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Lee Becker
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I am a fourth year PhD Candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Cognitive Science working in the Center for Computational Language and Education Research (CLEAR).  My specialization is in natural language processing with a focus on educational technologies, dialogue characterization, and computational semantics, but I am apt to get excited about anything related to language, artificial intelligence, and programming.


NLP in the Media: The Copiale Cipher

I’m always excited to see NLP research featured in the mass media because it closes the gap between what my mom thinks I do and what I actually do. The most recent buzz has been for work from Kevin Knight, his students at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC), …

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Inner Wave Pencak Silat at the CU I-Fest

My friends at Inner Wave and I put on a small silat demo as part of the CU International festival.    For a more complete writeup, read my post at Boulder Silat.    

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