about
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at MIT/Columbia studying with Professor Michael Collins. My interest is in formally sound, but empirically fast decoding methods for human language. Specifically I work on inference and training problems in parsing, syntactic translation, and speech. This research falls in between the categories of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
Technically, I go to school in Boston, study in Manhattan, and live in Brooklyn.
publications
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Alexander M. Rush, Roi Reichert, Michael Collins, and Amir Globerson Improved Parsing and POS Tagging Using Inter-Sentence Consistency Constraints In proceedings of EMNLP 2012.
- Alexander M. Rush and Slav Petrov, Vine Pruning for Efficient Multi-Pass Dependency Parsing. In proceedings of NAACL 2012. [slides] Best Paper Award
- Alexander M. Rush and Michael Collins. A Tutorial on Dual Decomposition and Lagrangian Relaxation for Inference in Natural Language Processin (In Submission). Tutorial at NIPS 2011. [slides] Tutorial at ACL 2011. [slides]
- Alexander M. Rush and Michael Collins. Exact Decoding of Syntactic Translation Models through Lagrangian Relaxation. Proceedings of ACL 2011. [slides]
- Terry Koo, Alexander M. Rush, Michael Collins, Tommi Jaakkola, and David Sontag. Dual Decomposition for Parsing with Non-Projective Head Automata. Proceedings of EMNLP 2010. [slides] Best Paper Award
- Alexander M. Rush, David Sontag, Michael Collins, and Tommi Jaakkola On Dual Decomposition and Linear Programming Relaxations for Natural Language Processing. Proceedings of EMNLP 2010. [slides]
- Rebecca Nesson, Stuart M. Shieber, and Alexander M. Rush. Induction of probabilistic synchronous tree-insertion grammars for machine translation. In Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2006), Boston, Massachusetts, 8-12 August 2006.
work
From 2011-onward, I have been working/interning with Slav Petrov and the other natural language researchers at Google NY.
In 2010, I interned with the ISI Natural Language Group . I collaborated primarily with Liang Huang on machine translation.
From 2007-2009, I worked at Facebook. During that time, I helped develop Facebook Platform and Connect as well as many other fun projects. I miss RipStiks, but not PHP.
teaching
I'm currently the head TA for Natural Language Processing at Columbia.
As an undergraduate, I was a teaching assistant for CS 181: Intelligent Machines: Perception, Learning and Uncertainty with Avi Pfeffer, CS 182: Intelligent Machines: Reasoning, Actions, and Plans with David Parkes, and QR 48: Bits with Harry Lewis and Hal Abelson.