Department of Linguistics

In addition to being an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown, I help manage a department of 70 Artificial Intelligence Engineers at The MITRE Corporation, including a Human Language Technology group. This group provides expertise in a broad variety of computational linguistics, or the use of computers for linguistic applications or research. My own research has focused on multimodal conversational systems, including the contribution of gesture and intonation to discourse. Exploring these phenomena has required investigating tools for analyzing and annotating video, and I've recently co-organized several workshops on this topic.