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Steven P. Abney Associate Professor
BA in classical studies and linguistics, Indiana; Ph.D. in linguistics, MIT
(734) 647-5588
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E-mail: abney@umich.edu
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Steven P. Abney is an associate professor with appointments in the School of Information, the Department of Linguistics, and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
His research interests include parsing, corpora, statistical methods, documentation of endangered languages, human sentence processing, machine learning and language acquisition, information extraction, question answering, spoken dialogue systems, syntax, prosody, and semantics.
He was previously with the artificial intelligence research department at AT&T Laboratories and, before that, was assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He has also worked in the artificial intelligence research group at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore).
At AT&T, Abney worked in computational linguistics and machine learning, particularly in parsing, information extraction, question answering, unsupervised learning, and spoken-language dialogue systems. His projects included the "Ionaut" Web search question-answering system, the Mage spoken-language dialogue platform, and the PreTTS E-mail parsing and preprocessing project to support speech synthesis.
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