Dan I. Moldovan

Dan Moldovan is a Professor in the Computer Science Department, and the Co-Director of the Human Language Technology Research Institute at The University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Moldovan received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Columbia University.

ECS South 3.907

Human Language Technology Research Institute

Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

The University of Texas at Dallas

800 West Campbell Road ∙ EC31 ∙ Richardson, TX 75080-3021 ∙ phone (972) 883-4838 ∙ fax (972) 883-2399
moldovan at hlt dot utdallas dot edu


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  1. J. A. B. Fortes, "Algorithm Transformations for Parallel Processing and VLSI Architecture Design" May 1984
    Professor and BellSouth Eminent Scholar, University of Florida
    Director, Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory, University of Florida

  2. Yu-Wen Tung, "Parallel Processing Models for Logic Programming" May 1986
    Senior member of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology

  3. Manoel Fernando Tenorio, "Parallel Processing of Production Systems" May 1986
    CTO, i9 Tecnologias, Brasilia, DF

  4. Tsair-Chin Lin, "Mapping Algorithms into SIMD Computer Architectures" May 1986

  5. Chung-I Wu, "A Hierarchical Knowledge Based System for Airplane Recognition" December 1987

  6. Vishweshwar (Vish) Dixit, "Transformation Techniques for Parallel Processing of Production Systems" December 1987
    Research Engineer, Netcentric Archtecture Boeing (formerly Rockwell Autonetics), Anaheim
    Chairman, IEEE Computer Society--Orange County Chapter

  7. Steve Kuo, "Parallel Asynchronous Message-Driven Production Systems" December 1991

  8. W. Lee, "A Parallel Marker-Passing Computer for Knowledge Processing" August 1992

  9. Ronald F. Demara, "Parallelism, Design, and Performance of a Marker-Propagation Reasoning Architecture" December 1992
    Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida
    Founder/Director, Computer Architecture Laboratory

  10. Seungho Cha, "Reference Resolution in Natural Language Discourse" December 1993

  11. Minhwa Chung, "Parallel Natural Language Processing" August 1993
    Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University

  12. Sang-Hwa Chung, "Speech Understanding on SNAP" August 1993
    Associate Professor, Computer Engineering Department, Pusan National University

  13. Juntae Kim, "Semantic Knowledge Acquisition for Information Extraction from Texts on Parallel Marker-Passing Computer" August 1993
    Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Dongguk University
    Leads Intelligence Lab in Dongguk University

  14. Eric C. Lin, "Parallelism Analysis in Marker Propagation Networks" August 1994
    Zarlink Semiconductor Inc.

  15. Stephen Kowalski, "Lingiustic Knowledge Acquisition from Texts" December 1994

  16. Anthony Frank Gallippi, "Noun Disambiguation in Texts" August 1996
    Director of Systems Engineering at Parama Networks, San Jose CA

  17. Chin-Yew Lin, "Topic Identification for Automated Text Summarization" May 1997
    Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia

  18. Sanda Harabagiu, "Text Coherence Analysis" August 1997
    Jonsson School Research Initiation Chair, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
    Director, Human Language Technology Research Institute

  19. Mihai Surdeanu, "Distributed Question Answering" May 2001
    Senior Research Associate, Stanford University, Natural Language Processing Group

  20. Rada Mihalcea, "Turning Implicit Knowledge into Explicit Knowledge via Word Semantics: a Model for Information Retrieval" December 2001
    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas

  21. Roxana Girju, "Text Mining for Semantic Relations" May 2002
    Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Beckman Institute, Computer Science Affiliate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  22. Adriana Badulescu, "Classification of Semantic Relations Between Nouns" December 2004
    Research Scientist, Lymba Corporation, Richardson TX

  23. Adrian Novischi, "Semantic Disambiguation of WordNet Glosses and Lexical Chains on Extended WordNet" December 2005

  24. Mithun Balakrishna, "Exploiting High-Level Knowledge Resources for Speech Recognition with Applications to Interactive Voice Response Systems" August, 2007
    Research Scientist, Lybma Corporation, Richardson TX

  25. Marian Olteanu, "Distortion Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation" August, 2007
    Research Scientist, Lymba Corporation, Richardson TX

  26. Marta Tatu, "Intentions in Text and Semantic Calculus" August, 2007
    Research Scientist, Lymba Corporation, Richardson TX