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I am the Chief Scientist of
the Human Language Technology Center of
Excellence at the Johns Hopkins University. Service: · VP-elect of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · President of SIGDAT (special
interest group that organizes EMNLP conferences) Before moving to Hopkins, I
was a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, and before that I was the
head of a data mining department in AT&T Labs-Research (formally AT&T
Bell Labs). I received my BS, Masters and PhD from MIT in computer science in
1978, 1980 and 1983, respectively. I enjoy working with very large corpora
such as the Associated Press newswire (1 million words per week) and larger
datasets such as telephone call detail (1-10 billion records per month). I
have worked on many topics in computational linguistics including: web
search, language modeling, text analysis, spelling correction, word-sense
disambiguation, terminology, translation, lexicography, compression, speech
(recognition and synthesis), OCR, as well as applications that go well beyond
computational linguistics such as revenue assurance and virtual integration
(using screen scraping and web crawling to integrate systems that
traditionally don't talk together as well as they could such as billing and
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