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February 28, 2005 Vol. 76, no.7S
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New CS Assistant Professor Dan Klein received
his B.A. in math, computer science and linguistics from Cornell
University in 1998; his M.St. in linguistics from Oxford University,
St. John's College, in 1999; and his Ph.D. in computer science
from Stanford in 2004. Topics that interest him include unsupervised
language acquisition, efficient algorithms for natural language
parsing (NLP), linguistically rich models of language, integrating
symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, organization of the
Web, and machine translation information extraction.
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Professor
Minute with new CS assistant professor Dan Klein
If you had not decided
to go into engineering, what other career would you have today?
Well, when I was a kid I wanted to be Batman, but that didn't work
out. Since then, I've pretty much always wanted to work with computers
and language.
Why did you decide to become a professor?
I like to puzzle things out, I like to teach, and I'm naturally
nocturnal.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Officially, I have no spare time! Unofficially, I've had a life-long
interest in the martial arts, which has recently been channeled into
competitive ballroom dance. And after a paper deadline, the appropriate
action is most definitely a video game binge.
To date, what has been your most memorable moment in your career?
Seeing the amazing work the students in my class were doing.
What CD are you listening to at the moment?
I've recently been listening to a lot of heavily produced pop/rock
with angst-laden female vocals: Garbage, Evanescence, the kind of stuff
they played on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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