Tracy Holloway King

Current

• Principal Development Lead at Microsoft
• Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University

Past

• 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

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

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

• Principal Development Lead

  Microsoft

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

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

  Management of the Natural Language Engineering team at Powerset / Live 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

• 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 Honors:

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

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