Area Manager at Palo Alto Research Center
San Francisco Bay Area
Area Manager at Palo Alto Research Center
San Francisco Bay Area
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
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2006 — Present (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.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2004 — Present (4 years)
Symbolic Systems Program
teach grammar engineering at undergrad and grad level
supervise SSP interns at PARC
supervise students in computational linguistics
(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
(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.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 1993 — May 1994 (10 months)
Research on Georgian (morpho)syntax.
PhD, linguistics, 1988 — 1993
BSc, 1984 — 1988
AMITA NorCal (Association of MIT Alumnae, Northern California),
Association of Computational Linguistics,
Linguistic Society of America,
Computer History Museum
Exceptional Performance (PARC 2006)
Excellence in Engineering (PARC 2002)
Phi Beta Kappa (MIT 1988)