Project Assistant
Resume:
Alicia Tribble http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ atribble
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
949-***-**** ********@**.***.***
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carnegie Mellon University
Chapel Hill, NC
Pittsburgh, PA
B.Sci. in Mathematical Sciences (2000)
M.Sci. in Language Technologies (2002)
Computer Science Concentration
Ph.D. in Language Technologies (expected 2008)
Slavic Linguistics Double Major
Research Experience
Visiting Researcher
Tsujii Laboratory, University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan (2006 2008)
GENIA Information Extraction Project : Revised and validated the structure of the GENIA
Ontology for Cellular Biology using knowledge-based text mining experiments implemented
in Perl.
Ph.D. Candidate, Research Assistant
Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA (2003 2006)
Projected Graduation: 2008
Scone Knowledge Representation Team (2004 2007): Authored tools in Lisp that build
semantic network representations of English input. Delivered a noun compound resolver
and a semantic concept spotter used in email classi cation. Lead a small team that deliv-
ered the SconeEdit Ontology Editing Tool (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ atribble/SconeEdit/)
using Lisp, Java, and Perl.
TIDES project (2003 2004): Responsible for training and maintaining the Arabic-English
Statistical MT (SMT) system which uses N-gram language modeling and phrase-level
alignment models. Implemented algorithm improvements to the system in C++.
Visiting Researcher
Institut f r Logik, Komplexit t, und Deduktionssysteme, Universit t Karlsruhe
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Karlsruhe, Germany (2002 2003)
TIDES project: Responsible for the Arabic-English SMT system shared by CMU. Imple-
mented phrase-translation improvements and simple morphological analysis.
Babylon project: Ported the Arabic-English SMT system to the medical domain. Supervised
one graduate research assistant.
C-STAR project: Implemented a web-based system that accepts & evaluates machine trans-
lation results for a competition among 7 partner universities. Member of the Steering Com-
mittee on Evaluation for the C-Star consortium (http://www.c-star.org).
Alicia Tribble http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ atribble
Research Experience
M.Sc. Candidate, Research Assistant
Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA (2000 2002)
TIDES project: Responsible for the Arabic-English SMT system. Coordinated and
executed the submission of this system to competitive evaluations. Implemented algorithm
improvements. Trained the baseline CMU Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT)
system in Arabic-English and contributed to the maintenance of that system. Managed 3
part-time sta serving as native-speaker informants.
LingWear project: Responsible for extending a semantic grammar for English to a new
domain (medical interviews). Maintained analysis and generation grammars. Coordinated
data collection for system training: recruiting informants, creating scripts with appropriate
domain coverage, and managing recording sessions. Prepared the system for demonstrations.
Other Contributions: Classi ed native and non-native speech in recorded text using n-gram
phoneme models, co-authored publications on the result. Presented a talk in the faculty-
reviewed LTI Student Research Symposium (2003).
Teaching & Technical Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Grammars and Lexicons (Fall 2005)
Supported the professors of an introductory course in Computational Linguistics. Created
homework assignments and solutions and maintained grade reports. Prepared and taught
four recitation sessions. Prepared and taught one full lecture (90 minutes).
Undergraduate Lab Assistant
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Comp 14: Introduction to Algorithms and Programming Principles (Spring 2000)
Created assignments and solutions. Coordinated e orts of 5 other undergraduate lab assis-
tants and 3 graduate teaching assistants. Taught biweekly help session (60 minutes).
Computer Services Sta Member
Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC (1999 2000)
Solved problems involving email, account access, and le system administration for UNIX
and Windows. Contributed HOWTO articles. Revised on-line documentation for CS facili-
ties.
Scalability Veri cation Intern
Tivoli Systems (IBM)
Research Triangle Park, NC (Summer 1999)
Designed internal web site for distribution of testing information. Installed and con gured
Tivoli IT management software on a variety of platforms including Windows NT/98/2000,
O/S2, Sun and Linux.
Alicia Tribble http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ atribble
Publications
Peer-reviewed Conference Papers
Alicia Tribble, Jin-Dong Kim, Tomoko Ohta and Jun ichi Tsujii. A comparison of knowl-
edge resource designs: supporting term-level text annotation in Building and evaluating
resources for biomedical text mining, Workshop of LREC 2008. Marrakech, Morocco, 2008.
Alicia Tribble. Labeling Semantic Relationships in English in Doctoral Consortium of
HLT/NAACL-2007. Rochester, NY, 2007.
Alicia Tribble and Scott E. Fahlman. CMU-AT: Semantic Distance and Background
Knowledge for Identifying Semantic Relations in SemEval-2007 Workshop of ACL 2007.
Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.
Alicia Tribble and Scott E. Fahlman. Resolving Noun Compounds With Multi-Use Domain
Knowledge . in Proceedings of The 19th International FLAIRS Conference. Melbourne
Beach, Florida, May 11-13, 2006.
Alicia Tribble, Stephan Vogel, and Alex Waibel. Overlapping Phrase-level Translation
Rules in an SMT Engine . in Proceedings of NLPKE 2003. Beijing, China, October 2003.
Stephan Vogel, Alicia Tribble. Improving Statistical Machine Translation for a Speech-
to-Speech Translation Task . in Proceedings of ICSLP 2002 Workshop on Speech-to-Speech
Translation. Boulder, CO, September 2002.
Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, Kornel Laskowski, Alicia Tribble, Alex Waibel. Improvements in
Non-Verbal Cue Identi cation Using Multilingual Phone Strings . in Proceedings of ACL02
Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation. Philadelphia, PA, July 2002.
Alicia Tribble, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin. Rapid Adaptive Development of Semantic Analysis
Grammars . in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Theoretical and Method-
ological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2002). Keihanna, Japan, March 2002.
Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, Kornel Laskowski, Alicia Tribble, Alex Waibel. Speaker, Accent,
and Language Identi cation Using Multilingual Phone Strings . in Proceedings of HLT 2002
Human Language Technology Conference. San Diego, California, March, 2002.
A. Lavie, L. Levin, T. Schultz, C. Langley, B Han, A. Tribble, D. Gates, D. Wallace, K.
Peterson. Domain Portability in Speech to Speech Translation . in Proceedings of HLT
2001 Human Language Technology Conference. San Diego, California, March 18 21, 2001.
Peer-reviewed Posters & Demonstrations
Alicia Tribble, Benjamin Lambert, and Scott E. Fahlman. SconeEdit: A Text-Guided
Domain Knowledge Editor . in Demonstration Sessions of HLT-NAACL 2006. New York,
June 5 7, 2006.
Alicia Tribble and Carolyn Ros . Usable Browsers for Ontological Knowledge Acquisition .
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in Poster Presentations of CHI 2006. Montr al, Canada, April 22-27, 2006.
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Presentations & Invited Talks
Alicia Tribble. Knowledge Acquisition in the Scone Knowledge Representation Project .
presentation for Clairvoyance Corporation. Pittsburgh, USA, May 2005.
Alicia Tribble http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ atribble
Publications
Presentations & Invited Talks
Alicia Tribble. Overlapping Phrase-level Translation Rules in an SMT Engine . presenta-
tion for Student Research Symposium of the Language Technologies Institute. Pittsburgh,
USA, August 2003.
Alicia Tribble. Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Machine Translation . presentation for
Annual Meeting of the C-STAR Consortium. Trento, Italy, December 2002.
Stephan Vogel, Alicia Tribble. Direct Translation Approaches: Statistical Machine Trans-
lation . presentation for ESSLI 2002 Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation. Trento,
Italy, September 2000.
Technical & Professional Skills
Machine Learning: Creating and training classi ers for natural language problems
Information Retrieval: Training and running a retrieval engine for a novel search problem,
semantic query expansion and reranking
Machine Translation: Grammar writing for uni cation-based systems; language modeling
& alignment modeling, MT evaluation
Knowledge Engineering: Ontology design using Scone and using OWL-DL with Protege
Speech Recognition & Synthesis: Phoneme recognition and language modeling for
LVCSR. Building new diphone and unit-selection voices using Festival.
Communication: Authoring scienti c articles, oral presentation, team development of sys-
tems and software, data collection using human informants
Programming: Perl, Lisp, Java, C++, HTML, JavaScript
Platforms: Windows 98/NT/XP, Unix, Linux (RedHat, Suse)
Software: MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; LaTeX, Adobe Photoshop
Natural Languages: German, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese (beginning-
intermediate); Russian, Polish (intermediate reader, beginning speaker)
Awards & Associations
Member, Association for Computational Linguistics (2002 2006)
Graduate Student Assembly Conference Funding Award (2002)
Member, Steering Committee for Evaluation, C-Star Consortium (2002)
References
Scott E. Fahlman
Research Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
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Jun ichi Tsujii
Professor of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, University of Tokyo
Professor of Text Mining, University of Manchester
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Eric Nyberg
Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
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Carolyn Penstein-Ros
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Research Computer Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University
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