Research Activities
I mostly work with folks in the NLP (opens in new tab) and Machine Translation groups.
I’ve had the privilege of mentoring or working with a number of interns over the years, including Katharina Probst (opens in new tab), Colin Cherry (opens in new tab), Pavel Pecina (opens in new tab), Ethan Phelps-Goodman (opens in new tab), Vivek Srikumar (opens in new tab), Arne Mauser (opens in new tab), Hao Zhang (opens in new tab), Jason Smith (opens in new tab), Mohit Bansal (opens in new tab), Arianna Bisazza (opens in new tab), Mayank Srivastava (opens in new tab), Jenny Lin, Joern Wuebker (opens in new tab), Juri Ganitkevich (opens in new tab), Hui Zhang (opens in new tab), and Wei Deng (opens in new tab).
Apply for internships at MSR — it’s a fantastic program!
I just came back from a Summer Workshop (opens in new tab) at Johns Hopkins working on Domain Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation (opens in new tab).
Teaching
- Fall 2012: LING 570 Shallow Methods in Natural Language Processing (opens in new tab) with Will Lewis
- Spring 2011: Kristina Toutanova and taught a Statistical Machine Translation course at the University of Washington (opens in new tab).
Academic Service
Reviewer for ACL, EMNLP, COLING, MT Summit consistently over the past 5+ years. Area Chair in MT: ACL 2009, EMNLP 2009, 2012