Noah Smith

Assistant Professor
Language Technologies Institute
Machine Learning Department
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

Email: n...@...
Office: 2602F Newell-Simon Hall
Phone: 412 268-4963
Mailing address: LTI, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Courses I taught/am teaching, and other tutorial materials

• Language and Statistics II (CMU, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008): advanced statistical NLP for graduate students
• Natural Language Processing (CMU, Spring 2008): introductory course for CS undergraduates
  
  
• Empirical Research Methods in Computer Science (JHU, Fall 2005)
• Computational Genomics: Sequence Modeling (JHU, Fall 2004)
  
  • Of interest: Hidden Markov Models: All the Glorious Gory Details (October, 2004)
• A handout for a guest lecture at U. Maryland: Log-Linear Models (December, 2004)
• Predicting English (JHU CLSP summer workshop lab, Summers 2002 and 2003, taught by others since); see also our paper about this exercise.

My students

• Shay Cohen, 2006–
• Dipanjan Das, 2008–
• Kevin Gimpel, 2006–
• Mohammad Haque, 2008–
• Michael Heilman, 2008–
• Dimitry Levin, 2008–
• André Martins, 2007– (co-advised by Eric Xing)
• Nate Schneider, 2008–
• Cari Sisson, 2007–2008 (MS)
• Dan Tasse, 2007–2008 (BS)
• Tae Yano, 2007– (co-advised by William Cohen)

Stuff for you to use

• DAGEEM source code package for dependency grammar induction, by Shay Cohen (2008)
• Are you the pub chair for an ACL conference? See a how-to guide Joakim Nivre and I wrote.
• CURD: a corpus of recipes annotated in a culinary meaning representation language called MILK, developed by Dan Tasse
• Machine translation resources, maintained by Kevin Gimpel
• Dyna source and C++ source for our CoNLL-X parser (2006)
• Dyna (2004–; a declarative programming language)
• Egypt (1999; a statistical machine translation toolkit)
• STRAND (1998–; a bunch of parallel text collections from the web)

Curriculum vitae highlights

• Assistant professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (2006–)
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing (2006)
• Intern, Microsoft Research (2004)
• M.S.E. in Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University (2004)
• Junior research scientist, Department of Computer Science, New York University (2002)
• Hertz Foundation Fellowship (2001–2006)
• B.A. with Honors in Linguistics, University of Maryland (2001)
• B.S. with High Honors in Computer Science, University of Maryland (2001)
• Visiting student, University of Edinburgh (2000)
• Participant, Summer Workshop on Language Engineering, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University (1999)
• Participant, Gemstone and University Honors programs, University of Maryland (1997–2001)
• Performer, North Sea and Montreux Jazz Festivals, with the Glenelg Jazz Ensemble (1996)
• Visiting student, Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College; 1992)