John T. Maxwell III

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• Principal Engineer
• Natural Language Theory and Technology Area, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, PARC
• Research Interests: efficient algorithms for parsing, generation, translation, and disambiguation
• Major Projects: XLE and partrans
• Outside Activities: loving my wife, raising my children (John, Timothy, Scott, Andrew, Grace, and Christie), and studying the Bible

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Publications

See PARC's publication database.

Some early papers (in postscript form, use ghostscript for best results):

• A Method for Disjunctive Constraint Satisfaction (With Ron Kaplan, in Current Issues in Parsing Technologies (1991))
• The Interface Between Phrasal and Functional Constraints (With Ron Kaplan, in CL 19:4 (1994))

Talks

• Mockingbird Forum Talk. Xerox PARC Forum talk (October 30th, 1980).
• Mockingbird, A Composer's Amanuensis. A demo video of the first WYSIWYG music notation editor (~1980).
• Here are some slides for an introductory talk on machine learning that I gave that is aimed at non-mathematicians (Here is a pdf version, complements of Ronny Melz). It focuses on the differences between Support Vector Machines and log-linear models (e.g. logistic regression, maximum entropy models). The slides were made on a Macintosh, so they might look funny on other platforms.

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John Maxwell <maxwell@parc.com>
Natural Language Theory and Technology Area (NLTT)
Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL)
office: 26-2652

Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Rd.
Palo Alto, CA 94304
phone: (650) 812-4838
fax: (650) 812-4374