Funded Research Projects

Current Projects

Currently these group projects are active (in alphabetical order):

  • AnnoMarket: Annotation Resource Marketplace in the Cloud
    Hamish Cunningham
  • ARCOMEM: From Collect-All Archives to Community Memories - Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowds for Intelligent Preservation
    Hamish Cunningham
  • Barista: Non-Parametric Models of Phrase-based Machine Translation
    Trevor Cohn
  • Career Accelleration Fellowship: Machine Learning Methods for Personalised, Abstractive Summerisation of Consumer-Generated Media
    Kalina Bontcheva
  • Expert: EXPloiting Empirical appRoaches to Translation
    Lucia Specia
  • ForgetIT: Concise Preservation by combining Managed Forgetting and Contextualized Remembering
    Hamish Cunningham
  • GATE: A General Architecture for Text Engineering
    Hamish Cunningham
  • GOOGLE Grant: Distinguishing Common and Proper Nouns
    Mark Stevenson
  • KHRESMOI: Knowledge Helper for Medical and Other Information users
    Hamish Cunningham
  • Medics: Language Processing for Literature Based Discovery in Medicine
    Mark Stevenson
  • MoDiST: Modelling Discourse in Statistical Machine Translation
    Lucia Specia
  • PATHS: Personalised Access To cultural Heritage Spaces
    Mark Stevenson & Paul Clough (Information School)
  • QTLaunchpad: Preparation and Launch of a Large-Scale Action for Quality Translation Technology
    Lucia Specia
  • SLaTr: A Joint Model of Spoken Language Translation
    Trevor Cohn / Thomas Hain
  • TaaS: Terminology as a Service
    Rob Gaizauskas
  • TrendMiner: Large-scale, Cross-lingual Trend Mining and Summarisation of Real-time Media Streams
    Kalina Bontcheva & Trevor Cohn
  • uComp: Embedded Human Computation for Knowledge Extraction and Evaluation
    Wim Peters
  • VisualSense: Tagging visual data with semantic descriptions
    Rob Gaizauskas

Previous projects

  • ACCURAT: Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation
    Rob Gaizauskas & Paul Clough (Information School)
  • ABRAXAS: Automating Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web
    Yorick Wilks & Fabio Ciravegna
  • AKT: Advanced Knowledge Technolgies
    Yorick Wilks
  • AMILCARE: An adaptive IE system for the Semantic Web
    Fabio Ciravegna
  • AMITIES: Automated Multilingual Interaction with Information and Services
    Yorick Wilks
  • AVENTINUS: Advanced Information System for Multinational Drug Enforcement
    Yorick Wilks & Hamish Cunningham
  • CA4NLP: Engineering Natural Language Interfaces: can CA help?
    Mark Hepple & Peter Wallis
  • CASTLE: Computational Adaptive Semantics for Language Engineering
    Mark Stevenson
  • CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
    Wim Peters
  • CLARITY: Cross Language Information Retrieval and Organisation of Text and Audio Documents
    Rob Gaizauskas & Mark Sanderson (Information Studies)
  • CLEF: CLinical E-Science Framework
    Rob Gaizauskas & Mark Hepple
  • CLUE II: Contextual Learning for detecting Unexpected Events
    Louise Guthrie
  • COMIC: COnversational Multimodal Interaction with Computers
    Yorick Wilks
  • COMPANIONS: Intelligent, Persistent, Personalised Multimodal Interfaces to the Internet
    Yorick Wilks
  • CRONOPATH: Information Retrieval/Extraction through time
    Yorick Wilks
  • CONVERSE: A Conversational Companion
    Yorick Wilks
  • CLUE: Contextual Learning for detecting Unexpected Events
    Louise Guthrie
  • Cub Reporter: QA and Summarisation for Preparation of Background News Reports
    Rob Gaizauskas, Yorick Wilks & Jonathan Foster (Jounalism Studies)
  • DALOS: DrAfting Legislation with Ontology-based Support
    Wim Peters
  • DAPPER: Natural Language Processing Tools for Discourse Analysis in Psychology
    Horacio Saggion
  • DOT KOM: Designing Adaptive Information Extraction from Text for Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web
    Fabio Ciravegna
  • : Extraction of Content: Research at Near Market
    Yorick Wilks
  • ELSE: Evaluation in Language and Speech Engineering
    Rob Gaizauskas
  • EMILLE: Enabling Minority Language Engineering
    Rob Gaizauskas
  • EMPATHIE: Enzyme and Metabolic Path Information Extraction
    Rob Gaizauskas
  • EMPIRICAL GRAMMAR: Inducing Adequate Grammars from Electronic Texts
    Yorick Wilks & Rob Gaizauskas
  • EnviLOD:
    Kalina Bontcheva
  • EWN: EuroWordNet
    Yorick Wilks
  • FASiL: Flexible and Adaptive Spoken Language and Multi-Modal Interfaces
    Yorick Wilks
  • FLaReNet: Fostering Language Resources Network
    Yorick Wilks & Wim Peters
  • GATE Cloud Exploratory: Adapting the General Architecture for Text Engineering to Cloud Computing
    Hamish Cunningham
  • GoTag: Real-Time Text Mining for the Biomedical Literature: A Collaboration between Discoverynet & Mygrid
    Rob Gaizauskas
  • HUMAINE: Research on Emotions and Human-Machine Interaction
    Yorick Wilks & Daniela Romano
  • KTA PoC Award: Scaling-up WSD for the Life Sciences
    Mark Stevenson
  • KnowledgeWeb: Network on excellence on realising the Semantic Web
    Hamish Cunningham
  • LarKC: Large Scale Semantic Computing Semantic Web Technologies distributed reasoning
    Hamish Cunningham
  • LaSIE: Large Scale Information Extraction
    Yorick Wilks & Rob Gaizauskas
  • LEXDIS: Lexical Disambiguation for the Biomedical Domain
    Mark Stevenson
  • LIRICS: Linguistic Infrastructure for Interoperable Resources and Systems
    Kalina Bontcheva
  • LOIS: Lexical Ontologies for Legal Information Sharing
    Wim Peters
  • M4L: Memories for Life Network
    Yorick Wilks, Christopher Brewster & Mark Sanderson (Information Studies)
  • MALT: Mappings, Agglomerations and Lexical Tuning
    Yorick Wilks
  • METER: Measuring Text Reuse
    Rob Gaizauskas, Yorick Wilks & Jonathan Foster (Jounalism Studies)
  • MiAkt: Grid enabled knowledge services: collaborative problem solving environments in medical informatics
    Yorick Wilks & Fabio Ciravegna
  • MediaCampaign: Discovering, inter-relating and navigating cross-media campaign knowledge
    Hamish Cunningham
  • MULTIFLORA_II: Combining Information Extraction and Knowledge Representation for Biodiversity Informatics
    Yorick Wilks & Hamish Cunningham
  • MultiMatch: Multilingual/Multimedia Access To Cultural Heritage
    Paul Clough (Information Studies)
  • MUMIS: Multi-Media Indexing and Searching Environment
    Yorick Wilks & Hamish Cunningham
  • MUSE: Multi-Source Entity finder
    Yorick Wilks
  • Musing: Multi-Industry, Semantic-based Next Generation Business IntelliGence
    Kalina Bontcheva
  • MyGrid: Supporting the Biologist E-Scientist
    Rob Gaizauskas
  • NAMIC: News Agencies Multilingual Information Categorisation
    Yorick Wilks
  • NEON: Lifecycle support for networked ontologies
    Hamish Cunningham
  • PAROLE/SIMPLE: Preparatory Action for Linguistic Resources Organistion for Language Engineering
    Yorick Wilks
  • PASTA: Protein Active Site Template Acquisition
    Yorick Wilks
  • PEEC: Partitioning the Enron Email Corpus
    Louise Guthrie
  • PEEC II: Partitioning the Enron Email Corpus
    Louise Guthrie
  • POESIA: Public Open-source Environment for a Safer Internet
    Mark Hepple
  • POETIC: The POrtable Extendable Traffic Information Collator
    Rob Gaizauskas
  • PrestoSpace: Digital preservation and rich metadata indexing of audio-video collections
    Hamish Cunningham
  • RESuLT: Relation Extraction using Semi-Supervised Learning Techniques
    Mark Stevenson
  • REVEAL: The Identification of Anomalous Segments in Text on a Large Scale
    Louise Guthrie
  • REVEAL II: The Identification of Anomalous Segments in Text on a Large Scale
    Louise Guthrie
  • RolTech: Platform for Romanian Language Technology: Resources, Tools and Interfaces
    Valentin Tablan
  • SEKT: Semantically-Enabled Knowledge Technologies (central page)
    Hamish Cunningham
  • SERA: Social Engagagement with Robots and Agents
    Peter Wallis
  • ServiceFinder: Realizing Web Service Discovery at Web Scale
    Kalina Bontcheva
  • Sumerian/ETCSL: Tools for linguistic annotation and Web-based analysis of literary Sumerian
    Hamish Cunningham
  • SOCIS: Scene Of Crime Information System
    Yorick Wilks
  • SToBS: Structured Transcription of Broadcast Speech
    Rob Gaizauskas
  • TAO: Transitioning Applications to Ontologies
    Kalina Bontcheva
  • h-Techsight: A Knowledge management platform with intelligence and insight capabilities for technology intensive industries
    Hamish Cunningham
  • TEXTvre: Emerging, collective intelligence for personal, organizational and social use
    Kalina Bontcheva & Angus Roberts
  • TRESTLE: Text Retrieval, Extraction and Summarisation for Large Enterprises
    Rob Gaizauskas & Micheline Beaulieu (Information Studies)
  • TRIPOD: TRI-Partite multimedia Object Description
    Mark Sanderson (Information Studies) & Rob Gaizauskas
  • VIEWGEN: Belief Modelling and Dialogue Systems
    Yorick Wilks
  • VIKEF: Virtual Information and Knowledge Environment Framework
    Rob Gaizauskas