The Center for Computational Language and EducAtion Research (CLEAR)
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0594
E-mail: look up with CU directory
Generally I am interested in applying semantic knowledge to natural language processing techiques. Currently I am working on dialogue management for intelligent tutoring systems. Of particular relvance to this research are the sub-tasks of question selection, ranking, and generation.
Advisors:
Prof. Wayne Ward
Prof. Martha Palmer
Lee Becker, Rodney D. Nielsen, and Wayne Ward (2009), What a pilot study says about running a question generation challenge, Accepted to The 2nd Workshop on Question Generation, Brighton, England, July 6-7. 2009.
Rodney D. Nielsen, Lee Becker and Wayne Ward (2008), TAC 2008 CLEAR RTE System Report: Facet-based Entailment, In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 17-19, 2008. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Working towards PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
BS Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, 2000
BS Engineering with Electrical Specialty, Colorado School of Mines, 2000
Volunteers in Asia - Pesantren Sunan Pandanaran
July 2006 - August 2007
Volunteer English Teacher
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Intel Corporation - Fort Collins Design Center
February 2005 - July 2006
Design Automation Engineer
Fort Collins, Colorado
Hewlett Packard Company - Microprocessor Technology Lab
May 1999 - February 2005
CAD Software Engineer / Verification Engineer
Fort Collins, Colorado
My Blogs
www.leebecker.com/blog
www.saraandlee.com