LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES PH.D. CANDIDATES
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SCS Career Office
Language Technologies Institutes,
School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412.268.8525
STUDENTS COMPLETING THE PH.D.
IN LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGIES
BY AUGUST 2001
- Expected Completion: December 2000
- Advisor: Jack Mostow
- Thesis Topic: Helping Children Learn Vocabulary during
Computer-Assisted Oral Reading
- Project: Project LISTEN
- Research Interests: Speech recognition, spoken dialog systems,
educational software, intelligent tutoring systems, lexical semantics,
human-computer interaction, user interfaces, handheld computing.
- Goals: Improve quality of life, standard of living, and
equality of opportunity for people around the globe by carefully targeted
application of information technology. For example, my Ph.D. dissertation
explored using computers to help at-risk children learn vocabulary during
computer-assisted oral reading, demonstrating significant advantage over
classroom instruction, and furthermore, performance competitive with
one-on-one human tutoring. Future projects should meet the same high
standards of (a) a societally essential goal, (b) an indispensable role
for computing, and (c) a technologically daring but feasible approach.
- Background/Skills: 10 years of programming in C++; experiment
design and analysis; international scientific presentations; Perl.
- Citizenship: US
- Email: aist@cs.cmu.edu
- Telephone: 412.268.6436 (W)
- Expected Completion: December 2001
- Advisor: Tom Mitchell
- Thesis Topic: Exploiting Natural Language Structure for
Bootstrapping Information Extraction
- Research Interests: Machine learning algorithms for information
extraction and text classification; lexical semantics; modeling user interests
from web usage patterns
- Notes: Seeking employment in the Los Angeles area.
- Email: rosie@cs.cmu.edu
- Telephone: 412.268.8492 (W)
- Expected Completion: June 2001
- Advisor: Alex Waibel
- Thesis Topic: Automatic Summarization of Spontaneous Dialogues
in Unrestricted Domains
- Research Interests: Research in NLP and Information Technologies
- Email: zechner@cs.cmu.edu