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9 th Language and Computation Day

9 th Language and Computation Day. 08 th October 2010, R. 3.320. What is the Language and Computation Group?. Interdisciplinary group of researchers from different departments Use computational methods to study language Staff and students New members welcome!. Who are we?.

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9 th Language and Computation Day

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  1. 9th Language and Computation Day • 08th October 2010, R. 3.320

  2. What is the Language and Computation Group? • Interdisciplinary group of researchers from different departments • Use computational methods to study language • Staff and students • New members welcome!

  3. Who are we? • School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering: Massimo Poesio, Udo Kruschwitz, Chris Fox, Maria Fasli, Jon Chamberlain, Dyaa Al-Bakour, Jenya Kovalchuk, Deirdre Lungley, Suma Adindla, Sharhida Saad, Mahmoud El-Haj, Richard Sutcliffe (Limerick) • Language and Linguistics: Doug Arnold, Sonja Eisenbeiss, Louisa Sadler, Bob Borsley, • Data Archive: Lorna Balkan, Louise Corti, Kakia Chatsiou • Mathematical Sciences:Olivia Sanchez-Graillet ... and more

  4. What do we do? • Research: a weekly research/reading seminar, annual flatlands meeting, annual Language and Computation Day • Teaching: MA in Computational Linguistics, NLE course in CES • Drinking: weekly pub nights

  5. Research Projects – recently completed • Analyzing Free Text Segments of Emergency Service Reports (BAE Systems, Essex), 2009-2010 • Anawiki / Phrasedetectives • Intelligent Mail Server (a KTP project with AWS, Ipswich)

  6. Research Projects - ongoing • CareerPath KTP project (JobServe Ltd., Essex), 2009-2011 • AutoAdapt: EPSRC project (Essex, RGU Aberdeen & Open University): Automatic Adaptation of Knowledge Structures for Assisted Information Seeking, 2008-2011 • Essex Gateway to Arabic Resources (Essex)

  7. PhD students • Suma AdindlaDialogue-driven intranet search • Sharhida SaadWeb Usage Mining, adaptive Web sites • Mahmoud El-HajArabic text summarization • and others

  8. Events to come • Search Solutions 2010 • TREC Session Track 2010 • European Conference in Information Retrieval 2011 • Any upcoming events?

  9. Publications • Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (Chris) • Experimenting with Automatic Text Summarization for Arabic (Mahmoud, Udo, Chris) • An LFG analysis of Modern Greek Relative Clauses (Kakia) • And others 

  10. Pub arrangements!

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