Information Systems Technology
Technical Biography
Douglas A. Jones
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Information Systems Technology Group
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
voice: 781-981-2592
fax: 781-981-0186
email: daj@ll.mit.edu
Douglas A. Jones is a computational linguist on the technical staff in the Information Systems Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He received A.B. and A.M. degrees in Linguistics from Stanford University in 1987 and 1988 specializing in computational phonology. In 1993, he received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in Hindi syntax. He completed postdoctoral work on computational theories of verb structure at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1994 and the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) in 1996.
In 1996 he accepted a senior research position in the U.S. government with the Department of Defense where he specialized in machine translation for world minority languages. In 2000, he launched the Chinese-English cross language information retrieval study at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Later in 2000, he took a position as a lead researcher at FireSpout, Inc. a Boston area startup company developing summarization technology. In 2001, he joined Lincoln Laboratory.
The main focus of his research is leveraging the inherent structure of linguistic patterns for the design of large-scale human language processing systems. In his position at Lincoln, he is integrating text processing techniques into speech processing applications, investigating new techniques for machine translation evaluation, and applying results from speech metadata extraction to spoken dialog systems for cognitive systems. He has published numerous papers in the field of computational linguistics. His home page at MIT has additional information and links: http://alum.mit.edu/www/jones.
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