|
I am a computer science researcher and a technology management professional with over 15 years of industry experience in the Fortune 500 enterprise.
I am currently an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas.
I earned my Ph.D. from UT Dallas.
I did my graduate research at the Human Language Technology Research Institute
in the
Department of Computer Science.
My research advisor was
Dr. Dan Moldovan.
I currently hold a seat on the UTD Faculty Senate (2023-2024 Term)
Email: chrisirwindavis@utdallas.edu
Phone: (972) 883-3574
Office: ECSS 4.603
Mail: 800 West Campbell Road, Mailstop EC31, Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Teaching
Spring 2024 Courses
- Undergraduate
- CS-4337 Programming Languaguage Paradigms
- CS-4337 Programming Languaguage Paradigms (Honors)
- CS-4384 Automata Theory
- Graduate
- SE-6301 Natural Langauge Processing (NLP) and AI
Courses Previously Taught
- Undergraduate
- CS-1336 Programming Fundamentals
- CS-1337 Computer Science I
- CS-2305 Discrete Math I
- CS-3305 Discrete Math II
- CS-4337 Programming Language Paradigms
- CS-4347 Database Systems
- CS-4384 Automata Theory
- CS-4395 Human Language Technology (Naturual Language Processing)
- CS-4395 Human Language Technology
- Graduate
- SE-6301 Natural Langauge Processing (NLP) and AI
- CS-6360 Database Design
- CS-6364 Artificial Intelligence
Research Interests
- Computational Linguistics
- Computational Semantics
- Computational linguistics of languages with sparse resources
- In particular, Persian and other Indo-Iranian languages
- Machine Translation
- Computational Reasoning and Inference
- Assistive and Adaptive Technologies
Publications
- Chris Irwin Davis. 2012. Tajik-Farsi Persian Transliteration Using Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2012. Istanbul, Turkey.
- Chris Irwin Davis. 2011. A Framework for Representing Event Semantics in Modern Persian. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Texas at Dallas.
- Chris Irwin Davis. 2010. A Framework for Representing Event Semantics of Verb Word Senses. In Proceedings of Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs 2010. Pisa, Italy.
- Chris Irwin Davis and Dan Moldovan. 2010. Feasibility of Boostrapping a Persian WordNet. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2010. Valletta, Malta.
- M. Olteanu, C. Davis, I. Volosen, and D. Moldovan. 2006. Phramer - an open source statistical phrase-based translator. In Proceedings on the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 146-149, New York City, June 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics. [pdf]
|