Marcia T. Mitchell        
Associate Professor
Computer and Information Sciences Department 

Office Location:  Loyola Hall, Room 16
Telephone:(201)761-6356
Email Address: mmitchell@spc.edu

Education 
B.A., M.A., Saint Peter's College
M.S., Fairleigh Dickinson
Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology

Research Interest
My area of research is in computational linguistics and computational neuroscience. Computational linguistics is an area of study that employs a computer to process natural language, and is aimed at discerning the patterns that exist in declarative sentences. The technique I developed and named the MAYA Semantic Technique uses mathematical principles to represent grammatical operations which assist processing and accuracy if performed on unambiguous text. My research aims to study the various mathematical techniques that can be used with computational semantics techniques to derive partial semantics for sentences. Since the structure of declarative sentences lends itself to statistical analysis an application of the MAYA Semantic Technique can be used to determine partial semantics. The MAYA Semantic Technique could be used by an intelligent agent or intelligent search engine that would in turn, summarize the news articles, journals, on behalf of the users who request specific information.

Computational Neuroscience - I developed a mathematical technique that might be used within the brain to comprehend the content of text.


Partial Semantics: Pertains to the meaning of a sentence. Partial semantics is a brief or concise meaning of the sentence.  

Publications
Marcia T. Mitchell (2007) "An Architecture of an Intelligent Tutoring System to Support Distance Learning" Computing and Informatics Journal, Volume 26, Number 6, page 565-576
    
Marcia T. Mitchell (2005) MAYA SEMANTIC TECHNIQUE: A Mathematical Technique Used to Determine Partial Semantics for Declarative Sentences, International Journal of Computational Intelligence,Volume 2 Number 1, page 76-89 
       
Marcia T. Mitchell (2001) Dissertation - "Mathematical techniques used by an English language processing agent within a web-based parsing system for C++ instructional text", Stevens Institute of Technology
                
Submitted Papers
Marcia T. Mitchell (2010) "Summarization and the MAYA Semantic Technique"
Marcia T. Mitchell (2010) "MAYA Semantic Technique and the Brain"
Marcia T. Mitchell (2011) "Knowledge Representation of Neuronal Computation within a Natural Language Processing Program"
Marcia T. MItchell (2011) "A Theory: How Neurons in the Human Brain Might Determine Basic Sentence Comprehension with Coordinating
                           or Correlative Conjunction (Neuronal Computation of Partial Semantics with in a Natural Language
                           Processing Program)"

Working Paper         
"A Mathematical Technique for Neural Computation of Partial Semantics"
               
Courses Taught

Advanced Programming Techniques
Advanced Visual Basic

Advanced Web Page Development

C++ Programming

E-Commerce Web Site Construction
Foundation of Programming Systems
Internet and Web-Based Programming
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to UNIX

Java Programming
Total Business Systems

Windows Programming