Research Interests
Natural language processing, machine learning,
artificial intelligence,life-like computer agents, and human computer
interaction.
Recent Publications
Matthias Grabmair, Kevin D. Ashley, Rebecca Hwa and Patricia
M. Sweeney. 2011. Toward Extracting Information from Public Health
Statutes using Text Classification and Machine Learning. In Jurix
2011: The 24th Annual Conference, pp. 73-82 (Katie M. Atkinson
ed.) IOS Press 2011.
Behrang Mohit and Rebecca Hwa. 2010. Using Variable Decoding Weight for Language Model in Statistical Machine Translation. In The Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Colorado.
Frank Liberato, Behrang Mohit, and Rebecca Hwa. 2010. Improving Phrase-Based Translation with Prototypes of Short Phrases. In The Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the NAACL/HLT (short paper track), Los Angeles, CA.
Huichao Xue and Rebecca Hwa. 2010. Syntax-Driven Machine Translation as a Model of ESL Revision. In The Proceedings of COLING 2010: Posters, Beijing, China.
Behrang Mohit and Rebecca Hwa. 2010. Using Variable Decoding Weight for Language Model in Statistical Machine Translation. In The Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Colorado.
Frank Liberato, Behrang Mohit, and Rebecca Hwa. 2010. Improving Phrase-Based Translation with Prototypes of Short Phrases. In The Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the NAACL/HLT (short paper track), Los Angeles, CA.
Huichao Xue and Rebecca Hwa. 2010. Syntax-Driven Machine Translation as a Model of ESL Revision. In The Proceedings of COLING 2010: Posters, Beijing, China.
Students
PhD Students
Past Students
- Behrang Mohit (PhD, 2010); now postdoctoral researcher at CMU-Qatar.
- Chenhai Xi (MS, 2009).
- Joshua Albrecht (MS, 2008); CTO at GearHeadz
- Carol Nichols (MS, 2006); now at Vivisimo.
- Wesley Goodman (BA, 2006); now at Google (Palo Alto).
Teaching
CS1573 Artificial Intelligence Application Development [2124]