silky wrote:
I don't suppose any of you have done any work in this area, have you?
If so, what sort?
I haven't worked in this area, but there is plenty around.... check out
Professor Graeme Hirst ( http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gh/ ) from the
University of Tronto who specialises in Computer Linguistics (
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/compling/Research/research.html )...
Bio:
Graeme Hirst is a professor of computer science at the University of
Toronto, whose research covers a broad but integrated range of topics
in computational linguistics and natural language understanding.He is
the author of two monographs: Anaphora in Natural Language
Understanding and Semantic Interpretation and the Resolution of
Ambiguity. Hirst has received two awards for excellence in teaching,
and has supervised graduate students in more than 35 theses and
dissertations, four of which have been published as books.
He gave a talk at Monash last month about some of his research. Also,
somewhat to do with lingustics, is a another talk this Wednesday....
Title:
To Search, Perchance to Find: Enhanced Information Access over
Troubleshooting-oriented Web User Forum Data
Date: Wednesday 26th May 2010
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: Seminar Room 26/135 Clayton School of IT, Monash University
Speaker:
Timothy Baldwin
University of Melbourne
Abstract:
The ILIAD (Improved Linux Information Access by Data Mining) Project is an
attempt to apply language technology to the task of Linux troubleshooting by
analysing the underlying information structure of a multi-document text
discourse and improving information delivery through a combination of
filtering, document categorisation, discourse analysis and information
extraction techniques. In this talk, I will outline the overall project design
and present results for a variety of sub-tasks.
Bio:
Tim Baldwin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science
and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne and a contributed research
staff member of the NICTA Victoria Research Laboratories. He will be visiting
the Monash Faculty of Information Technology throughout May, and has
previously held visiting positions at the University of Washington, University
of Tokyo, University of Saarland, and NTT Communication Science
Laboratories. His research interests cover topics including deep linguistic
processing, multiword expressions, deep lexical acquisition, computer-assisted
language learning, information extraction and web mining, with a particular
interest on the interface between computational and theoretical
linguistics. Current projects include web user forum mining, information
personalisation in museum contexts, biomedical text mining, online linguistic
exploration, and intelligent interfaces for Japanese language learners.
Tim completed a BSc(CS/Maths) and BA(Linguistics/Japanese) at the University
of Melbourne in 1995, and an MEng(CS) and PhD(CS) at the Tokyo Institute of
Technology in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Prior to commencing his current
position at the University of Melbourne, he was a Senior Research Engineer at
the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
(2001-2004).
Contact:
Ingrid Zukerman
School Seminar Co-ordinator:
David Albrecht
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Les Hughes
[email protected]
