Chris Dyer's Homepage

Chris Dyer's Homepage

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland at College Park working with Philip Resnik. My primary focus is computational linguists (my interests include machine translation and computational phonology and morphology), but problems from a variety of other areas of linguistics and computer science interest me as well.

I participated in the 2006 Summer Workshop at Johns Hopkins which produced the Moses open source toolkit for statistical machine translation.

I'm working with Jimmy Lin in CLIS on using large networks of computers (provided by IBM and Google-- thanks!) to process large amounts of natural language data efficiently. Read the hype! Or, even better, come to our NAACL 2009 tutorial.

For a couple months in 2009, I worked in the ICCS, part of the School of Informatics at Edinburgh University, where my esteemed colleagues Phil Blunsom, Miles Osborne, and Philipp Koehn provided structure and guidance, and beer. While there, I decided that I like Monte Carlo simulations, even if they aren't as glamourous as the real Monte Carlo.

I spent the summer of 2008 at Google, working on machine translation.

For fun, I play cello. I also like to think about the cognitive aspects of music theory as well as the relationship of language to music.

Here's a somewhat up-to-date CV.

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http://www.ling.umd.edu/~redpony/

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best,
Wei