This is the homepage of Christopher M. White, an alumnus of the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Statistics at Harvard University, and a Senior Research Scientist at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE) at Johns Hopkins University until December 2010. I am currently a technical consultant. I completed my PhD as a Department of Homeland Security Graduate Fellow at the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP). My research advisor was Sanjeev Khudanpur.
Vast amounts of natural language from written and spoken communication continue to be digitally processed, archived, and indexed for search. I am interested in training computers to leverage these available resources for general use. My interests are in machine learning, semi-supervised learning, confidence estimation, statistical methods for large data sets, human language technology, automatic speech recognition, multilingual conversational large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, multilingual spoken term detection, pronunciation modeling, language identification, language modeling, etc. I focus on large-scale applications, and have held visiting positions at Microsoft Research and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and have collaborated with IBM Research and Google Research.
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