Research Interests

Natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence,life-like computer agents, and human computer interaction.

Recent Publications

Joshua Albrecht, Rebecca Hwa, and G. Elisabeta Marai. 2009. Correcting Automatic Translations through Collaborations between MT and Monolingual Target-Language Users. In The Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL-2009), Athens, Greece.

Behrang Mohit, Frank Liberato, and Rebecca Hwa. 2009. Language Model Adaptation for Difficult-to-Translate Phrases. In The Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT-09), Barcelona, Spain.

Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa. 2009. Regression for Machine Translation Evaluation at the Sentence Level. Machine Translations. No. 22, vol.1-2.

Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa. 2008. The Role of Pseudo References in MT Evaluation. In The Proceedings of the 3rd ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translations, Columbus, OH.

Noah Smith, Michael Heilman, and Rebecca Hwa. 2008. Question Generation as a Competitive Undergraduate Course Project In Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge, Arlington, VA.

Students

PhD Students Past Students
  • Chenhai Xi (MS, 2009).
  • Joshua Albrecht (MS, 2008); now CTO at InnomiNet.
  • Carol Nichols (MS, 2006); now working for Vivisimo.
  • Wesley Goodman (BA, 2006); now working for Google (Palo Alto).

Teaching

Courses
    CS2731 (ISSP2230) Introduction to Natural Language Processing [2009]

Office Hours

By appointment.