Current Colorado Students

James Gung

Computer Science
Specialization: Natural language processing

Ghazelah Kazeminejad

Linguistics
Specialization: Computational Linguistics, Lexical Semantics, Complex Predicates, Farsi Linguistics, Computational Applications for Endangered Languages, Ontologies, Machine Learning, Gesture

Skatje Myers

Computer Science
Specialization: Natural language processing, computational semantics

Tim O'Gorman

Linguistics
Specialization: Computational lexical semantics, construction grammar(s), distributional compositional semantics, information structure, Arabic syntax

Daniel Peterson

Computer Science

Kevin Stowe

Linguistics
Specialization: Natural language processing, computational semantics, machine learning, metaphor, lexical semantics

Former Colorado Students

Lee Becker

Computer Science
Current Position: Senior Resarch/ Data Scientist, Pearson, Dissertation : DISCUSS: Toward a Domain Independent Representation of Dialogue (2012), Advisor: Martha Palmer

Claire Bonial

Linguistics
Current Position: Army Research Laboratories, Dissertation : Take a look at this! Form, Function and Productivity of English Light Verb Constructions (2014) Advisors : Martha Palmer and Bhuvana Narasimhan

Susan Windisch Brown

Linguistics
Current Position: University of Colorado, Dissertation: Finding Meaning: Sense Inventories for Improved Word Sense Disambiguation (2010) Advisor: Martha Palmer

Wei-Te Chen

Computer Science
Dissertation: Abstract Meaning Representation Parsing with Rich Linguistic Features (2017)

Jinho Choi

Computer Science
Current Position: Emory University, Dissertation: Optimization of Natural Language Processing Components for Robustness and Scalability, (2012), Advisor: Martha Palmer

Kevin Cohen

Linguistics
Current Position: University of Colorado Denver Medical School Dissertation: Paradigms of Evaluation in Natural Language Processing: Field Linguistics for Glass Box Testing (2010) Advisor: Martha Palmer

William Corvey

Linguistics
Current Position: Department of Defense Dissertation: Leveraging Pragmatic Features for Microblogged Information Extraction During Crises (2013) Advisor: Martha Palmer

Dmitriy Dligach

Computer Science
Current Position: Loyola Dissertation: High-performance Word Sense Disambiguation with Less Manual Effort (2010) Advisor: Martha Palmer

Da Cheong (Jena) Hwang

Linguistics
Current Position: Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Dissertation: Identification and Representation of Caused Motion Constructions, winner of the 2015 Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation, for dissertations representing outstanding, original and high impact scholarship in the field of cognitive science (2015) Advisor: Martha Palmer

Ashwini Vaidya

Linguistics
Current Position: IIT-Dehli Dissertation: Hindi Complex Predicates: Linguistic and Computational Approaches Advisors: Martha Palmer and Bhuvana Narasimhan

Shumin Wu

Computer Science
Current Position: Google Dissertation : Leveraging Semantic Similarity in Parallel Corpora for Natural Language Processing (2015) Advisor: Martha Palmer