Kristy Hollingshead, PhD Candidate

Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU)
Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering (CSEE)
OGI School of Science & Engineering
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Center for Spoken Language Understanding
OGI School of Science & Engineering
Oregon Health & Science University
20000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, Oregon 97006

desk: CSEE Central (#7 on map), room #129
mail code OGI701
phone: 503-748-1975
fax: 503-748-1306
e-mail:   h o l l i n g k   at   c s l u   dot   o g i   dot   e d u

Key words: parsing, evaluation, machine translation

Most generally, I am interested in the syntactic structure of text and how that structure can be used to improve machine translation (in particular), or information extraction or question-answering. More specifically, I am interested in using finite-state parsing methods to approximate context-free methods, searching for a balance between accuracy and efficiency. Related areas of interest are multi-pass parsing and parsing evaluation methods.

Advisor: Prof. Brian Roark

Kristy Hollingshead and Brian Roark. 2007. Pipeline Iteration. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 952-959, Prague, Czech Republic.

Brian Roark, Margaret Mitchell, and Kristy Hollingshead. 2007. Syntactic complexity measures for detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment. In Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP), pages 1-8, Prague, Czech Republic.

Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman, Kristy Hollingshead, and Susan E. Strayer. 2006. DialogueView: Annotating dialogues in multiple views with abstraction. To appear in Natural Language Engineering.

Kristy Hollingshead, Seeger Fisher, and Brian Roark. 2005. Comparing and combining finite-state and context-free parsers. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP), pages 787-794, Vancouver BC.

Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman, and Kristy Hollingshead. 2004. Towards understanding mixed-initiative in task-oriented dialogues. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP - INTERSPEECH 2004), pages 217-220, Jeju Island, Korea.

Kristy Hollingshead and Peter A. Heeman. 2004. Using a uniform-weight grammar to model disfluencies in stuttered read speech: a pilot study. Technical Report CSLU-04-002, CSLU, OGI - OHSU.

Spring 2008: I gave an Introduction to Machine Translation lecture in Text-Based Language Processing Systems (CSE 554/654).
Spring 2007: I gave a lecture in Biological and Linguistic Sequence Analysis (CSE 555/655).
Winter 2006, 2007: I taught two small tutorials for NLP (CSE 562/662).
Fall 2003: I co-taught a small introduction to Tcl tutorial for AI (CSE 560).

Classes I've taken at OGI.

MS in Computer Science & Engineering * OGI - OHSU * 2004

BA in Creative Writing * University of Colorado - Boulder * 2000

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship * 2004

Dolf Dolson Award Recipient * 2003

On 24 March 2004, I received notice that I have been selected to receive the NSF GRF!

On 14 May 2004 I passed the RPE (OGI's version of quals)!

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