Research Interests
Natural language processing, machine learning,
artificial intelligence,life-like computer agents, and human computer
interaction.
Recent Publications
Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa. 2008. The Role of Pseudo
References in MT Evaluation. In The Proceedings of the 3rd ACL
Workshop on Statistical Machine Translations, Columbus, OH.
Noah Smith, Michael Heilman, and Rebecca Hwa. 2008. Question Generation as a Competitive Undergraduate Course Project In Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge, Arlington, VA.
Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. A Re-examination of Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation. In The Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL, Prague, Czech Republic.
Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References. In The Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL, Prague, Czech Republic.
Kaihong Liu, Wendy Chapman, Rebecca Hwa, and Rebecca Crowley. 2007. Heuristic Sample Selection to Minimize Reference Standard Training Set for a Part-of-Speech Tagger. To appear in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Behrang Mohit and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. Localization of Difficult-to-Translate Phrases. To appear in The Proceedings of the 2nd ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translations, Prague, Czech Republic.
Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an, and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. Unsupervised Estimation for Noisy-Channel Models. To appear in Proceedings of International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML), Corvallis, Oregon.
Noah Smith, Michael Heilman, and Rebecca Hwa. 2008. Question Generation as a Competitive Undergraduate Course Project In Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge, Arlington, VA.
Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. A Re-examination of Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation. In The Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL, Prague, Czech Republic.
Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References. In The Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL, Prague, Czech Republic.
Kaihong Liu, Wendy Chapman, Rebecca Hwa, and Rebecca Crowley. 2007. Heuristic Sample Selection to Minimize Reference Standard Training Set for a Part-of-Speech Tagger. To appear in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Behrang Mohit and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. Localization of Difficult-to-Translate Phrases. To appear in The Proceedings of the 2nd ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translations, Prague, Czech Republic.
Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an, and Rebecca Hwa. 2007. Unsupervised Estimation for Noisy-Channel Models. To appear in Proceedings of International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML), Corvallis, Oregon.
Students
PhD Students
Past Students
- Joshua Albrecht (MS, 2008)
- Carol Nichols (MS, 2006); now working for Vivisimo
- Wesley Goodman (BA, 2006); now working for Google (Palo Alto).
Teaching
Courses
- CS1590 Social Implications of Computing [08-1]