VERONIKA HORVATH
914 784-7573 (office)
E-MAIL: veronika@us.ibm.com
EDUCATION:Master of Science 1999
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale
Major: Computer Science
Ph. D. 1996
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
Major: Applied Linguistics
Minor: Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language
Dissertation: "Errors and Judgments: a Sociolinguistic Study of Freshman Composition"
Bachelor of Arts 1986
Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Majors: French and Russian Literature and Language, General and Applied Linguistics.
COMPUTER
SKILLS: UNIX, DOS, Windows, C, C++, Java, Perl, XML, DOM, Visual Basic, Microsoft Access, DBase 3
INTERESTS:Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, Applied Statistics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguitsics, Dialectology.
LANGUAGES:
Hungarian (native), English(near native), French (fluent), Russian (fluent).
WORK IN PROGRESS:
A General Purpose Noun Phrase Parser for the Web (technical report)
Resolving Ambiguity Resulting from Diacritic Omission in Hungarian Texts (Masters thesis)