Biographies:
Hans Uszkoreit is Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University. At the same time he serves as Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) where he heads the DFKI Language Technology Lab. He is also Professor of the Computer Science Department. Uszkoreit studied Linguistics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin. He co-founded the Berlin city magazine Zitty, for which he worked as an part-time editor and writer. Uszkoreit is Permanent Member of the International Committee of Computational Linguistics (ICCL), Member of the European Academy of Sciences, and Member of the Executive Board of the European Network of Language and Speech despite of many other achievments.
Silviu Cucerzan studied in The Johns Hopkins University (USA). He joined Microsoft in 2003, after completing his Ph.D. work at the Johns Hopkins University, where he was a member of the Center for Speech and Language Processing. He also received a M.S.E. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins, as well as an M.Sc. and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Bucharest. Prior to coming to the United States, he held a junior faculty position in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Bucharest.
Some Publications:
Hans Uszkoreit:
- Uszkoreit, H. (2009) Linguistics in Computational Linguistics: Observations and Predictions. In: Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on the Interaction between Linguistics and Computational Linguistics. Athens, March 2009.
- Chen,Y., M. Jellinghaus, A. Eisele, Y. Zhang, S. Hunsicker, C. Federmann, S. Theison, H. Uszkoreit (2009) Combining Multi-Engine Translations with Moses, WMT09, March 2009
- Frank, A., H.-U. Krieger, F. Xu, H. Uszkoreit, B. Crysmann, B. Jörg, U. Schäfer (2007): Question Answering from Structured Knowledge Resources. In: Journal of Applied Logic, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 20-48
Silviu Cucerzan:
- Augmenting Wikipedia with Named Entity Tags
The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Hyderabad, 2008 - Spelling Correction as an Iterative Process that Exploits the Collective Knowledge of Web Users
The 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Barcelona, 2004 - Exploiting Semantic Query Context to Improve Search Ranking
The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC), Santa Clara, 2008
REFERENCES:
- “Refereed Publications” retrieved on Monday, 18 may 2009, 22:24, from Microsoft Research, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/silviu/publications.aspx
- “Silviu-Petru Cucerzan” retrieved on Monday, 18 may 2009, 22:30, from Microsoft Research, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/silviu/
- “Hans Uszkoreit Publications” retrieved on Tuesday, 19 may 2009, 21:30, from http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~hansu/publ.html
- “Hans Uszkoreit” retrieved con Tuesday, 19 may 2009, 22:00 from LT World Our Virtual Information Center on Language Technology, http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~hansu/
