Noah Smith

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

Email: n...@...
Office: 5723 Gates-Hillman Complex
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

• Text-Driven Forecasting (CMU, Fall 2009): seminar-project hybrid course for graduate students
• Language and Statistics II (CMU, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009): advanced statistical NLP for graduate students
• Natural Language Processing (CMU, Spring 2008, Spring 2009): introductory course for CS undergraduates
• Advanced Natural Language Processing Seminar (CMU, Spring 2009): readings in NLP and computational linguistics
  
  
• Structured Prediction for Natural Language Processing (ICML, June 14, 2009): a tutorial on statistical models for linguistic structure
• 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

My students and me. Picture by Mattt Thompson.

• Shay Cohen, 2006–
• Dipanjan Das, 2008–
• Kevin Gimpel, 2006–
• Michael Heilman, 2008–
• André Martins, 2007– (co-advised by Eric Xing, Pedro Aguiar, and Marió Figuereido)
• Nate Schneider, 2008–
• Tae Yano, 2007– (co-advised by William Cohen)

• Brendan O'Connor, 2009–

• Rishav Bhowmick, 2009–
• Justin Brown, 2009–
• Desai Chen, 2008–
• Mohammad Haque, 2008–
• Zack McCord, 2008–
• Neel Shah, 2009–

• Philip Gianfortoni, 2009–

• Dimitry Levin, 2008 (BS)
• Cari Sisson, 2007–2008 (MS)
• Dan Tasse, 2007–2008 (BS)
• Mattt Thompson, 2009 (BA)

Stuff for you to use

• 10-K Corpus: a dataset of 10-K reports from US companies and stock return volatility measurements for periods preceding and following each report (2009)
• 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 (2008)
• Machine translation resources, maintained by Kevin Gimpel
• Dyna source and C++ source for our CoNLL-X parser (2006)
• Dyna: a declarative programming language (2004–)
• Egypt: a statistical machine translation toolkit (1999)
• STRAND: a bunch of parallel text collections from the web (1998)

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)