| Work: |
Between 1996 and 2007, I was Chief Scientist and co-founder of ITA Software, a company that
provides search and optimization software and services to the travel
industry, as well as core transaction, storage and distribution services
for airlines and travel agents. ITA's programs lie behind the web sites
and operations centers of major airlines and travel agencies.
If you are here hoping to find published papers or lecture notes for the
Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning talk I've given
at various universities, an annotated version that does not include
discussion of algorithms can be found here
in PDF form and here
as ordinary web pages.
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| Personal: |
I live with my wife Marina and daughter Nina
in Seattle, where Marina teaches Computer Science and Statistics and the
University of Washington. Friends can get in touch by sending mail to
| {firstname} | @{lastname}.org |
| de Marckens |
| 2159 E. Shelby St. |
| Seattle, WA 98105 |
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| Academic: |
Prior to starting ITA Software I was a student in Computer Science at MIT, where
my research focussed on natural language processing, human language acquisition,
and machine learning. Both my undergraduate and PhD theses won best
dissertation awards. Here are links to natural language processing papers that
are frequently requested:
| Unsupervised Language Acquisition, PhD thesis, 1996 |
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| Linguistic Structure as Composition and Perturbation, ACL 1996 |
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| On the Unsupervised Induction of Phrase Structure Grammars, SIGDAT 1995 |
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| Parsing the LOB Corpus, ACL 1990 |
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