Students interested in working within my fields of research may want
to apply to the MPhil in Advanced Computer Science or for consideration as a PhD student
supervised by members of the Computational
Linguistics Cluster at the DTAL.
McEntyre, J.M., Ananiadou, S., Andrews, S., Black, WJ., Boul-
derstone, R., Buttery, P., Chaplin, D., Chevuru, S., Cobley, N.,
Coleman, L., Davey, P., Gupta, B., Haji-Gholam, L., Hawkins, C.,
Horne, A., Kim, J., Lewin, I., Lyte, V., MacIntyre, R., Man- soor, S.,
Mason, L., McNaught, J., Newbold, E., Nobata, C., Ong, E., Pillai, S.,
Rebholz-Schuhmann, D., Rosie, H., Rowbotham, R., Rupp, C.J., Stoehr,
P., and Vaughan, P. UKPMC: a full text article resource for the life
sciences, Nucleic Acids Research. 2010,
doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1063
Buttery, P. and McCarthy, M. Lexis in Spoken Discourse In the Routledge
Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Routledge. Gee, J., Handford, M.
(eds.) 2011
Caines, A. and Buttery, P. You Talking to Me? A predictive model for
zero-auxilary constructions. NLP and Linguistics Workshop,
ACL-2010, Uppsala.
Thwaites, A., Geertzen, J., Marslen-Wilson, W., Buttery, P.
Lexical
Isolation Point Software. LREC 2010,
Malta.
Williams, C., Thwaites, A., Buttery, P., Geertzen, J., Randell,
B., Shafto, M., Devereux, B., Tyler, L. The Cambridge Cookie-Theft
Corpus: A Corpus of Spontaneous and Directed Speech of Brain-
Damaged Patients and Healthy Individuals. LREC 2010, Malta.
Vlachos, A., Buttery, P., Seaghdha, 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.
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.
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. A Computational Model of
First Language Acquisition CLUK6, Edinburgh, 2003, pages 1--8. [pdf]
Buttery, P. Learning from Annotated
Corpora Masters Thesis, University of Cambridge. [pdf]
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