Daniel Bauer

Dr. Daniel Bauer is a Senior Lecturer in the discipline of natural language processing in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. His research focuses on developing systems that can accurately interpret natural language in multimodal environments and linguistic discourse, with a particular emphasis on the semantics of natural language and efficient translation between surface text, syntax, and semantics. Bauer's work utilizes deep, formal representations of language meaning, applicable to areas like machine translation and natural language user interfaces. With degrees in cognitive science from the University of Osnabrück, language science and technology from Saarland University, and a PhD in computer science from Columbia University, Bauer brings a multidisciplinary approach to his research. His expertise lies in syntactic and semantic parsing, combining machine learning techniques with linguistically inspired formal models. Bauer's innovative work includes using hyperedge replacement graph grammars to construct meaning representations and exploring language grounded in other modalities like formal knowledge bases, 3-D scenes, vision, and robotics. Through his research and teaching, Bauer contributes significantly to advancing natural language processing systems and their applications in various fields