Graduate study

Think twice. Then do it if you must. Research is the best job in the world if you are suited to it.

Research group

My research group at The Ohio State University was focused on robust language technology. Aspects of its culture continue under various guises.

People I am still semi-officially advising, despite it being impossible.

• Dennis Mehay (Syntax Based MT)

• DJ Hovermale (spelling correction, defended 11/21/2011, will file by 11/28)

• Stephen Boxwell (Semantic Role labelling,defended 11/22/2011, will file by 11/28)

Ph.D Graduates

1. Tim Weale (DoD, Fort Meade)

2. Ilana Heintz (BBN)

3. Kirk Baker (Zerhouni Group)

4. Jianguo Li (Senior Staff Engineer at Motorola)

5. Anton Rytting CASL

6. Anna Feldman Montclair State University

7. Nathan Vaillette (MTM LinguaSoft)

8. Sabine Schulte im Walde Stuttgart

9. Martin Jansche Google,New York
   

10. Paul C. Davis Motorola Research

11. Mirella Lapata Faculty, Informatics, Edinburgh

12. Scott McDonald Health Protection Scotland (after some lovely post-doc work with Richard Shillcock)

13. David Tugwell , ITRI, Brighton

14. Kyuchul Yoon, English Division, Kyungnam University

Current OSU Students whom I advised for a while

• Jon Dehdari (multilingual pos tagging)

• Anna Wolf (weblogs and social media)

• Michelle Dionisio (Tagalog language processing)

• Yanzhang (Ryan) He (Sentiment classification and opinion mining)

• Yi Ma

Other collaborators

• Jirka Hana (computational morphology and portable language technology. Advised by Carl Pollard)

• Crystal Nakatsu (dialogue. Advised by Mike White since 2006, previously by me)

• Na'im Tyson (Computational Phonology and Speech Science)

• Luiz Amaral (portable language technology)