Ed Kenschaft

Research analyst with background in computational linguistics, software engineering and formal semantics. Interested in analysis and policy issues related to national security.

Ed Kenschaft’s Specialties:

Translation, low-resource languages, morphological analysis, word sense disambiguation, formal semantics, machine learning.

Ed Kenschaft’s Experience

Research Associate

Institute for Defense Analyses

(Non-Profit; Defense & Space industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Provide objective analyses of national security issues, particularly those requiring scientific and technical expertise, and conduct related research on other national challenges. Information Technology and Systems Division.
Research Assistant

Onyx Consulting

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

June 2007 — February 2008 (9 months)

Populated an English lexicon and language-independent ontology, based on textual data provided by the customer. (contract)
Research Assistant

University of Maryland

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

August 2003 — May 2007 (3 years 10 months)

Research in computational linguistics, particularly related to automated translation involving low-resource languages. Projects include: unsupervised morphological analysis; cross-lingual word sense disambiguation; using the above to improve statistical machine translation.
Analyst, Language Software Development

SIL International

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Translation and Localization industry)

April 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 3 months)

Acted as the liaison between developers and customers in creating software for use by linguistics field workers.
Research Programmer

BBN Technologies

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1999 — July 2001 (1 year 10 months)

Developed software to apply theoretical NLP algorithms to real-world problems. Performed experiments to evaluate algorithms and configurations. Main project used NLP techniques to classify emails.
Software Engineer

Turning Point Software

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 1 month)

* Developed system to replicate and update XML records across the Internet.
* Developed DLL utility to simulate random user input into any Win/NT program.
* Designed algorithm to magnify screen display for sight-impaired users, using image processing techniques.
* Developed various GUI and database components for system that allows classroom teachers to manage and administer quizzes on student reading.

Ed Kenschaft’s Education

University of Maryland College Park

M.A. , Computational Linguistics , 2003 — 2008

Activities and Societies:

UMIACS, CLIP Lab
Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics

Certificate , Applied Linguistics (Translation) , 2001 — 2003

Activities and Societies:

Student government
The University of Texas at Arlington

Certificate , Linguistics , 2001 — 2003

This actually represents a certificate earned at SIL International, in Applied Linguistics: Translation.
Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. , Applied Math (CS), Philosophy , 1984 — 1988

National Merit Scholarship, Honors

Activities and Societies:

Alpha Phi Omega, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, University Chorus, Carnegie Mellon Gaming Club