Alexander G. Hauptmann is an American academic. He currently serves as a research professor in the Language Technologies Institute at the School of Computer Science at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

. He has been the leader of the

Informedia Digital Library The Informedia Digital Library is an ongoing research program at Carnegie Mellon University to build search engines and information visualization technology for many types of media.Alexander G. Hauptmann (1997)"Artificial Intelligence Techniques in ...

, which has made seminal strides in

multimedia information retrieval Multimedia information retrieval (MMIR or MIR) is a research discipline of computer science that aims at extracting semantic information from multimedia data sources.H Eidenberger. ''Fundamental Media Understanding'', atpress, 2011, p. 1. Data sour ...

and won best-paper awards at major conferences. He was also a founder of the international advisory committee for the Text Retrieval Conference Video Retrieval Evaluation, also known as TRECVID.

Biography

Hauptmann started at the

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consiste ...

in 1978 and received a BA and an MA in

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

in 1982. For two years, he studied

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...

at the Technische Universitaet Berlin. In 1991, he received a PhD in computer science from the

(CMU). From 1984, he was researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in the CMU speech group. The next two years, he was a research associate at the School of Computer Science, since 1994 a system scientist, and since 1998 a senior system scientist. In 2003, he received the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence, for the Informedia Digital Library, with H. Wactlar, M. Christel, T. Kanade and S. Stevens.

Work

His research interests are in multimedia analysis and indexing,

speech recognition Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the ma ...

speech synthesis Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal languag ...

, speech interfaces, interfaces to multimedia systems and language in general.Alexander G. Hauptmann
Carnegie Mellon University. According to Hauptmann (2008) "Over the years his research interests have led him to pursue and combine several different areas of research: man-machine communication, natural language processing and speech understanding".Alex Hauptmann
Biography 2008
Retrieved 7 June 2008 In the area of man-machine communication, according to Hauptmann (2008), "he is interested in the tradeoffs between different modalities, including gestures and speech, and in the intuitiveness of interaction protocols. In natural language processing, his desire is to break through the bottlenecks that are currently preventing larger scale natural language applications. The latter theme was also the focus of my thesis, which investigated the use of machine learning on large text samples to acquire the knowledge needed for semantic natural language understanding".

References

External links

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