Kevin Knight

Kevin Knight is a Senior Research Scientist and Fellow at the USC Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey, California, and a Research Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California. Dr. Knight received a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, in 1992, and a bachelor's degree from Harvard University. His research interests include natural language processing, statistical modeling, machine translation, language generation, and decipherment.

Dr. Knight has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including Computational Linguistics, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and the ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing. In 2005, he served as General Chair of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and he will serve as ACL President in 2011.

Dr. Knight has taught computer science courses at USC for more than fifteen years, and he led an influential intensive workshop on statistical machine translation at Johns Hopkins University during the summer of 1999. He has authored over 70 papers on natural language processing research. Together with collaborators, he won best paper awards for "Statistics-Based Summarization -- Step One: Sentence Compression" (AAAI, 2000), "Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation" (ACL, 2001), and "11,001 New Features for Statistical Machine Translation" (NAACL, 2009). Dr. Knight also co-authored the widely-adopted textbook "Artificial Intelligence" (McGraw-Hill, 1991).

Kevin Knight will be speaking at the TAUS User Conference 2010 on Monday, October 4 at 16.00:

What’s on the horizon? The research agenda
Kevin Knight, Senior Research Scientist and Fellow, Information Sciences Institute, Research Associate Professor, University of Southern California

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