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Assistant Professor
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Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles Street, NEB 224 Baltimore, MD 21218-2691 U.S.A. Email: jason@cs.jhu.edu
Web: http://cs.jhu.edu/~jason
Office: New Engineering Building 324A Phone: (410) 516-8438 (dial 516-THETA) Fax: (410) 516-6134 |
| Natural Language Processing Lab | (within JHU's CS department) |
| Center for Language and Speech Processing | (major multi-departmental center at JHU) |
| Department of Cognitive Science | (joint appointment) |
Computers now have access to lots of natural language data (text and speech). As a computational linguist, I help computers learn to understand human language.
I design algorithms for applying and learning
statistical models
that exploit linguistic structure
to improve performance on real data.
Dynamic programming is a central theme in my work. I have been developing a high-level programming language, Dyna, that encapsulates many practical efficiency tricks and makes it easy to experiment with new algorithms and models.
See my research summary for more information!
Undergraduates are often curious about their teachers' secret lives. In the name of encouraging curiosity-driven research, here are a few photos:
If I had a geek code, it would be GCS/O/M/MU d-(+) s:- a C++$ ULS+(++) L++ P++ E++>+++ W++ N++ o+ K++ w@ !O V- PS++ PE- Y+ PGP b++>+++ !tv G e++++ h- r+++ y+++, but I disapprove of the feeping creaturism of these things.
