Contact Info:

Katrin Kirchhoff

Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Room M422
Box 352500
Seattle, WA, 98195

email: myfirstname@ee.washington.edu (replace myfirstname with my first name)
phone: (206) 616-5494

I'm a Research Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at UW, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Linguistics and Computer Science Departments. My research interests include automatic speech recognition, natural language processing, machine translation, machine learning, and human-computer interfaces. I'm particularly interested in multilingual applications of speech and language technology.

Research

• Current research projects:
  • Graph-Based Learning for Speech Processing
  • GALE: Global Autonomous Language Exploitation
  • ITR: Translation Technology for Language Modeling
  • Machine Translation and Speech Recognition
  • MURI: Human-Like Speech Recognition

Publications

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Students

Graduate students:

• Kevin Duh (EE)
• Mei Yang (EE)
• Andrei Alexandrescu (CS)
• Raghunandan S. Kumaran (EE)
• Amittai Axelrod (EE)

Undergraduate students:

• Nigel Kilmer

Other Activities

• Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing on Processing Morphologically Rich Languages
• Editorial Board, Speech Communication
• Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing