Funding

Richard Sproat (PI), "Segmental Awareness and Indic Writing Systems", $108,259.
Richard Sproat (PI), Elabbas Benmamoun (co-PI), "Language Adaptation for Colloquial Arabic", Supplemental NSF grant from National Security Agency, September 2004 --- August 2005, $125,237.
Richard Sproat (PI), Dan Roth (co-PI), Elabbas Benmamoun (co-PI), Chengxiang Zhai (co-PI), "Named Entity Recognition and Transliteration for 50 Languages", Central Intelligence Agency, NBCHC040176, 30 September 2004 -- 29 September 2006, $377,930.
P. Bryan Heidorn (PI), Richard Sproat (co-PI), "Spatial language and spatial reasoning for understanding georeference information in natural history collections." University of Illinois Research Board, August 2005 -- May 2006. $6120.
Richard Sproat (PI), Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (co-PI), Chilin Shih (co-PI), Kay Bock (co-PI), Brian Ross (co-PI), Dan Roth (co-PI) "Automated Methods for Second-Language Fluency Assessment". University of Illinois Critical Research Initiative. August 2005 -- July 2007, $147,019; with possibility of extension to a third year.
Richard Sproat (PI), Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (co-PI), Chilin Shih (co-PI), Kay Bock (co-PI), Brian Ross (co-PI), Fred Davidson (Senior Researcher), "DHB: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Dynamics of Second Language Fluency", NSF-IIS-0623805, February 2007 --- January 2010, $680,781.
NSF ITR Award #0205731 Prosody Generation for Child Oriented Speech Synthesis

Thesis Committees

I am the thesis supervisor for the following students:

Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, "Emotions in Text and Speech". Exp: 2007.
Hahn Koo. "Learning Non-adjacent Phonotactic Constraints from Brief Experience". Exp: 2007.
Ayelet Weiss. Error correction for second-language learners of Hebrew. Exp: 2007.
Eugene Chung, Semantics of spatial expressions. Exp: 2008.

I am also on the following students' thesis committees:

Taejin Yoon
Heidi Lorimor

I also served on thesis committees while I was in industry. We didn't have students at (AT&T) (Bell) Labs, but I have served on a few thesis committees over the years:

Jill Burstein, CUNY 1992, The Stress and Syntax of Compound Nominals.
Scobie Smith, Harvard 2003, Hurrian Interference in Nuzi Akkadian: Comparative Graphemics.
Martin Jansche, OSU, 2003, Inference of String Mappings for Speech Technology

Editorial Boards, etc.

I have served on the editorial boards of Language, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Computational Linguistics. I am currently on the editorial board of Journal of Chinese Language and Computing and the Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. I was tutorials chair at the 1999 ACL meeting.

I am edited a special issue of the Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. Here was the CFP.

Society Memberships

I am currently a member of the Linguistic Society of America and the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Other

I am the archivist for the Association for Computational Linguistics. I serve on the LINGUIST Advisory Panel. I am the Chair of SIGHAN, the ACL Special Interest Group on Chinese Language Processing. I am also in charge of the First International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff sponsored by SIGHAN.

I was the chair of the LSA Committee on Computing in 1997, and editor of the ACL Newsletter the Finite String from 1996-1997.

I was a co-organizer of AT&T Speech Days.

I am also interested in what kinds of jobs linguists can get. See my survey of linguistics jobs from 1994-2001, based on an analysis of the jobs advertised on the LINGUIST List.