Research

My research interests lie at or near the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and linguistics. A unifying theme of much of my work is multilinguality. Some current topics of interest are:

• Machine translation
• Neural network models for language processing
• Computational morphology and phonology
• NLP on noisy text (Twitter, Sina Weibo, etc.)
• Language modeling
• Feature induction and representation learning
• Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning
• Bayesian techniques
• Big data algorithms
• Probabilistic music models

• The National Science Foundation (Lexical Borrowing)
• DARPA (LORELEI)
• Google (A Hybrid Neural–Phrase-Based Model for Machine Translation)
• The Army Research Office (MT/NLP for Low-Resource Languages)

Teaching

• Fall 2015 - 11-763 Structured Prediction
• Fall 2015 - 11-711 Algorithms for NLP (with Miguel Ballesteros and Bob Frederking)
• Spring 2015 - 11-731 Machine Translation (with Alon Lavie)
• Spring 2015 - 11-411/611 Natural Language Processing (with Alan W Black and Shomir Wilson).
• Fall 2014 - 11-711 Algorithms for NLP (with Alon Lavie and Bob Frederking)
• Spring 2014 - 11-731 Machine Translation (with Alon Lavie)
• Spring 2014 - Undergraduate Natural Language Processing
• Spring 2014 - Advanced MT Seminar
• Fall 2013 - 10-710/11-763 Structured Prediction for Language and Other Discrete Data (with Noah Smith)
• Fall 2013 - 11-732 Self-Paced Lab: MT
• Spring 2013 - 11-731 Machine Translation (with Alon Lavie)
• Fall 2012 - 11-732 Self-Paced Lab: MT
• Spring 2011 - 11-411 Natural Language Processing (with Alan W. Black)

Random Stuff

I am originally from Texas, and I have lived in North Carolina, Berlin, Germany, and Washington (DC and state). I play the cello.