Kevin Duh
Research Associate
Linguistic Intelligence Research Group
NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Keihanna Science City
Kyoto 619-0237, JAPAN
Contact: kevinduh [at_mark] cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp

Biosketch

Kevin Duh received his B.S. from Rice University in 2003 and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2009, both in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include Machine learning, Natural language processing, Information retrieval, and Speech processing. His current research focus at NTT CS Labs is Machine translation. From 2005 to 2008, he was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Selected Publications

  1. K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, Learning to Rank with Partially-Labeled Data, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008)
  2. K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, Beyond Log-linear Models: Boosted Minimum Error Rate Training for N-best Re-ranking, ACL 2008 (Short Paper)
  3. K. Duh, Ranking vs. Regression in Machine Translation Evaluation, Proc. of ACL 2008 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (Shared Evaluation Task), Columbus, Ohio, 2008.
  4. K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, Lexicon Acquisition for Dialectal Arabic Using Transductive Learning, Proc. of EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), Sydney, Australia, 2006. [UW EE Tech Report]
  5. S. Corston-Oliver, A. Aue, K. Duh, E. Ringger, Multilingual Dependency Parsing using Bayes Point Machines, Proc. of NAACL-HLT 2006,New York.
  6. K. Kirchhoff, D. Vergyri, J. Bilmes, K. Duh, and A. Stolcke, Morphology-based Language Modeling for Arabic Speech Recognition, Computer Speech and Language 20(4), 2006, pp.589-608
  7. K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, Structured Multi-label Transductive Learning: a Case Study in Lexicon Acquisition, NIPS 2005, Advances in Structured Learning for Text and Speech Processing Workshop, Whistler, Canada, Dec 2005.
  8. K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, POS Tagging of Dialectal Arabic: A Minimally Supervised Approach, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics (ACL2005), Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 2005.
  9. K. Duh, Jointly Labeling Multiple Sequences: A Factorial HMM Approach, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005), Student Research Workshop, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 2005.
  10. C. Bartels, K. Duh, J. Bilmes, K. Kirchhoff, S. King, Genetic Triangulation of Graphical Models for Speech and Language Processing, Proceedings of Eurospeech/Interspeech 2005, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005.
  11. K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, Automatic Learning of Language Model Structure, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2004), Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004.
  12. K. Duh, Least Squares Estimation of GPS L1-L2 Satellite and Receiver Bias, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Project Report, Nov 2003.

Activities

  • Co-organizer, NAACL 2009 Workshop on Semi-supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing (with Qin Wang and Dekang Lin)
  • Instructor, EE511, Statistical Learning. Co-taught in Spring 2008 with Prof. Mari Ostendorf
  • Co-Chair, ACL/COLING 2006 Student Research Workshop (with Marine Carpuat)
  • Program Committee / Reviewer,
    • Information Retrieval Journal, Computer Speech and Language Journal, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, IEEE Potentials Magazine
    • ACL (2009, 2008, 2006), NAACL (2009, 2007), PACLING 2007, EMNLP (2008, 2007) [areas: machine learning, machine translation], MT Summit 2009
    • Int'l Conf. on AI & Statistics (AISTATS) 2007, 2010