The Objective Function of a PhD Candidate

Graham Neubig is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on language and its role in human communication, with the goal of breaking down barriers in human-human or human-machine communication through the development of NLP technologies. Graham’s PhD thesis is titled "Unsupervised Learning of Lexical Information for Language Processing Systems", which he completed in 2012 at Kyoto University. We discuss his PhD work related to the fundamental processing units that NLP systems use to process text, including non-parametric Bayesian models, segmentation, and alignment problems, and discuss how his perspective on machine translation has evolved over time. Episode notes: http://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/episode22.html Follow the Thesis Review (@thesisreview) and Sean Welleck (@wellecks) on Twitter, and find out more info about the show at http://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/podcast.html Support The Thesis Review at www.patreon.com/thesisreview or www.buymeacoffee.com/thesisreview