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I'm Narges SharifRazavian.
I'm a Master student in Language Technologies Institute, working with Stephan Vogel on Lexical feature training for Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation system.
I've been the recepient of Barbara Lazarus Women@IT fellowship award from Women@SCS in CMU for 2007-2008 accademic year.
I come from an engineering background: Computer Engineering Bachelor degree from Sharif University in Tehran, Iran, and Information Technology Master degree from University of Tehran.
My research interests include:
1) Application of syntactic and semantic features to Language and Translation models;
2) Syntactic and semantic parser training and cross lingual projection.
3) Translation resource gathering for low density languages
Contact information:
By email : [nsharifr] @ [cs.cmu.edu]
By phone: 412-728-0267
Courses I've taken so far:
Fall 2007 :
Machine Learning (Master level)
Spring 2008 :
NLP lab (project: cross lingual dependency relation projection. Report available here)
Grammar Formalisms (project: CCG grammar for long noun phrase in Persian: grammar file in openCCG format available here)
Languages and Statistics I (project: Syntactic based language modeling as a part of a bigger language modeling system. Code respository here)
(auditing) Advanced Machine Translation Seminar
My current likes/dislikes list:
I like drawing, Persian calligraphy, writing, singing, summer, traveling to new places, and meeting new people. I dislike restrictions, prejudiced people, and very cold weather.