Lead Scientist
Has nearly 30 years experience applying advanced computing technologies to problems in the defense and commercial sectors. Dr. Bechtel's expertise lies in the areas of rule-based inference, natural language processing, knowledge representation, and neuropsychiatry. Prior to joining Soar Technology, he was Senior Scientist at Eclectic Computing Concepts, where he led projects in Battle Effects Assessment for JWAC and CENTCOM, and created an intelligence analyst workstation for a non-US intelligence service. Other positions have included: VP, System Development, Concurrent Knowledge Systems; Group Leader, Merit Technology; Director, Knowledge Engineering, UCCEL Corporation; and Scientist, Naval Ocean Systems Center. Since 1982, he has been Chief Technical Officer of GB Software, where he created a specialized natural language processing system capable of extracting meaningful indications of psychologically interesting states (such as anxiety and hostility) from written transcripts of verbal samples. Dr. Bechtel holds a BA in English, Loyola Marymount University; MS in Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington; and PhD in Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.
Taylor, G., Bechtel, R., Morgan, G. and Waltz, E., (2006) "A framework for modeling social power structures," Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Sciences, Notre Dame, IN.
Gottschalk, L. and Bechtel, R., (2005) "Computerized content analysis of speech plus speech recognition in the measurement of neuropsychiatric dimensions," Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 77, 81-86.
Gottschalk, L., Bechtel, R., Buchman, T. and Ray, S., (2005) "Measurement of hope and associated neuropsychiatric dimensions by the computerized content analysis of speech and verbal texts," Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Hope, 215-229, Nova Science, New York.
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