Her research interest is building computational models of children's language acquisition. Jennifer Anderson is a 1st-year graduate student whose background is in Mathematical Science. She is interested in exploring language development and speech perception from a more mathematical viewpoint. Sharon Caraballo is a 6th-year graduate student in Computer Science,studying with Eugene Charniak. Her research interests are in statistical natural language processing.
Previous work includes a study of fast statistical parsing.
Her thesis project involves the automatic construction of a semantic hierarchy of nouns using statistical information obtained from text. Massimiliano Ciaramita is a 2nd-year graduate student in the Linguistic program, studying computational linguistics with Mark Johnson. His main interest is the application of graphical models to statistical language processing issues. He is currently working on learning selectional preferences with Bayesian Belief Net-works. Keith Hall is a 1st-year PhD student in Computer Science studying statistical natural language processing.