Gerald Penn
Students and Co-authors

Current Ph.D. Students

Christopher Collins

Visualization of linguistic data.
M.Sc. thesis: Head-Driven Probabilistic Parsing for Word Lattices,
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
January 2004. Co-advised with Sheelagh Carpendale.

Timothy Fowler

Categorial grammar.
M.Sc. thesis: A Graph Formalism for Proofs in the Lambek Calculus with Product,
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
August 2006.

Cosmin Munteanu

Speech recognition and webcasting.
M.Sc. thesis: Indexing Methods for Efficient Parsing with Typed Feature Structures,
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
November 2003. Co-advised with Ron Baecker.

Xiaodan Zhu

Speech summarization.

Current M.Sc. Students

Michael Demko

Parsing in freer-word-order languages.

Undergraduates

Yuecheng Zhang

Speech recognition.

Thesis Examiner

Andrew Burrow, Department of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, defended 2006.

Diana Inkpen, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, defended 2003.

Martin Jansche, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, defended 2004.

Saif Mohammad, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, research paper 2004.

Yun Niu, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, thesis defense 2006.

Vivian Tsang, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, thesis proposal 2006.

Former Ph.D. Students

Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini

Modularity and Soft Constraints: a study of conflict resolution in grammar
Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto,
April 2004. Co-advised with Elizabeth Cowper.
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Iowa State University.

Former M.Sc. Students

Ken Hoetmer

Higher-Order Types for Grammar Engineering,
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
March 2005.
Programmer, GeoBirds.com.

Oliver Suhre

Computational Aspects of a Grammar Formalism for Languages with Freer Word Order,
Department of Informatics, Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet,
November 1999. Co-advised with Klaus-Joern Lange.
Research Programmer, IBM Deutschland.

Former Undergraduates

Travis Choma

Research M.Sc. Candidate,
Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Amsterdam.

David James

Programmer, SourceForge.net.

Ryan McDonald

Research Scientist, Google, Inc.

Co-authors

Bob Carpenter	carp@colloquial.com	Alias I, Inc.
Thilo Goetz	goetz@watson.ibm.com	IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
Jianying Hu	jyhu@us.ibm.com	IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
Octav Popescu	octav@cmu.edu	Carnegie Mellon University
Frank Richter	fr@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de	Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen
Manfred Sailer	mf@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de	Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen
Richmond Thomason	rich@thomason.org	University of Michigan

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