I am a PhD candidate in the Intelligent
Systems Program (ISP) at University of Pittsburgh. ISP is
a multidisciplinary program for studies related to
artificial intelligence and covers a diverse set of research groups (ranging from computational linguistics to medical informatics).
I study Natural Language
Processing (NLP) which is the science of designing and
developing intelligent systems which are capable of
understanding and analyzing human language
communications. More specifically I am interested to
learn about the automation of language translation
for middle eastern languages such as Arabic and Farsi (my
native language). In my work, I employ statistical learning techniques to model the mappings between the two languages.
My interest in NLP stems from my college years in Carnegie
Mellon and also my 10 months internship at Justsystem
Pittsburgh research lab where I worked with Dr. Vibhu
Mittal and Mark Kantrovitz on effects of word stemming
on Information Retrieval. Also before
starting the PhD program at University of
Pittsburgh, I worked on automation of
semantic role labeling with Dr.
Srini Narayanan in the FrameNet
project at UC Berkeley.
In Summer 2005, I carried out a research internship at Information Sciences Institute (ISI) in Marina Del Rey, CA and worked in the Machine Translation group with Dr. Kevin Knight and Dr. Daniel Marcu.
Currently I am working with my advisor Dr.
Rebecca Hwa on Statistical Machine
Translation. I proposed my dissertation
proposal in Nov 2008. The title of my
dissertation is "Locating and reducing
translation difficulty"
Publications:
- Birte Lenneker-Rodman and Behrang
Mohit (2008). Translation of the
non-literal: Evidence from aligned bilingual
corpora. In Abstract proceedings of
the third international conference of the
German Cognitive Linguistics Association
(DGKL/GCLA-2008), Leipzig, Germany.
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- Behrang Mohit, Rebecca
Hwa, 2006. Localization of
Difficult-to-Translate Phrases. In the
Proceedings of the 2nd ACL Workshop on
Statistical Machine Translations, Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Jason Riesa,
Behrang Mohit, Kevin Knight
and Daniel Marcu, 2006. Building an
English-Iraqi Arabic Machine Translation
System for Spoken Utterances with Limited
Resources. In the Proceedings of the
International Conference on Spoken Language
Processing (Interspeech 2006), Pittsburgh, USA 2006
- Behrang Mohit and Rebecca Hwa, 2005. Syntax-based Semi-Supervised Named Entity Tagging. In the Companion Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Ann Arbor, USA 2005
- Behrang Mohit and Srini Narayanan, 2003. Semantic
Extraction with Wide-Coverage Lexical Resources. In the Companion Proceedings of the Human
Language Technology Conference: 3rd Meeting of the
North American Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL), Edmonton,
Canada, May 2003.
- Mark Kantrowitz, Behrang Mohit and Vibhu Mittal, 2000. Stemming
and its effects on TFIDF Ranking. In the Proceedings (Poster Section) of ACM-SIGIR 2000 Athens, Greece
Academic Honors:
- Graduated With College Honors from School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2000
- Graduate Student Fellowship, School of Information Management & Systems, UC-Berkeley, Fall 2001, Spring 2002
- Third Best Masters Project Award, School of Information Management & Systems, UC-Berkeley, May 2003
- Graduate Student Fellowship, Faculty of
Art & Sciences, University of Pittsburgh,
Fall 2003, Spring 2004
- Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, Faculty of Art & Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2006, Spring 2007
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