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.

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]

Office Hours

MW 3-5pm or by appointment.