Faculty and Students in CLLT at OSU
There are currently seven CLLT faculty members in Linguistics and Computer Science & Engineering, as well as several other faculty members in related fields and/or departments. CLLT faculty meet often to work on joint projects, instruct and advise students, and coordinate the overall CLLT research focus. Below is a somewhat current listing of CLLT faculty, PhD students and recent graduates.
Current CL Faculty and Students
Former Graduate Students
Faculty in Related Fields
Current CL Faculty and Students
| Name | Faculty/Grad | Department | Research Interests |
| Alyssa Allen | PhD Student, Advisor: Michael White | Linguistics | Dialogue Systems, Human-Machine Interactions |
| Willy Cheung | PhD Student, Advisors: Michael White, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | Linguistics | Anaphora, understanding NN, structured knowledge and NN |
| Christian Clark | PhD Student, Advisor: William Schuler |
Linguistics | Computational psycholinguistics, grammar induction |
| Sara Court | PhD Student, Advisors: Micha Elsner, Andrea Sims |
Linguistics | Computational modeling of morphology and typology, low-resource NLP |
| Micha Elsner | Faculty | Linguistics | Discourse structure (narrative, local coherence, referring expressions), lexical and phonetic acquisition, Bayesian methods |
| Eric Fosler-Lussier | Faculty | CSE | Statistical NLP, Spoken Dialog Systems, Speech Recognition |
| Tomiris Kaumenova | PhD Student, Advisor: Michael White |
Linguistics | Human-computer interaction, computational pragmatics |
| David King | PhD Student, Advisor: Micha Elsner |
Linguistics | Grammar Induction, Morphology, Syntax, Machine Learning, Natural Language Generation |
| Ash Lewis | PhD Student, Advisor: Michael White |
Linguistics | Dialogue Systems |
| Yi-Chien Lin | PhD Student, Advisors: Michael White, William Schuler |
Linguistics | Natural Language Generation, Cognitive Modeling |
| Pranav Maneriker | PhD Student, Advisor: Srinivasan Parthasarathy |
CSE | Text analysis augmented structured data (ontologies, graphs) |
| Lingbo Mo | PhD Student, Advisors: Huan Sun, Michael White |
CSE | Question Answering and Semantic Parsing |
| William Schuler | Faculty | Linguistics | Computational Psycholinguistics, Incremental Parsing and Interpretation, Spoken Dialog Systems |
| Luke Song | PhD Student, Advisor: Yu Su | CSE | Knowledge-base systems |
| Sam Stevens | PhD Student, Advisor: Yu Su | CSE | Foundation models, multimodality, language grounding |
| Symon Stevens Guille | PhD Student, Advisors: Robert Levine, Carl Pollard | Linguistics | Categorial grammar(s), logic and logic programming, the syntax-semantics and syntax-phonology interface(s), ethics in NLP, and allusion |
| Vishal Sunder | PhD Student, Advisor: Eric Fosler-Lussier | CSE | Spoken Dialog Systems |
| Yu Su | Faculty | CSE | Natural language interfaces for a wide range of backend data and services such as knowledge bases, web tables, and APIs |
| Huan Sun | Faculty | CSE | Data mining and machine learning, with emphasis on text mining and understanding, network analysis, human behavior understanding |
| Boshi Wang | PhD Student, Advisors: Huan Sun |
CSE | QA, Knowledge Reasoning, PLMs |
| Michael White | Faculty | Linguistics | Natural language generation, spoken language and multimodal dialogue systems, paraphrasing |
Former Graduate Students
| Name | Department | Advisor | Additional Information | |
| Ahmad Aljanaideh | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | Graduated 2021. Currently Faculty Lecturer at Bentley University. | |
| Luiz Alexandre Amaral | Linguistics and Spanish/Portuguese | Detmar Meurers, John Grinstead | Graduated 2007. Dissertation title: Designing Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems: Integrating Natural Language Processing technology into foreign language teaching. Currently at University of Victoria | |
| Deblin Bagchi | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2019. Currently at 3M. | |
| Stacey Bailey | Linguistics | Detmar Meurers | Graduated 2008. Dissertation title: Content Assessment in Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning: Meaning Error Diagnosis for English as a Second Language. | |
| Stephen Boxwell | Linguistics | Michael White, Chris Brew | Graduated 2011. Dissertation title: A CCG-Based Method for Training a Semantic Role Labeler in the Absence of Explicit Syntactic Training Data. Currently Watson Core Developer at IBM. | |
| Adriane Boyd | Linguistics | Detmar Meurers, Mike White | Graduated 2008 (MS, CSE) and 2012 (PhD, Linguistics). Dissertation title: Pronunciation Modeling in Spelling Correction for Writers of English as a Foreign Language. Currently woking on the MERLIN project at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. | |
| Kirk Baker | Linguistics | Chris Brew | Graduated 2008. Dissertation title: Multilingual Distributional Lexical Similarity. Currently Technology Director at i3 Analytics. |
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| Mike Calcagno | Linguistics | Currently at Microsoft Speech and Natural Language | ||
| Shuaichen Chang | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2023. Thesis title: Reliable Natural Language Interfaces to Heterogeneous Structured Data. Currently at Amazon. | |
| Nick Cipollone | Linguistics | Currently at Microsoft | ||
| Mike Daniels | Linguistics | Detmar Meurers | Graduated 2005. Thesis title: Generalized ID/LP Grammar: A Formalism for Parsing Linearization-based HPSG Grammars. Currently Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Speech and Language Group | |
| Manirupa Das | CSE | Rajiv Ramnath, Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2020. Currently at Amazon Search. | |
| Paul Davis | Linguistics | Chris Brew | Graduated 2002. Dissertation title: Stone Soup Translation: The Linked Automata Model. Currently works for Motorola. | |
| Jon Dehdari | Linguistics | William Schuler | Graduated 2014. Dissertation title: A Neurophysiologically-Inspired Statistical Language Model. Currently at DFKI GmbH and the University of Saarland. | |
| Markus Dickinson | Linguistics | Detmar Meurers | Graduated 2005. Thesis title: Error detection and correction in annotated corpora. Currently Assistant Professor at Indiana University. | |
| Manjuan Duan | Linguistics | William Schuler | Graduated 2019. Currently Applied Scientist at Amazon. | |
| Alex Erdmann | Linguistics | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | Graduated 2020. | |
| Dominic Espinosa | Linguistics | Michael White | Graduated 2011 (MA). | |
| Anna Feldman | Linguistics | Chris Brew | Graduated 2006. Dissertation title: A cross-language approach to rapid creation of new morpho-syntactically annotated resources. Currently Associate Professor at Montclair State University. | |
| Whitney Gegg-Harrison | Linguistics | Craige Roberts | Graduated 2006 (MA). Currently a graduate student in cognitive science at the University of Rochester | |
| Jean Godby | Linguistics | Craige Roberts | Graduated 2002. Thesis title: A computational study of lexicalized noun phrases in English. Now works at Office of Research at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. | |
| Jirka Hana | Linguistics | Carl Pollard | Graduated 2006. Dissertation title: Czech Clitics in Higher Order Grammar. Currently a Senior Researcher at Charles University, Prague. | |
| Ilana Heintz | Linguistics | Chris Brew, Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2010. Dissertation title: Arabic Language Modeling with Stem-derived Morphemes for Automatic Speech Recognition. Currently working at Raytheon BBN Technologies. | |
| DJ Hovermale | Linguistics | Chris Brew, William Schuler | Graduated 2011. Dissertation title: Erron: A Phrase-Based Machine Translation Approach to Customized Spelling Correction. Currently at at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory. | |
| Evan Jaffe | Linguistics | William Schuler | Graduated 2021. | |
| Martin Jansche | Linguistics | Chris Brew | Graduated 2003. Thesis title: Inference of string mappings for language technology. Currently works for Google Research, New York, NY. | |
| Nan-Jiang Jiang | Linguistics | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | Graduated 2023. Thesis title: The Why and How of Label Variation in Natural Language Inference. Currently works for Google. | |
| Lifeng Jin | Linguistics | William Schuler | Graduated 2019. Currently Senior Researcher at Tencent AI. | |
| Preethi Jyothi | Computer Science and Engineering | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2013. Dissertation title: Discriminative and Articulatory Feature-based Pronunciation Models for Conversational Speech Recognition. Currently Assistant Professor at IIT, Bombay. | |
| Joo-Kyung Kim | Computer Science and Engineering | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2017. Dissertation title: Linguistic Knowledge Transfer for Enriching Vector Representations. Currently Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa. | |
| Jianguo Li | Linguistics | Chris Brew | Graduated 2008. Dissertation title: Hybrid Methods for Acquisition of Lexical Information: The Case for Verbs. Currently at the Applied Research Center, Motorola. | |
| Arantxa Lozano | Linguistics | Detmar Meurers | Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wittenberg University | |
| Xiaofei Lu | Linguistics | Detmar Meurers | Graduated 2006. Dissertation title: Hybrid Models for Unknown Chinese Word Resolution. Currently Assistant Professor at Penn State University. | |
| Taylor Mahler | Linguistics | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Judith Tonhauser | Graduated 2022. Currently Market Researcher at University Hospitals, Cleveland. | |
| Dennis Nolan Mehay | Linguistics | William Schuler, Chris Brew | Graduated 2012 (PhD). Dissertation title: Bean Soup Translation: Flexible, Linguistically-motivated Syntax for Machine Translation. Currently at BBN Technologies. | |
| Vanessa Metcalf | Linguistics | Detmar Meurers | Graduated 2004 (MA). | |
| Scott Martin | Linguistics | Carl Pollard, Craige Roberts | Graduated 2013. Dissertation title: The Dynamics of Sense and Implicature. Currently research scientist at Facebook. | |
| Jeremy Morris | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2010. Dissertation title: A study on the use of conditional random fields for automatic speech recognition. Currently Assistant Professor of Practice at Ohio State. | |
| Crystal Nakatsu | Linguistics | Michael White | Graduated 2009 (MA). Currently Linguistic Engineering Tech Lead Manager at Facebook. | |
| Denis Newman-Griffis | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier, Albert Lai | Graduated 2020. Currently Postdoctoral Researcher at U. Pittsburgh. | |
| Byung-Doh Oh | Linguistics | William Schuler | Graduated 2024. Dissertation title: Empirical Shortcomings of Transformer-Based Large Language Models as Expectation-Based Models of Human Sentence Processing. Currently Faculty Fellow at New York University. | |
| Peter Plantinga | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2021. Currently at J.P. Morgan Chase. | |
| Rohit Prabhavalkar | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2013. Dissertation title: Discriminative Articulatory Feature-based Pronunciation Models with Application to Spoken Term Detection. Currently research scientist at Google. | |
| Preethi Raghavan | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier, Albert M. Lai | Currently at IBM TJ Watson | |
| Monica Rajamanohar | ECE | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2005 (MS). Currently Technical Consultant at Heiler Software. | |
| Raja Rajkumar | Linguistics | Michael White | Graduated 2012. Dissertation title: Linguistically Motivated Features for CCG Realization Ranking. Associate Professor, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India. | |
| Nathan Rasmussen | Linguistics | William Schuler | Graduated 2021. Currently Computational Linguist at Glossika. | |
| Anton Rytting | Linguistics | Chris Brew, Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2007. Dissertation title: Preserving Subsegmental Variation in Modeling Word Segmentation. Currently Associate Research Scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study of Language (CASL), Maryland. | |
| Marten van Schijndel | Linguistics | William Schuler | Graduated 2017. Dissertation title: The Influence of Syntactic Frequencies on Human Sentence Processing. Currently Assistant Professor at Cornell. | |
| Prashant Serai | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2021. Currently at Facebook. | |
| Cory Shain | Linguistics | William Schuler, Micha Elsner | Graduated 2021. Currently postdoc at MIT. | |
| Chaitanya Shivade | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier, Albert M. Lai | Graduated 2016. Dissertation title: How sick are you? Methods for extracting textual evidence to expedite clinical trial screening. Currently Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. | |
| Darla Shockley | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2010 (MS). | |
| Adam Stiff | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2020. Currently NLP Scientist (Dialogue) at Infoscitex Corporation. | |
| Laura Stoia | CSE | Donna Byron | Graduated 2007. Dissertation title: Noun phrase generation for situated dialogues. Currently a software engineer at Google. | |
| Na’im Tyson | Linguistics | Cynthia Clopper, Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2012. Dissertation title. Exploration of Acoustic Features for Automatic Vowel Discrimination in Spontaneous Speech. | |
| Nathan Vaillette | Linguistics | Chris Brew | Graduated 2004. | |
| Yu Wang | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Graduated 2007 (MA). | |
| Andrew Watts | Linguistics | Detmar Meurers | Graduated 2006 (MA). | |
| Tim Weale | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier, Chris Brew | Graduated 2010. Dissertation title. Term relatedness from Wiki-based resources using sourced PageRank. Currently working for the Department of Defense. | |
| Sirui Xu | CSE | Eric Fosler-Lussier | Speech recognition |
Faculty in Related Fields
Within Linguistics and CSE, as well as in other departments, there are several faculty members working on closely related topics:
Other faculty members in Psychology:
- Gail McKoon (psycholinguistics, reading, human memory, knowledge representation)
- Alexander Petrov (learning, models of learning, symbolic cognitive architectures, neural networks)
Other faculty members in Linguistics working in related fields:
- Mary Beckman (phonetics, intonation, laboratory phonology, speech synthesis)
- David Dowty (semantic/syntactic theory, lexical semantics, categorial grammars)
- Bob Levine (constraint-based grammar/HPSG, syntax)
- Carl Pollard (mathematical foundations of linguistic theory, constraint-based grammar/HPSG, syntax, semantics)
- Craige Roberts (formal pragmatics, semantics)
- Shari R. Speer (psycholinguistics)
- Beth Hume (phonology)
- Erhard Hinrichs (visiting CL faculty, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft of the Universität Tübingen, ASN/ISCL)
Other faculty members in Computer Science and Engineering working in related fields:
- Srinivasan Parthasarathy (data mining and knowledge discovery from unstructured text)
- B. Chandrasekaran (reasoning for diagnosis and explanation)
- DeLiang Wang (auditory processing, data source separation)
- John Josephson (abductive inference, causal reasoning, inference in perception and language understanding)
Former faculty at other institutions with whom we have a close relationship:
- Donna Byron (machine-human dialogue, discourse processing, anaphora resolution, collaborative interaction), currently at IBM
- Chris Brew (robust natural language processing using statistical and probabilistic ideas), currently at Digital Operatives
- Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (computational semantics and pragmatics, language acquisition), currently at CENTAL, UCLouvain
- Simon Dennis (human memory, language processing, episodic recognition, serial recall, extraction of propositional information from text), currently at University of Newcastle
- Albert Lai (biomedical Informatics, information extraction and retrieval, temporal reasoning), currently at Washington University
- Detmar Meurers (constraint-based processing, corpus annotation, iCALL, syntax, HPSG), currently at Universität Tübingen
- Alan Ritter (machine learning and knowledge extraction), currently at Georgia Tech
- Clayton Rothwell (spoken dialogue systems, clarification dialogues, prosody semantics interface), currently at Infoscitex Corporation
- Wei Xu (machine learning, natural language processing and social media), currently at Georgia Tech