Mark A. Mandel

MarkAMandelgmailcom
mamandelldcupennedu

Skills

Linguistic research for human language technology applications.
Longtime interest in name research.
Recognition familiarity with many languages. (See also Less Commonly Taught Languages, below.)
Leading a multidisciplinary team to develop and apply workable procedures of analyzing and annotating text data.
Programming in Perl, experience in other languages.
Editing and proofreading.

PennBioIE: improved methods for information extraction from biomedical literature
- Created a large, richly annotated corpus of biomedical text.
- Hired, supervised, and coordinated biomedical annotators.
- Developed an iterative process with domain experts, annotators, and software developers, for annotation of a new domain (biomedical text), producing more detailed and usable annotations than before.
Less Commonly Taught Languages: HLT resources for languages with high speaker density and low HLT resource level
- Wrote grammatical sketches of Thai, Tagalog, Pashto, Tigrinya, Moroccan Berber, and Yoruba; contributed to others.
- Hired and trained annotators for Bengali, Tagalog, Tamil, Tigrinya, and Urdu.

Provided linguistic expertise and tools for development and maintenance of all products in 17 languages and dialects.
Manager of acoustic data, responsible for collecting, cleaning, and archiving speech data.
Managed team integrating pronunciation and spelling from diverse lexica in 8 languages.
Developed program to match Japanese katakana to likely English vocabulary.
Cleaned gigabytes of medical and other text data.

University of California, Berkeley, California: Ph.D., Linguistics
- Dissertation: Phonotactics and Morphophonology in American Sign Language
University of California, Berkeley, California: M.A., Linguistics
City College of the City University of New York, New York: B.A., Linguistics

U.S. citizen

2008-08-01