I am a final year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado at Boulder and I work in the Stanford NLP lab with Dan Jurafsky and Chris Manning. I do research in natural language processing (NLP) with a focus on statistical machine translation (SMT/MT). I am one of the primary authors of the Stanford Phrasal machine translation system. I have also done some work in textual entailment, speech recognition, and parsing.

Publications

Papers

The Best Evaluation Metric for Machine Translation Training
Daniel Cer, Daniel Jurafsky and Christopher Manning
Accepted to appear in NAACL 2010
Systematic evaluation of parsing algorithms for the Stanford dependencies
Daniel Cer, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Dan Jurafsky and Chris Manning
Accepted to appear in LREC 2010 [Abstract]
Measuring Machine Translation Quality as Semantic Equivalence: A Metric Based on Entailment Features.
Sebastian Padó, Daniel Cer, Michel Galley, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning.
Machine Translation. Nov 2009 [Springer]
Stanford University's Arabic-to-English Statistical Machine Translation System for the 2009 NIST Evaluation.
Michel Galley, Spence Green, Daniel Cer, Pi-Chuan Chang, Christopher D. Manning.
The 2009 NIST Open Machine Translation Evaluation Meeting. [PDF]
Regularization and Search for Minimum Error Rate Training.
Daniel Cer, Daniel Jurafsky, and Christopher D. Manning.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. 2008 [PDF]
Stanford University's Chinese-to-English Statistical Machine Translation System for the 2008 NIST Evaluation.
Michel Galley, Pi-Chuan Chang, Daniel Cer, Jenny R. Finkel, and Christopher D. Manning.
Proceedings of the 2008 NIST Open Machine Translation Evaluation Workshop. [PDF]
Aligning semantic graphs for textual inference and machine reading.
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Trond Grenager, Bill MacCartney, Daniel Cer, Daniel Ramage, Chloe Kiddon and Christopher D. Manning.
In AAAI Spring Symposium at Stanford. 2007 [PDF]
Learning Alignments and Leveraging Natural Logic.
Nathanael Chambers, Daniel Cer, Trond Grenager, David Hall, Chloe Kiddon, Bill MacCartney, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Daniel Ramage, Eric Yeh and Christopher D. Manning.
In ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing. 2007 [PDF]
Learning to recognize features of valid textual entailments.
Bill MacCartney, Trond Grenager, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Daniel Cer and Christopher D. Manning.
In Proceedings of the North American Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL-06). 2006 [PDF]
Learning to distinguish valid textual entailments.
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Bill MacCartney, Trond Grenager, Daniel Cer, Anna Rafferty and Christopher D. Manning.
In Proceedings of the Second PASCAL Challenges Workshop. 2006 [PDF]
The Detection of Emphatic Words Using Acoustic and Lexical Features.
Jason M. Brenier, Daniel Cer and Daniel Jurafsky.
In Proceedings of EUROSPEECH. 2005 [PDF]
Effectiveness of Neural Network Learning Rules Generated by a Biophysical Model of Synaptic Plasticity.
Dave Jilk, Daniel M. Cer, & Randall C. O'Reilly.
In Proceedings of the Computational Neuroscience Conference. 2003 [PDF]
Issues in Recognition of Spanish-Accented Spontaneous English.
Ayako Ikeno, Bryan Pellom, Dan Cer, Ashley Thornton, Jason Brenier, Dan Jurafsky, Wayne Ward, William Byrne.
In IEEE ISCA & IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition. 2003 [PDF]

Presentations

Emphasis detection in speech using acoustic & lexical features.
Jason M. Brenier, Daniel Cer, & Dan Jurafsky.
Presented at Linguistic Society of America annual meeting. 2005
Supervised and unsupervised models for propositional analysis.
Simon Dennis, Dan Jurafsky, & Dan Cer
Presented at Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Statistics at the Neural Information Processing Society Conference. 2003

Book Chapters

Neural mechanisms of binding in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from computational models.
Daniel Cer & Randall C. O'Reilly.
In H.D. Zimmer & A. Mecklinger & U. Lindenberger (Eds) Handbook of Binding and Memory, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006 [Amazon] [OUP]

Contact

E-mail: Daniel.Cer@gmail.com
AIM: danc271828182
Jabber: daniel.cer@gmail.com
Profiles: Stackoverflow CV, LinkedIn
My software engineering hobby project