Mehdi Hafezi Manshadi
I am a fifth year PhD student. My area of interest is Computational Linguistics. I am mainly interested in deep language understanding systems. I am cuurrently working on statistical semantic pasring, specifically staistical scope dismabguation. Semantic representation, scope underspecification, and robustness of deep language understanding systems have been my fields of research in the past several years. My advisor is Prof. James F. Allen Email: Office: 631, Computer Studies Building Phone: (585) 275-0469 Here is my CV. |
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SPRING 2010: Computer Models and Limitations
Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, March 2010
Best papers award from the 2nd Workshop on Persian Language and Computer, Tehran, Iran, June 2006
Bronze Medal in the Fifth National Olympiad of Computer and Informatics, Mashad, Iran, 1995
Bronze Medal in the Fifth National Olympiad of Mathematics, Mashad, Iran 1995
Silver Medal in the Fourth National Olympiad of Computer and Informatics, Shiraz, Iran 1994
PC member of Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS) conference, 2009-10
Member of graduate admissions committee, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, 2008-2010
Mehdi Manshadi, Xiao Li, “Semantic Tagging of Web Search Queries”, Proceeding of the ACL-09, Singapore, August 3-5, 2009.
Mehdi Manshadi, James Allen and Mary Swift. “An Efficient Enumeration Algorithm for Canonical Form Underspecified Semantic Representations”. Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Formal Grammar (FG 2009), Bordeaux, France July 25-26, 2009.
Mehdi Hafezi Manshadi, James Allen, Mary Swift, “Toward a Universal Underspecified Semantic Representation”, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Formal Grammar (FG 2008), Hamburg, Germany, August 9-10, 2008.
Manshadi, M., Swanson, R., & Gordon, A. (2008) "Learning a Probabilistic Model of Event Sequences From Internet Weblog Stories." Twenty-first International Conference of the Florida AI Society, Applied Natural Language Processing track, May 15-17, 2008, Coconut Grove, FL.