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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)
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.
2009
The NLP group's Hamish Cunningham will be general chair of the first Information Retrieval Facility Conference (IRFC2010) in Vienna next May.
Dr. Trevor Cohn has joined the NLP Group as a lecturer in Computer Science.
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)
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

David Guthrie has been awarded his PhD.
Unsupervised Detection of Anomalous Text
(Award Date: 3 December 2008)
Joe Polifroni has been awarded his PhD.
Enabling Browsing in Interactive Systems
(Award Date: 18 November 2008)
Christopher Brewster has been awarded his PhD.
Mind the Gap: Bridging from text to ontological Knowledge
(Award Date: 1 October 2008)
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)
Hrafn Loftsson has been awarded his PhD.
Tagging and Parsing Icelandic Text
(Award Date: 5 February 2008)

Michael Conway has been awarded his PhD.
Approaches to Automatic Biographical Sentence Classification: An Empirical Study
(Award Date: 27 July 2007)

Mark Greenwood has been awarded his PhD.
Open-Domain Question Answering
(Award Date: 13 March 2006)

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)

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

Paul Clough has been awarded his PhD.
Measuring Text Reuse
(Award Date: 11 April 2003)

Tomas By has been awarded his PhD.
Tears in the Rain
(Award Date: 15 March 2002)
Andrea Setzer has been awarded her PhD.
Temporal information in newswrite articles: An annotation scheme and corpus study
(Award Date: 15 March 2002)

Kalina Bontcheva has been awarded her PhD.
Generating Adaptive Hypertext
(Award Date: 17 September 2001)
Alexandar Krotov has been awarded his PhD.
Parsing with a Compacted Treebank Grammar
(Award Date: 17 September 2001)

ChunYu Kit has been awarded his PhD.
Unsupervised Lexical Learning as Inductive Inference
(Award Date: 15 November 2000)
Hamish Cunningham has been awarded his PhD.
Software Architecture for Language Engineering
(Award Date: 10 July 2000)
Paul Woods has been awarded his PhD.
Cognitive Schemas for Chinese Noun Classifiers: A Corpus-Based Investigation
(Award Date: 25 February 2000)

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

Mark Lee has been awarded his PhD.
Belief Rationality and Inference
(Award Date: 14 December 1998)
Rob Collier has been awarded his PhD.
Automatic Template Creation for Information Extraction
(Award Date: 10 August 1998)