Education:
Ph.D. (1996) University of Illinois. Linguistic semantics and pragmatics.
M.A. (1982) University of Illinois. Linguistics
M.Th. (1974) Concordia Seminary in Exile-Seminex
M.S. (1970) Purdue University. Mathematics
B.A. (1969) Valparaiso University

Work Experience:
Dr. Helmreich's work background is quite varied. He has worked at various times as a Social Security Agency Claims Representative, a laundromat manager, a day care center teacher, a church organist, a PC lab manager, an AIDS service provider, and as a researcher here at CRL. He is currently organist at Peace Lutheran Church in Las Cruces.

Research Interests & Background:
Dr. Helmreich's research interests include lexical semantics/pragmatics, statistical approaches to Natural Language Processing, and (with David Farwell) the effect of beliefs on translation (and the application of this research to Machine Translation).

Recent Publications:
Barnden, John A., Sylvia Candelaria de Ram, David Farwell, Louise Guthrie, Stephen Helmreich, Paul McKevitt & Yorick Wilks. 1991. The Relevance of Beliefs to Natural Language Communication. Intercultural Communication Studies, 1(1):237-272.

Barnden, John A., Stephen Helmreich, Eric Iverson & Gezina C. Stein. 1996. Artificial Intelligence and Metaphors of Mind: Within-Vehicle Reasoning and its Benefits. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 11(2):101-123.

Barnden, John A., Stephen Helmreich, Eric Iverson, and Gezina C. Stein. 1994. An integrated implementation of simulative, uncertain and metaphorical reasoning about mental states. In J. Doyle, E. Sandewall & P. Torasso (Eds), Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (Bonn, Germany, 24--27 May 1994). San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

Barnden, John A., Stephen Helmreich, Eric Iverson & Gees C. Stein (1994). Combining simulative and metaphor-based reasoning about beliefs. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp.21--26. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Farwell, David, and Stephen Helmreich. 1997. User-friendly Machine Translation: Alternate Translations Based on Differing Beliefs. Proceedings of the Machine Translation Summit VI, p.125-131.

Farwell, David, and Stephen Helmreich. 1996. Ground Floor? First Floor? ... Going Up. In Proceedings of the 5th International Pragmatics Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, July 4-9.

Farwell, David, and Stephen Helmreich. 1995. This is not a Bedroom Farce: Pragmatics and Translation. Contributed Papers of the Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-95), p. 73-82. Donostia, Spain.

Farwell, David, Stephen Helmreich, and Mark Casper. 1995. SPOST: a Spanish Part-of-speech Tagger. To appear in Actas del XI Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Bilbao, Spain, September, 1995.

Farwell, David, Stephen Helmreich, Wanying Jin, Mark Casper, James Hargrave, Hugo Molina-Salgado and Fuliang Weng. 1994. PANGLYZER: Spanish Language Analysis System. In Proceedings of the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), pp. 56-64. Columbia, MD: AMTA.
Helmreich, S. and D. Farwell. 1998. Translation Differences and Pragmatics-Based MT. Journal of Machine Translation, 13:17-39.

Helmreich, Stephen and David Farwell. 1996. Lexical Rules is Italicized. In Proceedings of a Workshop Sponsored by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 62-76. Santa Cruz, CA: Association for Computational Linguistics.

Helmreich, Stephen and David Farwell. 1996. Translation Differences and Pragmatics-based MT. In Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, pp. 43-55. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: AMTA.

Helmreich, S. 1997. Time to Eat Peaches: Language Specific Information in Interlingual Representations. In Proceedings of the AMTA/SIG-IL First Workshop on Interlinguas, pp. 51-52. Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. MCCS-97-314.

Helmreich, S. 1996. Pragmatic Referring Functions as Montague Semantic Operators. Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. MCCS-96-303.

Helmreich, Stephen, Eric Iverson and François Laroche. 1990. Modular Meta5: Further Research in Collative Semantics. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, MCCS-90-192. Las Cruces, NM: Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University.

Helmreich, Stephen, Wanying Jin, Yorick Wilks, and Rocio Guillen. 1993. Questions de traduction automatique au Computing Research Laboratory. In Pierrette Bouillon and André Clas (Eds), La Traductique, pp. 334-348. Montreal, Canada: University of Montreal Press.

Iverson, Eric and Stephen Helmreich. 1992. Metallel: An Integrated Approach to Non-Literal Phrase Interpretation. Computational Intelligence, 8(3):477-493.

McShane, Marjorie J., S. Helmreich, S. Nirenburg and V. Raskin. Forthcoming. Slavic as Testing Grounds for a Linguistic Elicitation System, in Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Philadelphia Meeting, 1999.

Current Projects:
Dr. Helmreich is a computational linguist at CRL currently working in the areas of machine translation and metaphor in prepositional attitude reports.