Postgraduate Study
I welcome enquiries from students interested in undertaking PhD study in NLP, especially in areas related to my main research interests. I am happy to discuss possible research topics with prospective PhD students. Projects that I am really keen to pursue at the moment include:
- dialogic models of language: exploring and exploiting alignment and dialogue in language understanding, communication and interaction.
- applications of NLP techniques to social media: e.g. sentiment analysis of blog text or Twitter streams; topic identification and key-word extraction; summarisation...
- graph-based models of lexical semantics and word sense induction
Current Students
Miro Batchkarov: compositional models of distributional semantics, evaluation.
Asli Eyecioglu: paraphrase identification, measures of sentence similarity.
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Past Students:
Zoe Hopkins: “meeting of minds in conversation” - language and alignment in children with autistic spectrum condition (completed 2016).David Hope: graph-based clustering, unsupervised word sense induction, distributional similarity (completed 2015).Chi Ho Li: grammar induction, statistical machine translation (completed 2009).
Alexander Clark: grammar induction, unsupervised induction of linguistic knowledge (completed 2001).
Clive Cox: formal semantics, discourse, anaphora (completed 1996)