AWARDS AND
HONORS
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, Women in
International Scientific Cooperation program: Travel grant for developing
a collaborative proposal for joint work with Algeria, Centre de
Recherche Scientifique et Technique pour le Développement de la
Langue Arabe, towards computer-assisted language environments for
the Arabic language, 2003.
- Fulbright serial lecturing/research grant "Arabic-French Machine
Translation Using Empirical Methods" at L'Ecole Nationale de L'Industrie
Minerale, Rabat Morocco, 2003-2005.
- Elected to the board of directors of the Association of Machine
Translation of the Americas (2002).
- National Science Foundation International Fellowship Program grant
(8 months tenure at L'Ecole Nationale de L'Industrie Minerale, Rabat,
Morocco, 2001-2004): Arabic Computational Morphology and Machine
Translation.
- San Francisco State University grant under the Affirmative Action
Faculty Development program for software installation and course
support for Natural Language Processing (Spring semester, 2001).
- Member of Tau Beta Pi (Engineering honor society) since 1977.
- Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for 1992-1993 academic year.
LANGUAGE
SKILLS
- Fluent: English, Italian.
- Reasonably fluent in written and spoken Spanish and French.
- Intermediate knowledge of Modern Standard Arabic.
- Basic Egyptian Arabic and intermediate Modern Greek (both very
rusty).
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