David Burkett

I'm a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. I work in the Natural Language Processing Group with Professor Dan Klein. I've also recently become interested in game AI and have spent some time working on an agent for playing StarCraft.

Contact

Address

Computer Science Division
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

Office

7th Floor, Sutardja Dai Hall

Email

dburkett -ATSIGN- cs DOT berkeley DOT edu

Research

I am interested in all sorts of things involving language, computers, and statistics, but my main interest is in how different languages relate to each other, both historically and linguistically. So far I've mostly been focused on work related to syntactic relationships between different languages. This means I've done some syntactic machine translation, but the majority of my work has been related to bilingual parsing.

So far the game research I've been involved in has mostly focused on building a competitive agent for a StarCraft AI competition. We're currently in the planning stages for a series of research papers based on the lessons we learned in creating the bot.

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