Rebecca J. Passonneau

Research Scientist
Columbia University
Center for Computational Learning Systems

Travailler c'est vivre sans mourir (To work is to live without dying).
Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Auguste Rodin


Research Interests

Research methods involving synergy between empirical research and computational models

Intersection of linguistic knowledge and context

Corpus analysis, including human and machine annotations of corpora

Evaluation methods


Current Research Projects

Consolidated Edison Company of New York: Secondary Events

Loqui: a wizard ablation dialog system project [ppt]

CLiMB 2: Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building

MASC: Manually Annotated Subcorpus of the American National Corpus

Identifying Dialog Function Units (DFUs) in Varying Interaction Types (by modality, register/formality, number of interactants)

TENS: Tracking Emergent Narrative Skills


Selected Publications (See my curriculm vitae for a full list)

CV (pdf)

Columbia University
Center for Computational Learning Systems
Interchurch Center, Room 850
475 Riverside Drive MC 7717
New York, NY 10115

Phone: (212) 870-1278
becky at cs dot columbia dot edu
becky at ccls dot columbia dot edu