Education & Previous Research
University of Edinburgh (2002-2003)
In September 2003, I completed an MSc in Artificial Intelligence,
specializing in Natural Language Engineering, at the
University of Edinburgh's
School of Informatics.
What is informatics you say? It's a new discipline, or interdiscipline
might be a better word, and it's very interesting idea.
My Brief
Mad Props to the Stanford Link
Special thanks to the U. of Edinburgh and Stanford University (and any other entities or individuals responsible) for the Stanford Link studentship, which providing funding for my year in Scotland.
Summer 2002, Research Assistant, Dept of Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
I spent last summer in the city of brotherly love (aka illadelph, philly, or Philadelphia) working as a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania, working on the PropBank project, helping to create a corpus of text annotated with information about basic semantic propositions, adding predicate-argument relations to the syntactic trees of the Penn Treebank.
Rutgers University (1998-2002)
Throughout my four years at Rutgers, I worked at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS). Most of the research I participated in during my first three years, involved various aspects of psycholinguistic research, expecially in research involving the use of eye-tracking and cross-modal (e.g. visual & aural) stimuli presentation.
During my last two years, I was a Research Assistant under Dr. Matthew Stone and Dr. Jennifer Venditti at the VILLAGE Laboratory (short for Vision, Interaction, Language, Logic and Graphics Environment), at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science and Dept of Computer Science (see links below), where I'm doing research in various aspects of human-computer interaction, esp. involving natural language, dialogue and planning.
Our group at the Village published this paper in 2002; it summarizes some of this research:
Discourse Constraints on the Interpretation of Nuclear-accented Pronouns, (to appear) Jennifer J. Venditti, Matthew Stone, Preetham Nanda and Paul Tepper (In Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Speech Prosody. Aix-en-Provence, France) [download pdf]
This paper also includes some of the stimuli that I designed for use in the experiments (they look better in color!).
I also completed a senior interdisciplinary honors thesis under Dr. Stone, exploring data structures for the representation of verbs, events, and instructions, in the general framework of the SPUD natural language generation system.