Tracy Holloway King

Area Manager at Palo Alto Research Center

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Area Manager at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
  • Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University
Past
  • 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
Education
  • Stanford University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Connections
288 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Tracy Holloway King’s Summary

Research management in computational linguistics

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


Computational linguistics/Natural language processing

Exploiting "deep" processing representations and techniques for improved NLP
Multilingual natural language processing for applications


Tracy Holloway King’s Experience

  • Area Manager

    Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

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

    July 2006Present (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.

  • Consulting Associate Professor

    Stanford University

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    2004Present (4 years)

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

  • Member of the Research Staff

    Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

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

    1997June 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 1994June 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 1993May 1994 (10 months)

    Research on Georgian (morpho)syntax.


Tracy Holloway King’s Education

  • Stanford University

    PhD, linguistics, 19881993

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    BSc, 19841988


Additional Information

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Tracy Holloway King’s Groups:

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

  •    Stanford University Alumni
  •    Palo Alto Research Center (previously Xerox PARC)

Tracy Holloway King’s Honors:

Exceptional Performance (PARC 2006)
Excellence in Engineering (PARC 2002)
Phi Beta Kappa (MIT 1988)


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