Department of Computer Science

Awarded PhD's

2013

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2012

• Angus Roberts has been awarded his PhD.
  Clinical Information Extraction: Lowering the Barrier
  (Award Date: 18 December 2012)
• Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab has been awarded his PhD.
  Mono-lingual Paraphrased Text reuse and Plagiarism detection
  (Award Date: 18 September 2012)
• Niraj Aswani has been awarded his PhD.
  Evolving a Generail Framework for Text Alignment: Case Studies with Two Asian Languages
  (Award Date: 7 August 2012)
• Kumutha Swampillai has been awarded her PhD.
  Information Extraction Across Sentences
  (Award Date: 7 March 2012)

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2011

• Angelo Dalli has been awarded his PhD.
  Timeline Extraction From Hyperlinked Text Corpora
  (Award Date: 10 October 2011)
• Danica Damljanovic has been awarded her PhD.
  Natural Language Interfaces to Conceptual Models
  (Award Date: 18 August 2011)

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2010

• Ben Allison has been awarded his PhD.
  An Improved Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Language for Document Classification
  (Award Date: 21 October 2010)
• Nick Webb
  Cue-based dialogue act classification
  (Award Date: 16 March 2010)
• Sanaz Jabbari has been awarded her PhD.
  A Statistical Model of Lexical Context
  (Award Date: 23 February 2010)
• Valentin Tablan
  Toward Portable Information Extraction
  (Award Date: 25 January 2010)

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2008

• David Guthrie
  Unsupervised Detection of Anomalous Text
  (Award Date: 3 December 2008)
• Joe Polifroni
  Enabling Browsing in Interactive Systems
  (Award Date: 18 November 2008)
• Christopher Brewster
  Mind the Gap: Bridging from text to ontological Knowledge
  (Award Date: 1 October 2008)
• Francios Mairesse
  Learning to Adapt in Dialogue Systems: Data-driven Models for Personality Recognition and Generation
  (Award Date: 30 September 2008)
• Hrafn Loftsson
  Tagging and Parsing Icelandic Text
  (Award Date: 5 February 2008)

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2007

• Michael Conway
  Approaches to Automatic Biographical Sentence Classification: An Empirical Study
  (Award Date: 27 July 2007)

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2006

• Mark Greenwood
  Open-Domain Question Answering
  (Award Date: 13 March 2006)

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2005

• Fang Huang has been awarded her PhD.
  Multi-Document Summarization with Latent Semantic Analysis
  (Award Date: 19 May 2005)
• Ekaterini Pastra has been awarded her PhD.
  Vision – Language Integration: a Double-Grounding Case
  (Award Date: 5 January 2005)

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2004

• Alexiei Dingli
  Annotating the Semantic Web
  (Award Date: 6 December 2004)
• Wim Peters
  Detection and Characterization of Figurative Language Use WordNet
  (Award Date: 29 November 2004)
• Diego Uribe
  LEEP: Learning Event Extraction Patterns
  (Award Date: 18 October 2004)
• Brian Mitchell
  Prepositional Phase Attachment using Machine Learning Algorithms
  (Award Date: 5 July 2004)

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2003

• Paul Clough
  Measuring Text Reuse
  (Award Date: 11 April 2003)

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2002

• Tomas By
  Tears in the Rain
  (Award Date: 15 March 2002)
• Andrea Setzer
  Temporal information in newswrite articles: An annotation scheme and corpus study
  (Award Date: 15 March 2002)

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2001

• Kalina Bontcheva
  Generating Adaptive Hypertext
  (Award Date: 17 September 2001)
• Alexandar Krotov
  Parsing with a Compacted Treebank Grammar
  (Award Date: 17 September 2001)

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2000

• ChunYu Kit
  Unsupervised Lexical Learning as Inductive Inference
  (Award Date: 15 November 2000)
• Hamish Cunningham
  Software Architecture for Language Engineering
  (Award Date: 10 July 2000)
• H.M. Harmain
  Building Object-Oriented Conceptual Models Using Natural Language Processing Techniques
  (Award Date: 2000)
• Paul Woods
  Cognitive Schemas for Chinese Noun Classifiers: A Corpus-Based Investigation
  (Award Date: 25 February 2000)

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1999

• Ted Dunning
  Finding Structure In Text Genome And Other Symbolic Sequences
  (Award Date: 29 November 1999)
• Mark Stevenson
  Multiple Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation
  (Award Date: 27 September 1999)
• Hammid Khosravi
  Extracting Pragmatic Content From Email
  (Award Date: 9 August 1999)

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1998

• Mark Lee
  Belief Rationality and Inference
  (Award Date: 14 December 1998)
• Rob Collier
  Automatic Template Creation for Information Extraction
  (Award Date: 10 August 1998)

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1997

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1996

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1995

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1994

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1993

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