Computational Research

• Master's Research – summary of research at the University of Maryland, incorporating:
• unsupervised morphological analysis
• crosslingual word sense disambiguation
• machine translation
• Semantics – [work in progress] developing a 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."
• Contextual Understanding – moving toward contextual interpretation as the norm for semantic theory
• Wh- Sluicing – Are wh-tag questions sluicing, or what?
• There and Back Again – readme
• The Great Vowel Shift – analysis of changes in English during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

Presentations

• NLP Position – the value of automated natural language processing to translation
• MT Challenges – PowerPoint on the difficulties of automated translation