ICSC 2008
Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic ComputingSanta Clara, CA, USA - August 4-7, 2008
Eduard Hovy
Information Sciences Institute,
University of Southern California
Eduard Hovy leads the Natural Language Research Group at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California. He is also Director for Research of the Digital Government Research Center (DGRC), Deputy Director of ISI\'s Intelligent Systems Division, as well as a research associate professor of the Computer Science Departments of USC and of the University of Waterloo in Canada. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Yale University in 1987. His research focuses on two principal areas: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Digital Government. Within NLP, he has worked on automated text summarization, question answering, text planning and generation, the semi-automated construction of large lexicons and ontologies, and machine translation. Dr. Hovy is the author or co-editor of five books and over 150 technical articles.
In 2001 Dr. Hovy served as President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and in 2001-03 as President of the International Association of Machine Translation (IAMT). Dr. Hovy regularly co-teaches a course in the Master's Degree Program in Computational Linguistics at the University of Southern California, as well as occasional short courses on MT and other topics at universities and conferences. He has served on the Ph.D. and M.S. committees for students from USC, Carnegie Mellon University, the Universities of Toronto, Karlsruhe, Pennsylvania, Stockholm, Waterloo, Nijmegen, Pretoria, and Ho Chi Minh City.
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University of Southern California
Eduard Hovy leads the Natural Language Research Group at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California. He is also Director for Research of the Digital Government Research Center (DGRC), Deputy Director of ISI\'s Intelligent Systems Division, as well as a research associate professor of the Computer Science Departments of USC and of the University of Waterloo in Canada. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Yale University in 1987. His research focuses on two principal areas: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Digital Government. Within NLP, he has worked on automated text summarization, question answering, text planning and generation, the semi-automated construction of large lexicons and ontologies, and machine translation. Dr. Hovy is the author or co-editor of five books and over 150 technical articles.
In 2001 Dr. Hovy served as President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and in 2001-03 as President of the International Association of Machine Translation (IAMT). Dr. Hovy regularly co-teaches a course in the Master's Degree Program in Computational Linguistics at the University of Southern California, as well as occasional short courses on MT and other topics at universities and conferences. He has served on the Ph.D. and M.S. committees for students from USC, Carnegie Mellon University, the Universities of Toronto, Karlsruhe, Pennsylvania, Stockholm, Waterloo, Nijmegen, Pretoria, and Ho Chi Minh City.
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