Adam Pauls

Contact

Address:
Computer Science Division
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California at Berkeley
525 Soda Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
Email:

I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. I am a member of the Berkeley Natural Language Processing Group, working under Dan Klein.

Research

I am interested in getting computers to do things with language, like Speech Recognition, Machine Translation, and Parsing.

I received my Bachelor's degree from University of British Columbia in Computer Science and Physics. There, I worked under Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond Ng on multi-document summarization. Back when I planned to be a physicist, I also did some work on simulation of near-Earth meteroids under Brett Gladman.

Awards

  • Google Fellowship
  • ACL 2009 Best Paper Award
  • NSERC Postgraduate Doctoral Scholarship 2008-2010
  • Berkeley Graduate Fellowship 2006-2008
  • NSERC Postgraduate Masters Scholarship 2006-2008

    Code

    I wrote a Java toolkit for efficiently storing large amounts of n-grams, which you can download here here and read about here.

    Publications

    Language Modeling

  • Adam Pauls and Dan Klein. Large-Scale Syntactic Language Modeling with Treelets (ACL 2012)[pdf]
  • Adam Pauls and Dan Klein. Faster and Smaller N-Gram Langauge Models (ACL 2011)[pdf][slides][code]

    Parsing

  • Adam Pauls, Dan Klein, and Chris Quirk. Top-Down K-Best A* Parsing (ACL 2010)[pdf]
  • Adam Pauls and Dan Klein. Hierarchical A* Parsing with Bridge Outside Scores (ACL 2010)[pdf]
  • Adam Pauls and Dan Klein. K-Best A* Parsing (ACL 2009)[pdf][slides] Winner of Best Paper Award
  • Adam Pauls and Dan Klein. Hierarchical Search for Parsing (NAACL-HLT 2009)[pdf][slides]

    Machine Translation

  • Adam Pauls, Dan Klein, David Chiang, and Kevin Knight. Unsupervised Syntactic Alignment with Inversion Transduction Grammars (NAACL 2010)[pdf]
  • Adam Pauls, John DeNero, and Dan Klein. Consensus Training for Consensus Decoding in Machine Translation (EMNLP 2009)[pdf] (Differs slightly from published version -- some typos have been fixed)
  • John DeNero, Adam Pauls, and Dan Klein. Asynchronous Binarization for Synchronous Grammars (ACL 2009 Short Paper)[pdf]
  • John DeNero, Mohit Bansal, Adam Pauls, and Dan Klein. Efficient Parsing for Transducer Grammars (NAACL-HLT 2009)[pdf]

    • Speech Recognition

  • Slav Petrov, Adam Pauls, and Dan Klein. Learning Structured Models for Phone Recognition (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007)[pdf][slides]

    • Other

  • Ashish Vaswani, Adam Pauls, and David Chiang. Efficient optimization of an MDL-inspired objective function for unsupervised part-of-speech tagging.(ACL 2010)[pdf]
  • David Chiang, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Adam Pauls, and Sujith Ravi. Bayesian inference for finite-state transducers.(NAACL-HLT 2010)[pdf]

    • Multi-Document Summarization

  • Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng, and Adam Pauls. Multi-Document Summarization of Evaluative Text (EACL 2006)
  • Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng, and Adam Pauls. Interactive Multimedia Summaries of Evaluative Text (IUI 2006) [pdf]

    • Old Physics Stuff

  • Adam Pauls and Brett Gladman. Decoherence Time Scales for Meteorite Streams. Journal of Meteoritics and Planetary Astronomy (2005) [pdf]