Expertise Description
I have more than 25 years experience in the field of Language Technologies with expertise in spoken dialog systems, speech recognition, multimodal systems, voice processing, speech processing, speech standards, english syntax & grammar, natural language processing, web technologies, assistive technologies, and voice technology in the developing world.Areas of Expertise
Consulting Experience
My consulting experience includes assisting companies in understanding the state of the art in speech, natural language, and multimodal technologies and in applying these technologies to innovative products.
Professional Experiences
My professional experience includes leading teams for developing tools for natural language processing, speech grammars, dialog systems, and text classification. I also have performed technology evaluations of companies marketing natural language, machine learning, and voice technologies.
Education
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Linguistics | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | ||
| M.A. | Linguistics | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | ||
| B.S. | Psychology | University of Illinois | Urbana | ||
Licenses Certifications
Awards & Affiliation
| Speech Luminary Award |
| Applied Voice Input/Output Society |
| Association for computational Linguistics |
| Association for Computing Machinery |
| Linguistic Society of America |
Primary Affiliation
Association for Computational Linguistics
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