Research

Andrei's research area covers scalable semi-supervised learning with graphs, and combination thereof with other learning techniques, applied to NLP problems, particularly on resource-poor languages. He works under the direction of Katrin Kirchhoff.

Publications

A. Alexandrescu and K. Kirchhoff, "Graph-Based Learning for Phonetic Classification", Proceedings of The 2007 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) Workshop [PDF] [BibTeX]

A. Alexandrescu and K. Kirchhoff, "Data-Driven Graph Construction for Semi-Supervised Graph-Based Learning in NLP", Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2007 [PDF] [BibTeX]

A. Alexandrescu and K. Kirchhoff, "Factored Neural Language Models", Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2006 [PDF] [BibTeX]

A. Alexandrescu and K. Kirchhoff, "Factored Neural Language Models", UW EE Technical Report UWEETR-2006-0014 [HTML abstract] [PDF] [Gzipped PS] [BibTeX]

Contact

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Washington

Box 352350

Seattle, WA, 98195

Phone: 1-206-666-3666 (no kidding)

Fax: 1-206-666-4747