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Amy Weinberg

Professional History

Current Position:
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics/UMIACS
Area Director for Technology - Center for Advanced Study of Language CASL

Co-Director Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory (CLIP) Lab pages Co-director of CLIP Laboratory with Bonnie Dorr and Louiqa Raschid

Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory (CLIP) (2001- ) - Co-Director

The Laboratory is co-directed by Bonnie J. Dorr, of the Computer Science Department, Amy S. Weinberg of the Linguistics Department, and Louiqa Raschid from the Smith School of Business. CLIP consists of two main entities: The Natural Language Group and the Database Group. The natural language group focuses on several areas of broadscale multilingual processing, e.g., machine translation, scalable translingual document detection, and cross-language information retrieval. The database group focuses on architectures for wide area computation with heterogeneous information servers, e.g., scientific discovery from biomolecular data sources. Projects include query planning and optimization; cost models and performance monitoring; targeted data delivery to clients in fixed and mobile networks; and publishing and locating sources based on quality and content metadata using the WWW and XML.

Academic Degrees:
Ph.D., MIT, Linguistics and Philosophy (1987); B.A., McGill, Linguistics and Philosophy, 1st Class Honors (1976).

Other Appointments:
Joint Appointments in UMIACS and Computer Science, Center for Advanced Study of Language

Research Interests: Sentence processing from a psycholinguistics and computational perspective, syntactic theory.

Technical Reports

Recent Publications

CV pdf

Courses

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  Amy Weinberg, Associate Professor
  Linguistics Department

  1401 Marie Mount Hall	                  UMIACS phone: (301) 405-6748       
  University of Maryland                  Linguistics phone: (301) 405-4934
  College Park, MD 20742 USA	          Fax: (301) 314-2644       
  http://umiacs.umd.edu/~weinberg         E-mail: weinberg at umiacs.umd.edu

  UMIACS office: AV Williams 3131
                 University of Maryland 

  By far the best way to reach me is by e-mail to weinberg at umiacs.umd.edu.