Graduates of the AI Group

Recent PhD graduates in artificial intelligence include:

  • Hao Zhang, Handling Complexity of Synchronous Grammars, 2008.
  • Ellen Campana, Natural versus Standardized Approaches to Spoken System Design: A Comparison Using the Dual-Task Paradigm, 2007.
  • Proshanto Mukherji, Discovering Laws as Anomalies in Logical Worlds, 2007.
  • Nathan J. Blaylock, Towards Tractable Agent-Based Dialogue, 2005.
  • Joel R. Tetreault, Empirical Evaluations of Pronoun Resolution, 2005.
  • David D. Ahn, The Role of Situations and Presuppositions in Restricting Adverbial Quantification, 2004.
  • Myroslava Dzikovska A Practical Semantic Representation for Natural Language Parsing, 2004.
  • Lucian Galescu, Hierarchical Statistical Language Models for Unlimited Vocabularies, 2003.
  • Teresa Zollo, Detecting and Correcting Speech Recognition Errors during Natural Language Understanding, 2003.
  • Donna K. Byron, Resolving Pronominal Reference to Abstract Entities, 2002.
  • Gregory R. Wheeler (Joint Philosophy and CS), Non-Monotonicity and Paraconsistency, 2002.
  • Amanda J. Stent, Dialogue Systems as Conversational Partners: Applying Conversation Acts Theory to Natural Language Generation for Task-Oriented Mixed-Initiative Spoken Dialogue, 2001.
  • Mark G. Core, Dialog Parsing: From Speech Repairs to Speech Acts, 2000.
  • Aaron N. Kaplan, A Computational Model of Belief, 2000.
  • Eric K. Ringger, Correcting Speech Recognition Errors, 2000.
  • Amon B. Seagull, Well-Foundedness and Reliability in Statistical Natural Language Parsing, 2000.
  • Choh Man Teng, Non-Monotonic Inference: Characterization and Combination, 1998.
  • Bulent Murtezaoglu, Uncertain Inference and Learning with Reference Classes, 1998.
  • Louis J. Hoebel, A Practical Temporal Reasoning System, 1998, now at GE Research.
  • Peter A. Heeman, Speech Repairs, Intonational Boundaries and Discourse Markers: Modeling Speakers' Utterances in Spoken Dialog, 1997, now at Oregon Graduate Institute.
  • Marc N. Light, Morphological Cues for Lexical Semantics, 1996, now at MITRE Corp.
  • David R. Traum, A Computational Theory of Grounding in Natural Language Conversation, 1995, now at University of Maryland.
  • George M. Ferguson, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Mixed-Initiative Planning, 1995, now at University of Rochester.
  • Massimo Poesio, Discourse Interpretation and the Scope of Operators, 1994, now at University of Edinburgh.