Staff

Administration:

Gary W. Strong, Executive Director:    Dr. Strong draws on his extensive background in academia, private industry and government posts, including a lengthy stint as a program manager and high-level official at the National Science Foundation, focusing on language technology projects.

Ken Church, Chief Scientist:  Dr. Church was most recently a lead researcher at Microsoft Research in Seattle.   His work has spanned many areas of computational linguistics including: acoustics, speech recognition, speech synthesis, OCR, phonetics, phonology, morphology, word-sense disambiguation, spelling correction, terminology, translation, lexicography, information retrieval, compression, language modeling and text analysis. His special interest is in working with very large bodies of data such as the Associated Press newswire (1 million words per week) and larger datasets such as telephone call detail (1-10 billion records per month).

Researchers [please click on a name below to access personal web pages]:

• James Mayfield, Principal Research Scientist, Lead - TTO9
• Bonnie Dorr, Principal Research Scientist, Lead - TTO8, TTO7
• Mary Harper, Principal Research Scientist, Lead - TTO10, TTO12
• Glen Coppersmith, Principal Research Scientist, Lead - TTO11
• Carey Priebe, Senior Research Scientist
• Christine Piatko, Senior Research Scientist
• Paul McNamee, Senior Research Scientist
• Mark Dredze, Senior Research Scientist
• Michael Bloodgood, Senior Resarch Scientist
• Aren Jansen, Senior Research Scientist
• Nathaniel Filardo, Graduate Fellow
• Ann Irvine, Graduate Fellow
• Michael Carlin, Graduate Fellow
• Matt Gormely, Graduate Fellow

Affiliates:

• Frederick Jelinek, JHU
• Sanjeev Khudanpur, JHU
• Jason Eisner, JHU
• David Yarowsky, JHU
• Hynek Hermansky, JHU
• Timothy Finin, JHU/APL
• Ralph Weischedel, BBN
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• Administration:
• Diane K. Nelson, Chief Operating Officer
• Susan Leibtag, Associate Director
• William G. Carter, Jr., Senior Financial Manager
• Cindy Spell, Senior Financial Analyst
• Val Schaefer, Contractor Special Security Officer
• Peggy Spencer, Assistant Special Security Officer
• Brian O’Reilly, Director of Information Technology
• Ben Shayne, Systems Administrator
• Karen Daughton-Thomas, SCALE Administrative Coordinator
• Jacqueline Aguilar, Student Assistant
• Michael Weinberger, IT Assistant