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material I have written for various projects. I have been responsible
for writing help files, white papers, brochures, readme files,
web content, proposals, posters, PPT presentations, sales propositions
and reports. It also includes information about my sales & marketing
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| Help
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I wrote
the accompanying documentation for most of the products developed
at BCL Technologies. The help files are constantly being updated,
and I am also responsible for making sure that each new software
version ships with the latest documentation. Help
file formats include chm, pdf, doc, html, and Pocket PC.
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| Papers
Proposals & Presentations |
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Sample
Papers
NSF
Grant Proposal
Language Data Repository Report
Phonetic
Transcription of the Ibo Language
Presentations
The following is a collection of presentations that I gave or
contributed to while working at BCL Technologies
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Knowledge Management Center (KMC)

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ITEC Tradeshow in Albuquerque
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Assuming
Accurate Layout Information for Web Documents is Available,
What Now? Hassan Alam, Rachmat Hartono, Aman Kumar,
Fuad Rahman, Yuliya Tarnikova and Che Wilcox. Third
International Workshop on Document Layout Interpretation
and its Applications (DLIA2003).

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Structured
and Unstructured Document Summarization: Design of
a Commercial Summarizer using Lexical Chains. H.
Alam, A. Kumar, M. Nakamura, A. F. R. Rahman, Y. Tarnikova
and C. Wilcox. 7th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis
and Recognition (ICDAR2003), 2003.
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Web
Page Summarization for Handheld Devices: A Natural
Language Approach. H. Alam, R. Hartono, A. Kumar,
A. F. R. Rahman, Y. Tarnikova and C. Wilcox. 7th Int.
Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2003),
2003.
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| Trade
Shows |
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I had the opportunity to represent my company at several trade shows.
At these shows, I was responsible for giving product demos and
answering questions. A few times I gave presentations to large
audiences.
Trade
Show Locations
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| Patents
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Publications
Working with a small team in the Research & Development department at BCL
Technologies, I contributed to the following publications. Please click the title
of each paper to download the PDF version.
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Hassan Alam, Hua Cheng, Rachmat Hartono,
Aman Kumar, Paul Llido, Crystal Nakatsu, Fuad Rahman, Yuliya
Tarnikova, Timotius Tjahjadi, Che Wilcox. Extending
A Broad-Coverage Parser for a General NLP Toolkit.
19th Int. Conf. O Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002),
24 Aug - 1 Sep, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Hassan Alam, Hua Cheng, Rachmat Hartono,
Aman Kumar, Paul Llido, Crystal Nakatsu, Fuad Rahman, Yuliya
Tarnikova, Timotius Tjahjadi, Che Wilcox. Automatic
Semantic Grouping in SLUI Toolkit. 19th Int. Conf.
O Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), 24 Aug - 1 Sep,
2002, Taipei, Taiwan.
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H. Alam, A. Rahman, T. Tjahjadi, H.
Cheng, P. Llido, A. Kumar, R. Hartono, Y. Tarnikova, and
C. Wilcox. Development
of Spoken Language User Interfaces: A Tool Kit Approach. Joint
IAPR Int. Workshops on Syntactical and Structural Pattern
Recognition (SSPR 2002) and Statistical Pattern Recognition
(SPR 2002),
Windsor, Canada, August 6-9, 2002.
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H. Alam, A. Rahman, T. Tjahjadi, H.
Cheng, P. Llido, A. Kumar, R. Hartono, Y. Tarnikova, and
C. Wilcox.
Fusion of Two Parsers for a Natural Language Processing Toolkit. Int. Conf.
On Information Fusion, Martyland,
July, 2002. USA.
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Patent
Applications
Most of the patents listed here are filed
under BCL Technologies with the following authors: H.
Alam, A. Rahman, T. Tjahjadi, H. Cheng, P. Llido, A. Kumar,
R. Hartono,
Y. Tarnikova,
and C.
Wilcox.
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Generating thematic roles in a spoken
language user interface toolkit. Provisional Patent, 60/427,394,
filed on November 18th, 2002.
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A comparison of a manual and a statistical
approach for the grammar induction for shallow paring.
Provisional Patent, 60/427462, filed on November 18th,
2002.
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BCL VoiceContact. Provisional Patent,
60/417,002, filed on October 7th, 2002.
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BCL Voice MP3. Provisional Patent, 60/417,029,
filed on October 7th, 2002.
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Voice control for music players. Provisional
Patent, 60/399,480, filed on July 29th, 2002.
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BCL VoiceCommand. Provisional Patent,
60/367,650, Filed on March 25th, 2002. *
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A spoken language user interface toolkit.
Provisional Patent 60/354,733, filed on February 4th, 2002.
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Spoken Language User Interface Toolkit,
Provisional Patent, filed on December 18th, 2001.
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Extending a broad coverage parser (MiniPar)
by combining it with a domain-specific Shallow parser for
the SLUI Toolkit. Provisional Patent 60/357,734, filed
on February 15th, 2002. *
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Rule based semantic tagging with a constrained
partial verb shallow parser based on the Levin 1993 classes.
Provisional Patent 60/354,758, filed on February 2nd, 2002.
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Automatic semantic grouping of SLUI
toolkit. Provisional Patent, 60/354,734 filed on February
2nd, 2002. *
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Adaptive natural language interface.
Provisional Patent, 60/404,725, filed on August 19th, 2002. |
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