Scholar
William D. Lewis
Google Scholar ID: U9ha8ZIAAAAJ
University of Washington
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,808
H-index
19
i10-index
24
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published numerous papers on data filtration and reduction methods. Participated in the TICO-19 project to develop resources for under-resourced languages in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Received NSF CIRC awards (2346334 and 2346335) to continue research in the crisis response space.
Research Experience
- Worked for nearly 14 years with the Machine Translation Incubation team, focusing on developing and deploying new language models. Co-founded and taught in the Computational Linguistics Master of Science Program at UW with Emily Bender and Fei Xia. Involved in multiple machine translation projects for low-resource languages such as Haitian Kreyòl, White Hmong, Queretaro Otomí, Yucatec Maya, Welsh, Icelandic, Canadian French, and Inuktitut.
Education
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Background
- Research interests include machine translation, the use of language technologies in crisis response, and processing low-resource languages. Worked at Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure, focusing on developing new language models and data processing methods. Previously taught at California State University Fresno, where he helped establish the Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science programs.
Miscellany
- Will be teaching a graduate seminar in Spring 2025 called 'Language Technologies for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR).'
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