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2011
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Angelo Dalli has been awarded his PhD.
Timeline Extraction From Hyperlinked Text Corpora
(Award Date: 10 October 2011)
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Danica Damljanovic has been awarded her PhD.
Natural Language Interfaces to Conceptual Models
(Award Date: July 2011)
- First Grant Scheme: Non-Parametric Models of Phrase-based Machine Translation project has been awarded from the EPSRC with a start date of 1 September 2011.
An 18 month EPSRC funded project from 1 Sept'11 - 28 Feb'13 worth a total of £ 101,251. The PI is Dr.
Trevor Cohn
- The GATE Cloud Exploratory: Adapting the General Architecture for Text Engineering to Cloud Computing project has started.
A 6 month EPSRC funded project from 1 Feb'11 - 31 Jul'11 worth a total of £ 71,677. The PI is Prof. Hamish Cunningham
- The PATHS: Personalised Access To cultural Heritage Spaces project has started. A 3 year EC FP7 project from 1 Jan'11 - 31 Dec'13 involving 6 partners worth
a total of € 3,199,299 with an EC contribution of € 2,300,000. The University of Sheffield PI's are Dr. Mark Stevenson &
Dr. Paul Clough (The Information School)
- The ARCOMEM: From Collect-All
Archives to Community Memories - Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowds for Intelligent Preservation project has started. A 3 year EC FP7 project from 1 Jan'11 - 31 Dec'13 involving 12 partners worth
a total of € 8,013,031 with an EC contribution of € 6,000,000. The University of Sheffield PI is Prof. Hamish Cunningham
2010
- Ben Allison has
been awarded his PhD.
An Improved Hierarchical Bayesian Model of
Language for Document Classification
- Dr Kalina Bontcheva
has been awarded a Career Acceleration Fellowship from the EPSRC
The project will start on 1 October 2010 for 5 years and is worth £ 591,755.
- Dr. Mark Stevenson
has been elected as a member of the SIGLEX board from 2010 until 2012.
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We are interested in hearing from students who have an interest in studying PHD's in topics related to Natural Language Processing.
Some suggestions can be found on the homepages of individual academics - Dr Trevor Cohn,
Prof. Rob Gaizauskas, Dr Mark Hepple &
Dr Mark Stevenson.
For more information on the PHD application process please see the PHD
applications information page.
- Professor Yorick Wilks has been awarded
an ACM fellowship
(Added: 17 May 2010)
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Nick Webb has been awarded his PhD.
Cue-based dialogue act classification
(Award Date: 16 March 2010)
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Valentin Tablan has been awarded his PhD.
Toward Portable Information Extraction
(Award Date: 25 January 2010)
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Sanaz Jabbari has been awarded her PhD.
A Statistical Model of Lexical Context
(Award Date: 23 January 2010)
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The ACCURAT: Analysis and Evaluation of
Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation Project has started. Duration is 30 months from 1 Jan'10 - 30 Jun'12.
The grant is worth € 3.53m in total and of that the EC will fund € 2.82m. USFD Principal Investigators are
Prof. Rob Gaizauskas & Dr Mark Sanderson (Information Studies)
2009
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The NLP group's Hamish
Cunningham will be general chair of the first Information
Retrieval Facility Conference (IRFC2010) in Vienna next May.
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Dr. Trevor Cohn has joined the NLP Group as a lecturer in
Computer Science.
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Johan Petrak is visiting the NLP Group. He is located in room G25.
(Visit Dates: 1 June 2009 - 30 September 2009); host: Hamish Cunningham
- Professor Yorick Wilks receives BCS Lovelace Medal.
(Added: 1 May 2009)
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Antoine Belin & Simon Loitier are visiting the NLP Group. They are located in room 135 (Yorick Wilks's office).
(Visit Dates: 1 May 2009 - 31 July 2009); host: Yorick Wilks
2008
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David Guthrie has been awarded his PhD.
Unsupervised Detection of Anomalous Text
(Award Date: 3 December 2008)
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Joe Polifroni has been awarded his PhD.
Enabling Browsing in Interactive Systems
(Award Date: 18 November 2008)
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Christopher Brewster has been awarded his PhD.
Mind the Gap: Bridging from text to ontological Knowledge
(Award Date: 1 October 2008)
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Francios Mairesse has been awarded his PhD.
Learning to Adapt in Dialogue Systems: Data-driven Models for Personality Recognition and Generation
(Award Date: 30 September 2008)
- Professor Yorick Wilks is awarded ACL Lifetime Achievement Award.
(Added: 26 June 2008)
- Professor Yorick Wilks wins Zampolli Prize.
(Added: 2 June 2008)
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Hrafn Loftsson has been awarded his PhD.
Tagging and Parsing Icelandic Text
(Award Date: 5 February 2008)
2007
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Michael Conway has been awarded his PhD.
Approaches to Automatic Biographical Sentence Classification: An Empirical Study
(Award Date: 27 July 2007)
2006
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Mark Greenwood has been awarded his PhD.
Open-Domain Question Answering
(Award Date: 13 March 2006)
2005
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Fang Huang has been awarded her PhD.
Multi-Document Summarization with Latent Semantic Analysis
(Award Date: 19 May 2005)
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Ekaterini Pastra has been awarded her PhD.
Vision – Language Integration: a Double-Grounding Case
(Award Date: 5 January 2005)
2004
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Alexiei Dingli has been awarded his PhD.
Annotating the Semantic Web
(Award Date: 6 December 2004)
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Wim Peters has been awarded his PhD.
Detection and Characterization of Figurative Language Use WordNet
(Award Date: 29 November 2004)
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Diego Uribe has been awarded his PhD.
LEEP: Learning Event Extraction Patterns
(Award Date: 18 October 2004)
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Brian Mitchell has been awarded his PhD.
Prepositional Phase Attachment using Machine Learning Algorithms
(Award Date: 5 July 2004)
2003
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Paul Clough has been awarded his PhD.
Measuring Text Reuse
(Award Date: 11 April 2003)
2002
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Tomas By has been awarded his PhD.
Tears in the Rain
(Award Date: 15 March 2002)
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Andrea Setzer has been awarded her PhD.
Temporal information in newswrite articles: An annotation scheme and corpus study
(Award Date: 15 March 2002)
2001
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Kalina Bontcheva has been awarded her PhD.
Generating Adaptive Hypertext
(Award Date: 17 September 2001)
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Alexandar Krotov has been awarded his PhD.
Parsing with a Compacted Treebank Grammar
(Award Date: 17 September 2001)
2000
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Harmain Harmain has been awarded his PhD.
Automated Software Engineering
(Award Date: December 2000)
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ChunYu Kit has been awarded his PhD.
Unsupervised Lexical Learning as Inductive Inference
(Award Date: 15 November 2000)
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Hamish Cunningham has been awarded his PhD.
Software Architecture for Language Engineering
(Award Date: 10 July 2000)
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Paul Woods has been awarded his PhD.
Cognitive Schemas for Chinese Noun Classifiers: A Corpus-Based Investigation
(Award Date: 25 February 2000)
1999
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Ted Dunning has been awarded his PhD.
Finding Structure In Text Genome And Other Symbolic Sequences
(Award Date: 29 November 1999)
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Mark Stevenson has been awarded his PhD.
Multiple Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation
(Award Date: 27 September 1999)
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Hammid Khosravi has been awarded his PhD.
Extracting Pragmatic Content From Email
(Award Date: 9 August 1999)
1998
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Mark Lee has been awarded his PhD.
Belief Rationality and Inference
(Award Date: 14 December 1998)
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Rob Collier has been awarded his PhD.
Automatic Template Creation for Information Extraction
(Award Date: 10 August 1998)
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