Rebecca Passonneau, PhD
Research Scientist,
Natural Language Processing
Center for Computational Learning Systems
becky_AT_ccls.columbia.eduOffice:
850 Interchurch Center / MC 7717
475 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10115
Tel 212-870-1278
Fax 212-870-1285
homepage: http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~beck/I received my PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1985, where I collaborated with the newly formed Comittee on Cognition and Communication. My research interests address the interaction between linguistic knowledge, and processing models that account for language usage data. Topics I have investigated include discourse reference and coreference, the semantics and pragmatics of reference to time, and discourse structure in text, or in spoken monologue or dialogue. More recently, my work has encompassed
exploratory, intermediate and final stages of language processing problems or the technologies that address them through corpus analysis, and includes developing novel methods for corpus annotation and evaluation. These activities provide data for machine learning studies, quantify the integrity and consistency of annotated data, and enable the investigation of more general questions of what kinds of things humans do with language that can be learned by machines. My current and recent projects include evaluation of Question/Answering systems (GALE), semantic classification of metadata contexts for image collections (CLiMB), and analysis of emergent narrative skills in children (TENS).
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