Chris Brew

I am working as a research scientist for Ron Kaplan's NLU group at Nuance, Sunnyvale. I have been there since March 1, 2013. Before that I was a research scientist for the Educational Testing Service, and before that I taught and did research in universities, at Sussex, Edinburgh and Ohio State. I am proud of the efforts an wonderful group of Ph.D, Masters and Senior thesis students with whom I have worked over the years. It is very gratifying to see the impact that they are having in research, development and service. Mirella Lapata, Sabine Schulte im Walde and Anna Feldman have long-term academic positions in Scotland, Germany and the USA, and most of the others have research-oriented positions in government or industry. So far, the only book is a textbook about Language and Computers, co-written with Markus Dickinson and Detmar Meurers. We did this because we designed a course at Ohio State, trying to be for computational linguistics what the Classical Civilizations course is for Greek and Latin. If I have time (not looking likely at the moment), I'll write a similar book based on the other Ohio State course I developed, which was about Codes and Code Breaking.