Machine Software

Dennis Nolan Mehay

(Curriculum Vitae)The Ohio State University Telephone: 1-614-***-****

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Columbus, OH, USA 43210-1298 Email: *******@*****.***

Homepage: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mehay

Research Interests

Machine translation, computational syntax (parsing, tagging) and semantics (semantic role

labelling), machine learning for NLP. My dissertation focuses on using syntax to improve

statistical

machine translation for language pairs with syntactically governed word-order

differences. Specifically, I

use the flexible, word-centered syntax known as Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) to

implement

syntax-guided reordering models in phrase-based MT.

Education

PhD Computational Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2012. (M.A., 2011)*(Advisers:

Chris Brew.)liam Schuler

M.A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2004,magna cum

laude.

(Adviser: Marie-Francine Moens.)

M.A. Analytic Philosophy, Indiana University (Bloomington), 2001.

B.A. French & Analytic Philosophy, Indiana University (Bloomington), 1999.

Employment

The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)l Summer 2010, Summer 2011-present. Research

Associate for Dr. Michael White, developing taggersand extending the text realization

capabilities of the OpenCCG

Presently focusing on using OpenCCG for paraphrasing in order to improve MT evaluation.

Winter, Spring 2010; Winter 2011. Graduate Teaching Associate,Language and Computers

(LING

384). Fully responsible for two quarter-long courses focusing on linguistics and natural

language tech-

nologies.

Autumn 2010.

Graduate Teaching Associate,Codes and Code-breaking (LING 484). Instructor

for a quarter-long course focusing on the history and basic principles of classic

cryptology.

Summer 2005 and Summer 2008{Autumn 2009. Graduate Research Associate for Dr. Chris Brew.

Developed computational syntactic and semantic technologies (taggers, semantic role

labellers, etc.) in

service of Dr. Brew's NSF CAREER grant.

Winter 2008. Graduate Research Associate for Dr. Simon Dennis. Developed and tested

prototypes of

a discriminative, connectionist language model as a model of human sentence processing.

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The Zerhouni Group [now i Analytics] (Columbia, MD)

Spring 2011. Programming Consultant. Contact: Dr. Kirk Baker.

Ajilon Professional, LLC (Louisville, KY)

June 2002{August 2003. Database Developer. Developed and deployed database software to

track

enterprise-wide PC upgrades for a Fortune 100 client with 19,000 employees. Contact:

Rebecca Tinley.

Sullivan University (Louisville, KY)

August 2001{June 2002, Computer Science Instructor. Taught introductory programming

(Java) and

computing basics courses (word processing, spreadsheet and database usage). Developed and

taught

introductory data structures course (Java). Contact: Virginia Godwin.

2ReferencesFrom Summer 2005{Spring 2011, Chris Brewchristopher.brew [AT] gmail.com) was

my adviser.He is now at ETSSchuler (amretains an active role on my committee. My PhD

adviser of record isschuler [AT] ling.ohio-state.edu). Michael White

white.1240 [AT] osu.edu) and EricFosler-Lussier (

fosler [AT] cse.ohio-state.edu) are also on my advisory committee.

Further information available upon request.

Skills

Highlights

11+ years of software development experience in a variety of mainstream programming

languages across

multiple programming paradigms (object-oriented, functional, logic and procedural).

Eight years of formal training in machine learning, NLP, formal linguistics and (manual)

translation.

Facility working with large data sets for NLP.

Familiar with software design best practices, databases and major mark-up standards.

Proficiency in multiple natural languages.

Computer Languages

Have developed in: Java, Python, Haskell, C, C++, Scheme,Prolog, among others.

Know the basics of: R, JavaScript.

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Query and mark-up languages: SQL, XML, HTML, LT X

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Technical NLP and Linguistic Skills

Statistical Machine Translation (Moses, Joshua)

Machine Learning for NLP

Parsing (CCG, CFGs)

Tagging (POS, supertagging)

Computational Semantics (semantic role labelling)

Syntactic Analysis (CCG, HPSG, vanilla CFGs)

Phonological Analysis

Phonetic Transcription (IPA)

Computing and Software Development Skills

Object-oriented Design (Java, Python, C++)

Functional Programming (Haskell, Scheme)

Logic Programming (Prolog)

Programming Language Theory

Databases (sqlite3, BerkeleyDB)

Unit (JUnit, HUnit, doctest) and Property-based (QuickCheck) Testing

Text Corpus Processing (using sed, grep, tr, cut, etc.)

Natural Languages

English (native)

French (proficient, spoken and written)

Dutch (basic conversation and reading)

German (basic reading)

Turkish (beginning conversation and reading)

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Peer-reviewed Publications2012Dennis N. Mehay and Chris Brew. CCG Syntactic Reordering Models for Phrase-based

MachineTranslation. In Proceedings of WMT-2012, Montreal, Canada

2011 Stephen A. Boxwell, Chris Brew, Jason Baldridge, Dennis N. Mehay and Sujith

Ravi.Semantic Role Labeling Without Treebanks In Proceedings of the IJCNLP, Chiang Mai,

Thailand.

2010Stephen A. Boxwell, Dennis N. Mehay, and Chris Brew. What a Parser can Learn from a

SemanticRole Labeler and Vice-Versa. In Proceedings of EMNLP-2010. MIT, Cambridge, MA,

USA.

2009Stephen A. Boxwell, Dennis N. Mehay and Chris Brew. Brutus: A Semantic Role Labeling

SystemIncorporating CCG, CFG, and Dependency Features. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP-09,

Singapore.

Simon Dennis, Dennis N. Mehay and Srikar Yekollu. Predicting When Words May Appear: A

Connectionist Model of Sentence Processing. In Proceedings of CogSci-09, Amsterdam, The

Netherlands.

2008Dominic Espinosa, Michael White and Dennis N. Mehay. Hypertagging: Supertagging for

SurfaceRealization with CCG. In Proceedings of ACL-08:HLT. Columbus, OH, USA.

2007Dennis N. Mehay and Chris Brew. Bleu^atre: Flattening Syntactic Dependencies for MT

Evaluation.

In Proceedings of TMI-07, Sk ovde, Sweden.

2005 Dennis N. Mehay, Rik De Busser and Marie-Francine Moens. Labelling Generic Semantic

Roles.

In Proceedings of the IWCS-6, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Unpublished Manuscripts and Technical Reports

2010Linguistically Motivated Syntax for Machine Translation. Summary of Dissertation

Proposal.

Submitted to the Ohio State Graduate School, November, 2010 and April 2011.

Invited Presentations

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2009 Real-word Spelling Correction for CALL. The 6 Annual Midwest Computational

Linguistics

Colloquium (MCLC-6). Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

2008Tutorialist (with Dr. Philipp Koehn) at The Eighth Conference of the Association for

Machine

Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2008), Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawai'i.

Title: Statistical Machine Translation: Theory and Practice.

Honors & Awards

University Fellowship (one year), The Ohio State University, 2005.

Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005.

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship in Turkish, The Ohio State University,

2006{2007.

Tuition Reimbursement Scholarship (from NAACL) for attending the Linguistic Society of

America's

Summer Institute, Stanford University, Summer 2007.

Targeted Investment Endowment (TIE) Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2007{2008.

Nominated for the OSU Presidential Fellowship, 2010 and 2011.

Service

Speakers Committee, OSU Linguistics, 2008{10.

CompLing Faculty Hiring Committee (student representative), OSU Linguistics, Winter 2012.

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