About me
Research Staff Member
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)
I received my MSE in Computer and Information Science and PhD in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. Before joining IBM Research in November 2001, I worked as a technical staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, responsible for various DARPA-sponsored projects such as TIDES and Communicator as a principal investigator, and developed interlingua-based domain specific Korean-to-English and English-to-Korean translation systems.
Since joining IBM, I have focused on open domain statistical machine translation of text and speech. I have developed Arabic-to-English text translation system under DARPA/TIDES project. I have developed Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish spoken language translation systems under European Union/TC-STAR (Technology and Corpora for Speech to Speech Translation) project. My other research at IBM includes algorithm development for morphological analysis of languages with rich morphology such as Arabic, Korean, Russian and Spanish to improve performances of machine translation, information retrieval and information extraction systems.
I have served on various professional committees including ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), COLING (International Conference on Computational Linguistics), HLT (Human Language Technology) Conference, IWSLT (International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation), and DARPA/TIDES Planning Committee for Machine Translation.
Last updated 16 Jun 2006