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Contact Information:

Departmental address:

Daniel M. Bikel, Ph.D.
Department of Computer & Information Science
Levine Hall, University of Pennsylvania
3330 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389

My office is at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (Office Behind the Kitchen):

3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228

tel.: (215) 898-0331

I pick up snail mail at both of the above addresses.

email: dbikel AT cis DOT upenn DOT edu

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Table of Contents of this page:

Academics (with my schedule)
Research
Software
My Album of Original Music
My Former Job

Academics

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Schools From Which I’ve Graduated From Them

University of Pennsylvania

Department of Computer and Information Science (M.S. 2000, Ph.D. 2004)

Harvard University

Department of the Classics (A.B. 1993)
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Graduate Student in the Special Student Program, 1993-1996)

Phillips Exeter Academy (highest honors, Classics diploma 1989)

Schedule

Click here for my published calendar.

Research

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My general area of research is the investigation of statistical methods for natural language processing. I am particularly interested in the analysis of generative parsing models, and investigating the use of (largely) language-independent parsing models with multiple languages. My parsing engine is currently capable of emulating the state-of-the-art models of Mike Collins in English, and can also deliver state-of-the-art parses in Chinese, Arabic and, somewhat obscurely, Classical Portugese. Work is underway to extend it for use with the Korean Treebank.

My advisor is Mitch Marcus.

Here is my curriculum vitae (PDF).

In October, 2004, I joined IBM Research, working in Salim Roukos’ group.

Ph.D. Dissertation

On August 9th, 2004, I successfully defended my thesis.

On the Parameter Space of Generative Lexicalized Statistical Parsing Models. University of Pennsylvania. 2004. (PS) (PDF)
Click here to download my defense presentation (sorry: it is in PowerPoint format ... all the non-proprietary exported formats messed up too many elements of the presentation).

Publications

Journal Articles

Daniel M. Bikel. 2004. Intricacies of Collins’ Parsing Model. (PS) (PDF)
in Computational Linguistics, 30(4), pp. 479-511.
Daniel M. Bikel, Richard Schwartz and Ralph M. Weischedel. 1999. An Algorithm that Learns What’s in a Name (PS) (PDF)
in the Machine Learning Journal Special Issue on Natural Language Learning

Conference Articles

Daniel M. Bikel. 2004. A Distributional Analysis of a Lexicalized Statistical Parsing Model. (PS) (PDF)
in the proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2004)
(see ch. 7 of my Ph.D. thesis for an expanded version of this paper)
David Chiang and Daniel M. Bikel. 2002. Recovering Latent Information in Treebanks (PS) (PDF)
in the proceedings of COLING 2002
Daniel M. Bikel. 2002. Design of a Multi-lingual, Parallel-processing Statistical Parsing Engine (PS)
in the proceedings of HLT 2002
Daniel M. Bikel. 2000. A Statistical Model for Parsing and Word-Sense Disambiguation (PS) (PDF)
in the proceedings of the Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora
Daniel M. Bikel, Scott Miller, Richard Schwartz and Ralph Weischedel. 1997. Nymble: a High-Performance Learning Name-finder (PS) (PDF) (Abstract)
in the proceedings of the Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, ’97

Workshop Articles

Daniel M. Bikel and David Chiang. 2000. Two Statistical Parsing Models Applied to the Chinese Treebank (PS) (PDF)
in the proceedings of the Second Chinese Language Processing Workshop
Daniel M. Bikel. 2000. A Statistical Model for Parsing and Word-Sense Disambiguation (PS) (PDF)
in the proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at ACL 2000