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Staff
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Bill Woods (Principal Investigator)
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Bill is a Distinguished Engineer and Principal Scientist at Sun
Microsystems Laboratories in Burlington, Massachusetts. Bill
joined Sun in 1991 when the Labs were founded.
He is well known for his research in natural language processing,
continuous speech understanding, and knowledge representation, and
is currently interested in technology to improve people's ability to
find information online. He earned his doctorate at Harvard
University, where he has also served as a Gordon McKay Professor of
the Practice of Computer Science. He is a past president of the
Association for Computational Linguistics, a Fellow of the American
Association for Artificial Intelligence, and a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Stephen Green
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Stephen is a Staff Engineer in the Knowledge Technology Group at Sun
Microsystems Laboratories. His research interests include lexical
semantics, information retrieval, and hypertext.
Before joining Sun, Stephen spent two years as a Research Fellow in
the Division of Information and Communication Studies at Macquarie
University in Sydney, Australia. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Toronto in 1997, where his work involved the automatic
generation of hypertext links in large document collections.
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Paul Martin
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Paul joined Sun Microsystems Laboratories in 1993
and was coleader of the speech applications project. He is currently
a member of the Knowledge Technology Group, adapting and extending its
language and knowledge tools.
Before joining Sun, Paul pursued his research interest in using
human language to communicate with computers in IBM's Austin
Information Retrieval Tools group, in the Human Interface and Natural
Language groups at MCC, and at SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center.
He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University for research conducted
at Stanford's AI Lab and at Xerox PARC.
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Ann Houston (consultant)
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Ann is a consultant to the Knowledge Technology Group at Sun
Microsystems Laboratories, working on lexicon development, multilingual
issues, and system testing. Previous work includes postdoctoral work on
large-scale, multilingual online dictionaries and teaching materials and
development of decision-support and data-mining
applications for the airline and financial industries. Prior to
working for Sun, Ann was a senior development scientist for Ascent Technology,
and she was designer and developer of an ecommerce site for Kaon Interactive.
Ann received her doctorate in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Robert Kuhns (consultant)
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Robert is a consultant to the Knowledge Technology Group at
Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where his work includes developing
language resource, evaluating performance,
and investigating language and business
issues concerning globalization. Some of his interests and experience
are in automatic indexing, information extraction, authoring systems,
and globalization of information products. Previously, Bob was a
consultant at Arthur D. Little, Inc., and a chief scientist at Science
Applications International Corporation.
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Other Contributors
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Acknowledgments
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Many other people have been involved in creating the conceptual
indexing and retrieval system at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.
These include: Gary
Adams, Jacek Ambroziak, Larry Bookman, Chris Colby, Jim Flowers,
Ellen Hays, Patrick Martin, Peter Norvig, Tony Passera, Philip Resnik,
Robert Sproull, and Mark Torrance.
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Conceptual Indexing Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Knowledge Technology Group, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
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