Sravana Reddy

I am a 3^rd year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. My research interests are primarily in natural language processing. I am also interested in computational phonology, speech, and machine learning. John Goldsmith is my advisor.

Projects

Linguistica

Publications

Sravana Reddy and Sonjia Waxmonsky. 2009. Substring-based Transliteration with Conditional Random Fields. In Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP Named Entities Workshop (Shared Task). [pdf]

Sravana Reddy. 2009. Understanding Eggcorns. In Proceedings of the NAACL HLT Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity. [pdf]

Manuscripts

Part of Speech Induction using Non-negative Matrix Factorization. Masters' Thesis, The University of Chicago. [E-mail for copy]

Research Internships

Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL). Summer 2009.
The Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University. Summer 2006.
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Summer 2005.

Education

M.S. (part of Ph.D) in Computer Science. University of Chicago, 2009.
B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Creative Writing. Brandeis University, 2006.

Teaching Experience

Lab TA, Introduction to Computer Science - 1 (Fall 2009)
Old courses: Lab TA for Distributed Objects (Spring 2009). TA for Introduction to Computer Science - 2 (Winter 2009), Computational Linguistics (Fall 2008), Intro to the World Wide Web - 2 (Spring 2008), Fundamentals of Computer Programming - 2 (Winter 2008), Foundations of Software (Fall 2007)