Language Technologies Institutes, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412.268.8525
STUDENTS COMPLETING THE PH.D.
IN LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGIES
BY AUGUST 2001
IN LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
BY AUGUST 2001
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GREG AIST
- Expected Completion: December 2000
- Advisor: Jack Mostow
- Thesis Topic: Helping Children Learn Vocabulary during Computer-Assisted Oral Reading
- Project: Project LISTEN
- Research Interests: Speech recognition, spoken dialog systems, educational software, intelligent tutoring systems, lexical semantics, human-computer interaction, user interfaces, handheld computing.
- Goals: Improve quality of life, standard of living, and equality of opportunity for people around the globe by carefully targeted application of information technology. For example, my Ph.D. dissertation explored using computers to help at-risk children learn vocabulary during computer-assisted oral reading, demonstrating significant advantage over classroom instruction, and furthermore, performance competitive with one-on-one human tutoring. Future projects should meet the same high standards of (a) a societally essential goal, (b) an indispensable role for computing, and (c) a technologically daring but feasible approach.
- Background/Skills: 10 years of programming in C++; experiment design and analysis; international scientific presentations; Perl.
- Citizenship: US
- Email: aist@cs.cmu.edu
- Telephone: 412.268.6436 (W)
ROSIE JONES
- Expected Completion: December 2001
- Advisor: Tom Mitchell
- Thesis Topic: Exploiting Natural Language Structure for Bootstrapping Information Extraction
- Research Interests: Machine learning algorithms for information extraction and text classification; lexical semantics; modeling user interests from web usage patterns
- Notes: Seeking employment in the Los Angeles area.
- Email: rosie@cs.cmu.edu
- Telephone: 412.268.8492 (W)
KLAUS ZECHNER
- Expected Completion: June 2001
- Advisor: Alex Waibel
- Thesis Topic: Automatic Summarization of Spontaneous Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains
- Research Interests: Research in NLP and Information Technologies
- Email: zechner@cs.cmu.edu