News
Sandee Carberry and I are program co-chairs for ACL 2010 to be held in Uppsala, Sweden. Our goal is a broad technical program. See the preliminary call for papers for details, and please email program@acl2010.org if you have any questions about the scope of the conference.
In the summer of 2009, together with Ann Copestake and James Curran, I led a team at the Johns Hopkins University summer workshop, working on Large-Scale Syntactic Processing: Parsing the Web.
Research
My research area is Natural Language Processing (also known as Computational Linguistics). My research goal is to produce effective Language Technology by exploiting theories and techniques from Computer Science, Linguistics and Machine Learning. The C&C parser that I have developed with James Curran from the University of Sydney is a good example of this approach.
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and a member of the Natural Language and Information Processing Research Group. From 2004 to 2008 I was a University Lecturer at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, and a Tutorial Fellow of Keble College. Before that I spent four years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics, working with Mark Steedman. I have a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex (under the supervision of David Weir) and a first degree in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Gonville and Caius College).
- Picture (2005 in front of Keble)
Supervision
I am fortunate to supervise the following graduate students:
- Frannie Chang. Linguistic Steganography.
- James Smith. Example-Based Methods for NLP with applications to Machine Translation and Preposition Correction
- Yue Zhang. Discriminative Learning Approaches for the Statistical Processing of Chinese
And research students already graduated:
- Brian Harrington (DPhil, Oxford, 2009). ASKNet: Automatically Creating Semantic Knowledge Networks from Natural Language Text
At Oxford I supervised 18 6-month MSc projects on a variety of topics in language processing and AI, as well as a number of final-year undergraduate projects.
Grants
- Accurate and Efficient Parsing of Biomedical Text. Funded by EPSRC (2007-2010)
Working with Laura Rimell
Workshops
I have participated in three 6-week research workshops at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the 2009 workshop as a team leader:
- Large-Scale Syntactic Processing:
Parsing the Web (2009)
- Machine Translation by Parsing (2005)
- Weakly Supervised Learning for Statistical Parsing (2002)
Teaching
At Oxford I developed a popular MSc course on Information Retrieval and Statistical Text Processing, which ran for five years, as well as tutoring Keble undergraduates across a range of computer science subjects. In 2007 I was awarded an Oxford University Teaching Award.
At Cambridge I teach the following courses:
- Information Retrieval (Part II, 2009)
- Various text and language processing modules on the MPhil in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology
Activities
- Program co-chair (with Sandra Carberry) for the 48th Annual Meeting of the ACL (ACL-10)
- Workshops co-chair for the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL-09)
- Area chair (Syntax and Parsing) for the Empirical Methods in NLP Conference
(EMNLP-09)
- Area co-chair (Syntax and Parsing) for the 46th Annual Meeting of the ACL
(ACL-08)
- Editorial Board member for Journal of Computational Linguistics (2009-2012)
- Editorial Board member for Computer Speech and Language (2009-)
- Editorial Board member for Journal of Natural Language Engineering (2004-)
Contact
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
William Gates Building, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0FD, UK
stephen.clark@cl.cam.ac.uk
+44 (0)1223 763704
- © Stephen Clark. Last updated: October 2009.