Biography
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University (2008); A.B. summa cum laude in classics (Greek), Harvard University (1994). David Smith is joining the Computer Science Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a Research Assistant Professor in 2008. Previously, he worked for the Perseus Digital Library Project at Tufts University.
Research
Our ability to speak and understand language combines diverse competences in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, to name a few. David Smith researches translation in a broad sense: between human languages, and between different layers of language ability. He
develops statistical models and efficient algorithms to capture useful aspects of the translation process. In the area of digital libraries, he has built linguistic tools to help readers browse and search
foreign-language text, as well as information extraction and visualization systems.
Awards & Activities
Professor Smith has served on the program committee of conferences in natural language processing and machine learning, such as ACL, EMNLP, and ICML. In 2006, he gave a tutorial on statistical machine translation at the meeting of the Associate for Machine Translation in the Americas. He received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2003-6) and the Wolman Fellowship (2002-03).
|
