Steven DeRose

Steven J DeRose is a computer scientist with a significant history of contributions to Computational Linguistics and to key standards related to document processing, mostly around ISO's Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and W3C's Extensible Markup Language (XML).

His contributions include the following:

While serving as Chief Scientist of the Brown University Scholarly Technology Group, he received NSF and NEH grants and contributed heavily to the Open eBook and Encoded Archival Description standards. Previously, he was co-founder and Chief Scientist at Electronic Book Technologies, Inc., where he designed the first SGML browser (Dynatext), which earned 11 US Patents and won multiple Seybold and other awards.

His 1987 article with James Coombs and Allen Renear, "Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing", is a seminal source for the theory of markup systems, and has been widely cited and reprinted.[1] In addition, he has published 2 books (Making Hypermedia Work: A User's Guide to HyTime and The SGML FAQ Book); many articles, including several at Balisage and predecessor conferences series; and keynote addresses at the ACM Conference on Very Large DataBases (VLDB),[2] and a talk at the Text Encoding Initiative.[3]

In Computational Linguistics, he is known[4] for pioneering the use of dynamic programming methods for part-of-speech tagging (DeRose 1988, 1990).

Selected publications

  1. DeRose, Steven J. 1988. "Grammatical category disambiguation by statistical optimization."‭ Computational Linguistics 14(1): 31–39.
  2. DeRose, Steven J. 1990. "Stochastic Methods for Resolution of Grammatical Category Ambiguity in Inflected and Uninflected Languages." Ph.D. Dissertation. Providence, RI: Brown University Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences.
  3. DeRose, Steven J. and David G. Durand. 1994. Making Hypermedia Work: A User's Guide to HyTime. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 13: 9780792394327.
  4. DeRose, Steven J. 1997. The SGML FAQ Book. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 13: 9780792399438.

References

  1. ^ [1] [2] [3][4] [5] [6]
  2. ^ 1999 Invited talks at VLDB
  3. ^ The Relation Between TEI and XML, at the TEI 10 conference
  4. ^ Steven Abney. 1997. "Part-of-speech tagging and partial parsing." In Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech. [7]. Susan Schreibman, Raymond George Siemens, and John M. Unsworth (eds). 2005. A companion to digital humanities. (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture). ISBN 978-1405103213. [8]

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