User:Roarkbr

I am a Research Scientist at Google, working on various topics in natural language processing. Before joining Google in May, 2013, I was a faculty member for 9 years in the Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU) and Program of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) – part of what used to be the Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI). Before that, I was in the Speech Algorithms Department at AT&T Labs - Research from 2001–2004. I finished my Ph.D. in the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University in 2001. There I was part of the BrownLaboratory for Linguistic Information Processing. My research interests include: language modeling for automatic speech recognition, text entry and other applications; weighted transducers and grammars; supervised and unsupervised learning of language models; text normalization and transliteration; pronunciation modeling; text entry, accessibility and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC); syntactic parsing of text and speech; statistical models of human language processing; spoken language processing for diagnosis of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.