The Natural Language Processing Group at Utah

Current Graduate Student Researchers

• Haibo Ding, Ph.D. candidate
• Nathan Gilbert, Ph.D. candidate
• Ruihong Huang, Ph.D. candidate
• Youngjun Kim, Ph.D. candidate
• Ashequl Qadir, Ph.D. candidate
• Lalindra de Silva, Ph.D. candidate

Former Graduate Student Researchers

• David Bean
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Acquisition and Application of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution
  
• Sean Igo
  M.S. Thesis: Identifying Reduced Passive Voice Constructions in Shallow Parsing Environments
  
• Jeffrey Lorenzen
  M.S. Thesis: Exploiting Redundancy to Improve Machine Learning
  
• Siddharth Patwardhan
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Widening the Field of View of Information Extraction through Sentential Event Recognition
• David Price
  M.S. Thesis: Using a `Wizard of Oz' Study to Evaluate a Spoken Language Interface for Programming
  
• William Phillips
  M.S. Thesis: Exploiting Strong Syntactic Heuristics and Co-Training to Learn Semantic Lexicons
  
• Michael Thelen
  M.S. Thesis: Simultaneous Generation of Domain-Specific Lexicons for Multiple Semantic Categories
  

Former Undergraduate Student Researchers

• Rich Warren
• Brandon Harvey, now at Accenture
• Jessica Purcell (formerly Shepherd), now at BYU
  
• Kiri Wagstaff, now at JPL