The Expedition team included staff and students from NMSU, as well as
a number of subcontractors. Brief biographies of the
principle researchers are listed below.
was director of the Computing Research Laboratory and professor of Computer Science at NMSU (1994-2002). Dr. Nirenburg directed numerous large-scale research and development projects at Carnegie Mellon and New Mexico State universities in the areas of machine translation and natural language processing, including KBMT-89 (CMU, 1987-89), DIOGENES (CMU, 1989-91); PANGLOSS (CMU, 1991-1994; NMSU, 1994-96), Mikrokosmos (CMU, 1993-94; NMSU 1994-98), Temple (NMSU, 1993-95), Corelli (NMSU, 1995-98), Expedition (NMSU, 1997-2000), MINDS (NMSU, 1997-99), Shiraz (1997-99). Dr. Nirenburg received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and M.Sc. in computational linguistics from Kharkov State University, USSR.
is Director of CRL and has been involved in natural language processing research, in particular, information extraction, since 1980. He was responsible for the development of information extraction systems at CRL for Phase I of the DARPA-sponsored TIPSTER project. Dr.Cowie manages the MINDS multi-lingual summarization project at CRL and is actively involved in the Expedition, Shiraz translation and Corelli projects. He was a member of the nationwide TIPSTER Architecture Working Group, which produced a standard architecture for combined information retrieval and information extraction systems. Dr. Cowie holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom.
was project manager at CRL working on the Corelli, Shiraz and Expedition machine translation projects. His research interests also included software engineering and constraint-based programming. Prior to joining CRL, Dr. Zajac served as project manager at Parallax Software Technologies, Paris. He was also senior researcher at the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (University of Stuttgart) and the ATR Interpreting Telephony Research Laboratories in Nara, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Institut Polytechnique National de Grenoble, France, and an M.A. in linguistics from Grenoble University. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Machine Translation.
was a computational linguist involved in designing the knowledge acquisition module of the Expedition Project. Her research interests focused on ellipsis in Slavic languages, particularly the interface between syntactic and pragmatic approaches and the machine processing of ellipsis in machine-translation systems. Dr. McShane has a BA in Russian from Grinnell College, an MA in Russian literature from State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, a certificate of advanced translation also from SUNY, and an MA and Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures (major: linguistics), both from Princeton University.
is a computer specialist working on the knowledge acquisition module of Expedition. He is interested in the connections between pragmatics and linguistic form (particularly prosody and form of referring expressions). Dr. Zacharski has a BFA in percussion from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Minnesota.
is a computational linguist at CRL currently working in the areas of machine translation and metaphor in prepositional attitude reports. He was the developer for the German component of the ULTRA machine translation system at CRL and served as the director of the knowledge acquisition group for the PANGLOSS machine translation project and as a principal investigator on the ATT-Meta and Computational Grammars projects. Dr. Helmreich holds an M.S. in Mathematics from Purdue University and a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the topic of Referring Functions as Montague Grammar Operators. Dr. Helmreich currently serves on the board of AMTA.
a consultant for Mikrokosmos, Expedition and other CRL projects, is also professor and head of the Linguistics Program as well as coordinator, Natural Language Processing Lab, at Purdue University, specializing in computational semantic analysis, lexicographic description and theory. Since the mid 1980s, he has developed, with S. Nirenburg, a new constructive approach to computational semantics, culminating in the 1990s in ontological semantics. He has developed the first ontological semantic microtheory-of adjectival semantics. He got his Ph.D. and M.S. in structural, computational and mathematical linguistics from Moscow State University. He has authored 16 books and more than 200 articles on various aspects of linguistic theory, computational semantics and their applications.