Tracy Holloway King

Current

Principal Development Manager at Microsoft
Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University

Past

Principal Development Lead at Microsoft
Area Manager at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Member of the Research Staff at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

Fulbright Lecturer at Tbilisi State University/Georgian Academy of Sciences
Postdoctoral researcher at Linguistics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington

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Education

Stanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Connections

373 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Tracy Holloway King’s Summary

Manager and individual contributor in computational linguistics in research and industry environments

Integration of NLP techniques and research into real world applications such as:
search (current focus), question answering, redaction, entity and relation extraction

Exploiting "deep" processing representations and techniques for improved NLP

Multilingual natural language processing for applications

Tracy Holloway King’s Experience

Principal Development Manager

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)

Management of the Natural Language Engineering team (Statistical Text Processing and Classification, Text Processing for Semantic Applications, Corpus Development and Evaluation) at Powerset, part of Bing! search.
Consulting Associate Professor

Stanford University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

2004 — Present (5 years )

Symbolic Systems Program
teach grammar engineering at undergrad and grad level
supervise SSP interns at PARC
supervise students in computational linguistics
Principal Development Lead

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

October 2008 — May 2009 (8 months)

Management of the Natural Language Engineering team at Powerset / Live Search
Area Manager

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 3 months)

Manager of NLP research group: establishing research strategy including IP and field-of-use issues, securing internal and external project funding, balancing multiple project goals and deliverables. Technical expertise in grammar engineering.
Member of the Research Staff

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

1997 — June 2006 (9 years )

Natural language processing and computational linguistics
Focus on grammar engineering
Developed broad-coverage deep English grammar on XLE platform
Parallel Grammar development on XLE of multilingual applications
Interfaces with finite-state technologies and deep semantic processing
Fulbright Lecturer

Tbilisi State University/Georgian Academy of Sciences

(Research industry)

August 1994 — June 1995 (11 months)

Taught linguistics to professors and advanced graduate students.
Taught English to top-tier undergraduates.

Research on Georgian linguistics.
Postdoctoral researcher

Linguistics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 1993 — May 1994 (10 months)

Research on Georgian (morpho)syntax.

Tracy Holloway King’s Education

Stanford University

PhD , linguistics , 1988 — 1993
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BSc , 1984 — 1988

Additional Information

Tracy Holloway King’s Websites:

My Website

Tracy Holloway King’s Groups:

AMITA NorCal (Association of MIT Alumnae, Northern California),
Association of Computational Linguistics,
Linguistic Society of America,
Computer History Museum