Mark A. Mandel

MarkAMandelgmailcom
mamandelldcupennedu

Skills

• Identifying and solving actual or potential problems for HLT (human language technology) tasks such as encoding conversion, transliteration, annotation, and information extraction.
• Facilitating collaboration between workers in different fields.
• Leading a team through the process of developing and applying workable annotation definitions and procedures.
• Programming in Perl.

Employment

University of Pennsylvania: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2002-present
Research Administrator

• 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, mediating between domain experts, annotators, and software developers, to interactively create, test, and revise entity definitions and guidelines for a new domain (biomedical text), resulting in much finer-grained and more useable annotations than a top-down process.
  • Published annotated data, definitions, and guidelines on web.
• 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.
  • Contributed to work on various other languages.

Dragon Systems, 1990-1999 / Lernout & Hauspie, 1999-2001
Senior Linguist

• 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.

Honeywell Bull, 1983-1990
Senior Software Engineer

• Maintained keyboard monitor utility.
• Supported Oracle port.
• Developed spec for Data Definition Translator for team developing Unix-based OS.

Education

• 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

Professional Affiliations

• Association for Computational Linguistics
• American Name Society

U.S. citizen

2007-12-08