Research Interests
Natural language processing, machine learning,
artificial intelligence,life-like computer agents, and human computer
interaction.
Recent Publications
Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. A Re-examination of Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation. To appear in The Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL, Prague, Czech
Republic.
Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References. To appear in The Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL, Prague, Czech Republic.
Kaihong Liu, Wendy Chapman, Rebecca Hwa, and Rebecca Crowley. 2007. Heuristic Sample Selection to Minimize Reference Standard Training Set for a Part-of-Speech Tagger. To appear in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Behrang Mohit and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. Localization of Difficult-to-Translate Phrases. To appear in The Proceedings of the 2nd ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translations, Prague, Czech Republic.
Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an, and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. Unsupervised Estimation for Noisy-Channel Models. To appear in Proceedings of International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML), Corvallis, Oregon.
Rebecca Hwa, Carol Nichols, Khalil Sima'an. 2006. Corpus Variations for Translation Lexicon Induction. In Proceedings of the seventh conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. Poster Session, Cambridge, MA.
Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe, and Rebecca Hwa. 2006. Recognizing Strong and Weak Opinion Clauses. Computational Intelligence, 22:2, pp. 73-99.
Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References. To appear in The Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL, Prague, Czech Republic.
Kaihong Liu, Wendy Chapman, Rebecca Hwa, and Rebecca Crowley. 2007. Heuristic Sample Selection to Minimize Reference Standard Training Set for a Part-of-Speech Tagger. To appear in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Behrang Mohit and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. Localization of Difficult-to-Translate Phrases. To appear in The Proceedings of the 2nd ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translations, Prague, Czech Republic.
Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an, and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. Unsupervised Estimation for Noisy-Channel Models. To appear in Proceedings of International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML), Corvallis, Oregon.
Rebecca Hwa, Carol Nichols, Khalil Sima'an. 2006. Corpus Variations for Translation Lexicon Induction. In Proceedings of the seventh conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. Poster Session, Cambridge, MA.
Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe, and Rebecca Hwa. 2006. Recognizing Strong and Weak Opinion Clauses. Computational Intelligence, 22:2, pp. 73-99.
Students
PhD Students
M.S. Student
Past Students
- Carol Nichols (MS, 2006; now working for Vivisimo)
- Wesley Goodman (BA, 2006; now working for the National Biomedical Computation Resources)
Teaching
Courses
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CS2731 (ISSP2230) Introduction to Natural Language Processing [08-1]