Curriculum Vitae

Vision	Leverage computational linguistics and analysis to address national security issues. .
Strengths	Natural language processing Machine learning Formal linguistics/semantics Ontology development Requirements analysis GUI design	C++ Java Perl XML HTML
Education
August 2003 – 2007	University of Maryland Incomplete Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics GPA 3.89 Course Highlights Syntactic Theory I & II Psycholinguistics Seminar: Computational Linguistics Seminar: Conjunctivist Semantics Seminar: Verbal Valency & Complex Causatives
July 2001 – June 2003	Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics Certificate of Applied Linguistics (Translation) GPA 3.96 Course Highlights Theory and Practice of Translation Advanced Grammatical Analysis Applied Phonology Principles of Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics Cultural Anthropology Second Language and Culture Acquisition Field Methods and Linguistic Analysis Semantics and Pragmatics Discourse Analysis
August 1984 – May 1988	Carnegie Mellon University B.S. with Honors in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science track) & Philosophy GPA 3.76 Course Highlights Computational Linguistics Information Processing Psychology and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Applied Graph Theory Linear Algebra Numerical Methods Probability and Statistics for Math Majors Ancient Philosophy Modern Philosophy Philosophy of Science Logic and Computability Shakespeare Topics in Metaphysics: The Meaning of Life Paternalism: Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and Seatbelts
Work Experience
May 2008 – present	Institute for Defense Analyses Research Associate Coordinated with organizational representatives to produce standards for information exchange.
June 2007 – February 2008	Onyx Consulting, in cooperation with University of Maryland, Baltimore County Research Assistant (contract position) Generated an ontology and English lexicon based on textual data.
June 2004 – May 2007	University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) Graduate Research Assistant Research summary Morphological analysis – Conceived and developed a novel system for unsupervised morphological analysis, adaptable to (the regular morphology of) any language. Crosslingual WSD – Conceived and developed sense disambiguation system using large amounts of unannotated data to improve accuracy. Semantics – Conceived prototype model of semantic processing that is learnable, empirically plausible, and computationally tractable.
April 2002 – June 2003	Language Software Development, SIL International Analyst Acted as the liaison between customers and developers. Details Coordinated with domain consultants in the Anthropology Department. Solicited feedback from beta testers in the field. Clarified specifications of requirements and design to provide direction for developers. Coordinated with the areas providing documentation and training materials. Evaluated and prioritized bug reports and enhancement requests. Mentored junior colleagues.
October 1999 – July 2001	Speech and Language Processing Department, BBN Technologies Research Programmer Developed engine for routing email messages by topic, from requirements analysis through implementation. Details Produced requirements specification in consultation with customers and colleagues. Designed C++ API, including XML DTD's. Designed object model. Implemented classification engine based on department research on statistical topic identification based on word frequencies. Experimented with various algorithm enhancements. Provided documentation and training. Designed VoiceXML interpreter using SpeechWorks OpenVXI and BBN Hark Recognizer. Mentored junior colleagues.
October 1998 – October 1999	Metamor Software Solutions Software Engineer Developed system to replicate and update XML records across the Internet. Developed DLL utility to simulate random user input into any Win/NT program. Designed algorithm to magnify screen display for sight-impaired users, using Fourier transforms. Developed various GUI and database components for system that allows classroom teachers to manage and administer quizzes on student reading.
More Employment History

May – September 1998	IISI Corporation Software Developer Developed HTML parser/generator. Designed image recognition system using pattern matching and Fast Fourier Transforms. Mentored junior colleagues.
January 1995 – June 1996	Insurance Technologies Corporation Programmer/Analyst Developed system for rating multiple lines of property insurance. System became the company standard for all later products. Assisted in project management responsibilities.
November 1993 – March 1994	Hockaday School Instructor Taught Introduction to Programming course for high-school seniors.
June – December 1992	Summer Institute of Linguistics Programmer Implemented parser for custom programming language.
November 1988 – May 1992	The Prudential Insurance Company of America Programmer/Analyst Developed help desk expert system to redirect callers anywhere within the Prudential. Assisted supervisor in interviewing employees from every area of the Prudential that accepts outside calls, to determine how to identify callers intended for that area. Designed object model to contain knowledge base. Designed GUI. Refined GUI in cooperation with CSR's. Developed configuration expert system for IBM workstations. Provided expert system consulting & support for Prudential business units. Edited and published technology newsletter.
May 1987 – May 1988	Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University Programmer Developed morphological generation component of an interlingual translation system.
May – August 1986	Psychology Department, Carnegie Mellon University Programmer Trained expert system to tutor students in geometry.

Presentations
AMTA-2004	What NLP can do for translators – Student panel discussion.
Internal	What's so hard about translation? – Expansion of AMTA-2004 panel discussion. Readings on Morphology & MT. Highlights from NAACL-2001.
Academic Papers
Computational Linguistics	Graduate Research Summary – Unsupervised morphological analysis and crosslingual word sense disambiguation. Semantics – [work in progress] Prototype model of semantic processing that is learnable, empirically plausible, and computationally tractable.
Linguistic Theory	Prepositional Resultatives – Event structure of clauses with prepositional resultatives, e.g. "The professor talked us into a stupor." Wh- Sluicing – Are wh-tag questions sluicing, or what? There and Back Again – An analysis of existential "there" constructions in English. The Great Vowel Shift – Analysis of changes in English during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Miscellaneous

Publications
Nirenburg, S., R. McCardell, S. Huffman, I. Nirenburg, E. Nyberg and E. Kenschaft. 1988. An Input Representation for Lexical Realization in a MT Generator. Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Generation. Minneapolis, MN.
Nirenburg, S., R. McCardell, I. Nirenburg, S. Huffman, E. Nyberg and E. Kenschaft. 1988. Issues in Lexical Selection. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation. Pittsburgh, PA.
Foreign Languages
	French – 4 years, high school (level 1+)
	Indonesian – basic lexicon, analysis of phonology and grammar (level 1)
	American Sign Language – 2 semesters, community school (level 1)
Extracurricular Activities
August 2003 – present	Greenbelt Baptist Church Deacon Sermon: "Things that make you say, 'Doh!'" Heading discipleship development program ("cell groups"). Designed and led study of Biblical teachings on spiritual gifts. Led discipleship group for young married men, studying basics of Christian life. Led discipleship group for young single adults, studying 1 Timothy. Wrote first draft of proposal for expectations of pastor and other church officers, and wrote up committee revisions. Provided personal/marital counsel.
May 9, 2005 – present	Family Daddy Change dirty diapers. Watch endless repeats of "Blue's Clues" episodes. Carry 36-pound weight on shoulders for long walks.