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William Schuler
CSE Associate Professor William
Schuler’s
research aims to integrate speech recognition and semantic interpretation
into a unified model that allows people and computers to talk to each
other. His work also builds bridges between human language processing
and fields such as computer vision, robotics, and medicine.
In recognition of this work, the University of Minnesota awarded Schuler a
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship for 2007–2009, a scholarship
reserved for select junior faculty members who have the potential to
make significant contributions to their respective fields.
Schuler joined the CSE department in 2003. His research explores ways to
incorporate referential semantic context into the kind of statistical
time-series models commonly used in speech recognition, in order to
improve the accuracy of spoken language interfaces.
Schuler’s students receive hands-on experience with a processing
system for human language, which could be used for tasks such as getting
information from a medical database over the telephone or commanding a
team of robots.
The federal government recently recognized Schuler for his work in natural
language phonology, awarding him the Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in a ceremony at the White House last
July.
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the PECASE award is
intended to honor the nation’s most promising researchers early
in their careers within various fields. Schuler is one of only 20 PECASE
recipients sponsored by the NSF this year. He is the second CSE faculty
member to receive the award. Victoria Interrante, an associate professor
in the department, was also awarded the PECASE in 1999.
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