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Eduard H. Hovy
Biographical Information
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Research Interests
Currently heading the Natural Language Processing group at USC/ISI doing
research on various aspects of natural language processing, specifically
on Machine Translation and automated text planning and generation. Am
personally involved in five research directions: the construction of the
Pangloss family of machine translation systems (this work originally in
conjunction with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and New Mexico
State University); the development of theories of discourse structure and
the construction of multisentence text and sentence planning systems (this
work in collaboration with researchers at the Universities of Waterloo and
Toronto in Canada); the development of sentence generation theory and
systems, including management of the Penman project; the development of
theory to address problems in multimedia human-computer communication (in
collaboration with people at ISI); and the development of MEDTRANS, a system
to translate and convey forms and information among Health Care providers
(this work in collaboration with the DSSA group at ISI).
My Ph.D. (Computer Science, Yale University, 1987) focused on the development
of a text generation program that took into account the pragmatic aspects
of communication, since the absence of sensitivity toward hearer and context
has been a serious shortcoming of generator programs written to date. I am
interested in all facets of communication, especially human language, as
used to express intelligence.
Member of the Executive Board of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL) for 1993-1995 and Vice President of the Association
for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA).
Selected Publications
Machine Translation
Church, K.W. and E.H. Hovy. 1993.
Good Applications for Crummy Machine Translation. Machine
Translation 8 (239-258).
Hovy, E.H. 1993.
How MT Works. Byte Magazine Special Feature on Machine
Translation (167-176).
Text Planning and Multisentence Text Generation
Hovy, E.H. 1993.
Automated Discourse Generation Using Discourse Structure Relations.
Artificial Intelligence 63(1-2) Special Issue on Natural
Language Processing (341-386).
Hovy, E.H. 1992.
A New Level of Natural Language Generation Technology: Capabilities
and Possibilities. IEEE Expert 7(2) (12-17).
Hovy, E.H. 1991.
Recent Trends in Computational Research on Monologic Discourse
Structure. Computational Intelligence 7(4) Special Issue on
Language Generation (363-366).
Discourse Study and Text Linguistics
Hovy, E.H. and D.R. Scott. 1995.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discourse. Heidelberg,
Germany: Springer Verlag (NATO Series) (in prep.).
Hovy, E.H. and E. Maier. 1993.
Parsimonious or Profligate: How Many and Which Discourse Structure
Relations? Discourse Processes. (to appear).
Sentence Generation
Dale, R., E.H. Hovy, D. Rösner, and O. Stock. 1992.
Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation.
Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in AI number 587.
Hovy, E.H. 1992.
On the Methodology for Constructing Models of People Using Language
Generation. (Translated into French by J. Anis, entitled Sur la
Méthodologie pour Construire des Modèles de l'^etre
Humain à Travers la Génération de Langage).
Langages 106, Special Issue on Language Generation (75-91).
Hovy, E.H. 1990.
Pragmatics and Natural Language Generation. Artificial
Intelligence 43(2) (153-198). Also available as USC/Information
Sciences Institute Research Report ISI/RS-89-233.
Hovy, E.H. 1988.
Generating Natural Language under Pragmatic Constraints.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Multimedia Human-Computer Interaction
Arens, Y. and E.H. Hovy. 1995.
The Design of a Model-Based Multimedia Interaction Manager.
AI Review 8(3) Special Issue on Natural Language and Vision.
Also numerous conference and workshop proceedings papers, book
chapters, and other articles.
Information on Penman and Pangloss projects.