Affidivation:

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

NSF Directorate:

CISE

Gender:

M

Award Year:

2005

Citation:

For integrating word-recognition and semantic interpretation into a unified model for natural language dialogue between people and computers. He is also building bridges between human language processing and fields such as computer vision, robotics and medicine. His students receive hands-on experience with a processing system for human language, which could be used for tasks such as getting information from a medical database over the telephone or commanding a team of robots.