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Principal Research Scientist
Boulder Language Technologies
Boulder, Colorado
Research Professor
Computational Language and Education Research
University of Colorado, Boulder
email:wward@bltek.com
Mobile: (303) 579-9605
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Research Interests:
- Speech Understanding
- Spoken Dialogue Systems
- Information Extraction from Spontaneous Speech
- Integrating Natural Language Processing with Speech Decoding
- Pronunciation Modeling
- Stochastic Modeling
- Computational Semantics
From 1986-1998 I was research faculty in the Speech group at Carnegie Mellon University. While there, I developed the Phoenix system for robust semantic parsing of spontaneous speech. In 1998 I co-founded the Center for Spoken LanguageResearch at the University of Colorado. In 2007, CSLR reorganized as Computational Language and EducAtion Research, where I am currently a Research Professor. In 2007, Ron Cole and I started Boulder Language Technologies. I am currently a Principal Research Scientist at BLT.
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