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Faculty and Students in CLLT at OSU

There are five CLLT faculty in Linguistics and Computer Science and Engineering, as well as several other faculty members in related fields and/or departments. CLLT faculty meet often to work on joint projects, instruct and advise students, and coordinate the overall CLLT research focus. Below is a listing of current CLLT faculty, PhD students and recent graduates.

Current CL Faculty and Students
Former Graduate Students
Faculty in Related Fields

Current CL Faculty and Students

Name Faculty/Grad Department Research Interests
Luiz Alexandre Amaral PhD Student,
Advisors: Detmar Meurers, John Grinstead		 Spanish/Portuguese Icall systems, ill-formed input processing, computers in foreign language instruction, Romance syntax, HPSG
Stacey Bailey PhD Student,
Advisor: Detmar Meurers		 Linguistics Textual entailment, iCALL, NLU, lexical resource integration
Kirk Baker PhD Student,
Advisor: Chris Brew		 Linguistics Computational lexical semantics, speech processing
Adriane Boyd PhD Student,
Advisor: Detmar Meurers		 Linguistics Syntax, morphology, Detection of Errors and Correction in Corpus Annotation
Chris Brew Faculty Linguistics Robust natural language processing using statistical and probabilistic ideas
Hui Fang Faculty CSE Information Retrieval, Text Mining
Eric Fosler-Lussier Faculty CSE Statistical NLP, spoken dialog systems, speech recognition
Ilana Heintz PhD Student,
Advisor: Chris Brew		 Linguistics Corpus-based lexical semantics, Arabic information retrieval, Arabic speech recognition
John Josephson Faculty CSE Computational Epistemology, Abductive Inference, Causal Reasoning
Jianguo Li PhD Student,
Advisor: Chris Brew		 Linguistics
Arantxa Lozano PhD Student,
Advisor: Detmar Meurers		 Linguistics
Dennis Mehay PhD Student,
Advisor: Chris Brew		 Linguistics Supertagging, Parsing, MT
Vanessa Metcalf PhD Student,
Advisor: Detmar Meurers		 Linguistics iCall, HPSG grammar implementation
Detmar Meurers Faculty Linguistics Constraint-based processing, corpus annotation, iCALL, syntax, HPSG
Jeremy Morris PhD Student,
Advisor: Eric Fosler-Lussier		 CSE Automatic Speech Recognition using Conditional Random Fields
Jihyun Park PhD Student,
Advisor: Chris Brew		 Linguistics semi-supervised clustering using Information Bottleneck method, computational modeling of human sentence processing
Darla Shockley PhD Student,
Advisor: Donna Byron		 CSE Dialog systems, Information Retrieval
Na'im Tyson PhD Student,
Advisor: Chris Brew		 Linguistics Speech Processing, Speech Synthesis, Corpus Linguistics, Information Retrieval
Tim Weale PhD Student CSE Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval
Michael White Faculty Linguistics Natural Language Generation, Spoken Language and Multimodal Dialogue Systems, Speech Synthesis
Annatala Wolf Undergraduate,
Advisor: Eric Fosler-Lussier		 CSE
Tianfang Xu PhD Student,
Advisor: Donna Byron		 CSE

Former Graduate Students

Name Department Advisor Additional Information
Mike Calcagno Linguistics Currently at Microsoft Speech and Natural Language
Nick Cipollone Linguistics Currently at Microsoft
Mike Daniels Linguistics Detmar Meurers Graduated 2005. Thesis title: Generalized ID/LP Grammar: A Formalism for Parsing Linearization-based HPSG Grammars. Currently Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Speech and Language Group
Paul Davis Linguistics Chris Brew Graduated 2002. Dissertation Title: Stone Soup Translation: The Linked Automata Model. Currently works for Motorola.
Markus Dickinson Linguistics Detmar Meurers Graduated 2005. Thesis title: Error detection and correction in annotated corpora. Currently Assistant Professor at Indiana University.
Anna Feldman Linguistics Chris Brew Graduated 2006. Dissertation title: A cross-language approach to rapid creation of new morpho-syntactically annotated resources. Currently Assistant Professor at Montclair State University.
Whitney Gegg-Harrison Linguistics Craige Roberts Graduated 2006 (MA). Currently a graduate student in cognitive science at the University of Rochester
Jean Godby Linguistics Craige Roberts Graduated 2002. Thesis title: A computational study of lexicalized noun phrases in English. Now works at Office of Research at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc
Jirka Hana Linguistics Carl Pollard Graduated 2006. Dissertation title: Czech Clitics in Higher Order Grammar. Currently a software developer at OSU.
Martin Jansche Linguistics Chris Brew Graduated 2003. Thesis title: Inference of string mappings for language technology. Currently works for Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University
Arantxa Lozano Linguistics Detmar Meurers Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wittenberg University
Xiaofei Lu Linguistics Detmar Meurers Graduated 2006. Dissertation title: Hybrid Models for Unknown Chinese Word Resolution. Currently Assistant Professor at Penn State University.
Monica Rajamanohar ECE Eric Fosler-Lussier Graduated 2005 (MS). Currently Technical Consultant at Heiler Software.
Anton Rytting Linguistics Chris Brew, Eric Fosler-Lussier Graduated 2007 (PhD). Dissertation Title: Preserving Subsegmental Variation in Modeling Word Segmentation. Currently at the Center for the Advanced Study of Language (CASL), Maryland.
Laura Stoia CSE Advisor: Donna Byron Graduated 2007. Dissertation title: Noun phrase generation for situated dialogues. Currently a software engineer at Google.
Nathan Vaillette Linguistics Chris Brew Graduated 2004.
Yu Wang PhD Student,
Advisor: Eric Fosler-Lussier		 CSE
Andrew Watts Linguistics Detmar Meurers Graduated 2006 (MA).

 

Faculty in Related Fields

Within Linguistics and CSE, as well as in other departments, there are several faculty members working on closely related topics:

Other faculty members in Psychology:

Other faculty members in Linguistics working in related fields:

Other faculty members in Computer Science and Engineering working in related fields:

Last modified: July 19, 2005