Computational Linguistics
I am a candidate for Ph.D. in Computer Science at Harvard University.
My advisor is Professor
Stuart Shieber. I study computational linguistics
and do research in the area of synchronous grammar formalisms and applications
to computational semantics and machine translation
Publications
Rebecca Nesson, Giorgio Satta, and Stuart Shieber. Optimal k-arization of Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammar. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2008. [(preprint) .pdf]
Rebecca Nesson and Stuart Shieber. Synchronous Vector-TAG for Natural Language Syntax and Semantics. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+ 9), Tübingen, Germany, 7-8 June 2008. [(preprint) .pdf]
Rebecca Nesson and Charles Nesson. In the Virtual Classroom: An Ethnographic Argument for Education in Virtual Worlds. Space and Culture. (To appear). Sage Publications. 2008. [(preprint) .pdf]
Rebecca Nesson and Stuart Shieber. Extraction Phenomena in Synchronous
TAG Syntax and Semantics. In Dekai Wu and David
Chiang, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Syntax and Structure
in Statistical Translation,
Rochester, New York, 26 April 2007. [.pdf|bib]
Rebecca Nesson, Stuart M. Shieber, and Alexander Rush. Induction of
probabilistic synchronous tree-insertion grammars for machine translation.
In Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine
Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2006), Boston, Massachusetts,
8-12 August 2006. [.pdf|bib]
Rebecca Nesson and Stuart M. Shieber. Simpler TAG semantics through
synchronization. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Formal
Grammar,
Malaga, Spain, 29-30 July 2006. [.pdf|bib]
Rebecca Nesson, Alexander Rush, and Stuart M. Shieber. Induction of
probabilistic synchronous tree-insertion grammars. Technical Report
TR-20-05, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, 2005. [.pdf|bib]
