Erik E. Peterson

                      http://www.mandarintools.com/resume.html

                            7717 Random Run Lane #102
                              Falls Church, VA 22042
                                      USA
                                  (703) 645-9391
                              [email protected]

 Objective

   Research various aspects of Chinese computing and Chinese natural
   language processing including Chinese named entity extraction, and
   automatic annotation of Chinese text, and Chinese/English machine
   translation.


 Education

 * Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 1998-Present
     Master's Candidate in Linguistics Department with emphasis on
     Computational Linguistics.
   GPA: 3.93 (A=4) 

 * Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. 1988-95
     Graduated Magna Cum Laude with bachelor degree. Majored in Computer
     Science and Mandarin Chinese.
   GPA: Overall 3.91, CS 3.81, Chinese 3.97 (A=4) 

 * Nanjing University, Nanjing, PRC. Spring, 1992.  
     Graduated from an intensive two-month course in Chinese language
     and culture.


 Experience

   Computational Linguist, Applications Technology
   January, 1998 - Present

      * Developing translation dictionary for English to Chinese text
        translation system.
      * Wrote a Visual Basic interface to an MS Access database for
        Arabic Name Matching.
      * Wrote a C++ library to break long English sentences into
        shorter, complete ones.

   Associate Scientist, BBN Corp.
   January, 1996 - July, 1997

      * Principal developer of a Chinese named entity (person and
        place names, dates, amounts) extraction system.
      * 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.
      * Created a Tcl/Tk tool for users to mark-up texts with
        SGML. Tool became very popular with co-workers.

   Computer Programmer, Department of Defense
   January, 1995 - August, 1995

      * Supported and developed several multilingual applications for
        the analysis and teaching of language, especially the
        interface for a system for Chinese language students.
      * Wrote my department's web site. 
      * Received a cash award for my contributions. 

   Language Student, Department of Defense
   January, 1994 - July, 1994

      * Translated and analyzed a variety of language materials. 
      * Also received a cash award for my contributions. 

   Teacher's Assistant, BYU Computer Science Department
   September, 1993 - December, 1993

      * Assisted students and graded homework in a computational
	theory course.  
      * Conducted weekly help sections.

   Missionary, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
   January, 1990 - December, 1991

      * Worked with ethnic Chinese in Houston, Texas, on a volunteer
	basis.  Gained an extensive knowledge of spoken Chinese that
	was used on a daily basis.


 Skills

      * Skilled in C, C++, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Java programming and UNIX
        usage. Have also programmed in Lisp and Visual Basic.

      * Experienced in various aspects of Chinese software, including
        input methods, segmentation, encoding conversion, web design,
        and Chinese natural language processing.

      * Fluent in written (traditional and simplified characters) and
        spoken Mandarin Chinese.

      * 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 http://www.mandarintools.com and
        http://www.chinesecomputing.com.


 Papers

      * A Chinese Named Entity Extraction System. Paper presented at
        8th Annual Conference of the International Association of
        Chinese Linguistics at Melbourne, Australia; July, 1999.

      * Making Useful Chinese Learning Tools: My Experience Creating
        MandarinTools.com, paper presented in Chinese at First
        International Conference on Internet Chinese Education,
        Taipei, Taiwan; May, 1999.


 Honors

 * Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Member
 * BYU Merit Scholar


 References

   Available upon request.