Faculty
Richard W. Sproat
PhD, Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985
Research Interests:
- Text analysis and normalization
- Text-to-speech synthesis
- Natural language processing for text-to-scene conversion
- Writing systems
- Computational morphology
- Chinese linguistics
- Cross-linguistic named entity recognition
- Applications of speech and language processing to second language pedagogy.
- Computational modeling of language evolution
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Prof. Sproat's Research Interests
Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements
- University Scholar, Fall 2007
- Center for Advanced Studies Associate, Fall 2007 (Fall 2006)
- 1997 Lucent Technologies, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
- UIUC Alumni Award, 2005
- 2006 LAS Distinguished Faculty Award
Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Teaching
- Named in ``Research Memorandum #271: Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, Spring 2004'', Daily Illini, September 8, 2004.
- Ranked as excellent in teaching for Spring 2005