Language and Computation

The Language and Computation group includes researchers working on language using computational methods from Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, the Data Archive, and Language & Linguistics.

To get in touch with the people below, add @ and essex.ac.uk to the listed email address (given in parenthesis).

Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

(Language, Logic and Information/Natural Language Engineering Group)

Alghamdi, Ans (adalgh)

information extraction, active learning

AlHelbawi, Ayman

entity disambiguation, Arabic language processing

Chamberlain, Jon (jchamb)

games development, user interfaces, anaphora resolution

Fox, Chris (foxcj)

formal semantics, property theory, plurals & mass terms, anaphora, underspecification, intensional representations, imperatives, deontic reasoning, philosophy of language

Garcia, Alba (alba.garcia)

computer vision for biomedical imaging, image retrieval and evaluation

Kruschwitz, Udo (udo)

intelligent web search, information retrieval, dialogue, concept hierarchies, markup

Martinez-Alvarez, Miguel (mmartid)

adaptive search, topic classification, user profiling, information extraction

Poesio, Massimo (poesio)

anaphora and anaphora resolution; ambiguity and underspecification; conceptual models combining neural evidence and evidence from corpora; lexical acquisition and distributional models; deception detection; Arabic NLP; the semantics of dialogue and spoken dialogue systems, and applications of the latter e.g., in Intelligent buildings; semantics and semantic processing; computational psycholinguistics

Scherp, Ansgar (ansgar.scherp)

work on NLP and graph analytics with neural networks, IR methods, and the Semantic Web

Sutcliffe, Richard (rsutcl)

crosslingual IR, question-answering

Villavicencio, Aline (avill)

lexical semantics, multilinguality, and cognitively motivated NLP

Data Archive

Balkan, Lorna (balka)

thesauri, machine translation

Chatsiou, Kakia

Lungley, Deirdre (dmlung)

intelligent web search, information retrieval, topic classification, sentiment analysis, named entity extraction, biomedical NLP, lattices, formal concept analysis, concept hierarchies

Language and Linguistics

Arnold, Doug (doug)

constraint-based grammar, statistical parsing, semantics, machine translation

Borsley, Bob (rborsley)

constraint-based grammar, Welsh linguistics

Eisenbeiss, Sonja (seisen)

language acquisition, language and cognition, morphology and the mental lexicon, corpus linguistics

Sadler, Louisa (louisa)

lexicalist syntactic theories (principally LFG and HPSG), Welsh syntax, argument structure and the syntax-lexical semantics interface, computational linguistics, machine translation

Alumni

Al-Bakour, Hala

intelligent web search

Al-Bakour, M-Dyaa (malbak)

natural language engineering, knowledge acquisition

Alarfaj, Fawaz

Searching entities at web scale

Almuhareb, Abdulrahman

the acquisition of lexical and ontological knowledge

Althobaiti, Maha (mjaltha)

Arabic language processing, named entity extraction, semi-supervised learning, distant learning

Andrikou, Elina

spell checking

Bailey, Carolina (cmbail)

user profiles, adaptation

Češka, Zdeněk

plagiarism detection

Chatsiou, Kakia (achats)

LFG, computational grammars, Greek linguistics

El-Haj, Mahmoud (melhaj)

Arabic multi-document summarisation

Flouraki, Maria

semantics, tense

Ghotsoulia, Voula (vghotsoulia at yahoo.co.uk)

shallow and deep methods in language processing; semantic role labelling

Glover, Kevin

animacy in anaphora resolution

Goweder, Abduelbaset

Arabic NLP, morphology, stemming, information retrieval

Kabadjov, Mijail

coreference, summarization, semantic processing in social media

Kawata, Yasuhiro

part of speech tagging

Linardaki, Evita

statistical parsing, data-oriented parsing

Sanchez-Graillet, Olivia (osanch)

text mining, acquisition of causal knowledge, Bayesian Nets

Urgelles, Miriam (murgel)

HPSG

Former Members

Al-Haddad, Mohammed

Artstein,Ron

anaphora; reliability statistics for corpus annotation; formal semantics and semantics-prosody interaction; compositional semantics below the word level; focus; coordination; temporal quantification

Reynolds, Jeff

Machine learning, statistical machine translation, speech