Dr. Chris Irwin Davis
Associate Professor of Instruction (CS & CE)
Degrees:
- Ph.D., Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2011
- M.S., Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2009
- B.S., Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2005
Research Interests:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Computational Linguistics
- Assistive Technologies
- Human Augmentation, Prosthetics, and Personal Robotics
Representative Publications:
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Chris Irwin Davis, “Tajik-Farsi Persian Transliteration Using Statistical Machine Translation,” In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012.
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Chris Irwin Davis, “A Framework for Representing Event Semantics in Modern Persian,” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2011.
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Chris Irwin Davis, “A Framework for Representing Event Semantics of Verb Word Senses,” In Proceedings of Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs. Pisa, Italy, 2010.
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Chris Irwin Davis and Dan Moldovan, “Feasibility of Boostrapping a Persian WordNet,” In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Valletta, Malta, 2010.
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Olteanu, C. Davis, I. Volosen, and D. Moldovan, “Phramer – an open source statistical phrase-based translator.” In Proceedings on the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 146-149, Association for Computational Linguistics, New York City, June 2006.
Notable Service:
- UTDesign Faculty Advisor
- CICLing conference Secondary Reviewer
- ACL Journal Special Edition Secondary Reviewer
- Member of Problem Development Committee of North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO)
