John's Personal Information Page

Here is some personal information about me.

• Here at the Department of Computer Science at Columbia, I am presently a postdoctoral research scientist working on the Newsblaster project.
• I spent one year as a consultant at AT&T Labs--Research. I worked on surface realization in AT&T Communicator, a mixed-initiative dialogue system for making air travel reservations.
• I obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Delaware. My thesis title is Towards Efficient Statistical Parsing using Lexicalized Grammatical Information. [pdf] , [ps] .
• I earned an MS and a BS in computer science from New York University.

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