I. Dan Melamed

November 21, 2000

3217 Fremont Avenue South, 1st Floor

Minneapolis, MN, 55408

(612) 825-7131

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~melamed

Education

1998

1993

1992

Ph.D. in Engineering

Master of Science in Engineering

Bachelor of Science (High Distinction) Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence

Computer and Information Science

University of Pennsylvania

Computer and Information Science

University of Pennsylvania

University of Toronto

Professional Experience

April 1998 -- present

Research Scientist

Summer 1996

Research Intern

Summer 1995

Research Intern

1985 -- 1992

Principal Consultant

West Group

Eagan, MN

·  research on cross-language information retrieval

·  research on text classification and summarization

Sun Microsystems Laboratories

Chelmsford, MA

·  integrated a turn-key system for translation lexicon construction

·  developed porting process and ported the system to a new language pair

Computer-Aided Translation Group,

Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI)

Department of Industry, Canada

Laval, Quebec

·  developed state-of-the-art technology for mapping bitext correspondence

·  invented precise translators' tool for detecting omissions in translations

IDM Expertise, Information Management Consultants

Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal

·  managed entire development life-cycle for a number of information systems

·  supervised various teams of subcontractors

Selected Publications

Books:

I. Dan Melamed. (2001) Empirical Methods for Exploiting Parallel Texts, MIT Press.

Book chapters:

I. Dan Melamed. (1998) ``Empirical Methods for MT Lexicon Construction,'' in L. Gerber, D. Farwell, and E. Hovy, Eds., Machine Translation and the Information Soup, Springer-Verlag.

Journal articles:

I. Dan Melamed. (2000) ``Models of Translational Equivalence among Words,'' Computational Linguistics 26:2.

I. Dan Melamed and Philip Resnik, (2000) ``Tagger Evaluation Given Hierarchical Tag Sets,'' Computers and the Humanities 34(1).

I. Dan Melamed. (1999) ``Bitext Maps and Alignment via Pattern Recognition,'' Computational Linguistics 25(1).

Reviews:

I. Dan Melamed and Hang Li. (1999) review of H. Schuetze's Ambiguity Resolution in Language Learning, in Computational Linguistics 25(3).

Conference papers:

I. Dan Melamed, Isabelle Moulinier, Elie Naulleau & Changwen Yang (2000). "Les bases de la recherce d'information en langue français à West Group," 2nd Amaryllis conference on French information retrieval. Paris, France.

I. Dan Melamed. (1997) ``Automatic Discovery of Non-Compositional Compounds in Parallel Data,'' Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Providence, RI.

I. Dan Melamed. (1997) ``A Word-to-Word Model of Translational Equivalence,'' Proceedings of the 35th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'97). Madrid, Spain.

I. Dan Melamed. (1997) ``A Portable Algorithm for Mapping Bitext Correspondence,'' Proceedings of the 35th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'97). Madrid, Spain.

I. Dan Melamed. (1997) ``Measuring Semantic Entropy," Proceedings of the SIGLEX Workshop on Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics. Washington, DC.

Philip Resnik & I. Dan Melamed. (1997) ``Semi-Automatic Acquisition of Domain-Specific Translation Lexicons," Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing. Washington, DC.

I. Dan Melamed. (1996) ``Automatic Construction of Clean Broad-Coverage Translation Lexicons," Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. Montreal, Canada.

I. Dan Melamed. (1996) ``Automatic Detection of Omissions in Translations,''Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Copenhagen, Denmark.

I. Dan Melamed. (1996) ``A Geometric Approach to Mapping Bitext Correspondence," Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Philadelphia, PA.

I. Dan Melamed. (1997) ``Automatic Evaluation and Uniform Filter Cascades for Inducing N-best Translation Lexicons.," Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Very Large Corpora. Boston, MA.

Selected Published Software

·  library of 285 tools for text statistics, bitext geometry, and general text processing, downloaded by over 10,000 hosts so far

·  sa, a program for simulated annealing

·  EGYPT, a tookit for statistical translation modeling (in collaboration with 9 others)

·  GSA (Geometric Segment Alignment) package for mapping bitext correspondence

Research Funding

In 1997, when I was still a graduate student, I raised over a quarter million dollars worth of support from Sun Microsystems and the U.S. National Security Agency. In 1999, I was one of only 4 non-academic scientists funded to participate in the prestigious NSF Language Engineering Workshop, held for 6 weeks at Johns Hopkins University.

Invited Presentations

November 2000

May 1999

October 1998

April 1988

December 1997

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Thomson Corporation Technical Conference

Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA'98)

UMIACS, University of Maryland at College Park

U.S. National Security Agency

Reviewer for

U.S. National Science Foundation numerous conferences and workshops

Computational Linguistics Computers and the Humanities

Machine Learning Machine Translation

Languages: fluent in English and in Russian, reading knowledge of French

Professional Affiliations: Association for Computational Linguistics

Other Interests: Argentine tango, soccer, moral philosophy