Bob Wall

Montana State University

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science


Office: EPS 352
Email: bwall@cs.montana.edu


Fall 2009 Schedule
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Noon
1:00
2:00
3:00 Meet with Dr. Angryk
4:00 CS Seminar Research
Happy hour Research Research



Research Interests

I am currently working on applying a computational technique called Map Seeking Circuits (MSC) to different Natural Language Processing tasks. The first application that I am attempting is part of speech tagging and word sense disambiguation.



Publications

Book Chapters
"Generating Concept Hierarchies from User Queries." Bob Wall, Neal Richter, and Rafal A. Angryk. In Data Mining: Foundations and Practice, volume 118 of Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, (2008), pp. 423-441.
Refereed Proceedings
B. Wall, N. Richter, R. Angryk, "Creating Concept Hierarchies in an Information Retrieval System,"Proceeding of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-IEEE '05), Workshop on Foundations of Semantic Oriented Data and Web Mining, Houston, TX, USA, November 2005, pp. 99-105.
Theses
Wall, Robert L., "Implementing high-order context models for statistical data compression." Thesis submitted for M.S. degree in Computer Science, Montana State University, 1994.
Wall, Robert L., "VLSI implementation of a high speed LZW data compressor." Thesis submitted for M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Montana State University, 1991.


Classes Taken

Spring Semester 2006

CS 536 - Advanced Artificial Intelligence (Again)

Spring Semester 2005

CS 535 - Database Theory

CS 580 - Computational Science

MUS 280 - Recording and Computer Applications

Fall Semester 2004

CS 422 - Intro to Simulation

EE 578 - Speech Signal Processing

EE 480 - Acoustics and Audio Engineering

Spring Semester 2004

CS 515 - Analysis of Algorithms

CS 536 - Advanced Artificial Intelligence

EE 548 - Advanced Topics in Communications Systems

Fall Semester 2003

CS 550 - Advanced Design and Translation of Programming Languages

CS 436 - Artificial Intelligence

EE 565 - Parallel and Associative Processors



Outside School

I work at RightNow Technologies, as a software engineer currently working on their public APIs (SOAP, PHP, REST).

RightNow


And here's my own home page.



Mail me at: bwall@cs.montana.edu

Last modified: Oct 13, 2009