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2013

• Two out of the three nominations for the ACM SIGWEB Ted Nelson prize at Hypertext 2013, Paris are both from Sheffield's NLP group. (link)
• 5 papers by the group accepted at ACL 2013

"Extracting bilingual terminologies from comparable corpora" Aker, A., Paramita, M. & Gaizauskas, R.

"An Infinite Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Phrasal Translation" Cohn, T. & Haffari, G.

"Modelling Annotator Bias with Multi-task Gaussian Processes: An Application to Machine Translation Quality Estimation" Cohn, T & Specia, L.

"Markov Translation using Non-parametric Bayesian Inference" Feng, Y. & Cohn, T.

"A user-centric model of voting intention from Social Media" Lampos, V., Preotiuc-Pietro, D. & Cohn, T.

• 3 papers by the group accepted for NAACL 2013

"Representing Topics Using Images" Aletras, N. and Stevenson, M.

"Unsupervised Domain Tuning to Improve Word Sense Disambiguation" Preiss, J. and Stevenson, M.

"DALE: A Word Sense Disambiguation System for Biomedical Documents Trained using Automatically Labeled Examples (demo)" Preiss, J. and Stevenson, M.

• The ForgetIT: Concise Preservation by combining Managed Forgetting and Contextualized Remembering project has started. A 3 year EC FP7 project from 1 Feb'13 - 31 Jan'16. The project has 11 partners worth a total of € 9,085,190 with an EC contribution of € 6,590,000. The University of Sheffield PI is Prof. Hamish Cunningham
• The VisualSense: Tagging visual data with semantic descriptions project has started. A 3 year EPSRC project from 1 Jan'13 - 31 Dec'15. The project has 4 partners and is part of the Chist-Era EC funding programme. The University of Sheffield PI is Prof. Rob Gaizauskas

  2012

• Angus Roberts has been awarded his PhD.
  Clinical Information Extraction: Lowering the Barrier
  (Award Date: 18 December 2012)
• The uComp: Embedded Human Computation for Knowledge Extraction and Evaluation project has started. A 3 year EPSRC project from 15 Nov'12 - 14 Nov'15. The project has 4 partners and is part of the Chist-Era EC funding programme. The University of Sheffield PI is Dr Wim Peters
• The EXPERT: EXPloiting Empirical appRoaches to Translation project has started. A 4 year Marie Curie ITN project from 1 Oct'12 - 30 Sept'16. The project has 9 partners worth a total of € 3,935,340. The University of Sheffield PI is Dr Lucia Specia
• 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)
• The QTLaunchpad: Preparation and Launch of a Large-Scale Action for Quality Translation Technology project has started. A 2 year EC CSA FP7 project from 1 Jul'12 - 30 Jun'14 with 4 partners worth a total of € 2,731,060 with an EC contribution of € 1,187,767. The University of Sheffield PI is Dr Lucia Specia
• The AnnoMarket: Cloud-based Text Annotation Marketplace project has started. A 2 year EC FP7 project from 1 Jun'12 - 31 May'14 with 4 partners worth a total of € 2,003,654 with an EC contribution of € 1,430,000. The University of Sheffield PI is Prof. Hamish Cunningham
• The Medics: Language Processing for Literature Based Discovery in Medicine project has started. A 3 year EPSRC project from 1 Jun'12 - 31 May'15 worth a total of £ 293,167. The University of Sheffield PI is Dr Mark Stevenson
• The TaaS: Terminology as a Service project has started. A 2 year EC FP7 project from 1 Jun'12 - 31 May'14 with 5 partners worth a total of € 2,298,600 with an EC contribution of € 1,820,000. The University of Sheffield PI is Prof. Rob Gaizauskas
• Kumutha Swampillai has been awarded her PhD.
  Information Extraction Across Sentences
  (Award Date: 7 March 2012)

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)
• 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
  (Award Date: 21 October 2010)
• 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.
• 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)
• Nick Webb has been awarded his PhD.
  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 has been awarded his PhD.
  Toward Portable Information Extraction
  (Award Date: 25 January 2010)
• 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

• 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

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2008

• 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)

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2007

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

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2006

• Mark Greenwood has been awarded his PhD.
  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 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)

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2003

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

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2002

• 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)

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2001

• 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)

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2000

• Harmain Harmain has been awarded his PhD.
  Automated Software Engineering
  (Award Date: December 2000)
• 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)

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1999

• 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)

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1998

• 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)
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