Inge de Bleecker, Graduate Student
Inge is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at UT. Her current research focuses on spoken dialog systems, specifically on building natural language generation components using FrameNet. She has extensive industry experience in intelligent user interfaces and multilingual NLP applications.
Email: inge_debleecker@yahoo.com
Hans C. Boas, Project Director
Hans is an Assistant Professor for Germanic Linguistics at UT Austin. His areas of interest include computational lexicography, documentation and preservation of endangered languages and dialects, syntax, lexical semantics, morphology, and contrastive linguistics. From January 1999 until August 2001 Hans worked with the FrameNet team at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. During this time he became interested in creating a FrameNet database for German. Since September 2001, Hans has also been involved in documenting and analyzing Texas German, a rapidly eroding German dialect spoken in central Texas (see www.tgdp.org).
Email: hcb@mail.utexas.edu
Home page: http://hcb.gmc.utexas.edu
Mario Guajardo, Graduate Student
Mario joined the Computer Sciences department at UT-Austin as a Masters student in Spring 2006. In addition to computational linguistics and related areas, his current research interests also include algorithms, bioinformatics, distributed systems and computer networks. In his spare time, he likes playing squash, tennis or racquetball, as well as taking close-up pictures of small things (such as flowers and insects;) he also enjoys learning how to play piano and guitar.
Email: guajardo@mail.utexas.edu
Elias Ponvert, Graduate Student
Elias is a graduate student in the Linguistics Department (as of 2005) and staff of the Center for Instructional Technologies (since 2001). His interests include formal semantics, computational linguistics, knowledge representation and human-computer interaction.
Email: efp@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Former Members
Derek Brown, Graduate Student
Derek is a graduate student in the linguistics department and a student technician for the ~FASTTex program. His current research focuses on the lexical semantics of adjectives in large-scale corpora. his interests include lexical semantics, information extraction, knowledge representation, Zymurgy, and outdoor grilling.
Email: d_brown@mail.utexas.edu
Home page: webspace.utexas.edu/d_brown/www
Sumeet Rao, Graduate Student
Sumeet is a Masters student at the Department of Computer Sciences at UT Austin since Jan 2006 and is a GRA from Fasttex for German Framenet for Summer 2006. His current research interests include Wireless networks, network security and database systems. His interests also include understanding different social and work cultures.
Email: sumeet@cs.utexas.edu
Last updated Sep 30, 2007
