NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING research group
Language research in Computing is also known as Natural Language Processing , Computational Linguistics , Corpus Linguistics ,or Language Engineering . Central to our research is the computational modelling of language data; a CORPUS is a text dataset representative of the language to be analysed. Our research at Leeds University focusses on bootstrapping linguistic knowledge and resources from text, and is reported in our PUBLICATIONS.Language Research Group graduates have gone on to work in Web search, text analytics, translation and language consulting, online news, voice-to-text, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, and, of course, as University academics !
Staff
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Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer Corpus Linguistics, Machine Learning and Data Mining with text in English, Arabic, and other languages; Text Analytics applied to Understanding the Quran, detecting terrorist activites, and Healthcare patient records. PUBLICATIONS. |
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Katja Markert, Senior Lecturer (on sabbatical 2011-12) Data-intensive, corpus-based and web-based natural language processing, Anaphora Resolution, Figurative Language Resolution, Textual Entailment, Sentiment Analysis. PUBLICATIONS. |
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Claire Brierley, Senior Research Fellow Corpus Linguistics, prosodic phrase break prediction, text analytics applied to detecting terrorist activities PUBLICATIONS. |
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Owen Johnson, Senior Fellow Corpus linguistics for Health Informatics, Healthcare patient records research methods. PUBLICATIONS. |
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Majdi Sawalha, Research Fellow A Web-as-Corpus approach to collating teaching resources for Islamic Studies; Corpus-based Arabic morphological analysis. PUBLICATIONS. |
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Justin Washtell, Research Fellow Corpus-based distributional models of lexical semantics PUBLICATIONS. |
We collaborate with academic staff in the Centre for Translation Studies :
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Tony Hartley
Evaluation of machine translation systems, Controlled languages, Natural Language Generation, Quality in translation and interpreting, Computer Supported Collaborative Working. PUBLICATIONS |
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Serge Sharoff
Corpus linguistics, Natural Language Understanding, Natural Language Generation, Lexical semantics, Systemic-Functional grammar. PUBLICATIONS |
R-to-L: Eric Atwell, Majdi Sawalha, Justin Washtell, Claire Brierley,
Fangzhong Su, Josiah Wang, Owen Tregurtha Nancarrow - at the German
Christmas Market next to Leeds University
Research Students
| STUDENT +Supervisor(s) | RESEARCH TOPIC |
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| Amal Alsaif (KM) | An Automatic analyser of Discourse structure for Arabic |
| Samuel Danso (EA,OJ) | Text Analytics to Predict Cause of Death in Verbal Autopsies |
| Kais Dukes (EA) | Arabic Language Computing Applied to the Quran |
| Saman Hina (EA,OJ) | SNOMED semantic tagger for medical corpus linguistics |
| Svitlana Kurella (AH,SS) | Methodology for computer-assisted acquisition of reading abilities in L3 |
| Andrew McKinlay (KM) | Automatic Detection of Discourse Structure: Relation and Entity Graphs |
| Noushin Rezapour Asheghi (SS,KM) | Genre classification of web pages |
| Alina Secară (AH,SS) | Developing a semi-automatic subtitler's workbench within the systemic functional grammar framework |
| Abdul-Baquee Muhammad Sharaf (EA) | A Computational Model for Knowledge Representation of the Quran |
| Josiah Wang (ME,KM) | Learning Visual Object Recognition from Text |
| Justin Washtell (EA,KM) | The benefits of proximity as opposed to frequency as a basis for modelling language |
Kais Dukes - University of Leeds Engineering Postgraduate Researcher
of the year 2011
Potential research collaborators and PhD students are very welcome to contact any of the academic staff (Atwell, Markert, Hartley, and Sharoff). Please send us an outline project proposal (see guidelines and example project ideas). You can apply for our PhD programme online.
Selected Publications
or you can select a fuller list| Brierley, C; Atwell, ES Non-Traditional Prosodic Features for Automated Phrase-Break Prediction. Literary and Linguistic Computing Journal, vol. 26, pp.279-284. 2011. | LINK |
| Dukes, K; Atwell, ES; Habash, N Supervised Collaboration for Syntactic Annotation of Quranic Arabic. Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, pp.1-30. 2011. | LINK |
| Rapp, AM; Erb, M; Langohr, K; Markert, K Neural Correlates of Metonymy Comprehension in Schizophrenia in: Schizophrenia Bulletin, vol. 37, pp.150-150. Oxford University Press. 2011. | |
| Brierley, C; Atwell, ES Holy smoke: vocalic precursors of phrase breaks in Milton's Paradise Lost. Literary and Linguistic Computing Journal, vol. 25, pp.137-151. 2010. | LINK DOI |
| Hina, S; Atwell, ES; Johnson, O Semantic Tagging of Medical Narratives with Top Level Concepts from SNOMED CT Healthcare Data Standard. International Journal of Intelligent Computing Research (IJICR), vol. 1, pp.118-123. 2010. | LINK |
| Markert, K; Nissim, M Data and models for metonymy resolution. Language Resources and Evaluation, vol. 43, pp.123-138. 2009. |
Natural Language Processing research seminars at Leeds University
... and links to related Leeds University research groups in Modern Languages, Knowledge Management, Translation Studies, Linguistics and Phonetics, Modern Languages and Cultures, Language Education, English.
Bookmarks for corpus-based linguistics
International Conferences in Language Computing and Computer Science