Machine Software

Dennis Nolan Mehay

(Curriculum Vitae)The Ohio State University Telephone:

1.614.256.1409Department of Linguistics Fax: 1-614-***-****

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Columbus, OH, USA 43210-1298 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

better

account for the syntactically non-traditional translation constituents that SMT systems

manipulate.

Education

I PhD Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State

University,expected 2012.

(Adviser: Michael White.)

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

cum laude).

(Adviser: Marie-Francine Moens.)

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

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

Employment

The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)OISummer 2010, Summer 2011-present. Graduate

Research Associate for Dr. Michael White, developingtaggers and extending the text

realization capabilities of the OpenCCG

platform.

I 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

technologies.

I 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.

ISummer 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.

IWinter 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.

The Zerhouni Group (Columbia, MD)

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

Ajilon Professional, LLC (Louisville, KY)

I 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)

I 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.

2ReferencesMy PhD adviser is Michael White

*****.****@***.***). From Summer 2005{Spring 2011, Chris Brew

was my adviser (?*****@***.***). He is now at ETS, but retains an active role on my

committee.Schuler (*******@****.****-*****.***) and Eric Fosler-Lussier

******@***.****-*****.***) are also

on my advisory committee.

Other references (and further contact information) are available upon request.

Skills

Highlights

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

languages

across multiple programming paradigms (object-oriented, functional, logic and

procedural).

I Eight years of formal training in machine learning, NLP and theoretical linguistics.

I Facility working with large data sets for NLP.

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

I Proficient in French, conversant in Dutch and have rudimentary knowledge of German and

Turkish.

Computer Languages

I Have developed in: Java, Python, Haskell, Prolog, Scheme, C, VB, Embedded VB, among

others.

I Know the basics of: C++, R, JavaScript.

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

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Computing and Software Development Skills

I Object-oriented Design (Java, Python); Functional Programming (Haskell, Scheme);

Programming

Language Theory; Databases (sqlite3, BerkeleyDB); Unit Testing (JUnit, HUnit, doctest);

Property-

based Testing (QuickCheck); Formal Parser Specification; POSIX Command-line Text

Processing (using

sed, grep, tr, cut, etc.).

Technical NLP and Linguistic Skills

I Statistical Machine Translation; Parsing; Computational Semantics; Syntactic Analysis

(CCG, HPSG,

vanilla CFGs); Phonological Analysis; Phonetic Transcription (IPA).

Natural Languages

I English (native); French (proficient, spoken and written); Dutch (basic conversation

and reading);

German (basic reading); Turkish (beginning conversation and reading).

Peer-reviewed Publications2011 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.

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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.

Invited Presentations

th

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

Nominated for the OSU Presidential Fellowship, 2010 and 2011.

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, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State

Univer-

sity, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008.

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