Douglas A. Jones

Dr. Douglas A. Jones

Dr. Douglas A. Jones
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Human Language Technology Group
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
voice: 781-981-2592
fax: 781-981-0186
email: daj@ll.mit.edu

 

Dr. Douglas Jones is a member of the technical staff in the Human Language Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Dr. Jones has held research positions in the U.S. Government with the Department of Defense where he specialized in machine translation for world minority languages, and at National Institute of Standards and Technology where he helped launch a Chinese-English cross language information retrieval study.

The main focus of his research is leveraging the inherent structure of linguistic patterns for the design of large-scale human language processing systems. Since 2002, his focus has been to adapt military standards of foreign language testing for machine translation evaluation. He is working to develop a common measure both for human language learners and for machine translation technology, the purpose being to influence technology in ways that best enable people to accomplish foreign language tasks. He has published numerous papers in the field of computational linguistics.

Dr. Jones was part of the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) and Joint Task Force-HAITI team that responded to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

His background includes B.A. and M.A. degrees in linguistics from Stanford University specializing in computational phonology, and a 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, and the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).

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