Stephen Richardson
Stephen Richardson is a Principal Researcher and Manager of the Machine Translation group in the Natural
Language Processing Unit.
Background Information
Stephen Richardson, Principal Researcher and Manager of the Machine Translation group, has been with the Microsoft Corporation since June 1991 and joined Microsoft Research at that time. Previously, Steve worked for the IBM Bethesda, Maryland Development Lab and Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he was involved in NLP R&D for eight years. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science and linguistics from Brigham Young University, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the City University of New York. While he is interested in all aspects of NLP, including computational dictionaries and grammar-checking, his passion from the beginning of his professional career has been machine translation. He now leads a group that is responsible for the creation, development, and deployment of Microsoft's own machine translation technology, which may be accessed at
http://translator.live.com.
Publications:
- Dolan, William B., L. Vanderwende, and S. Richardson. 1993.
Automatically Deriving Structured Knowledge Base from On-line Dictionaries.
In Proceedings of the Pacific Association for Computational
Linguistics, April 21-24, 1993, Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Dolan, William, Lucy Vanderwende, and Stephen Richardson. 2000.
Polysemy in a Broad-Coverage Natural Language Processing System.
In Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches. Ravin, Y. and Leacock, C., eds.,
Oxford University Press.
- Jensen, K., Heidorn, G.E., and Richardson, S.D. eds. 1993.
Natural Language Processing: The PLNLP Approach.
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Menezes, Arul and Stephen D. Richardson. 2001.
A best-first alignment algorithm for automatic extraction of transfer mappings from bilingual corpora.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Data-driven Machine Translation at 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Toulouse, France, pp. 39-46.
- Richardson, S., L. Vanderwende, and W. Dolan. 1993.
Combining Dictionary-based and Example-based Methods for Natural Language Analysis..
In . Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Theoretical
and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Kyoto, Japan.
pp 69-79.
- Richardson, S. 1994.
Bootstrapping Statistical Processing into a Rule-based Natural Language Parser.
In The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical
Approaches to Language. Proceedings of the Workshop, Las Cruces,
New Mexico. pp 96-103.
- Richardson, S. 1997.
Determining Similarity and Inferring Relations in a Lexical Knowledge Base.
Ph.D. thesis, The City University of New York, 187 pages.
- Richardson, Stephen D., Dolan, William B., and Vanderwende, Lucy 1998.
MindNet: acquiring and structuring semantic information from text.
In Proceedings of COLING '98, to
appear.
- Richardson, S., W. Dolan, A. Menezes, and M. Corston-Oliver. 2001.
Overcoming the customization bottleneck using example-based MT.
In Proceedings, Workshop on Data-driven Machine Translation, 39th Annual Meeting and 10th Conference of the European Chapter,
Association for Computational Linguistics
Toulouse, France, pp. 9-16.
- Richardson, S., W. Dolan, A. Menezes, and J. Pinkham. 2001.
Achieving commercial-quality translation with example-based methods.
In Proceedings of MT Summit VIII, Santiago De Compostela, Spain, pp. 293-298.
To obtain copies of any of the articles above:
- Ftp address: ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/Tech-Reports
- E-mail address: MSRPUB@microsoft.com
- Street address: MSRPUB, Microsoft Corporation, One
Microsoft Way, Redmond WA 98052-6399
Natural Language Processing Group's home page.
