Tyler Baldwin
Ph.D. Student
This page is old. I joined IBM Research Almaden as a post-doc in August 2012. I can be reached at tbaldwi(atsignhere)us.ibm.com
Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University
Advisor: Joyce Chai
Research Interests:
- Natural Language Processing
- Discourse and Dialogue
- System Self-Assessment
- Pragmatics in Discourse Processing
- Noisy Data
- Multimodality
My research interests fall broadly in the category of discourse and dialogue. More specifically, I am interesting in developing techniques to allow NLP driven systems (e.g., question answering systems, autocorrection systems, etc.) to use dialogue context to identify and recover from their own erroneous behavior. I am also generally interested in the analysis of aspects of dialogue that make applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques difficult, in both human-human and human-computer dialogue scenarios. Data sources of interest to me include multiparty meetings, where turn taking dynamics differ from traditional two party dialogues, and text message conversations, where informal style and extensive use of non-standard word forms and shorthand confounds NLP tools trained on clean text. Similarly, I am also interested in the role of non-verbal modalities in dialogues, where I am intrigued by questions about how humans use these modalities and how we might use them to build and improve upon natural language understanding systems.
Publications:
- Autonomous Self-Assessment of Autocorrections: Exploring Text Message Dialogues. T. Baldwin and J. Y. Chai. NAACL-HLT 2012: The 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Montreal, Canada, June 3-8, 2012.
- Towards Online Adaptation and Personalization of Key-Target Resizing for Mobile Devices. T. Baldwin and J. Y. Chai. IUI '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Lisbon, Portugal, February 14-17, 2012.
- Beyond Normalization: Pragmatics of Word Form in Text Messages. T. Baldwin and J. Y. Chai. The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 8-13, 2011.
- Hand Gestures in Disambiguating Types of You Expressions in Multiparty Meetings. T. Baldwin, J. Y. Chai, and K. Kirchhoff. The 11th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Tokyo, Japan, September, 2010.
- The Role of Communicative Gestures in Reference Resolution in Multiparty Meetings. T. Baldwin, J. Chai, and K. Kirchhoff. The 11th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces. Cambridge, MA, USA, November 2-6, 2009.
- Michigan State University at the 2007 TREC ciQA Task. C. Zhang, M. Gerber, T. Baldwin, S. Emelander, J. Chai, R. Jin, TREC 2007.
- J. Chai, T. Baldwin, and C. Zhang. Automated Performance Assessment in Interactive Question Answering. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR2006), pp. 631-632, Seattle, USA, August 6-11, 2006.
- J. Chai, C. Zhang, and T. Baldwin. Towards Conversational QA: Automated Identification of Problematic Situations and User Intent. ACL/COLING06 Main Conference Poster Sessions, pp. 57-64, Sydney, Australia , July 17-21, 2006.
Professional Activities:
- Reviewer for MobileHCI 2012
- Reviewer for IUI 2011 Demonstrations
- Mentor for ACL 2012
Relevant Course Work:
- Natural Language Processing
- Information Retrieval
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
- Human-Computer Communication
- Language and Interaction
- Computer Vision
- Semantics and Pragmatics
- Advanced Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics
- Cognitive Science
- Theory of Probability and Statistics
Education:
- B.S., Computer Science, Michigan State University, 2006.
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