Background and Interests
Robert C. Moore joined Microsoft Research in 1999. Previously, he was Director of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) at NASA Ames Research Center. Prior to that, he held a series of positions with SRI International, including founding and serving as the first Director of SRI's Computer Science Research Centre in Cambridge, England; being Director of SRI's Natural-Language Research Program in Menlo Park, California; and concluding his career at SRI as Principal Scientist in the Natural-Language Research Program.
His research has ranged widely within artificial intelligence, natural-language processing, and computational linguistics. His early work focussed on knowledge representation and automated reasoning, and included the invention of autoepistemic logic. Subsequently he has concentrated on natural-language processing and computational linguistics, including natural-language semantics, parsing and generation, and speech understanding. His current work focusses on applications of machine learning and statistical modeling to natural-language processing, particularly in the context of machine translation.
He received all his post-secondary education at MIT, culminating in a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 1979. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, an associate editor of Computational Intelligence, and a former member of the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics. In 2006 he was general chair of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Available Software
- Bilingual Sentence Aligner When people translate documents from one language to another, not all sentences are translated one-for-one. This Perl code implements an algorithm for finding which sentences do translate one-for-one in a parallel bilingual corpus.
- Context-Free Parsing Algorithms Reference implementations in Perl 5 of several parsing algorithms for context-free grammars.
- Unification Grammar Sentence Realization Algorithms Prolog implementations of two versions of the unfication grammar sentence realization aglorithm described in "A Complete, Efficient Sentence Realization Algorithm for Unification Grammar," appearing in the Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG'02, plus other associated code and data files.
2008
- Moore, Robert C., Quirk, and Chris, Random Restarts in Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008), Coling 2008 Organizing Committee, Manchester, UK, August 2008
- Zhang, Hao, Quirk, Chris, Moore, Robert C., Gildea, and Daniel, Bayesian Learning of Non-Compositional Phrases with Synchronous Parsing, in Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008
2007
- Robert C. Moore and Chris Quirk, Faster Beam-Search Decoding for Phrasal Statistical Machine Translation, in Proceedings of MT Summit XI, European Association for Machine Translation, September 2007
- Robert C. Moore and Chris Quirk, An Iteratively-Trained Segmentation-Free Phrase Translation Model for Statistical Machine Translation, in Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation at ACL 2007, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2007
2006
- Robert C. Moore, Wen-tau Yih, and Andreas Bode, Improved Discriminative Bilingual Word Alignment, in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, 18 July 2006
2004
- Anthony Aue, Arul Menezes, Robert Moore, Chris Quirk, and Eric Ringger, Statistical Machine Translation Using Labeled Semantic Dependency Graphs, ACL/SIGPARSE, October 2004
- Eric Ringger, Michael Gamon, Robert C. Moore, David Rojas, Martine Smets, and Simon Corston-Oliver, Linguistically Informed Statistical Models of Constituent Structure for Ordering in Sentence Realization, International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 2004
- Michele Banko and Robert C. Moore, Part of Speech Tagging in Context, International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 2004
- Robert C. Moore, On Log-Likelihood-Ratios and the Significance of Rare Events, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2004
- Robert C. Moore, Improving IBM Word Alignment Model 1, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2004
- Robert C. Moore, Improved Left-Corner Chart Parsing for Large Context-Free Grammars (Revised Version), Kluwer Academic , July 2004
- Eric Ringger, Robert C. Moore, Eugene Charniak, Lucy Vanderwende, and Hisami Suzuki, Using the Penn Treebank to Evaluate Non-Treebank Parsers, European Language Resources Association, May 2004
2003
- Robert C. Moore, Learning Translations of Named-Entity Phrases from Parallel Corpora, Association for Computational Linguistics, April 2003
2002
- Robert C. Moore, Fast and Accurate Sentence Alignment of Bilingual Corpora, Springer-Verlag, October 2002
- Michael Gamon, Eric Ringger, Robert Moore, Simon Corston-Oliver, and Zhu Zhang, Extraposition: A case study in German sentence realization, Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2002
- Simon Corston-Oliver, Michael Gamon, Eric Ringger, and Robert Moore, An overview of Amalgam: A machine-learned generation module., Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2002
- Robert C. Moore, A Complete, Efficient Sentence-Realization Algorithm for Unification Grammar, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2002
- Michael Gamon, Eric Ringger, Simon Corston-Oliver, and Robert C. Moore, Machine-learned contexts for linguistic operations in German sentence realization, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2002
- Kristina Toutanova and Robert C. Moore, Pronunciation Modeling for Improved Spelling Correction, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2002
2001
- Robert C. Moore, Towards a Simple and Accurate Statistical Approach to Learning Translation Relationships among Words, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2001
2000
- Robert C. Moore, Time as a Measure of Parsing Efficiency, August 2000
- Robert C. Moore, Removing Left Recursion from Context-Free Grammars, Association for Computational Linguistics, April 2000
1999
- Robert C. Moore, Using Natural-Language Knowledge Sources in Speech Recognition, Springer-Verlag, January 1999
