREC 2005", Proceedings of TREC 2005.

    Frank Lin, Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang, Teruko Mitamura. 2005. "CMU JAVELIN System for NTCIR5 CLQA1". Proceedings of the 5th NTCIR Workshop (NTCIR-5), Tokyo, Japan.

    Frank Lin and Teruko Mitamura. 2004. "Keyword Translation from English to Chinese for Multilingual QA". Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2004), Washington D.C.

    Relevant Courses Taken:
    Information Extraction
    Machine Translation
    Software Engineering for Information Technology
    Speech II: Phonetics, Prosody, Perception, Synthesis
    Human Language Technologies
    Principles of Operating Systems
    Parallel and Distributed Programming
    Foundations of Computer Programming
    Data Structures and Algorithms
    Discrete Mathematics
    		Information Retrieval
    Natural Language Processing
    Language and Statistics
    Grammar and Lexicon
    Algorithms
    Principles of Computer Networking
    Comparative Programming Languages
    Object Oriented Programming and Design
    Minds, Brains, and Computers

    Languages: Basic, C, C++, Java, JSP, HTML, Lisp, MIPS ASM, Ruby; English, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese

    Updated 2008.04.11. References available upon request.