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  • paula.buttery at cl.cam.ac.uk

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About me...

I am a Senior Research Associate in the Computation Cognition and Language Group at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. My PhD was carried out under the supervision of Ted Briscoe in the Natural Language and Information Processing Group at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory.

My curriculum vitae [pdf]

Industry Links

I am a part of iLexIR: a software consultancy that provides natural language processing solutions---specializing in text analytics, mining, classification and search applications.

I am a London Technology Network Business Fellow and a Cambridge Enterprise Champion.

Research Interests

The subject of my PhD thesis was Computational Models for First Language Acquisition. I continue to be interested in computational modelling of the cognition and acquisition of language as well as methods for the analysis of neuro-linguistic data; and automated corpus analysis (data mining and text classification).

Recent projects include:

Computational Natural Language Processing and the Neuro-Cognition of Language
2008–2011; Lorraine K. Tyler, William Marslen-Wilson, Paula Buttery, Anna Korhonen
Co-funded by the EPSRC, ESRC and MRC (Cognitive Systems Foresight project).

Developing Multilingual Technologies for Automatic Lexical Acquisition (TAACL)
2008–2010; Anna Korhonen, Paula Buttery, Thierry Poibeau
Funded by the British Council (Alliance Programme).

English Profile: Reference Level Descriptions for English
2005–; RCEAL component funded by Cambridge ESOL.

Information for Prospective Students

Students interested in working within my fields of research may want to apply to the MPhil in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology or for consideration as a PhD student supervised by members of the Computation Cognition and Language Group at the RCEAL.

Selected Papers and Publications

McCarthy, M. and Buttery, P. Lexis in Spoken Discourse In the Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Routledge, forthcoming.

Vlachos, A., Buttery, P., Ó Séaghdha, D., Briscoe, T. Biomedical Event Extraction without Training Data, in Proceedings of BioNLP 2009 at NAACL, Boulder, CO. [pdf]

Rice, A., Buttery, P., Rai, I. and Beresford, A., Language learning on a next-generation service platform for Africa. Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social and Economic Development, W3C, April 2009. [pdf]

Hawkins, J.A. and Buttery, P. Using learner language from corpora to profile levels of proficiency: Insights from the English Profile Programme. In: Studies in Language Testing: The Social and Educational Impact of Language Assessment, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Buttery, P. Using large-scale corpora within the English Profile program; computational methods for constructing reference levels descriptors AAAL 2009 Denver, Colorado.

Gram, L. and Buttery, P. Integrating simulation and experiment: A study of Japanese second language acquistion. AMLaP 2008, Cambridge, UK.

Briscoe, T. and Buttery, P. Linguistic Adaptions for Resolving Ambiguity in Smith, A. D. M., Smith, K., & Ferrer i Cancho, R. (eds). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7), Barcelona, 2008. Singapore: World Scientific Press.

Briscoe, T. and Buttery, P. The Influence of Prosody and Ambiguity on English Relativization Strategies paper at Interdisciplinary Approaches to Relative Clauses, Cambridge, UK, 2007.

Buttery, P., Villavicencio, V. and Korhonen, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition. Prague, Czech Republic. Association of Computational Linguists, 2007.

Buttery, P. and Korhonen, A. "I will shoot your shopping down and you can shoot all my tins"---Automatic Lexical Acquisition from the CHILDES Database In proceedings of ACL-2007 Workshop, Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.

Buttery, P. Computational Models for First Language Acquisition PhD thesis published as a technical report, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 2006. [pdf]

Buttery, P. and Korhonen A. Large-scale analysis of verb subcategorization differences between child directed speech and adult speech Verb Workshop 2005, Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Identification and Representation of Verb Features and Verb Classes, Saarland University 2005. [pdf]

Buttery, P. A quantitative evaluation of naturalistic models of language acquisition; the efficiency of the Triggering Learning Algorithm compared to a Categorial Grammar Learner. Psycho-computational Models of Human Language Acquisition, COLING-2004 Workshop, Geneva 2004. [pdf]

Buttery, P. and Briscoe, T. The Significance of Errors to Parametric Models of Language Acquisition. AAAI Technical Report SS-04-05, Spring Symposium on Language Learning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, pages 15--20, Stanford University, 2004.

Buttery, P. and Villavicencio, A. Language Acquisition and the Universal Grammar AMLaP, Glasgow, 2003, page 119.

Buttery, P. A Computational Model of First Language Acquisition CLUK6, Edinburgh, 2003, pages 1--8. [pdf] [ps]

Buttery, P. Learning from Annotated Corpora Masters Thesis, University of Cambridge. [pdf] [ps]

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