Ezra Black

Tachnae Company, 527 Third Avenue,
Number 281,
New York, NY 10016 USA

Email: takanoharian@yahoo.com Phone/Fax: 1-718-549-2714


CURRICULUM VITAE

Professional Publications
2002 E. Black, A. Finch. Beyond Tag Trigrams: New Local
Features for Tagging, Proceedings, 3rd International Conference
on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002). Las Palmas, Spain.
2001 E. Black, A. Finch. Developing and Proving Effective Broad-Coverage
Semantic-and-Syntactic Tagsets for Natural Language: The ATR
Approach. Proceedings, ICCPOL 2001, Seoul.
2001 A. Finch, E. Black. Using Compound Local Word-Tag Features in
Tagging. Proceedings, ICCPOL 2001, Seoul.
2000 R. Zhang, E. Black, A. Finch, Y. Sagisaka. A Parser-Aided
Language Model With A Stack Decoder. Proceedings,
6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing
(ICSLP 2000) . Beijing.
1999 E. Black, A. Finch, R. Zhang. Applying Extrasentential Context
To Maximum Entropy Based Tagging With A Large Semantic And
Syntactic Tagset. Seventh Workshop on Very Large Corpora.
Maryland, US.
1999 R. Zhang, E. Black, A. Finch. Using Detailed Linguistic
Structure In Language Modelling. Eurospeech 99. Budapest.
1998 E. Black, A. Finch, H. Kashioka. Trigger-Pair Predictors
in Parsing and Tagging. In Proceedings, ACL/COLING-98,
Montreal.
1998 E. Black, S. Eubank, H. Kashioka, J.Saia. Reinventing
Part-of-Speech Tagging. Journal of Natural Language Processing
(Japan). 5:1:3-23.
1997 E. Black. Innovative Uses of Very Large Corpora. Invited
Panelist. Fifth Workshop on Very Large Corpora. Beijing,
Hong Kong.
1997 E. Black, S. Eubank, H. Kashioka. Probabilistic Parsing of
Unrestricted English Text, With A Highly-Detailed Grammar.
Fifth Workshop on Very Large Corpora. Beijing, Hong Kong.
1997 N. Campbell, T. Hebert, E. Black. 1997. Parsers, Prominence
and Pauses. Proceedings, Eurospeech 97. Greece.
1997 Evaluation of Broad--Coverage Natural Language
Parsers. Chapter 13.4 of Survey of the State of the Art
in Human Language Technology. R. Cole, J. Mariani et al.,
Editors. Cambridge University Press.
1997 E. Black, S. Eubank, H. Kashioka. 1997. The Non-Dictionary:
Description and Evaluation of a Dictionaryless Semantic and
Syntactic Tagger for Unrestricted English. In Proceedings,
Third Annual Meeting, Association for Natural Language
Processing, Kyoto.
1996 E. Black, S. Eubank, H. Kashioka, R. Garside, G. Leech,
D. Magerman. 1996. Beyond Skeleton Parsing: Producing a
Comprehensive Large--Scale General--English Treebank With
Full Grammatical Analysis. In Proceedings, COLING-96,
Copenhagen.
1994 H. Kashioka and E. Black. Dealing With Low--Frequency
Words In Mutual Information--Based Word Clustering.
(In Japanese). In Proceedings, 49th Annual Meeting,
Information Processing Society of Japan. September, 1994.
1994 T. Tashiro, H. Kashioka, and E. Black. A Method of Restructuring
Bracketed Corpora. (In Japanese). In Proceedings, 49th Annual
Meeting, Information Processing Society of Japan. September, 1994.
1994 A New Approach to Evaluating Broad-Coverage Parser/Grammars
of English. International Conference on New Methods in Language
Processing. Manchester, UK. September, 1994.
1994 Evaluating Automatic Syntactic Analysis of English. Chapter 2,
Part 3 of: Rationalist vs. Empiricist Approaches to NLP.
S. Ananiadou and J. Tsujii, Eds. Mouton de Gruyter.
1994 An Experiment in Customizing the Lancaster Treebank, Chapter 10
of Oostdijk, N. and de Haan, P., Eds., Corpus-Based Research Into
Language. Amstrdam: Rodopi Editions.
1993 Parsing English By Computer: The State of the Art. Invited
Presentation, Proceedings, International Symposium on Spoken
Dialogue, Waseda University, Tokyo. (Also appears in: Proceedings,
ATR International Workshop on Speech Translation. ATR Interpreting
Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Kyoto)
1993 Statistically-Driven Computer Grammars of English: The IBM/Lancaster
Approach (Ed., with G. Leech and R. Garside, co-editors; and
Roukos, Lafferty, Magerman co-authors.) Amsterdam: Rodopi Editions.
1992 Towards History-Based Grammars: Using Richer Models for
Probabilistic Parsing. DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop.
(With Jelinek, Lafferty, Magerman, Mercer, Roukos.) (Also
in: Proceedings, 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, 1993.)
1992 Decision Tree Models Applied to the Labelling of Text with
Parts-of-Speech. DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop.
(With Jelinek, Lafferty, Mercer, Roukos.)
1992 Development, Evaluation and Results for a Broad-Coverage
Probabilistic Grammar of English-Language Computer Manuals.
Proceedings, 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics. (With Lafferty.)
1992 Real Grammars for Real Tasks: Developing and Evaluating Large-Scale
Grammars for Practical Applications. Proceedings, Fifth Annual CUNY
Conference on Human Sentence Processing. CUNY Graduate Center,
New York.
1992 Statistical Modelling of Linguistic Information in Probabilistic
Parsing. DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop. (With
Magerman, Lafferty, Roukos.)
1991 A Probabilistic Parsing Method for Sentence Disambiguation. Chapter
10, Current Issues in Parsing Technology, M. Tomita (Ed.). Boston:
Kluwer. (With: T. Fujisaki.)
1991 Evaluating Syntactic Performance of Parser/Grammars of English.
Proceedings, Natural language Processing Systems Workshop. UC
Berkeley. (With: Abney, Flickinger, Gdaniec, Grishman, Harrison,
Hindle, Ingria, Marcus, Santorini, Strzalkowski)
1991 A Procedure for Quantitatively Comparing the Syntactic Coverage
of English Grammars. DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop.
(With: Abney, Flickinger, Gdaniec, Grishman, Harrison, Hindle,
Ingria, Jelinek, Klavans, Liberman, Marcus, Roukos, Santorini,
Strzalkowski)
1990 A Unification-Grammar-Based Approach to Statistical Modelling of
Natural Language. Proceedings, IBM Natural Language ITL, Paris.
(IBM Technical Report RC 15277)
1989 A Probabilistic Parsing Method for Sentence Disambiguation.
Proceedings, Carnegie Mellon University Parsing Workshop.
(With T. Fujisaki, J. Cocke.)
1988 An Experiment in Computational Determination of English Word
Senses. IBM Journal of Research and Development. March 1988.
1985 Theoretical Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Artificial Intelligence.
Three chapters of: J. Moyne, Language Understanding: Man or Machine.
New York: Plenum.
1983 A Stochastic Approach to Sentence Parsing. Presentation, Workshop on
Semantics and Knowledge Representation, IBM Systems Research
Institute, New York. (With T. Fujisaki)

Patents and Patent Disclosures

2001 Trigger Pair Enhanced Natural Language Parsing Models. (Japanese
Patent 3126952. With Finch, Kashioka.)
     2001  A Method For Morphological Analysis of English Via Computer.

           (Japanese Patent 3174526, with Eubank,Kashioka).

2000 A Method For Parsing Japanese Text Using Decision-Tree Prediction
(Japanese Patent 3035261, with Eubank, Kashioka).
2000 A Method For Parsing English Text Using Decision-Tree Prediction
(Japanese Patent 3027553, with Eubank, Kashioka).
2000 A Method For Post-Tagging English Text With Part-Of-Speech Labels.
(Japanese Patent 3100556, with Eubank, Kashioka).

1999 Language Models for Speech Recognition Enhanced Via Complex
Natural Language Triggers. (Japanese Patent 2000-250581 Pending.
With Finch, Zhang, Sagisaka, Matsui.)
1998 A Method For Efficient Construction of Detailed Natural Language
Treebanks. (Japanese Patent 3050811. With Eubank, Kashioka.)
1997 A Method For Format Conversion of Natural Language Treebanks.
(Disclosure. With Eubank, Kashioka.)
1992 Statistical Modelling of Linguistic Information in Probabilistic
Parsing. (Disclosure. With Lafferty, Magerman, Roukos.)
1991 Lexical Part-of-Speech Labelling Without A Lexicon For Use in
Natural Language Parsing. (Disclosure. With Roukos, Mercer,
Jelinek.)


Journal Editorship

1990 North American Editor, Applied Computer Translation (Sigma, UK)


Education

1987 Ph.D. (Linguistics), Graduate Center, City University of New York
1973 MA (French), Columbia University Teachers College
1971 Certficat de francais, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
1971 BA (French), City College of New York
1967 Science Diploma Bronx High School of Science, New York


Employment

2001-present CEO, Tachnae Company, New York, NY, USA
1993-2001 Manager, Statistical Parsing Group, Natural Language
Processing Department, Interpreting Telecommunications
Laboratory, ATR, Kyoto, Japan
1987-1993 Research Staff Member, Continuous Speech Recognition Group,
Computer Science Department, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
Yorktown Heights, New York
1983-1987 Consultant, Continuous Speech Recognition Group,
Computer Science Department, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
Yorktown Heights, New York


Other Employment

1993-1994 Freelance translator (Spanish to English)
1973-1985 Consultant and instructor, Testing and measurement (Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, Arco Publishing Co., Simon and Schuster,
Academic Review, Inc., etc.)
1981-1983 Adjunct Lecturer, Linguistics, Queens College, New York
1980-1981 Adjunct Lecturer, Developmental Reading, Bronx Community
College, New York
1976-1979 Trilingual curriculum writer/teacher-trainer, New York City
Board of Education
1973-1976 Teacher of French, The Hoffman School, Riverdale, New York

Non-Academic Publications

1984 Taking the SAT. New York: Arco.
1983 Preparing for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Home Computer
Version). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
1982 The Verbal and Analytic Sections of the GRE. New York:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
1976 The verbal and analytic sections of: Preparing for the
Law School Admissions Test. New York: Arco.


Languages

French: Professional-translator-grade fluency
Spanish: Professional-translator-grade fluency
Japanese: Moderate fluency
Polish: Moderate fluency


References on request.