Computer Laboratory

Natural Language and Information Processing Research Group

People

Academic staff

  • Prof. Edward J. Briscoe – ejb – GS18
    Robust parsing technology, constraint-based processing, language acquisition and language evolution.
  • Dr Stephen Clark – sc609 – GS17
    Statistical parsing, compositional and distributional semantics, lexical and world knowledge acquisition, machine learning for NLP.
  • Prof. Ann Copestake – aac10 – GS20
    Compositional and lexical semantics, formalisms for language representation, multiword expressions, generation, grammar development environments.
  • Dr Simone Teufel – sht25 – GS14
    Text summarisation, text generation and regeneneration, information retrieval.

Research fellows

  • Dr Anna Korhonen – alk23 – GS12
    Lexical acquisition and adaptation, lexical semantics, discourse, scientific text processing, text mining, multilingual NLP, minimally supervised NLP, language acquisition, language in the brain.

Post-doctoral researchers

  • Dr Mohan Ganesalingam – mg262 – GS37
  • Dain Kaplan – dk453 – GS02
  • Dr Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha – do242 – GS02
    Computational lexical semantics, semantic relations, multiword expressions, combining lexical and structural semantic models, Bayesian modelling for NLP, kernel methods for NLP, biomedical information extraction
  • Dr Tamara Polajnar – tp366 – GS19
    Distributional semantics, kernel methods
  • Dr Roi Reichart – rr439 – GS24
    Unsupervised and semi-supervised approaches to NLP, domain adaptation, statistical parsing, grammar induction
  • Dr Laura Rimell – lr346 – GS19
  • Dr Ilona Silins – is345 – GS08
    Biomedical text mining
  • Dr Andreas Vlachos – av308 – GS16
    Active learning, Biomedical text mining, Clustering, Information extraction, Semantic parsing

Research students

  • Saad Aloteibi – smsa3 – GS16
    A user-centered approach to Information Retrieval (Clark)
  • Awais Athar – aa496 – GS06 (Teufel)
  • Sandro Bauer – smb89 – GS06
    Information and Knowledge Extraction using Structured Knowledge Bases (Clark)
  • Frannie Chang – cyc30 – GS08
    Transformations for Linguistic Steganography (Clark)
  • Yufan Guo – yg244 – GS08
    Information structure of scientific documents (Korhonen)
  • Felix Hill – fh295 – GS08 (Korhonen)
  • James Jardine – jgj29 – GS06 (Teufel)
  • Colin Kelly – ck329 – GS06
    Acquiring human-like feature-based conceptual representations from corpora (Korhonen)
  • Douwe Kiela – dk427 – GS06
    Distributional Compositional Models of Semantics (Clark)
  • Ekaterina Kochmar – ek358 – GS24 (Briscoe)
  • Thomas Lippincott – tl318 – GS24
    Automatically acquiring lexical resources from corpora (Korhonen)
  • Stuart Moore – stjm2 – GS08
    Number sense disambiguation (Korhonen)
  • Marek Rei – mr472 – GS24
    Text mining and information retrieval from biomedical texts (Briscoe)
  • Lin Sun – ls418 – GS06
    Verb classification, biomedical text mining, unsupervised learning (Korhonen)
  • Theodosia Togia – tt309 – GS06
    Uncovering implicit relations in folksonomy (Copestake)
  • Quang Phu (Chris) Vo – qpv20 – GS08 (Korhonen)
  • Wenduan Xu – wx217 – GS06
    Dependency models for wide-coverage CCG parsing (Clark)
  • Helen Yannakoudakis – hy260 – GS24 (Briscoe)

Visitors and local collaborators

  • Dr Paula Buttery – pjb48 – GS04
    Construction and evaluation of computational models of language acquisition, automated corpus analysis (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics)
  • Dr Oeistein Andersen – oa223 – GS24
  • Dr Wenhao Zhu – wz261 – GS04
    (Shanghai University)

The group mailing list is local-nlip. For individual contact details, see also the Laboratory's list of all members. A list of former members is available.