People I work with

I have the great fortune to be the primary research supervisor for a talented group of graduate students. The group currently includes:

• Tianfang Xu
• Laura Stoia
• Tim Weale

• Stacey Bailey
• Adrian Boyd
• Guadalupe Canahuate
• Whitney Gegg-Harrison
• Vanessa Metcalf
• Jeremy Morris
• Crystal Nakatsu
• and other students in the CSE Lair

The Computational Linguistics research program at OSU is headed by five investigators: me, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Detmar Meurers, Chris Brew, and Mike White. Our research and events are consolidated on the CLLT website. We meet once a week on Friday afternoons to talk about local research activities and learn from each other.

I also co-lead the OSU Pragmatics Initiative along with Craige Roberts and Scott Schwenter. This group investigates the question of how language meaning is influenced by context. We host an active speaker's series and meet weekly on Thursday afternoon. The research activities of the group can be found on the pragmatics website .

The Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence is the home of all Artificial Intelligence research in OSU's CSE department. The LAIR was established in 1970 and was the first lab to get organized within the OSU CSE department. In addition to our Computational Linguitics research, other researchers in the LAIR perform cutting-edge research that keeps me constantly inspired in the areas of Neurodymanics (Leon Wang), Computer Vision (Jim Davis), Reasoning and Knowledge Representation (John Josephson and Chandra) and Machine Learning Mikhail Belkin. Members of the LAIR meet bi-weekly to discuss our ongoing research activities.

I am also a member of OSU's Center for Cognitive Science, which brings together researchers interested in cognition from across OSU. The center is active in sponsoring outside speakers, funding a summer graduate student exchange within OSU, and provides space for the OSU Eyetracking lab.

Other places I have worked

Before coming to OSU, I was a member of the Conversational Interaction and Spoken Dialogue Research Group at the University of Rochester from 1996 until 2002. I worked for James Allen on the TRIPS-Pacifica, TRIPS-911, and Medadvisor systems.

I was supported for the summer of 2002 by Michael Tanenhaus and I continue to collaborate with Mike and Sarah Brown-Schmidt on psycholinguistics research.

In the summer of 2000, I was a research intern at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in the Information Retrieval and Analysis Group. My supervisor was Jim Cooper.

Professional Society Affiliations

• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• PC member for the first conference on Spoken Language Technolgoy (SLT'06)
• PC member, joint conference on Human Language Technology and the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL'06)
• PC member, 11th meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'06)
• PC member, ASRU'05, 2005 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Cancun, Mexico, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2005.
• PC member and Demo session co-chair, HLT/EMNLP Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, Canada, October 6-8, 2005.
• PC Member ACL'05 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 25 - 30, 2005.
• Co-Chair, Workshop on Discourse Annotation at ACL'04, Barcelona, Spain, July 25-26, 2004.
• PC member, ACL 2004, 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, July 20-26, 2004.
• PC member, Workshop on Reference Resolution and its Applications, Barcelona, Spain, July 25-26, 2004.
• PC member, DAARC2004 The 5th International Conference on Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution, San Miguel, Portugal, Sept. 23 - 24, 2004.
• PC member ASRU 2003, the IEEE Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Nov. 30 - Dec. 4, 2003.
• PC member, SIGDIAL 2003 The 4th Sigdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialog, Sapporo, Japan, July 5-6, 2003.
• Panelist, the 4th annual Student Research Worshop at ACL 2003
• PC member, ACL2003, the 41st annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sapporo, Japan, July 7 - 12, 2003.
• PC member, 2003 International Symposium on Reference Resolution and Its Applications to Question Answering and Summarization, Venice, Italy, June 23 - 24, 2003.
• PC member, 2002 International Symposium on Reference Resolution for Natural Language Processing, Alicante, Spain, June 3-4, 2002.