VITA
Name: Mary P. Harper Revised:
9/16/2010
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Web Page: |
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mharper |
Phone: |
(443)799-3967 |
Address (IARPA): |
TBD |
Address (U MD): |
Department
of Computer Science A.V.
Williams Building, Room 3219 University
of Maryland College
Park, MD 20742 |
Education:
Degree |
Date |
School |
Ph.D. in Computer Science |
June 1990 |
(Thesis: The Representation of Noun Phrases in Logical
Form) |
Sc.M. in Computer Science |
June 1986 |
|
M.S. in Psychology |
Feb. 1980 |
(Thesis: The Influence of Encoding Context on the False
Recognition Errors of Third Graders and Adults) |
B.A. in Psychology |
June 1976 |
(Honors Thesis: Recognition for Pictures of Faces as a
Function of Levels of Processing Across Three Age Levels) |
High School Diploma |
June 1973 |
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Honorary Society Memberships and Honors:
1.
Member of Pi Mu Epsilon and Psi Chi, Kent State University
2.
Distinguished Graduate in
3.
IBM Graduate Fellowship, 1986–1987
4.
Sigma Xi, 1986–present
5.
NSF Research Initiation Award, 1990–1992
6.
William H. Hayt Jr. Outstanding Teaching Award, Eta Kappa Nu, Beta
Chapter, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
7.
IEEE Computer Society Chapter Tutorials Program Speaker, 1997–2000.
8.
IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors Program Speaker, 1997–2000.
9.
GM Technical Education Program Commendation for Outstanding Level
of Instruction, Spring 1999.
10. Award
for Volunteer Service to the Engineering Alumni Association Board 1999–2002.
11. IEEE
Senior Member, August 10, 2002.
Editorial Boards:
1.
Journal of Negative Results in Speech and Audio Sciences, 2005
2.
IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, Associate
Editor, 2005–2009
3.
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/LiLT/index.html), 2007-present
Professional Society Committees:
1. Member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Artificial
Intelligence and Expert System, 2000–2003 (involves planning publications and
meetings)
2.
Member of the Executive
Committee of the
Association for Computational Linguistics North American Chapter, 1/2006–1/2008
3.
Member of the Nomination
Committee of the
Association for Computational Linguistics North American Chapter, 2009-2010
4.
Member
of the Human Language Technology Board, 1/2007-9/2010
5. Member of MLMI Standing Committee for the Joint Workshop on Multimodal
Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI), 2006-2008
6.
Guest member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language
Technical Committee (SLTC), 1/2007-9/2010
Professional Experience:
Oct. 2010–present |
Program Manager, IARPA |
Oct. 2008–Oct. 2010 |
Principal Research Scientist, Human Language
Technology Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins University |
July 2008–Sept. 2010 |
Affiliate
Research Professor, School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Maryland |
Jan. 2008–Oct. 2010 |
Affiliate
Senior Research Scientist, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced
Computer Studies |
Oct. 2007–present |
Adjunct Professor, School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University |
Sept. 2006–present |
Affiliate
Research Professor, Computer Science,
University of Maryland |
May 2006–Sept. 30, 2008 |
Area Director at the Center for the Advanced Study of Language,
University of Maryland |
Oct. 2005–Sept. 30, 2008 |
Senior Research Scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study
of Language, University of Maryland |
Aug. 2004–Sept. 30, 2007 |
Professor, School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University |
March 2003–Sept. 30, 2005 |
Program Director for the
Human Language and Communication Program in the Division of Information and
Intelligent Systems in the Directorate of Computer and Information Sciences
and Engineering of the National Science Foundation |
Feb. 2003–Sept. 30, 2004 |
Program Director for the
Integrated Media System Center, an Engineering Research Center, University of
Southern California |
July 2002–March 2003 |
Program Director of the
Human Computer Interaction Program in the Division of Information and
Intelligent Systems in the Directorate of Computer and Information Sciences
and Engineering of the National Science Foundation |
Aug. 1996–July 2004 |
Associate Professor, School
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University |
Aug. 1989–July 1996 |
Assistant Professor, School
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University |
Mar. 1989–June 1989 |
Visiting Assistant
Professor, School of Computer Science, Northeastern University |
Sept. 1983–Jan. 1989 |
Graduate Research or
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Brown University |
June 1981–Aug. 1981 |
Instructor for Introductory
Pascal course, Bridgewater State College |
1979 & 1980 tax seasons |
Tax Preparer at H&R
Block, Attleboro, MA |
Sept. 1976–June 1978 |
Graduate Research Assistant,
Psychology Dept., University of Massachusetts |
Consulting:
1.
1/1/2000
to 6/30/2000: Consulting with Alphatech, Inc. concerning the development of
evaluation strategies for the DARPA SHIELD (Super Human Information Extraction
and Link Discovery) program.
Clearances:
TS/SCI
with life-style polygraph
Professional Societies:
American Association for
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) |
Member |
1986–1988, 1990–present |
Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Member |
1986–present |
Association for Computational
Linguistics North American Chapter (NAACL) |
Member Executive Board |
2000–present 2006–present |
Institute of Electrical
& Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
Member Senior Member |
1989–2002 2002–present |
IEEE Computer Society |
Member |
1989–present |
IEEE Signal Processing
Society |
Member |
2000–present |
The International Association of Science and Technology for
Development (IASTED) |
Technical Committee on
Artificial Intelligence |
2000–2003 |
Linguistic Society of |
Member |
1992–2000 |
Sigma Xi |
Member |
1986–present |
Research Grants and Contracts Received:
1.
National Science Foundation (NSF), “
2.
Purdue Research Foundation, “PARSEC: A Better Approach to Spoken
Language Understanding,” Purdue Research Foundation Grant (David Ross),
690-1285-1774, 6/91 to 8/93, $18,750, Principal Investigator.
3.
GE Junior Faculty Grant, 700-1285-1612-05335, 10/91 to 9/94,
$21,000, Principal Investigator.
4.
Purdue Research Foundation, “Spoken Language Constraint Parsing,”
Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant, 703-1071-0001, 6/1/92 to
7/31/92, $5,000, Principal Investigator.
5.
Intel Corporation, funding to write a report summarizing important
research in natural language processing [9], 671-1285-2085, 6/93 to 12/93,
$4,620, Principal Investigator.
6.
Intel Corporation, “Parallel Constraint Parsing,” computer
equipment, 12/3/93, $45,566, Principal Investigator.
7.
Computing Research Association, CRA Distributed Mentor Program,
funding for summer undergraduate research, no account number, 6/1/94 to
7/31/94, $5,000, Principal Investigator.
8.
General Motors Faculty Fellow, 700-1285-1167-05335, 6/1/94 to
5/30/95, $22,500, Principal Investigator.
9.
AT&T Foundation Special Purpose Grant, “Integrating Language
Models with Speech Recognition,” 672-1285-1189, 10/94 to 9/95, $20,000,
Principal Investigator.
10.
Purdue Research Foundation, “Integrating Language Models with
Speech Recognition,” Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant,
703-1071-0001, 6/1/95 to 7/31/95, $5,000, Principal Investigator.
11.
Purdue Research Foundation, “Constraint-Based Processing of
Queries in Multiple Databases,” 690-1285-2441, 8/95 to 7/97, $20,400, Principal
Investigator.
12.
Intel Corporation, “Constraint-Based Processing of Queries in
Multiple Databases,” Natural Datatypes Committee, Intel Research Council,
671-1285-2517, 8/1/95 to 7/31/98, $126,000, Principal Investigator.
13.
National Science Foundation, “Experiments on Integrating Speech
Recognition and Natural Language Processing,” NSF CISE Information, Robotics,
and Intelligent Systems, IRI-9704358, 500-1285-3145, 1/1/97 to 5/30/98,
$50,000, Principal Investigator.
14.
National Science Foundation, “CISE Research Instrumentation:
Storage and I/O Devices for the Support of Research in Imaging Systems,
Networks, and Video and Speech Processing,” CDA 96-17388, 1/1/97 to 12/31/98,
$236,627, (PI: E. J. Coyle), Co-Principal Investigator.
15.
Purdue Research Foundation, “A Multidisciplinary Approach to
Speech Processing Research,” Purdue Research Foundation Special Incentive
Research Grant, 6/1/97 to 5/31/98, $12,635, Principal Investigator.
16.
Dean of Engineering, “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Speech
Processing Research,” 1997 to 1998, $34,985, (PI: L. H. Jamieson),
Co-Principal
Investigator.
17.
Purdue Research Foundation, “Integration of Natural Language with
Speech Processing,” Purdue Research Foundation Special Incentive Research
Grant, 1/1/98 to 12/31/99, $22,180, Principal Investigator.
18.
Intel Corporation, “Intel Equipment for Processing and
Communication Intensive Tasks that Enable New Networked Video, Image, and
Speech Applications,” Intel Corporation, 7/1/97 to 6/30/00, $598,000, (PI:
E. J. Coyle), Co-Principal Investigator.
19.
Purdue Research Foundation, “Experiments on Integrating Speech and
Natural Language Processing Using Corpora,” Purdue Research Foundation Special
Incentive Research Grant, 8/10/98 to 8/09/00, $23,977, Principal Investigator.
20.
National Science Foundation , “Cross-Modal Analysis of Signal and
Sense: Multimedia Corpora and Computational Tools for Gesture, Speech, and Gaze
Research, NSF,” Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence (KDI) program,
#9980054-BCS, 9/1/99 to 8/31/02, $2,536,054, (PI: F. Quek), Purdue subcontract,
500-1285-3589, $317,807, Principal Investigator on subcontract.
21.
Purdue Research Foundation, “Spoken Language Processing of
Dialogs,” Purdue Research Foundation Special Incentive Research Grant, 6/1/01
to 5/31/03, $26,274, Principal Investigator.
22.
National Science Foundation (NSF), “IGERT Proposal: Innovation
Realization Lab,” 8/00 to 7/05, $2,333,428, (PI: M. C. Thursby), Faculty Associate.
23.
National Science Foundation, “ANLP/NAACL Student Research
Workshop,” NSF CISE, Human Computer Interaction 1/1/00 to 12/31/00,
0001350-IIS, $11,000, Principal Investigator.
24.
National Science Foundation, REU Supplement for “Cross-Modal
Analysis of Signal and Sense: Multimedia Corpora and Computational Tools for
Gesture, Speech, and Gaze Research, NSF,” 6/1/00 to 5/31/01, 0042265-BCS,
$40,000 total, (PI: F. Quek), Purdue subcontract, $10,000, Principal
Investigator on subcontract.
25.
26.
Ford Fund gift to
27.
National Science Foundation, REU Supplement for “Cross-Modal
Analysis of Signal and Sense: Multimedia Corpora and Computational Tools for
Gesture, Speech, and Gaze Research, NSF,” 9/1/01 to 8/31/02, 0131999-BCS,
$40,000 total, (PI: F. Quek), Purdue subcontract, $10,000, Principal
Investigator on subcontract.
28.
National Science Foundation, REU Supplement for “Cross-Modal
Analysis of Signal and Sense: Multimedia Corpora and Computational Tools for
Gesture, Speech, and Gaze Research, NSF,” 9/1/02 to 8/31/03, 0228215-BCS,
$50,000 total, (PI: F. Quek), Purdue subcontract, $10,000, Principal
Investigator on subcontract.
29. National Science Foundation, “IPA
Assignment,” (Program Director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems in
the Directorate of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering of the
National Science Foundation), 7/1/2002 to 6/30/2005, $481,677, Principal Investigator.
30. National Science Foundation, “Hierarchal
Perceptual Organization with the Center-Surround Algorithm,” CISE, IIS, RCV,
9/03 to 8/06, $500,000, (PI: J.M. Siskind), unpaid
consultant due to NSF COI.
31. Xerox Corp., “A Structural Approach to
Document Browsing and Management,” 7/30/2003 to 7/29/2005, $40,000, (PI:
32. ARDA VACE II, “From Video to Information:
Cross-Modal Analysis of Planning Meetings,” 10/15/2003 to 9/30/2007,
$1,599,996, (PI: Francis Quek), Co-Principal Investigator, #MDA904-03-C-1788.
33. “Parsing Speech,” 2005 Summer Workshop, the Center for
Language and Speech Processing,
34. DARPA GALE, “NIGHTINGALE: Novel Information Gathering
and Harvesting Techniques for INtelligence in Global Autonomous Language
Environments,” (PI: David Israel, SRI), $493,861.
35. CASL TTO, “Language Identification,” 12/1/2005-9/30/2006,
(PI: Mary Harper).
36. CASL TTO, “Google Voice,” 10/1/2006-9/30/2007,
(PI: Mary Harper).
37. National Science Foundation, Workshop
Proposal on Strategic Planning for an Academic/Industry Center for Language
Technologies, (PI: Mary Harper), $22,500.
38. National Science Foundation, RI:
Collaborative Research: Landmark-based Robust Speech Recognition Using
Prosody-Guided Models of Speech Variability, (PI: Carol Espy-Wilson, Co-PI:
Mary Harper), $514,275.
Serial Journal Publications:
1.
M. Daehler and M. P. O'Connor (now Harper), “Recognition Memory
for Objects in Very Young Children: The Effects of Shape and Label Similarity
on Preference for Novel Stimuli,” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 306-321, April 1980.
2.
M. P. O'Connor-Harper and M. Daehler, “The Influence of Encoding
Context on the False Recognition Errors of Children and Adults,” Journal of
General Psychology, Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 57-68, July 1982.
3.
M. P. Harper, “Ambiguous Noun Phrases in Logical Form,” Computational
Linguistics, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 419-465, December 1992.
4.
5.
C. D. Mitchell, M. P. Harper, and L. H. Jamieson, “Comments on
‘Reducing Computation in HMM Evaluation,’” IEEE Transactions on Speech and
Audio Processing, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 542-543, October 1994.
6.
M. P. Harper, “Storing Logical Form in a
7.
C. D. Mitchell, M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, and R. A. Helzerman,
“A Parallel Implementation of a Hidden Markov Model with Duration Modeling for
Speech Recognition,” Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp.
43-57, January 1995.
8.
C. D. Mitchell, M. P. Harper, and L. H. Jamieson, “On the
Complexity of Explicit Duration HMMs,” IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio
Processing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 213-217, May 1995.
9.
H. Chao and M. P. Harper, “Minimizing Redundant Dependencies and
Interprocessor Synchronization,” International Journal of Parallel
Programming, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 245-262, June 1995.
10. M. P. Harper and R. A.
Helzerman, “Managing Multiple Knowledge Sources in Constraint-Based Parsing of
Spoken Language,” Fundamenta Informaticae, Special Issue on “Context:
Theory and Practice,” Vol. 23, No. 2-4, pp. 303-353, June-August 1995.
11. M. P. Harper and R. A.
Helzerman, “Extensions to Constraint Dependency Parsing for Spoken Language
Processing,” Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 187-234,
July 1995.
12. M. P. Harper, R. A. Helzerman,
C. B. Zoltowski, B. L. Yeo, Y. Chan, T. Stewart, and B. L. Pellom,
“Implementation Issues in the Development of the PARSEC Parser,” SOFTWARE -
Practice and Experience, Vol. 25, No. 8, pp. 831-862, August 1995.
13. H. Chao and M. P. Harper, “A
Tight Lower Bound for Optimal Bin Packing,” Operations Research Letters,
Vol. 18, pp. 133-138, October 1995.
14. H. Chao and M. P. Harper, “An
Efficient Lower Bound Algorithm for Channel Routing,” INTEGRATION: the VLSI
journal, Vol. 20, pp. 193-209, March 1996.
15. S. Potisuk, J. Gandour, and M.
P. Harper, “Acoustic Correlates of Stress in Thai,” Phonetica, Vol. 53,
No. 4, pp. 200-220, September 1996.
16. R. A. Helzerman and M. P.
Harper, “MUSE CSP: An Extension to the Constraint Satisfaction Problem,” Journal
of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 5, pp. 239-288, November 1996.
17. S. Potisuk, J. Gandour, and M.
P. Harper, “Contextual Variations in Trisyllabic Sequences of Thai Tones,” Phonetica,
Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 22-42, 1997.
18. S. Potisuk, J. Gandour, and M.
P. Harper, “Vowel Length and Stress in Thai,” Acta Linguistica Hufniensa,
Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 39-62, 1998.
19. S. Potisuk, M. P. Harper, and
J. T. Gandour, “The Classification of Thai Tones in Connected Speech using the
Analysis by Synthesis Method,” IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio
Processing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 91-102, January 1999.
20. A. M. Surprenant, S. L. Hura,
M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, G. Long, S. M. Thede, A. Rout, T.-H. Hsueh, S. A.
Hockema, M. T. Johnson, P. Srinivasan, C. M. White, and J. B. Laflen, “Familiarity and Pronouncibility of Nouns and Names,” Behavior
Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp.
638-649, December 1999.
21. Y. Liu, M. P. Harper, M. T. Johnson, and L. H.
Jamieson, “The Effect of Pruning and Compression on Graphical Representations
of the Output of a Speech Recognizer,” Computer Speech and Language,
Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 329-356, October 2003.
22. Y. Liu, N. Chawla, M. P. Harper, E. Shriberg,
and A. Stolcke, “A Study in Machine Learning from Imbalanced Data for Sentence
Boundary Detection in Speech,” Computer
Speech and Language, vol. 20, pp. 468-494, October 2006.
23. Y. Liu, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, D. Hillard, M. Ostendorf, and M.P.
Harper, “Enriching Speech Recognition with Automatic Detection of Sentence
Boundaries and Disfluencies,” IEEE
Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol.14, no. 5,
pp 1526-1540, September, 2006.
24. W. Wang,
25. J. M. Siskind,
J. Sherman, Jr, I. Pollak, M. P. Harper, C. A. Bouman, "Spatial Random
Tree Grammars for Modeling Hierarchal Structure in Images with Regions of
Arbitrary Shape," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 1504-1519,
Sept., 2007.
26. M. Ostendorf, B.
Favre, R. Grishman, D. Hakkani-Tur, M. Harper, D. Hillard, J. Hirschberg, H.
Ji, J. G. Kahn, Y. Liu, S. Maskey, E. Matusov, H. Ney, A. Rosenberg, E.
Shriberg, W. Wang, and C. Wooters, “Speech Segmentation and its Impact on
Spoken Document Processing,” Signal Processing Magazine, 2008.
27. L. Chen and M.
P. Harper, “Utilizing Gestures to Improve Sentence Boundary Detection,” to
appear in Multimedia Tools and
Applications.
Conference Proceedings and Presentations:
1. M. P. Harper and E. Charniak,
“Time and Tense in English,” Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, New York, NY, July 1986, pp. 3-9.
2. M. P. Harper, “Representing Pronouns in Logical Form:
Computational Constraints and Linguistic Evidence,” Proceedings of the
Seventh National Meeting of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence, St. Paul, MN, August 1988, pp. 712-717.
3. M. P. Harper, “Designer Definites in Logical Form,” Proceedings
of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Pittsburgh, PA, June 1990, pp. 62-69.
4. R. A. Helzerman and M. P. Harper, “Log Time Parsing on
the MasPar MP-1,” Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on
Parallel Processing,
5. R. A. Helzerman, M. P. Harper, and C. B. Zoltowski,
“Parallel Parsing of Spoken Language,” Proceedings of Frontiers of Massively
Parallel Computation,
6. C. B. Zoltowski, M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, and R.
A. Helzerman, “PARSEC: A Constraint-Based Framework for Spoken Language
Understanding,” Proceedings of the 1992 International Conference on Spoken
Language Processing,
7. M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, C. B. Zoltowski, and R.
A. Helzerman, “Semantics and Constraint Parsing of Word Graphs,” Proceedings
of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,
Minneapolis, MN, April 1993, pp. 63-66.
8. C. D. Mitchell, R. A. Helzerman, L. H. Jamieson, and
M. P. Harper, “A Parallel Implementation of a Hidden Markov Model with Duration
Modeling for Speech Recognition,” Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Symposium on
Parallel and Distributed Programming, Irving, TX, December 1993, pp.
298-306.
9. S. Potisuk, J. T. Gandour, and M. P. Harper, “F0
Correlates of Stress in Thai,” The 4th International Conference on Southeast
Asian Linguistics, May 1994.
10. R. A. Helzerman and M. P. Harper, “An Approach to
Multiply Segmented Constraint Satisfaction Problems,” Proceedings of the
12th National Conference of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence, August 1994, pp. 350-355.
11. M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, C. D. Mitchell, G. Ying,
S. Potisuk, P. N. Srinivasan, R. Chen, C. B. Zoltowski, L. L. McPheters, B.
Pellom, and R. A. Helzerman, “Integrating Language Models with Speech
Recognition,” Proceedings of the 1994 American Association for Artificial
Intelligence Workshop on Integration the of Natural Language and Speech
Processing, Seattle, WA, August 1994, pp. 139-146.
12. H. Chao and M. P. Harper, “Minimizing Redundant
Dependencies and Interprocessor Synchronization,” Proceedings of the Sixth
IASTED-ISMM International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and
Systems, Washington, DC, October 1994, pp. 294-298.
13. M. J. Rowland, B. Perazich, R. A. Helzerman, M. P.
Harper, J. P. Robertson, G. D. Rogers, J. R. Johoski, E. Toepke, and H.
Rosario, “Parsing using the PARSEC Vector Processing Chip,” Proceedings of
the Sixth IASTED-ISMM International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Computing and Systems, Washington, DC, October 1994, pp. 414-418.
14. C. D. Mitchell, M. P. Harper, and L. H. Jamieson, “Using
Explicit Segmentation to Improve HMM Phone Recognition,” Proceedings of the
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,
15. S. Potisuk, M. P. Harper, and J. T. Gandour,
“Speaker-Independent Automatic Classification of Thai Tones in Connected Speech
by Analysis-Synthesis Method,” Proceedings of the International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,
16. J. T. Gandour, S. Potisuk, and M. P. Harper, “Effects
of Stress on Vowel Length in Thai,” Proceedings
of the Fourth International Symposium on Language and Linguistics:
Pan-Asiatic Linguistics, Vol. 1: Language Description, Institute of
Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University, Salaya,
Thailand, January 1996, pp. 95-103.
17. S. Potisuk and M. P. Harper, “CDG: An Alternative
Formalism for Parsing Written and Spoken Thai,” Proceedings of the Fourth
International Symposium on Language and Linguistics: Pan-Asiatic Linguistics,
Vol 4: Language and Related Sciences,
Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University,
Salaya, Thailand, January 1996, pp. 1177-1196.
18. C. D. Mitchell, M. P. Harper, and L. H. Jamieson,
“Stochastic Observation Hidden Markov Models,” Proceedings of the 1996
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May
1996, pp. II-617-II-620.
19. S. Potisuk, M. P. Harper, and J. T. Gandour, “Using
Stress to Disambiguate Spoken Thai Sentences Containing Syntactic Ambiguity,” Proceedings
of the 1996 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing,
20. C. M. White, M. P. Harper, T. Lane, and R. A.
Helzerman, “Inductive Learning of Abstract Role Values Derived from a
Constraint Dependency Grammar,” Proceedings of the Automata Induction,
Grammatical Inference, and Language Acquisition Workshop, at the Fourteenth
International Conference on Machine Learning, July 12, 1997, (see http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/pdupont/pdupont/mlworkshop.html).
21. S. M. Thede and M. P. Harper, “Analysis of Unknown
Lexical Items using Morphological and Syntactic Information with the TIMIT
Corpus,” Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, August
1997, Beijing and Hong Kong, pp. 261-272.
22. M. P. Harper and L. H. Jamieson, “Experiments In Integrating Speech Recognition And Natural Language
Processing,” NSF Interactive Systems Grantees Workshop, August 1997,
(see http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/nsf/isgw97/index.html).
23. L. H. Jamieson, E. J. Coyle, M. P. Harper, E. J. Delp,
and P. Davies, “Integrating Engineering Design, Signal Processing, and
Community Service in the EPICS Program,” Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,
Seattle, WA, May 12-15, 1998, pp. 1897-900.
24. A. M. Surprenant, S. L. Hura, M. P. Harper, L. H.
Jamieson, G. Long, S. M. Thede, A. Rout, T.-H. Hsueh, S. A. Hockema, M. T.
Johnson, J. B. Laflen, P. Srinivasan, C. M. White, “Familiarity and
Pronouncibility of Nouns and Names: The Purdue Proper Name Database,” 16th
International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting Acoustical Society of
America, Seattle WA, June 20-26, 1998, pp. 2007-2008.
25. M. T. Johnson, M. P. Harper, and L. H. Jamieson,
“Interfacing Acoustic Models with Natural Language Processing Systems,” Proceedings
of the 1998 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney
Australia, November 30-December 4, 1998, pp. 2419-2422.
26. M. P. Harper, M. T. Johnson, L. H. Jamieson, S. A.
Hockema, C. M. White, “Interfacing a CDG Parser with an HMM Word Recognizer
Using Word Graphs,” Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Phoenix Arizona, March 1999, pp.
733-736.
27. S. M. Thede and M. P. Harper, “A Second-Order Hidden
Markov Model for Part-of-Speech Tagging,” Proceedings of the 28th Annual
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Baltimore MD, June 1999, pp. 175-182.
28. M. P. Harper, C. M. White, R. A. Helzerman, and S.A.
Hockema, “Faster MUSE CSP Arc Consistency Algorithms,” Proceedings of the
IASTED International Conference for Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing,
Honolulu Hawaii, August 1999, 294-127, 6 pages.
29. M. P. Harper, S.A. Hockema, and C. M. White, “Enhanced
Constraint Dependency Grammar Parsers,” Proceedings of the IASTED
International Conference for Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 1999, 294-128, 7
pages.
30. M. T. Johnson and M. P. Harper, “Near Minimal Weighted
Word Graphs for Post-processing Speech,” Proceedings of the 1999
International Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding,
December, 1999, Keystone, CO, (proceedings on line at http://asru99.research.att.com/asru99_index.shtml).
31. M. P. Harper, C. M. White,
32. W. Wang, J. Auer, R. Parasuraman, I. Zubarev, D.
Brandyberry, and M. P. Harper, “A Question Answering System Developed as a
Project in a Natural Language Processing Course,” Proceedings of the
Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based
Language Understanding Systems, at ANLP-NAACL-2000, 28-35.
33. F. Quek, R. Bryll, M. P. Harper, L. Chen, and L.
Ramig, “Audio and Vision-Based Evaluation of Parkinson's Disease from Discourse
Video,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium
of Bio-Informatics and Bio-Engineering, BIBE 2001,
Bethesda, MA, November 4-6, 2001, pp. 245-252.
34. M. P. Harper, W. Wang, and C. M. White, “Approaches
for Learning Constraint Dependency Grammar from Corpora,” Workshop on
Grammar and NLP, University du Quebec,
35. F.
Quek, R. Bryll, D. McNeill, and M. Harper, “Gestural
Origo and Loci-Transitions in Natural Discourse Segmentation,” Proceedings of the IEEE
Workshop on Cues in Communication, Kauai
36. F.
Quek, R. Bryll, M. Harper, L. Chen, and L. Ramig, “Speech and Gesture Analysis
for Evaluation of Progress in LSVT Treatment in Parkinson’s Disease,” Proceedings of the Eleventh
Biennial Conference on Motor Speech: Motor Speech Disorders,
Williamsburg, VA, March 14-17, 2002.
37. W.
Wang, Y. Liu, and M. P. Harper, “Rescoring Effectiveness of Language Models
Using Different Levels of Knowledge and Their Integration,” Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. I,
38.
39. F.
Quek, M. P. Harper, Y. Haciahmetoglu, L. Chen, and L. Ramig, “Speech Pauses and
Gestural Holds in Parkinson’s Disease,” Proceedings
of the Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing,
September 2002, Denver CO, pp. 2485-2488.
40. F.
Quek, D. McNeill, R. Bryll, and M. Harper, “Gesture Spatialization in Natural
Discourse Segmentation,” Proceedings of
the Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing,
September 2002, Denver CO, pp. 189-192.
41. L.
Chen, M. P. Harper, and F. Quek, “Gesture During
Speech Repairs,” Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on
Multimodal Interfaces, October 14-16, 2002,
42. I.
Pollak, J.M. Siskind, M.P. Harper, and
43. W.
Wang, M. P. Harper, and A. Stolcke, “The Robustness of an Almost-Parsing
Language Model Given Errorful Training Data,” in the Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. I,
44. I. Pollak, J. M. Siskind, M. P. Harper, and C. A.
Bouman, “Modeling and Estimation of Spatial Random Trees with Application to
Image Classification” in the Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. III,
45. M.
P. Harper, “Merit-Based Funding at the National Science Foundation,” in the 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America, April 8-May 2, 2003, Nashville, Tennessee, p. 2316.
46. I.
Pollak, J.M. Siskind, M.P. Harper, and
47. J.M.
Siskind, I. Pollak, M.P. Harper,
48. W.
Wang and M. P. Harper, “Language
Modeling Using a Statistical Dependency Grammar Parser,” 2003 International Workshop on Automatic Speech
Recognition and Understanding, , St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Island, November 30 - December 4, 2003.
49. B. Bitlis, X. Feng, J. L. Harris, I. Pollak, C. A.
Bouman, M. P. Harper, J. P. Allebach. “A Hierarchical Document
Description and Comparison Method,” in the Proceedings
of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology IS&T Archiving Conference,
50. I.
Pollak, J.M. Siskind, M.P. Harper, and
51. W.
Wang, A. Stolcke, and M.P. Harper, “The Use of a Linguistically Motivated
Language Model in Conversational Speech Recognition,” Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 17-21,
52. L. Chen, E. Maia, Y. Liu, and M. P. Harper, “Evaluating
Factors Impacting Forced Alignment in a Multimodal Corpus,” Proceedings
of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation,
May 26-28, 2004,
53. W.
Wang and M.P. Harper, “A Statistical Constraint Dependency Grammar (CDG)
Parser,” Proceedings of the ACL-2004
Workshop on Incremental Parsing--Bringing Engineering and Cognition Together,
54. Y.
Liu, A. Stolcke, E. Shriberg, M. P. Harper, “Comparing and Combining Generative
and Posterior Probability Models: Some Advances in Sentence Boundary Detection
in Speech,” Proceedings of the Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing,
55. Y.
Liu, A. Stolcke, E. Shriberg, and M. P. Harper, "Using Machine Learning to
Cope with Imbalanced Classes in Natural Speech: Evidence from Sentence Boundary
and Disfluency Detection", in the Proceedings
of the International Conference on
Spoken Language Processing,
56. Y.
Liu, A. Stolcke, E. Shriberg, D. Hillard, M. Ostendorf, B. Peskin, and M. P.
Harper, "The ICSI-SRI-UW Metadata Extraction System", in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju, South Korea, October 5-8, 2004.
57. L. Chen, Y. Liu, M. P. Harper, and E. S. Shriberg,
“Multimodal Model Integration for Sentence Unit Detection,” in
the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on
Multimodal Interfaces, State College, PA, October 13-15 2004.
58. Y.
Liu, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, B. Peskin, and M. Harper, “The ICSI/SRI/UW
RT04 Structural Metadata Extraction System”, EARS RT-04 Workshop,
59. Y. Liu, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, B.
Peskin, J. Ang, D. Hillard, M. Ostendorf, M. Tomalin, P. Woodland, and M.
Harper, “Structural Metadata research in the EARs Program,” in the Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 18-23, 2005,
Philadelphia PA.
60. W. Wang, I. Pollak, C.A.
Bouman, and M.P. Harper, “Classification of Images Using Spatial Random Trees,”
in Proceedings of the IEEE
Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, June 17-20 2005, Bordeaux, France.
61. Y. Liu, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, and
M. Harper, “Using Conditional Random
Fields For Sentence Boundary Detection In Speech,” in the Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, Ann
Arbor MI, June 2005.
62. L.
Chen, R. Travis, F. Parrill, X. Han, J. Tu, Z. Huang, I. Kimbara, H. Welji, M.
Harper, F. Quek, D. McNeill, S. Duncan, R. Tuttle, and T. Huang, “VACE
Multimodal Meeting Corpus,” Proceedings of MLMI 2005 Workshop, Edinburgh, July
2005.
63. Z.
Huang and M. Harper, “Speech Activity Detection on Multichannels of Meeting
Recordings,” Proceedings of MLMI 2005 Workshop,
64. W. Wang, I. Pollak, M.P.
Harper, and C.A. Bouman, “Spatial Random Trees with Applications to Image
Classification,” in Proceedings of the Conference on Mathematical Methods in
Pattern and Image Analysis, SPIE Optics & Photonics 2005 Symposium, 31
July-4 August 2005, San Diego, CA.
65. Y. Liu, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, and
M. Harper, “Comparing HMM, Maximum Entropy, and Conditional Random Fields for Disfluency
Detection”, in the Proceedings of
INTERSPEECH 2005,
66. W.
Wang, T.-S. Wong, I. Pollak, C.A. Bouman, and M. P. Harper, “Modeling
Hierarchical Structure of Images with Stochastic Grammars,” in Computational Imaging IV, Proceedings of
SPIE, Volume EI114, the Conference on Computational Imaging, IS&T/SPIE
18th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, January
15-19, 2006, San Jose.
67. B.
Roark, Y. Liu, M. Harper, R. Stewart, M. Lease, M. Snover, I. Shafran, B. Dorr,
J. Hale, A. Krasnyanskaya, and L. Yung, “Reranking for Sentence Boundary
Detection in Conversational Speech,” in
the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse,
France, May 15-19, 2006.
68. Z.
Huang, L. Chen, and M. P. Harper, “An open source prosodic feature extraction
tool,” in the Proceedings of Language Resource and Evaluation Conference,
Genoa, Italy, May 24-26, 2006.
69. B. Roark, M. P. Harper, E.
Charniak, B. Dorr, M. Johnson, J. Kahn, Y. Liu, M. Ostendorf, J. Hale, A.
Krasnyanskaya, M. Lease, I. Shafran, M. Snover, R. Stewart, L.Yung, “SParseval: Evaluation Metrics for Parsing
Speech,” in the Proceedings of Language Resource and Evaluation
Conference, Genoa, Italy, May 24-26, 2006.
70. A.
Bies, S. Strassel, H. Lee, K. Maeda, S. Kulick, Y. Liu, M. Harper, M. Lease, “Linguistic Resources for Speech Parsing,” in
the Proceedings of Language Resource and Evaluation Conference, Genoa,
Italy, May 24-26, 2006.
71. L.
Chen, M. P. Harper, A. Franklin, R. T. Travis, I. Kimbara, Z. Huang, and F.
Quek, “A
Multimodal Analysis of Floor Control in Meetings,” in the Proceedings
of MLMI 2006 Workshop, Washington DC.
72. J.
Hale, I. Shafran, L. Yung, B. Dorr, M. Harper, A. Krasnyanskaya, M. Lease, Y.
Liu, B. Roark, M. Snover, and R. Stewart, “PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic
Indicators of Speech Repairs,” Joint
Meeting of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics
(Coling/ACL), Sydney, Australia, July 2006.
73. L.
Chen, M. P. Harper, and Z. Huang, “Using Maximum Entropy (ME) Model to
Incorporate Gesture Cues for SU Detection,” in the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on
Multimodal Interfaces, Banff Canada, November 2-4, 2006.
74. D. Hillard, Z.
Huang, H. Ji, R. Grishman, D. Hakkani-Tur, M. Harper, M. Ostendorf, W. Wang, “Impact of
Automatic Comma Prediction on POS/Name Tagging of Speech,” in the Proceedings of the First Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), Aruba,
December 10-13, 2006.
75. W. Wang, Z. Huang, and M. Harper, “Semi-supervised
Learning for Part-of-Speech Tagging of Mandarin Transcribed Speech,” in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Hawaii, 2007.
76. D. Filimonov and
M. P. Harper, “Recovery of Empty Nodes in Parse Structures,” Gale PI Meeting,
March 2007.
77. Z. Huang, M. P.
Harper, and W. Wang. “Semi-supervised Learning of POS Tagging and Parsing for
Mandarin Transcribed Speech,” Gale PI Meeting, March 2007.
78. D. Hillard, Z. Huang,
H. Ji, R. Grishman, D. Hakkani-Tur, M. P. Harper, M. Ostendorf, and W. Wang.
“Impact of Automatic Comma Prediction on POS/Name Tagging of Speech,” Gale PI
Meeting, March 2007.
79. D.
Filimonov and M. P. Harper, “Recovery of Empty Nodes in Parse Structures,” in
the Proceedings of the Joint Conference
on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural
Language Learning, Prague, Czech Republic, June 28-30, 2007.
80. Z. Huang, M. P. Harper, and W.
Wang, “Mandarin
Part-of-Speech Tagging and Discriminative Reranking, in the Proceedings
of the Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and
Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague, Czech Republic, June
28-30, 2007.
81. M.
Harper, A. Acero, S. Bangalore, J. Carbonell, J. Cohen, B. Cuthill, C.
Espy-Wilson, C. Fellbaum, J. Garofolo, C.-H. Lee, J. Lester, Andrew McCallum,
Nelson Morgan, M. Picheney, J. Picone, L. Ramshaw, J. Reynar, H. Shemtov, and
C. Voss, “Report on the NSF-sponsored Human
Language Technology Workshop on Industrial Centers,” in Proceedings of the Machine Translation Summit XI, Coppenhagen,
September 10-14, 2007. (invited)
82. D. Hillard, M.
Hwang, M. Harper, and M. Ostendorf, “Parsing-based Objective Functions for
Speech Recognition in Translation Applications,” in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas NV, March 30-April 4,
2008.
83. S. Yaman, G. Tur, D. Vergyri, D. Hakkani-Tur, M. Harper and W. Wang, “Anchored
Speech Recognition for Question Answering,” in Proceedings of
Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American
Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume:
Short Papers, Boulder CO, June 2009, pp. 265-268.
84. Z.
Huang, V. Eidelman, and M. P. Harper, “Improving
Simple Bigram HMM Part-of-Speech Tagger by Latent Annotation and Self-Training,”
in Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of
the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Companion Volume: Short Papers, Boulder CO, June 2009, pp. 213-216.
85. Z.
Huang and M. Harper, “Self-Training
PCFG Grammars with Latent Annotations Across Languages,” in Proceedings
of EMNLP 2009: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language, August
6-7, 2009, Suntec Singapore.
86. D.
Filimonov and M. Harper, “A Joint
Language Model With Fine-grain Syntactic Tags,”
in Proceedings of EMNLP 2009: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language, August 6-7, 2009, Suntec Singapore.
87. A.
Meyers, M. Kosaka, H. Ji, N. Xue,
M. Harper, A. Sun, W. Xu and S. Liao, “Transducing
Logical Relations from Automatic and Manual GLARF,” in Proceedings
of The Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW III), August 6-7, 2009, Suntec Singapore.
88. K. Parton, K. R. McKeown, R. Coyne, M. T.
Diab, R. Grishman, D. Hakkani-Tür, M. Harper, H. Ji, W. Y. Ma, A. Meyers, S. Stolbach, A. Sun, G. Tur, W. Xu
and S. Yaman, “Who,
What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W
Task,” in Proceedings of The Joint conference of the 47th Annual
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian
Federation of Natural Language Processing, August 2-7, 2009, Suntec Singapore.
89. S. Yaman, D. Hakkani-Tur, G. Tur,
Ralph Grishman, M. Harper, K. R. McKeown, A. Meyers, K. Sharma,
“Classification-Based Strategies for Combining Multiple 5-W Question Answering
Systems,” in Proceedings of Interspeech, September 6-10, 2009, Brighton, UK.
90. D. Filimonov
and M. Harper, “Measuring Tagging Performance of a Joint Language
Model,”
in Proceedings of Interspeech,
September 6-10, 2009, Brighton, UK.
91. L. Chen and M. P. Harper, “Multimodal Floor Control
Shift Detection,” in Proceedings of the
11th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2009, Cambridge,
MA, (Best Paper).
92. , “Appropriately Handled Prosodic
Breaks Help PCFG Parsing,” in the Proceedings of Human Language
Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010,
Los Angeles, CA.
93. M. R. Gormley, A. Gerber, M. Harper, M. Dredze,
“Non-Expert Correction of Automatically Generated Relation Annotations,” in Proceedings on the Workshop on Creating
Speech and Language Data With Mechanical Turk at NAACL-HLT, 2010, Los Angeles, CA.
94. Zhongqiang Huang, Mary
Harper, and Slav Petrov, “Self-training with Products of
Latent Variable Grammars”, to appear in Proceedings
of EMNLP 2010: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language, 2010, Boston MA.
95. Vlad Eidelman, Zhongqiang Huang, and
Mary Harper, “Lessons Learned in Part-of-Speech Tagging of Conversational Speech”,
to appear in Proceedings of EMNLP 2010: Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language, 2010, Boston
MA.
Book Chapters and Book Reviews:
1. M. P. Harper and V. P. Harper, “Speech
Recognition,” Encyclopedia of Human-Computer
Interaction, Berkshire Publishing Group, 2004 (0-9743091-2-5).
2. M. P. Harper, Review of “Introducing
Speech and Language Processing,” by John Coleman, Computational Linguistics,
32(1), 2006.
3. Mary P. Harper and Michael Maxwell,
“Spoken Language Characterization,” in Jacob Benesty, M. Mohan Sondhi, Yiteng
(Arden) Huang (eds.), Springer Handbook
on Speech Processing and Speech Communication, 2008.
4. David McNeill, Susan Duncan, Amy
Franklin, James Goss, Irene Kimbara, Fey
Parrill, Haleema Welji, Lei Chen,
Mary Harper, and Francis Quek, “Mind-Merging,” in Morsella, E. (ed.), Expressing
Oneself / Expressing One's Self: Communication, Language, Cognition, and
Identity, London: Taylor and Francic, December
2009.
5. M. P. Harper and W. Wang, “Constraint
Dependency Grammars: Insights from Parsing and Language Modeling,” in S. Bangalore, A. Joshi (eds.), Complexity of Lexical Descriptions and its
Relevance to Natural Language Processing: A Supertagging
Approach, MIT Press, 2010.
6. M. P. Harper and Z. Huang, “Chinese
Statistical Parsing,” in J. Olive (ed.), Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, Springer, New
York, NY, to appear.
7. M.
Ostendorf, B. Favre, R. Grishman, D. Hakkani-Tur, M.
Harper, D. Hillard, J. Hirschberg, H. Ji, J. G. Kahn, Y. Liu, S. Maskey, E. Matusov, H. Ney, A. Rosenberg, E. Shriberg, W. Wang, and C. Wooters, “Speech Segmentation and
its Impact on Spoken Document Processing,” in J. Olive (ed.), Handbook of Natural Language Processing and
Machine Translation, Springer, New York, NY, to appear.
Patents submitted:
1. Filed a preliminary patent application
“The SuperARV Language Model,” Purdue ID: P-02056
Invited Presentations:
1. “Time and Tense in English,” Artificial Intelligence
Society of New England,
2. “A Model of Verb Phrase Ellipsis,” Artificial
Intelligence Society of New England,
3. “Representing Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases in
Logical Form: Computational Constraints and Linguistic Evidence,” Computer Science
Department,
4. “Representing Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases in
Logical Form: Computational Constraints and Linguistic Evidence,” BBN
Laboratories,
5. “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun
Phrases in Logical Form,” School of Electrical Engineering,
6. “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun
Phrases in Logical Form,”
7. “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun
Phrases in Logical Form,” Computer Science Department, Northeastern University,
8. “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun
Phrases in Logical Form,” Cognitive Systems,
9. “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun
Phrases in Logical Form,”
10. “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun
Phrases in Logical Form,” The
11. “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun
Phrases in Logical Form,” Computer Science Department,
12. “Parallel Constraint Parsing of Natural Language,”
13. “A Survey of Emerging NLP Technologies,” Invited
presentation to the research council of Intel Corporation, presented by my
student Randall A. Helzerman, August 1994.
14. “Integrating Speech and Natural Language Processing,”
a one day tutorial presented to the IEEE Montreal Computer Society Chapter as a
part of the IEEE Computer Society's Chapter Tutorial Program, May 15, 1998.
15. “Rapid Grammar Prototyping Using Constraint Dependency
Grammars,” an invited talk presented at Intel on February 16, 1999.
16. “Rapid Grammar Prototyping Using Constraint Dependency
Grammars,” an invited talk presented at
17. “Integrating Speech Recognition and Natural Language
Processing,” an invited talk presented at
18. “Integrating Speech Recognition and Natural Language
Processing,” an invited talk presented at
19. “Spoken Language Processing Research in ECE at
Purdue,” an invited talk at the KDI workshop,
20. “Integrating Speech Recognition and Natural Language
Processing,” an invited talk presented at the
21. “Gesture and Speech in Dialog Transcription,”
presented at the KDI Gesture, Speech, and Gaze Workshop, July 14-15, 2001.
22. “Praat Tutorial,” presented at the KDI Gesture,
Speech, and Gaze Workshop, July 14-15, 2001.
23. “NSF and Speech
Synthesis,” presented at the IEEE 2002 Workshop on Speech Synthesis,
24. “NSF Funding in Human Language and Communication,”
presented at the
25. “NSF Funding in Multimodal Communication,” presented
at the IEEE Fourth International
Conference on Multimodal Interfaces,
26. “Multimodal
Systems,” Keynote at the Workshop on Perceptive Social Agents, University of
California, San Diego, 9-10 January 2003.
27. “NSF Funding in
Human Language and Communication,” 2nd Annual Research Symposium of the
Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, March 10 and 11, 2003.
28. “Multimodal Language Understanding,”
Invited talk presented in the Computer Science Department,
29. “Merit-Based Funding at the National
Science Foundation,” presented at the
145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
30. “The Agony and Ecstasy of
Multidisciplinary Research in Speech,” presented at the NSF Symposium on Next Generation ASR,
31. In panel on “New Ways of Thinking about
Speech Recognition,” at the NSF Symposium
on Next Generation ASR, Atlanta Georgia, October 7-8, 2003.
32. “NSF and Multimodal Funding,” presented in
“Panel: Funding for Multimodal Interface Research,” at the Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces,
33. “Human Language and Communication,” presented in the “Government Perspectives on the State of
34. “CDG-based Language Models,” Invited talk
presented at Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, January 7, 2004.
35. “Terascale
Linguistics and Human Language Processing Trends,” Boston LSA Town-Hall-style Meeting: Terascale
Linguistics Initiative, January 8, 2004.
36. “LREC Panel: Strategic Directions of
National and International Research Funding,”
37. “CDG-based Language Models,” Plenary
Lecture presented at the CLSP 2004
Workshop at
38. “Whither Error
Analysis,” presented in “Panel: Error Analysis in Empirical NLP”, at the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing, Barcelona Spain, July 26, 2004.
39. “Multimodal Language Understanding,”
Invited talk presented in the UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium
Series, University of Maryland, December 8, 2004.
40. “Multimodal Language Understanding,”
Invited talk presented in the Joint
Computer Science Department and Center for Computational Biomedicine
Imaging and Modeling Colloquium,
Rutgers University, December 17, 2004.
41. “CDG-based Language Models,” Invited talk
presented at Virgina Tech (Northern Virginia campus), April 2005.
42. “Multimodal Language Understanding,”
Invited talk presented at Virgina Tech (main campus), May 12, 2005.
43. “CDG-based Language Models,” Streamsage,
September 13, 2006.
44. “Multimodality and Floor Control,” Invited talk
presented at MITRE, May 21, 2007.
45. “Mandarin Parsing and Language Models,” Invited
talk presented in the UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series,
University of Maryland, October 10, 2007.
46. “Mandarin Parsing and Language Models,” Invited
talk presented at R6-4 research seminar series, Fort Meade, November 7, 2007.
47. “Chinese and
English Parsing and
Tagging with Less Supervised Data,” Invited talk presented at Army Research Lab, June 11, 2010.
Quoted in:
1. Discover “Who Needs Berlitz”, pp. 56-67,
November 1999.
2.
NSF
Press Release, “Behind the Blockbusters--Special Effects Tool Locks Characters
onto Film,” http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0380.htm
3.
ACM
Technews, “Behind the Blockbusters--Special Effects Tool Locks Characters onto
Film,” Volume 5, Issue 528, Monday, August 4, 2003
4.
Carnegie
Mellon Press Release, December 3, 2002, http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases02/021203_porta.html
5.
The
SuperARV LM has been highlighted in Josh Goodman’s tutorial recently given at
HLT/NAACL (see announcement at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/hlt-naacl03/tutorials-details.html
and the tutorial slides at http://research.microsoft.com/~joshuago/naacl03tutorial-v4.ppt
).
Technical Reports:
1.
M. P. Harper, Time and Tense in English, Technical Report
#CS-86-14, Brown University, 1986, 46 pages.
2.
M. P. Harper, The Representation of Noun Phrases in Logical Form,
Technical Report #CS-89-46, Brown University, 1989, 216 pages.
3.
M. P. Harper, R. A. Helzerman, and C. B. Zoltowski, Constraint
Parsing: A Powerful Framework for Text-based and Spoken Language Processing,
Technical Report TR-EE-91-34, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue
University, 1991, 34 pages.
4.
H. Chao, M. P. Harper, and R. Quong, A Tighter Lower Bound for
1-D Bin-Packing, Technical Report TR-EE-93-27, School of Electrical
Engineering, Purdue University, 11993, 31 pages
5.
M. P. Harper and R. A. Helzerman, PARSEC: A Constraint-Based
Parser for Spoken Language Processing, Technical Report TR-EE-93-28, School
of Electrical Engineering,
6.
M. P. Harper, Storing Logical Form in a Shared-Packed Forest,
Technical Report TR-EE-94-6,
7.
R. A. Helzerman and M. P. Harper, MUSE CSP: An Extension to the
Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Technical Report TR-EE-94-8, School of
Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1994, 23 pages.
8.
M. P. Harper and R. A. Helzerman, Managing Multiple Knowledge
Sources in Constraint-Based Parsing of Spoken Language, Technical Report
TR-EE-94-16, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1994, 55
pages.
9.
R. A. Helzerman and M. P. Harper, Commercial Applications of
Natural Language Processing: A Survey of Emerging Technologies, final
report prepared for Intel, 1994, 22 pages.
10.
C. D. Mitchell, L. H. Jamieson, M. P. Harper, and R. A. Helzerman,
Implementing a Hidden Markov Model with Duration Modeling on the MasPar MP-1,
TR-EE-94-21, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1994, 23
pages.
11.
H. Chao and M. P. Harper, Scheduling a Superscalar Pipelined
Processor Without Hardware Interlocks, TR-EE-94-29, School of Electrical
Engineering Purdue University 1994, 19 pages.
12.
H. Chao and M. P. Harper, A Difficult Channel Routing Generator,
TR-EE95-1, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1995, 12 pages.
13.
H. Chao and M. P. Harper, An Efficient Lower Bound Algorithm
for Channel Routing, TR-EE-95-3, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue
University, 1995, 21 pages.
14.
H. Chao, M. P. Harper, and R. Quong, A Tighter Lower Bound for
Optimal Bin Packing, Technical Report TR-EE-95-15, School of Electrical
Engineering, Purdue University, 1995, 14 pages.
15.
M. P. Harper, C. M. White, R. A. Helzerman, and S. A. Hockema, Faster
MUSE CSP Arc Consistency Algorithms, Technical Report TR-EE-97-14, School
of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1997, 19 pages.
16.
W. Wang and M. P. Harper, Investigating Probabilistic Constraint Dependency Grammars in
Language Modeling, Technical Report TR-EE-2001-04, School of Electrical Engineering,
Purdue University, 2001, 134 pages.
17. I. Pollak, J.M. Siskind, M.P. Harper, C.A. Bouman, Spatial Random Trees and the
Center-Surround Algorithm, Technical Report TR-EE-2003-03, School of Electrical Engineering,
Purdue University, 2003, 39 pages. (http://www.purdue.edu/ECE/Research/TR/2003).
18. M. Harper, B. Dorr, J. Hale, B. Roark, I. Shafran, M.
Lease, Y. Liu, M. Snover, L. Yung, R. Stewart, and A. Krasnyanskaya, 2005 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop Final
Report on Parsing and Spoken Structural Event Detection, November 2005, 116
pages. (http://bbwww.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2005/groups/eventdetect/documents/finalreport.pdf).
19. M. Harper and M. Maxwell, Language Identification, TTO304, Center for the Advanced Study of
Language, September 2006.
20. M. Harper and M. Maxwell, Language Identification (LID) Recommendations, TTO304, Center for
the Advanced Study of Language, October 2006.
21. M. Harper et al., An
Analysis of Factors Impacting Speech Search Quality and Recommendation,TTO 312, , Center for the Advanced Study of Language, October
2007.
Ph.D. Thesis Supervision Completed:
Heng-Yi Chao |
May 1995 |
Finding a Tighter Lower Bound for Optimization Problems with
Capacity and/or Precedence Constraints (conference proceedings [12], journal [9,13,14]) |
Lei Chen |
August 2008 |
Incorporating Nonverbal Features into Multimodal Models of
Human-to-Human Communication (conference proceedings
[33,36,39,41,52,57,62,68,71,73,91], journal [27]) |
Yang Liu |
December 2004 |
Structural Event Detection for Rich Transcription of Speech
(co-directed with Elizabeth Shriberg) (conference proceedings [37,52,54,55,56,57,58,59,61,65,67,69,70,72],
journal [21,22,24], magazine[26]) |
Carl D. Mitchell |
May 1995 |
Improving Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition (co-directed
with |
Siripong Potisuk |
December 1995 |
Prosodic Disambiguation in Automatic Speech Understanding of
Thai, (co-directed with Jack Gandour) (conference proceedings
[9,11,15,16,17,19], journal [4,15,17,18,19]) |
Scott Thede |
December 1999 |
Parsing and Tagging Sentences Containing Lexically Ambiguous And
Unknown Tokens, (conference proceedings [21,24,27], journal [20]) |
Wen Wang |
December 2003 |
Statistical Parsing and Language Modeling Based on Constraint
Dependency Grammar, (conference proceedings
[31,32,34,37,38,43,48,51,53,74,75,76,78,80,83], book chapter [4],magazine[26]) |
Christopher M. White |
May 2001 |
Rapid Grammar Development and Parsing: Constraint Dependency
Grammars with Abstract Role Values, (conference proceedings
[20,24,26,28,29,31,34], journal [20]) |
Master’s Thesis Supervision Completed:
Randall A. Helzerman |
August 1993 |
PARSEC: A Framework for Parallel Natural Language Understanding
(conference proceedings [4,5,6,7,8,10,11,13,20,28,31], journal
[7,10,11,12,16]) |
|
May 2005 |
Finding Consensus in
Probabilistic Parsing (conference proceedings [52]) |
Christopher White |
August 1995 |
Converting Context-Free Grammars to Constraint Dependency
Grammars (conference proceedings [20,24,26,28,29,31,34], journal [20]) |
Masters andPh.D. Thesis Students Currently
Being Supervised:
1.
Zhongqiang Huang (Ph.D.) (conference
proceedings [62,63,68,71,73,74,75,77,78,80,84,85,92])
2.
Denis Filimonov (Ph.D.) (conference proceedings [76,79,86,90])
3.
Vladimir Eidelman (Ph.D.) (conference proceedings [84])
Membership on Other Ph.D. Committees:
1.
Edward Bronson, "On Techniques for the Evaluation and
Simulation of Parallel Computer Algorithms and Architectures for Speech
Understanding," Leah H. Jamieson (advisor), May 1991.
2.
Myong Kang, "Optimization and Parallelization of Database
Queries," Hank Dietz (advisor), August 1991.
3.
Robert L. Cromwell, "TYRO - A Robot Vision System That Can
Learn from Observations of Its Environment," Avi Kak (advisor), May 1992.
4.
Terence J. Parr, "Obtaining Practical Variants of LL(k) and LR(k) for k>1 by Splitting the Atomic
k-tuple," Hank Dietz (advisor), August 1993.
5.
Yun-Sun Kang, "Knowledge Base Acquisition for a Japanese
Language Intelligent Tutoring System," Anthony A. Maciejewski (advisor),
May 1994.
6.
Eng-Siong Tan, "Programming Plan Abstraction: A Cognitively
Motivated Approach to Program Understanding Using Dependence Analysis,"
Hank Dietz (advisor), May 1994.
7.
Lynne L. Grewe, "Interactive Learning of a Multiple Attribute
Hash Table for Fast 3D Object Recognition," Avi Kak (advisor), August
1994.
8.
Juiyao Pan, "Design of a Large-Scale Expert System Using
Fuzzy Logic for Uncertainty Reasoning and Its Application to Vision-based
Mobile Robot Navigation," Avi Kak (advisor), May 1996.
9.
Ruxin Chen, "Speech Recognition Using Statistical Models and
Recurrent Neural Networks," Leah H. Jamieson (advisor), August 1996.
10. Donalee H. Attardo,
"Lexicographic Acquisition: A Theoretical and Computational Study in
Linguistic Heuristics, Victor Raskin (advisor), December
1996.
11. Pramila Srinivasan,
"Speech and Wideband Audio Compression Using Filter Banks and
Wavelets," Leah H. Jamieson (advisor), May 1997.
12. Goangshiuan Shawn Ying,
"Automatic Measurement and Representation of Prosodic Features," Leah
H. Jamieson (advisor), May 1998.
13. Min Meng, "Vision-Guided
Mobile Robot Navigation Using Neural Networks and Topological Models of the
Environment," Avi Kak (advisor), December 1998.
14. Shu-Ching Chen, "A
Spatio-temporal Semantic Model for Multimedia Presentation, Multimedia
Searching, and Multimedia Browsing," R. L. Kashyap (advisor), December
1998.
15. Zhaohui Kevin Li,
"Multimedia Modeling, Indexing and Presentation in Distributed Networked
Environments," A. Ghafoor (advisor), August 1998.
16. Mei-Ling Shyu, "A
Probabilistic Network-Based Mechanism for Multimedia Database Searching and Data
Warehousing," R. L. Kashyap (advisor), August 1999.
17. Chi-Ren Shyu, "A
Physician-in-the-loop Content-Based Image Retrieval System for Medical Image
Databases," Avi Kak (advisor), August 1999.
18. Michael T. Johnson,
"Incorporating Prosodic Information and Language Structure into Speech
Recognition Systems," Leah H. Jamieson (advisor), August 2000.
19. Terran Lane, "Machine
Learning Techniques for the Computer Security Domain of Anomaly
Detection," Carla Brodley (advisor), August 2000.
20. Andrew H. Jones, “TLAB, Task
Learning Architecture Using Behaviors, and Its Application to a Mobile Agent,”
Avi C. Kak (advisor), August 2002.
21. James B. D. Joshi, “A
Generalized Temporal Role Based Access Control Model for Developing Secure
Systems,” Arif Ghafoor (advisor), August 2003.
22. Robert Bryll, “A Robust
Agent-based Gesture Tracking System,”
23. Widodo Sulistyono, “Deadlock
Avoidance in Automated Manufacturing Systems with Unreliable Resource and
Flexible Process Sequencing,” Industrial Engineering, Mark Lawley (advisor),
December 2004.
24. Eugene Lin, “Video and Image
Watermark Synchronization,” Edward Delp (advisor), May 2005.
25. Basit Shafiq, “Access Control
Management and Security in Multi-Domain Collaborative Environments,” Arif
Ghafoor (advisor), May 2006.
26. Sungwook Yoon, “Learning
Control Knowledge for AI Planning Domain,”Robert Givan
(advisor), August, 2006.
27. Richard L. Kennell,
“A Practical Method for Authentication of Remote Computer Systems,” Leah
Jamieson (advisor), May 2008.
28. Scott Olsson, “Combining Evidence from Unconstrained Spoken
Term Frequency Estimation for Improved Speech Retrieval,” Doug Oard (advisor)
December 2008.
Membership on Other Masters Committees:
1.
Kei Leung, "The Nihango Tutorial System for Learning
Technical Japanese," Anthony A. Maciejewski (advisor), May 1990.
2.
Mei Zhang, "A Knowledge Based Education System for
"C" Programming," David G. Meyer (advisor), May 1991.
3.
Peter V. Henstock, "Applications in Computer Aided Language
Learning for the Student and Instructor," Kazumi Hatasa (advisor), May
1995.
4.
Timothy I. Mattox, "Synchronous Aggregate Communication
Architecture for MIMD Parallel Processing," Hank Dietz (advisor), August
1997.
5.
Timothy M. Stough, "Image Feature Reduction through Spoiling:
Its Application to Multiple Matched Filters for Focus of Attention," Carla
Brodley (advisor), August 1997.
6.
Carol Chia-Hua Lin, "Constructive Induction through Mining
Association Rules," Carla Brodley (advisor), August 1998.
7.
Mark Flick, "Multiclass Classification Using Two Class
Classifiers", Carla Brodley (advisor), December 1999.
8.
Yuanhui Zhou, "A Lazy-Eager Approach to Reducing the
Computational Cost and Storage Requirement of Lazy Learning," Carla Brodley
(advisor), May 2000.
9.
John E. Auer, "Agent-based Prediction of Customer
Requirements for Distributed Stream Service Systems," Shimon Y. Nof
(advisor), May 2000.
10. Mark Randall Olin, “Scalable
Re-coding of Compressed Image Data Using Hierarchical Wavelet Domain Tiling,”
Charles Bouman (advisor), December 2002.
11. Jacob L. Harris, “A
Hierarchical Document Description and Comparison Method,”
12. Shedrick B. Bessent,
“Comparative Performance Study of Blind Signal Separation Algorithms on
Speech,” Mark Bell (advisor), August 2003.
Graduate Research Project Supervision Completed:
1.
R. A. Helzerman, "Constraint Processing," EE 697
Project, 3 credit hours, Summer 1990.
2.
3.
S. Chatterjee, "Accident Report Parses," EE 696 Project,
3 credit hours, Spring 1995.
4.
B. Xu, "Adv. EE Projects," EE 696 Project, 1 credit
hour, Summer 1995.
5.
A.M. Edelman, "Printer Enhancements," EE 696 Project, 3
credit hours, Fall 1995.
6.
7.
R. Page, “EE696: Speech Recognition Project,” Fall 2000.
Undergraduate Research Project Supervision Completed (* see vita
section):
1.
S. K. Donoho, "Topics in AI Research," EE 495/496
Project, 2 credit hours, Summer 1990.
2.
Y. Chan, "PARSEC Windows," EE 495 Project, 1 credit
hour, Spring 1991, (*journal [12]).
3.
G. S. Kardaras, "Constraints in PARSEC," EE 495 Project,
3 credit hours, Spring 1991.
4.
B. L. Yeo, "PARSEC Constraints," EE 495 Project, 2
credit hours, Spring 1991, (*journal [12]).
5.
N. D. Knoth, "Natural Language Processing in AI," EE 496
Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 1991.
6.
E. P. Bender, "AI Learning Systems," EE 496 Project, 3
credit hours, Spring 1992.
7.
I. Tusneem, "Natural Language Processing," EE 496
Project, 1 credit hour, Spring 1992.
8.
Y. Gonzalez, "Speech Recognition," EE 495 Project, 2
credit hours, Spring 1993.
9.
T. J. Stewart, "Constraint Parsing," EE 495 Project, 3
credit hours, Spring 1993, (*journal [12]).
10. T. R. Johoski, "PARSEC
Chip Design," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring1993, (*conference
[13]).
11. J. P. Robertson, "PARSEC
Chip Ver.," EE 495 Project, 5 credit hours, Spring 1993, (*conference
[13]).
12. G. D. Rogers, "PARSEC
Chip Design," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring, 1993, (*conference
[13]).
13. M. K. McKenna, "CTT
Design", EE 495 Project, 2 credit hours, Fall 1993
14. B. L. Pellom, "Natural
Language Parsing I," EE 495 Project, 6 credit hours, Fall 1993, (*journal[12],
conference [11]).
15. T. R. Johoski,
"Comparator Design," EE 496 Project, 1 credit hour, Fall 1993,
(*conference [13]).
16. G. D. Rogers, "Comparator
Design," EE 496 Project, 1 credit hour, Fall 1993, (*conference [13]).
17. H. Rosario, "PARSEC Chip
Ver.," EE 496 Project, 1 credit hour, Fall 1993, (*conference [13]).
18. M. K. McKenna, "PARSEC
Efficiency," EE 495 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 1994.
19. H. Rosario, "C
Programming of PARSEC," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring 1994.
20. E. R. Toepke, "PARSEC
System Management," EE 495 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 1994,
(*conference [13]).
21. B. L. Pellom, "PARSEC
Efficiency," EE 496 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring 1994, (*journal[12], conference [11]).
22. L. D. Chen, "PARSEC
Programming," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Fall
1994.
23. S. R. Petkar, "Speech
Processing," EE 495 Project, 2 credit hours, Fall
1994.
24. H. Rosario, "PARSEC and
Spanish," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Fall
1994.
25. E. R. Toepke, "Language
Chip Development," EE 495 Project, 2 credit hours, Fall 1994, (*conference
[13]).
26. H. Fahmi, "PARSEC Parsing," EE 495 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 1995.
27. H. Rosario, "PARSEC Parsing," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring 1995.
28. C-C. Cheng, "Selected
Topics in EE," EE 495 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall
1995.
29. Asli Kumcu, "Parsing
Sentence Templates," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring 1997.
30. J. Brandon Laflen,
"Speech Processing Project," EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall
1997, (*journal[20], conference [24]).
31. J. Brandon Laflen,
"Speech Processing Project," EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours,
Spring 1998, (*journal[20], conference [24]).
32. R. Cauley, "Name
Recognition Experiments," EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 1999.
33. R. Cauley, "Name
Recognition Experiments," EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 2000.
34. R. Cauley, "Name
Recognition Experiments," EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 2000.
35. E. Maia, Multimodal Language
Understanding, EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 2002, (*conference
[52]).
36. J.Chotani, Multimodal Language
Understanding, EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall
2002.
37. E. Maia, Multimodal Language
Understanding, EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 2003, (*conference
[52]).
Courses Developed:
1.
EE373 Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence, revised
course in Fall 1990.
2.
EE468 Introduction to Compilers and Translation Engineering,
developed lecture notes, a project methodology, and course webpage.
3.
EE469 Operating Systems Engineering,
converted to a 4 credit course with a laboratory component in Spring 1995.
4.
EE669 Natural Language Processing, initially developed course in Spring 1990, revised course in Fall 2001.
5.
EE608 Computational Models and Methods, developed lecture notes, a
homework problem database, and course webpage.
Courses In Charge Of:
1.
EE373 Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence, Fall 1990–Spring 1999.
2.
EE468 Introduction to Compilers and Translation Engineering Fall
2000–Spring 2003.
3.
EE608 Computational Models and Methods Fall 2000–Fall 2005.
4.
EE669 Natural Language Processing, Spring
1990–Fall 2006.
Courses Taught:
1.
EE368 Data Structures
2.
EE373 Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence
3.
EE468 Introduction to Compilers and Translation Engineering
4.
EE469 Operating Systems Engineering
5.
EE570 Programming Techniques for Artificial Intelligence
6.
EE608 Computational Models and Methods
7.
EE668 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
8.
EE669 Natural Language Processing
9.
EPICS: Engineering Projects in Community Service (Advised the
Speech-Language and Audiology Clinics Team for two semesters)
School Committee Activities:
Center for the Advanced Study of Language at
Research Coordinating Committee |
Member |
February 2006–September 2008 |
Directors Council |
Member |
September 2006–Septembe 2008 |
Merit Evaluation Committee |
Member |
May 2007 |
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue:
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Self-Study Committee |
Member |
Report completed March 2006 |
Computer Engineering Area Committee |
Member |
Aug. 31, 1989–Sept. 30, 2007 |
Communications and Signal Processing Area Committee |
Member |
Aug. 31, 1995– Sept. 30, 2007 |
Curriculum Committee (Subcommittees: Student survey, C course recommendations,
Communications specialist job description) |
Member |
Aug. 1993–May 1996 |
Faculty Search Committee |
Member |
Aug. 2000–July 2001 |
Graduate Committee |
Member |
Aug. 2001–May 2002 |
Primary Committee |
Member |
Aug. 15, 2004– Sept. 30, 2007 |
QE Committee |
Member |
Aug. 31, 1994–Aug. 30, 1996, Aug. 31, 1998–Aug. 30, 2000 |
Social Committee |
Member Chairman |
Aug. 31, 1990–Aug. 30, 1992 Aug. 31, 1991–Aug. 30, 1992 |
Speech Group (a Multi-disciplinary research group) |
Organizer |
Aug. 31, 1994–May 2002 |
Undergraduate Academic Counseling in Artificial Intelligence and
Software Engineering |
Advisor |
Aug. 31, 1990–May 2002 |
Computer Science at Brown University:
Artificial Intelligence Lunch-Time Seminar Series |
Organizer |
1985–1988 |
Graduate Committee |
Student Representative |
1985–1987 |
Graduate Orientation Committee |
Member |
1984–1985 |
Engineering-Wide Committee Activities:
Academic Personnel Grievance Committee |
Member |
Aug. 31, 1994–Summer 1995 |
Women Faculty Engineering Committee (WFEC) |
Member |
June, 1999– Sept. 30, 2007 |
Engineering Alumni Association Board |
Member |
May, 1999–May, 2002 |
Other Activities at
Intel Corporation, Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial
Institute |
EE Faculty Liaison |
Aug. 31, 1989–May 2002 |
Phi Sigma Rho (Women’s Engineering Sorority) |
Faculty Advisor |
Aug. 31, 1993–Aug. 30, 1999 |
Purdue Electrical Engineering
Industrial Institute (PEEII) Workshop Activities:
1.
M. P. Harper, “Logical Form, Pronouns, and Computer Models of
Language,” presented at the Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute
Fall Workshop, October 1989.
2.
M. P. Harper, “Parallelizing Natural Language Processing,”
presented at the Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute Fall
Workshop, November 1990.
3.
R. A. Helzerman and M. P. Harper, “Parallelizing Constraint
Propagation for Natural Language Processing,” November 1990 (student received Best Student Presentation Award for talk).
4.
R. A. Helzerman, C. B. Zoltowski, and M. P. Harper, “PARSEC: The
Next Generation,” a poster presented at the Purdue Electrical Engineering
Industrial Institute Fall Workshop, October 1991 (received best poster award).
5.
R. A. Helzerman, H. Rosario, and M. P. Harper, “PARSEC: A
Framework for Spoken Language Understanding,” a poster presented at the Purdue
Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute Workshop, April 1993 (received best
poster award).
6.
M. P. Harper, “Learning Grammars for Natural Language
Applications,” presented at the Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial
Institute Workshop, March 29, 1996.
7.
M. P. Harper and H. G. Dietz, Co-session chairs for Computing
Systems Session, “Engineering for an Information Age,” Purdue Electrical
Engineering Industrial Institute Workshop, April 20-21, 1998.
8.
M. P. Harper, “Gesture and Speech in Dialog Transcription,”
presented at the Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute Workshop,
March 9, 2001.
Outreach Presentations:
1.
M. P. Harper, “Spoken Language Understanding,” presented at the
Society of Women Engineers' Summer Program for High School Women, ESCaPEs,
2.
M. P. Harper, “Language Processing in Electrical Engineering,”
presented to a group of young women attending ScienceScape `92,
3.
L. H. Jamieson, M. P. Harper, C. D. Mitchell, G. Ying, S. Potisuk,
L. McPheters, and C. B. Zoltowski, “Talking to Computers and Computers That
Talk Back,” presented to junior high-school girls attending Expanding your
Horizons in Science and Mathematics,
4.
M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, A. C. Kak, and A. A. Maciejewski,
“Intelligent Machines: What Can They Do for You?” presented in the President's
Council “Back to Class” program, November 1993.
5.
L. H. Jamieson, M. P. Harper, C. D. Mitchell, G. Ying, S. Potisuk,
R. Chen, P. Srinivasan, E. Toepke, and B. Pellom, “Talking to Computers and
Computers That Talk Back,” presented to junior high-school girls attending
Expanding your Horizons in Science and Mathematics,
6.
M. P. Harper, “Personal and Professional Development,” presented
to the “Mentees and Mentors” program of the Women in Engineering at
7.
M. P. Harper, “A Career in
Electrical and Computer Engineering,” Career Day presentation on Electrical
Engineering, Harrison High School, West Lafayette, IN, April 1994.
8.
M. P. Harper, “Career Planning,” presented to the Graduate
“Mentees and Mentors” program of the Women in Engineering at
9.
L. H. Jamieson, M. P. Harper, C. D. Mitchell, G. Ying, S. Potisuk,
R. Chen, P. Srinivasan, “Taking to Computers and Computers That Talk Back,”
presented to junior high-school girls attending Expanding your Horizons in
Science and Mathematics, Purdue University, April 1995.
10. M. P. Harper, “Graduate Study
in Engineering,” presented to the Engineering students in the MARC/AIM Summer
Research Program at
11. L. H. Jamieson, M. P. Harper,
G. Ying, R. Chen, and P. Srinivasan, “Talking to Computers and Computers That
Talk Back,” presented to junior high-school girls attending Expanding your
Horizons in Science and Mathematics,
12. M. P. Harper, “Gesture and
Speech in Dialog Transcription,” presented at the SWE Women in Engineering
Career Day, April 9, 2001.
13. M.P. Harper, “The Challenging
(and Fun) World of Computer Engineering,” presented to the Freshman Engineering
Class, Fall 2001.
14. M.P. Harper, “The Challenging
(and Fun) World of Computer Engineering,” presented to the Freshman Engineering
Class, Spring 2002.
Conference Program Committees and Panels:
1.
Member of the program committee for the Second IASTED/ISMM
International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems and Applications,
sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for
Development and the International Society for Mini and Microcomputers, August
1995, Stanford, CA.
2.
Member of the program committee for the American Association for
Artificial Intelligence Conference for Artificial Intelligence, August 1996,
3.
Member of the program committee for the 1998 Workshop on
Multimedia Signal Processing, December 7-9, 1998,
4.
Member of the Panel for the 1998 SIGART/Doctoral Consortium, AAAI,
Madison Wisconsin.
5.
Member of the Program Committee and Panel for the 1999
SIGART/Doctoral Consortium, AAAI,
6.
Member of the subcommittee for “Corpus-Based and Statistical
Natural Language Processing” for NAACL-2000 (the 1st Conference of
the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics),
April 2000,
7.
Faculty Advisor for the ANLP-NAACL-2000 (Applied Natural Language
Processing and North American Association for Computational Linguistics)
Student Research Workshop, April 2000,
8.
Member of the program committee for “Workshop on Reading
Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding
Systems,” at ANLP-NAACL-2000 (Applied Natural Language Processing and North
American Association for Computational Linguistics), May 4, 2000, Seattle WA.
9.
Member of the Program Committee for the 2000 SIGART/Doctoral
Consortium, AAAI.
10.
International Program Committee (IPC) for the Third IASTED
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
(ASC'2000), July 24-26, 2000,
11. Member of the Program Committee for the 2001
SIGART/Doctoral Consortium, AAAI.
12.
International Program Committee (IPC) for IASTED International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC'2002), July
17-19, 2002,
13.
Paper
14.
Program Committee of the Fifth International Conference on
Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-PUI'03), November 5-7, 2003,
15.
Technical Program Co-Chair for the Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI),
16. Member of the Panel for the ACL04
student session (Association for Computational
Linguistics),
17. Reviewing committee for the
Statistical NLP area of ACL-2004 (Association for Computational Linguistics) to be held in
18. 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing, Area Chair and Program Committee, July 25-26,
2004,
19. Organizing
Committee for HLT 2005.
20. Technical
Committee for the IEEE workshop Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding
to be held Nov 27-Dec 1 2005 in
21. Program Committee for the AAAI Workshop on Spoken
Language Understanding to be held July
9, 2005 in
22. Paper
23. Workshop Committee for
ACL-2005
24. Program Committee for the AAAI Workshop on Spoken
Language Understanding to be held in conjunction with The Twentieth National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AAAI 2005, July 9, 2005,
25. Area coordinator for Interspeech’2005
26. Program Committee for the 6th SIGdial Workshop on
Discourse and Dialogue
27. Program Committee for HLT/EMNLP 2005
28.
Best Paper Award
Committee for International
Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), October 4-6, 2005,
29. Technical Committee for EEE/ACL workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT),
30. Program Committee for the 3rd Joint Workshop on Multimodal
Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI), 2006
31. Program
committee member for AAAI-06 for natural language processing, July 16–20, 2006,
32. Speech Technical Committee Member
for ICASSP, Speech
and Spoken Language Processing area, 2006
33. Program
Committee for the area of "Machine Learning Methods" for COLING-ACL
2006.
34. Interspeech'2006
Scientific Review Committee.
35. Program
Committee for CSLP06
Constraints and Language
Processing, 2006.
36. Scientific Committee for the
first International Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) 2006
37. MLMI Standing Committee for the Joint Workshop on Multimodal
Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI)
38. Speech Technical Committee
Member for ICASSP, Speech
and Spoken Language Processing area, 2007.
39. Program
committee member for AAAI-07 for natural language processing, July 22-26, 2007,
40. Speech Technical Committee
Member for ICASSP, Speech
and Spoken Language Processing area, 2008.
41. Program Committee for TeachCL
2008.
42. Technical Program Co-chair for NAACL HLT, 2010.
Conference Session Chairman:
1.
“Parsers and Compilers” session at the 21st International
Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, IL, August 1992.
2.
“Architectures III” session at the 1994 American Association for
Artificial Intelligence Workshop on the Integration of Natural Language and
Speech Processing, Speech Processing, Seattle, WA, August 1994.
3.
“Natural Language Processing” session at the IASTED International
Conference for Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii,
August 1999.
4.
Session chair at the 1st Conference of the North
American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Seattle WA,
May 3, 2000.
5. Session Chair for the Novel
Approaches Research session,
DARPA Ears Mid-Year Workshop, January 21-23, 2003.
6. Session Chair for Session 7A on Language Modeling,
2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, July 26, 2004.
7. Session
Chair for Session SLP-L9 Spoken Language Identification, 2006 International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 18, 2006.
8. Session
Chair for O28-SE “ASR, Tools and Evaluation,” 2006 Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC), May 25,
2006.
9. Session
Chair for MP2 “Spoken Language Understanding,” IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken
Language Technology, December 11, 2006.
10. Session Chair
for Session 11c: Phonetics and Phonology, Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing and Computational
Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), June 30,
2007.
Activities as a Referee:
Proposal Reviews, Panels, and
Site Visits:
1.
Ad hoc Reviews for National Science Foundation proposals from 1989
- present
2.
National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information,
Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, 1992.
3.
National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information,
Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, 1995.
4.
National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information,
Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, 1996.
5.
National Science Foundation site visitor, CISE Minority
Institutions Infrastructure Program, 1998.
6.
National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information and
Intelligent Systems, 1998.
7.
National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information and
Intelligent Systems, 2001 (2 times).
8.
National Science Foundation, Integrated Media System Center, Engineering Research Center,
University of Southern California, June 2003.
9.
Multidisciplinary Research Program of the URI (MURI),
10.
Reviewer for DARPA IPTO BAA 02-21.
11.
Reviewer for ITIC REFLEX
BAA-04-01-FH.
12.
National Science Foundation, Integrated
13.
National Science Foundation, Large ITR MALACH site visit, CISE
Information and Intelligent Systems, June 2004.
14.
National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information and
Intelligent Systems, 2006.
15.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2007.
16.
Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), 2008.
17.
National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information and
Intelligent Systems, 2009.
Foundation Activities:
1.
Assessed
a candidate for the MacArthur Fellows program, 2003.
International Dissertation Review:
1.
External
Reviewer for Ingo Schröder’s Dissertation, Natural
Language Parsing of Graded Constraints,
Books Reviewed:
1.
Natural Language Understanding by James Allen for The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., 1993.
2.
Crafting a Compiler by Charles N. Fischer, Ron K. Cytron, and Richard J.
LeBlanc, Jr. for The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing
Company, Inc., 1995.
3.
Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer
Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Kluwer, 2005.
4.
5.
Book proposal for Multilingual
Speech Processing by Tanja Schultz and Katrin Kirchhoff, Elsevier (Academic
Press), May 2004.
Journal Reviews:
1. Communications
of the ACM, special section dealing with Multimodal Interfaces that Flex,
Adapt, and Persist, 2003.
2.
Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Special issue on resource
management and parallel and distributed systems, 1994.
3.
Computational Linguistics
4. IEE
Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques
5.
IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
6.
IEEE Computer, Special issue on interactive natural language
processing, 1996.
7.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Special Issue
on Data and Knowledge Management in Multimedia Systems, 1998.
8.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
9.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Translation
10. IEEE Transactions on Robotics
and Automation
11. IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing
12. IEEE Transactions on Systems,
Man, and Cybernetics
13. Journal of AI research
14. EURASIP Journal
on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
15. INTEGRATION: the VLSI journal
16. Machine Learning, special
issue on Grammar Induction, 1992
17. Machine Learning
18. Speech
Communication
19. Special
issue of the Springer "Language Resources and Evaluation" (LRE) journal
for papers presented at the SIGdial'05 Workshop held in Lisbon, Portugal, in
September 2005. (reviews in April 2006)
Conference, Workshop, and Paper Contest Reviews:
1.
The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in
1989.
2.
The International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1992.
3.
The International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1992.
4.
The International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1993.
5.
The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in
1993.
6.
The American Association for Artificial Intelligence Workshop on
the Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing,
7.
The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing, 1994.
8.
Member of a panel of judges for the 1993-1994 IEEE Region 4
Student Paper Contest, March 1994.
9.
The International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1995.
10.
The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in
1995.
11.
The International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1995.
12.
The Second IASTED/ISMM International Conference on Distributed
Multimedia Systems and Applications, sponsored by the International Association
of Science and Technology for Development and the International Society for
Mini and Microcomputers, August 1995, Stanford, California.
13.
The Annual American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Conference,
14.
1998 Workshop on Multimedia
Signal Processing,
15.
ANLP-NAACL-2000 (Applied Natural Language Processing and North
American Association for Computational Linguistics),
16.
Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for
Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems, at ANLP-NAACL-2000 (Applied
Natural Language Processing and North American Association for Computational
Linguistics),
17.
ANLP-NAACL-2000 (Applied Natural Language Processing and North
American Association for Computational Linguistics) Student Research Workshop,
18.
IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
Soft Computing (ASC'2000), July 24-26, 2000 in
19.
The Sixth IASTED International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC'2002), July 17-19, 2002 in
20.
The Eleventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association
for the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2003),
21.
The Seventh IASTED International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC’2003), July 14-16, 2003, in
22.
The Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-PUI'03),
November 5-7, 2003,
23.
HLT-NAACL04 student session, May 4, 2004,
24. Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing, July 25-26, 2004,
25. ACL04
student session, Association for Computational
Linguistics)
26. Statistical NLP area of ACL-2004 (Association for Computational Linguistics)
27. HLT/EMNLP
2005,
28. HLT/NAACL, 2006.
29. COLING-ACL,
2006.
30. HLT/NAACL 2007, in
the NLP for spoken language track.
31. Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing
(EMNLP) 2007
32. ASRU 2007.
33. MLMI 2007
34. Interspeech, 2008
35. Coling, 2008
36. ICASSP, 2009
37. HLT/NAACL 2009
38. Interspeech, 2009
39. NAACL 2010
40. Speech Prosody 2010
41. ICASSP 2010