Projects

• Currently:

  2015-2020

  Collaborator on LEXICAL - Lexical Acquisition across Languages

  2015-2018

  Advisory Board on Linguistic DNA: Concepts and Semantic Change

• Some of the Projects at Lexical Computing Ltd.:

  Spring/Summer 2010:

  DANTE .

  March-June 2010:

  CLAEVIPS: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Ecosystems Vocabulary in the Public Sphere. Commissioned by the UK National Ecosystem Assessment

• Grants:

  Feb 2005 - Sept 2009:

  Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (the Royal Society) Lexical Acquisition and Disambiguation held at the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex

  August 2005- August 2008:

  Ranking Word Senses for Disambiguation: Models and Applications (EPSRC)

• Other Research Projects I have previously worked on:

  July 2004 - January 2005:

  MEANING: Developing Multilingual Web-scale Language Technologies: An EU 5th Framework project. In this project I worked on automatic lexical acquisition and word sense disambiguation.

  July 2001 - June 2004:

  RASP: Robust Accurate Statistical Parsing. (EPSRC) The project involved integrating and extending several strands of research on robust statistical parsing and automated grammar and lexicon induction, to produce a new parsing toolkit.

  2000 - 2001::

  PSET: Practical Simplification of English Text (PSET):. (EPSRC) The project involved simplifying newspaper test for adults with aphasia which impairs their comprehension of written language. I worked on word sense disambiguation of nouns, verbs and adjectives with view to using this before replacing words from these classes with more common, or familiar synonyms.

  1996-1998:

  SPARKLE: Shallow PARsing and Knowledge extraction for Language Engineering An EU 4th Framework project. This project involved developing shallow parsers alongside corpus based lexical acquisition techniques for use by other European partners in applications such as Information Retrieval.