NLIP Group

Colin Kelly

I am a PhD student in Computational Linguistics within the NLIP Group at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. My current research, supervised by Dr Anna Korhonen, focuses on automated extraction of property-norm-like features from text corpora.

Contact information

Colin Kelly
University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory
15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 0FD
United Kingdom
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Phone: +44 1223 7-63529
Email: firstname.lastname@cl.cam.ac.uk

Short bio

I'm a member of the Natural Language and Information Processing Group at the Computer Laboratory in Cambridge as a PhD candidate, supervised by Dr Anna Korhonen. My current research involves developing methods for the extraction of human-like property-norm triples from large text corpora. I am examining the utility of syntactic, semantic, and encyclopedic information in guiding this task and developing appropriate and cognitively-motivated methods for accurate evaluation, and am doing this as part of the Computational Natural Language Processing and the Neuro-Cognition of Language Group.

In 2006 I graduated with a BA (Hons), Mathematics and Computer Science from the Computing Laboratory and Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford whilst at Balliol College. I then came to Cambridge to study for an MPhil in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology from Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge which I completed in 2007. I was then (and still am now) a member of Trinity Hall.

Publications

Semi-supervised learning for automatic conceptual property extraction (2012)
Colin Kelly, Barry Devereux, Anna Korhonen. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics.
Acquiring human-like feature-based conceptual representations from corpora (2010)
Colin Kelly, Barry Devereux, Anna Korhonen. In Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 First Workshop on Computational Neurolinguistics.
Using fMRI activation to conceptual stimuli to evaluate methods for extracting conceptual representations from corpora (2010)
Barry Devereux, Colin Kelly, Anna Korhonen. In Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 First Workshop on Computational Neurolinguistics.
Investigating content selection for language generation using machine learning (2009)
Colin Kelly, Ann Copestake, Nikiforos Karamanis. In Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation.