Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 03:43:58 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.1 Content-type: text/html Roman Yangarber

Roman Yangarber

Department of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University


Current Research
Publications
Background
Hobbies and Other Interests
Favorite Quotes
Contact Information


Contact Information:

E-mail: roman@cs.nyu.edu
Address: 900 West 190th Street, New York, NY 10040
Office: (212) 998-3264
Home: (212) 568-5158
Fax: (212) 995-4123

Current Research:

My work is in the field of Natural Language Processing, focusing on the following areas:
Customization for Information Extraction
Machine Translation
This work is part of the Proteus Project at the Courant Institute, under the direction of Ralph Grishman , who is my thesis advisor.

Previously, I had collaborated on:

The ThinkSheet Project , tailoring information flow for readers of complex documents
The Griffin Rapid Prototyping Project

Publications and Presentations

``Alignment of Shared Forests for Bilingual Corpora''
Adam Meyers, Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman
In Proceedings of COLING '96 (August 1996), Copenhagen, Denmark

Previously published as Proteus Project Technical Report #79

``ThinkSheet: A Tool for Tailoring Complex Documents''
Peter Piatko, Roman Yangarber, Daoi Lin, Dennis Shasha
ACM SIGMOD '96, demonstration (June 1996), Montreal, Canada

Interests:

Computational, Comparative, and Historical Linguistics

Music


Especially the piano/keyboard repertoire of:
J.S. Bach,
J. Brahms,
L. van Beethoven,
and some others, whose names begin with ``B''

Russian Poetry


Joseph Brodsky
Boris Pasternak
... and more.

T'ai-Chi Ch'uan


Background:

Education:

M.S.
Computer Science, New York University
B.A.
Mathematics and Computer Science
I came from Leningrad, U.S.S.R., neither of which exists any longer. What remains of my birthplace is now called St. Petersburg, Russia.


A Bit of Lore:

``I think it would be a good idea''
- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization.

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