Dan Jurafsky
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Associate Professor by Courtesy of Computer Science            
Stanford University


jurafsky(at)stanford.edu
margaret jacks hall 117
FAX +1 650 723 5666
UPS Linguistics Dept, Bldg 460,
      450 Serra Mall, Stanford University,
      Stanford CA 94305-2150 USA
Dan and his colleagues in the Stanford NLP group, the Stanford Speech Lab, and the stanford program in computational linguistics, are interested in any area of machine and human processing of language, natural language processing, speech recognition, speech synthesis, and dialogue, and computational psycholinguistics, with an additional focus on chinese computational linguistics. Dan organizes the Stanford courses in NLP, speech, and computational linguistics. Dan is a MacArthur Fellow.

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2008/2009 TEACHING

AUTUMN 2008
LINGUIST 62n:
The Language of Food

Tue/Thu 3:15-4:30pm, 126 Margaret Jacks Hall

WINTER 2009
CS 124/LINGUIST 180:
From Language to Information

CS 224S/LINGUIST 281:
Speech Recognition and Synthesis


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RECENT PAPERS

Alan Bell, Jason Brenier, Michelle Gregory, Cynthia Girand, and Dan Jurafsky. In press. Predictability Effects on Durations of Content and Function Words in Conversational English. Journal of Memory and Language.

Sharon Goldwater, Dan Jurafsky, and Christopher D. Manning. 2008. Which words are hard to recognize? Lexical, prosodic, and disfluency factors that increase ASR error rates. In ACL/HLT 2008, 380-388.

Nathanael Chambers and Dan Jurafsky. 2008. Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Event Chains. In ACL/HLT 2008.

Yun-Hsuan Sung, Constantinos Boulis, and Dan Jurafsky. 2008. Maximum Conditional Likelihood Linear Regression and Maximum A Posteriori for Hidden Conditional Random Fields Speaker Adaptation. IEEE ICASSP 2008. 4293-4296.

Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Ani Nenkova, Shrikanth Narayanan and Dan Jurafsky. 2008. Detecting prominence in conversational speech: pitch accent, givenness and focus. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody, Campinas, Brazil. 380-388.

Yun-Hsuan Sung, Constantinos Boulis, Christopher Manning and Dan Jurafsky. 2007. Regularization, Adaptation, and Non-Independent Features Improve Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Phone Classification. In IEEE ASRU 2007. 347-352.

Rion Snow, Sushant Prakash, Daniel Jurafsky, and Andrew Y. Ng. Learning to merge word senses. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2007

Surabhi Gupta, John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver and Dan Jurafsky. 2007. Resolving "You" in Multi-Party Dialog. In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2007.

Volker Strom, Ani Nenkova, Robert Clark, Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez, Jason Brenier, Simon King, and Dan Jurafsky. 2007. Modelling Prominence and Emphasis Improves Unit-Selection Synthesis. Interspeech 2007.

Nathanael Chambers, Shan Wang and Dan Jurafsky. 2007. Classifying Temporal Relations Between Events. Proceedings of ACL 2007 short papers, Prague, Czech Republic.

Surabhi Gupta, Matthew Purver and Dan Jurafsky. 2007. Disambiguating Between Generic and Referential "You" in Dialog. Proceedings of ACL 2007 short papers, Prague, Czech Republic.

Surabhi Gupta, Ani Nenkova and Dan Jurafsky. 2007. Measuring Importance and Query Relevance in Topic-focused Multi-document Summarization. Proceedings of ACL 2007 short papers, Prague, Czech Republic.

Ani Nenkova, Jason Brenier, Anubha Kothari, Sasha Calhoun, Laura Whitton, David Beaver, and Dan Jurafsky. 2007. To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence Labeling in Conversational Speech. NAACL-HLT 2007.

Yuan Zhao and Dan Jurafsky. 2007. The Effect of Lexical Frequency on Tone Production. Proceedings of ICPhS 2007, 477-480.

Rion Snow, Dan Jurafsky, and Andrew Y. Ng. 2006. Semantic taxonomy induction from heterogenous evidence. Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney. ACL Best Paper Award.

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