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<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Erik Peterson</H1>
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Phone: 716-866-2918<br>
E-mail: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A><br>
URL: <a href="http://www.mandarintools.com/resume.html">www.mandarintools.com/resume.html</a>
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<NOBR>222 Audubon Dr.</NOBR><BR>
<NOBR>Amherst, NY 14226</NOBR><br>
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<TD>Research and implement aspects of Chinese computing and Chinese natural
language processing, including information extraction, Chinese/English machine
translation, computer-aided language learning, and software localization.
I currently develop a program applying statistical techniques to traditional transfer-based translation as well as a Chinese/English translation system built on top of the program. I have 12 years experience programming in Perl and Java and 15 years experience in programming C++. I am fluent in written (traditional and simplified characters) and spoken Mandarin Chinese and I have an HSK Certificate of Chinese Proficiency at Grade C of Intermediate level which is sufficient to enter into a Chinese college as an undergraduate. My website www.mandarintools.com appears in the top 5 results for "Chinese" and is visited by thousands of people each day who use tools such as the Chinese/English dictionary and the DimSum Chinese Reading Assistant.
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<h3>Overview</h3>
I currently manage multilingual information extraction and entity translation development at Janya, Inc. I previously created a program applying statistical techniques to traditional transfer-based translation as well as a Chinese/English translation system built on top of the program. I have 15 years experience programming in Perl and Java and 17 years experience in programming C++. I am fluent in written (traditional and simplified characters) and spoken Mandarin Chinese and I have an HSK Certificate of Chinese Proficiency at Grade C of Intermediate level which is sufficient to enter into a Chinese college as an undergraduate. My website www.mandarintools.com appears in the top 5 results for "Chinese" and is visited by thousands of people each day who use tools such as the Chinese/English dictionary and the DimSum Chinese Reading Assistant.
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<TD><strong>Research Scientist</strong>, <A HREF="http://www.janyainc.com">Janya, Inc.</A>
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<td align=right>5/2008 - Present</td>
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<LI>Mangaging development of Janya's multilingual (non-English)
information extraction systems using a combination of statistical
and rule-based methods.</li>
<LI>Developed Arabic information extract system (f-score 72.0).</li>
<LI>Developed Chinese information extraction (f-score 87.3) and
entity translation system (f-score 54.69).</LI>
<li>Developed Pashto information extraction system (f-score 77.3) </li>
<LI>Supervised development of Urdu and Russian information
extraction system</LI>
<li>Wrote statistical language model decoder using C++. Model was used to improve Arabic handwriting recognition system. </li>
<LI>Managed five interns doing lexicon and training corpora development.
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<TD><strong>Staff Programmer</strong>, <A HREF="http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu">Language Technologies Institute</A>, CMU
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<td align=right>9/2005 - 4/2008</td>
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<LI>Developed <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eepeter/erik_mrp.pdf">statistical transfer system</a> (written in C++).</LI>
<LI>Developed Chinese to English machine translation using statistical transfer system.
<LI>Designed and implemented <A href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avenue/ettmp/corpusformat.txt">manual word alignment program</a> (written in Java).</LI>
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<strong>Computational Linguist</strong>, <A HREF="http://www.apptek.com">Applications Technology</A></td>
<td align=right>1/1998 - 8/2000</td>
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<LI>Developed translation dictionary for English to Chinese text translation system.</LI>
<LI>Wrote a Visual Basic interface to an MS Access database for Arabic Name Matching.</LI>
<LI>Wrote a C++ library to break long English and Arabic sentences into shorter, complete ones.</LI>
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<strong>Associate Scientist</strong>, <A HREF="http://www.bbn.com/Solutions_and_Technologies/Natural_Language_Processing/index.html">BBN Corp.</A> </td>
<td align=right> 1/1996 - 7/1997</td>
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<LI>Principal developer of a Chinese named entity (person and place names, dates, amounts) extraction system.</LI>
<LI>Wrote interfaces for and developed Chinese and English language processing systems. Systems included a Chinese document search system, a Chinese text information extractor, and an English text parser.</LI>
<LI>Created a Tcl/Tk tool for users to mark-up texts with SGML. Tool became very popular with co-workers.</LI>
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<strong>Computer Programmer</strong>, <A HREF="http://www.nsa.gov">Department of Defense</a></td>
<td align=right>1/1995 - 8/1995</td>
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<LI>Supported and developed several multilingual applications for the analysis and teaching of language, especially the interface for a system for Chinese language students.</LI>
<LI>Created departmental web site.</LI>
<LI>Received a cash award for my contributions.</LI>
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<strong>Language Student, Department of Defense</strong>
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<td align=right>1/1994 - 7/1994</td>
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<LI>Translated and analyzed a variety of language materials.</LI>
<LI>Received a cash award for my contributions.</LI>
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<P><I>Missionary, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<BR>
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<LI>Provided Chinese web page consulting for <A HREF="http://www.aals.com/">A-A Language Services, Inc.</A>
<LI>Wrote C++ <A HREF="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/00dec/I-D/draft-ietf-idn-race-03.txt">RACE encoding library</A> and Chinese encoding conversion libraries for an Australian domain name registrar.
<LI>Licensed Chinese character set detection libraries (Java, Perl, and C++) to LogoMedia Corp.
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<strong><A HREF="http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu">Carnegie Mellon University</A></strong>, Pittsburgh, PA, <BR>
</I>Master's Degree in Language Technologies <!-- GPA: 3.04 (A=4) -->
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12/2007
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<strong><A HREF="http://www.fudan.edu.cn">Fudan University</A></strong>, Shanghai, People's Republic of China. <BR>
Attended intensive one-month course in Chinese language on a Chinese government scholarship.
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<strong><A HREF="http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/linguistics/">Georgetown University</A></strong>, Washington, D.C.<BR>
Master's Degree in Linguistics with emphasis on Computational Linguistics. <!--<BR>
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<strong><A HREF="http://www.byu.edu">Brigham Young University</A></strong>, Provo,
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</I>Graduated Magna Cum Laude with bachelor degree. Majored in Computer Science
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<strong><A HREF="http://www.nju.edu.cn">Nanjing University</A></strong>, Nanjing, People's Republic of China<BR>
Graduated from an intensive two-month course in Chinese language and culture.
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<LI>Skilled in C, C++, Perl, Java programming, and UNIX usage. Have also
programmed in JavaScript, Visual Basic, Lisp and Tcl/Tk. Basic knowledge of SQL.
<LI>Experienced in various aspects of Chinese software, including input methods, segmentation, encoding conversion, web design, and Chinese natural language processing.
<LI>Examples of Web and CGI design, as well as Java, Visual Basic, and Perl programs dealing with Chinese and Chinese NLP, can be seen at <A HREF="http://www.mandarintools.com">www.mandarintools.com</A> and
<A HREF="http://www.chinesecomputing.com">www.chinesecomputing.com</A>.
<LI>Fluent in written (traditional and simplified characters) and spoken Mandarin Chinese.
<UL><LI>Have HSK Certificate of Chinese Proficiency at Grade C of Intermediate level (sufficient to enter into Chinese college as undergraduate).</UL>
<LI>Took two semesters of Modern Standard Arabic at the University of Pittsburgh.
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<LI><a href="http://www.mandarintools.com/download/chinesene.doc">A Chinese Named Entity Extraction System</a>. Paper presented at 8th Annual Conference of the
International Association of Chinese Linguistics at Melbourne, Australia in July, 1999.
<LI><A HREF="http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/discuss/academy/netedu01/doc/%E8%AB%96%E6%96%87/%E4%B8%83%E8%AB%96%E6%96%87%E7%99%BC%E8%A1%A8-31.htm">Making Useful Chinese Learning Tools: My Experience Creating MandarinTools.com</A>, paper presented in Chinese at First International Conference on Internet Chinese Education at Taipei, Taiwan in May, 1999.
<li>Co-author, <A href="http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/X/X96/X96-1026.pdf">Chinese Information Extraction and Retrieval</A>, Proceedings of TIPSTER Text Program Phase II workshop held at Vienna, Virginia: May 6-8, 1996.
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<li>Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Member
<li>BYU Merit Scholar
<li>Chinese Prociency Test (HSK) Scholarship Winner
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