
"I see (bi-)trees everywhere".
Science
and Experiment
"The
principle
of science, the
definition, almost,
is the following:
The test of all
knowledge is
experiment.
Experiment is the
sole judge of
scientific 'truth'.
But what is the
source of knowledge?
Where do the laws
that are to be
tested come from?
Experiment, itself,
helps to produce
these laws, in the
sense that it gives
us hints. But also
needed is
imagination to
create from these
hints the great
generalizations —
to guess at the
wonderful, simple,
but very strange
patterns beneath
them all, and then
to experiment to
check again whether
we have made the
right guess."
Richard Feynman
Frederick Jelinek
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Research Interests:
Statistical natural language processing;
machine translation; parsing;
morpho-syntactic parsing; machine learning
and data mining; natural language
engineering; cognitive models of human
language and communication.
Recent
highlights
Teaching and Research Topics
- Statistical Parsing; Probabilistic
Grammars
- Statistical Machine Translation
- Statistical Estimation/Learning
- Models of Language Processing
- Algorithms and Computational
Complexity
More
than formal
linguistics and logic: The
case for Prediction and Learning
Software and Data Packages I
contributed to creating
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Contact information
- Postal address:
P.O. Box 94242, 1090 GE
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Visiting
address: Room 3.116 A , Science
Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam,The
Netherlands
- Email:
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