About me
Research Staff Member
Manager, Knowledge Structures Group
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
I am a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. I also manage the Knowledge Structures group which focuses on improving advanced search technology through the use of natural language processing and machine learning techniques. Prior to joining IBM in 2001, I spent 5 years as a Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories. My research interests include question answering, semantic search, natural langauge discourse processing, and spoken dialogue management.
I am currently serving on the executive board of the North American Chapter of the ACL and on the editorial board of the Journal of Dialogue Systems. In the recent past, I was program co-chair of the HLT/NAACL 2006 Conference and program committee area chair for EMNLP/HLT 2005. I also served on the editorial board of the Computational Linguistics Journal, and as secretary and scientific advisory board member of the ACL/ISCA special interest group on discourse and dialogue (SIGDIAL).
Last updated 19 Dec 2006