Professor Rob Gaizauskas
BA, MA, DPhil
School of Computer Science
Professor of Natural Language Processing
Co-Director of CDT in Speech and Language Technologies
Member of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) research group
r.gaizauskas@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (DCS)
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Professor Rob Gaizauskas
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Rob Gaizauskas studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Toronto from 1972-74, then moved to Carleton University in Ottawa where he received an Honours BA in Philosophy in 1975 and an MA in Philosophy (with distinction) in 1978. Following two years teaching Logic as a temporary lecturer at Carleton he obtained a Diploma in Information Processing from Algonquin College, Ottawa, in 1981.
He then worked for several software companies in Ottawa, including Domus Software, Nabu Technologies, and Fulcrum Technologies (now part of Hummingbird), before moving to the U.K. in 1985, thanks to a Canadian SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and British Council ORS award, to study for a DPhil in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (now the Department of Informatics) at the University of Sussex.
He received his MA in Cognitive Studies in 1986 and was awarded his DPhil in 1992. During 1989 he lectured in Artificial Intelligence at Sussex. From 1990 to 1993 he worked as a Research Associate at the University of Sussex.
In 1993 he became a Lecturer in the Natural Language Processing Group of the Department of Computer Science, Sheffield University, became a Reader in Computer Science in the same group in 1999, and a Professor in 2002.
- Research interests
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Rob's research interests are in natural language processing, specifically in information extraction from natural language texts, software architectures for natural language processing and evaluation of language processing systems.
- Publications
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Books
- The Language Of Time. Oxford University PressOxford.
Journal articles
- Obituary: Yorick Wilks. Computational Linguistics, 49(3), 767-772.
- Visual and Semantic Knowledge Transfer for Large Scale Semi-supervised Object Detection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 40(12), 3045-3058. View this article in WRRO
- Extracting bilingual terms from the Web. Terminology, 21(2), 205-236. View this article in WRRO
- Exploring relation types for literature-based discovery. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 22(5), 987-992. View this article in WRRO
- Generating descriptive multi‐document summaries of geo‐located entities using entity type models. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(4), 721-738.
- Bootstrapping term extractors for multiple languages. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, 483-489.
- Bilingual dictionaries for all EU languages. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, 2839-2845.
- Named entity disambiguation using HMMs. Proceedings - 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IATW 2013, 3, 159-162.
- Information retrieval for temporal bounding. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 129-130.
- Summarizing On-line Product and Service Reviews Using Aspect Rating Distributions and Language Modeling. IEEE Intelligent Systems.
- Applying ISO-Space to Healthcare Facility Design Evaluation Reports. Seventh Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA), Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 13-20.
- Do humans have conceptual models about Geographic Objects? A user study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST).
- Investigating summarization techniques for geo-tagged image indexing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7224 LNCS, 472-475.
- STARLET: Multi-document summarization of service and product reviews with balanced rating distributions. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM, 67-74.
- Understanding the types of information humans associate with geographic objects. International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings, 1929-1932.
- A collection of comparable corpora for under-resourced languages. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 219, 161-168.
- Summary generation for toponym-referenced images using object type language models. International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP, 6-11.
- The TempEval challenge: identifying temporal relations in text.. Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 43, 161-179.
- Disambiguation of biomedical text using diverse sources of information.. BMC Bioinformatics, 9 Suppl 11, S7. View this article in WRRO
- Mining clinical relationships from patient narratives.. BMC Bioinformatics, 9 Suppl 11, S3. View this article in WRRO
- The CLEF corpus: semantic annotation of clinical text.. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 625-629.
- A web service for biomedical term look-up.. Comp Funct Genomics, 6(1-2), 86-93. View this article in WRRO
- Corpus Linguistics and South Asian Languages: Corpus Creation and Tool Development.. Lit. Linguistic Comput., 19, 509-524.
- Integrating text mining into distributed bioinformatics workflows: A Web services implementation. Proceedings - 2004 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2004, 145-152.
- Recent advances in computational terminology. COMPUT LINGUIST, 29(2), 328-332.
- Protein Structures and Information Extraction from Biological Texts: The PASTA System.. Bioinform., 19, 135-143. View this article in WRRO
- Natural language question answering: the view from here.. Nat. Lang. Eng., 7, 275-300.
- Two applications of information extraction to biological science journal articles: enzyme interactions and protein structures.. Pac Symp Biocomput, 505-516.
- Bioinformatics applications of information extraction from scientific journal articles. Journal of Information Science, 26(2), 75-85.
- Bioinformatics applications of information extraction from scientific journal articles. J INFORM SCI, 26(2), 75-85.
- Evaluating two methods for Treebank grammar compaction.. Nat. Lang. Eng., 5, 377-394. View this article in WRRO
- Karen Sparck Jones and Julia Galliers, Evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems: An Analysis and Review. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1996. ISBN 3 540 61309 9, Price DM54.00 (paperback), 228 pages.. Nat. Lang. Eng., 4, 175-190.
- Information extraction: Beyond document retrieval. J DOC, 54(1), 70-105.
- Using a semantic network for information extraction. Natural Language Engineering, 3(2), 147-169.
- POETIC: A system for gathering and disseminating traffic information. Natural Language Engineering, 1(4), 363-388.
- New Methods, Current Trends and Software Infrastructure for NLP. Proceedings of NEMLAP-2.
- A General Architecture for Language Engineering (GATE) - a new approach
to Language Engineering R&D.
Chapters
- Collecting Comparable Corpora In Skadiņa I, Gaizauskas R, Babych B, Ljubešić N, Tufiş D & Vasiļjevs A (Ed.), Using Comparable Corpora for Under-Resourced Areas of Machine Translation (pp. 55-87). Springer
- Introduction In Skadiņa I, Gaizauskas R, Babych B, Ljubešić N, Tufiş D & Vasiļjevs A (Ed.), Using Comparable Corpora for Under-Resourced Areas of Machine Translation (pp. 1-11). Springer
- Cross-Language Comparability and Its Applications for MT In Skadiņa I, Gaizauskas R, Babych B, Ljubešić N, Tufiş D & Vasiļjevs A (Ed.), Using Comparable Corpora for Under-Resourced Areas of Machine Translation (pp. 13-53). Springer
- Appendices, Using Comparable Corpora for Under-Resourced Areas of Machine Translation (pp. 291-323). Springer International Publishing
- Mapping and Aligning Units from Comparable Corpora, Using Comparable Corpora for Under-Resourced Areas of Machine Translation (pp. 141-188). Springer International Publishing
- Building and Using Comparable Corpora Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Summarizing Opinion-Related Information for Mobile Devices, Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions (pp. 289-317). Springer New York
- Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions Springer New York
- Methods for Collection and Evaluation of Comparable Documents, Building and Using Comparable Corpora (pp. 93-112). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Multi-Document Summarization Techniques for Generating Image Descriptions: A Comparative Analysis In Poibeau T, Saggion H, Piskorski J & Yangarber R (Ed.), Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing (pp. 299-320). Springer
- 59. Corpora and text re-use, Corpus Linguistics Mouton de Gruyter
- Corpora and text re-use, CORPUS LINGUISTICS, PART 2 (pp. 1249-1271).
- The Specification Language TimeML, The Language Of Time (pp. 545-558). Oxford University PressOxford
- Using Semantic Inferences for Temporal Annotation Comparison. In Mani I, Pustejovsky J & Gaizauskas RJ (Ed.), The Language of Time - A Reader (pp. 575-575). Oxford University Press
- Quantitative evaluation of coreference algorithms in an information extraction system, Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora (pp. 145-145). John Benjamins Publishing Company
- LaSIE Jumps the GATE, Text, Speech and Language Technology (pp. 197-214). Springer Netherlands
- Information Access and Natural Language Processing: A Stimulating Dialogue, Text, Speech and Language Technology (pp. 85-105). Springer Netherlands
- Mice from a Mountain: Reflections on Current Issues in Evaluation of Written Language Technology, Charting a New Course: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval (pp. 195-238). Springer-Verlag
Conference proceedings papers
- Parsing Graphical Summaries from Argumentative Dialogues. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 388 (pp 37-48)
- BLN600: A parallel corpus of machine/human transcribed nineteenth century newspaper texts. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) (pp 2440-2446). Torino, Italia, 20 May 2024 - 20 May 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Leveraging LLMs for Post-OCR Correction of Historical Newspapers. 3rd Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages, LT4HALA 2024 at LREC-COLING 2024 - Workshop Proceedings (pp 116-121)
- ScANT: A Small Corpus of Scene-Annotated Narrative Texts[resource papers]. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3370 (pp 143-149)
- A Language Modelling Approach to Quality Assessment of OCR’ed Historical Text. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022) (pp 5859-5864). Marseille, France, 20 June 2022 - 25 June 2022.
- SNuC: The Sheffield Numbers Spoken Language Corpus. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (pp 1978-1984). Marseille, France, 20 June 2022 - 20 June 2022. View this article in WRRO
- A Pilot Study on the Collection and Computational Analysis of Linguistic Differences Amongst Men and Women in a Kuwaiti Arabic WhatsApp Dataset. Proceedings of the The Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP) (pp 372-380), December 2022 - December 2022.
- A pilot study on annotating scenes in narrative text using sceneML. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2860 (pp 7-14)
- The SENSEI Overview of Newspaper Readers’ Comments (pp 758-761) View this article in WRRO
- Using Section Headings to Compute Cross-Lingual Similarity of Wikipedia Articles (pp 633-639) View this article in WRRO
- Large Scale Semi-supervised Object Detection using Visual and Semantic Knowledge Transfer. 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (pp 2119-2128). Las Vegas, Nevada, 26 June 2016 - 1 July 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Automatic Label Generation for News Comment Clusters. Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation Conference (pp 61-69), 5 September 2016 - 8 September 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Overview of the ImageCLEF 2016 Scalable Concept Image Annotation Task. CLEF 2016 Working Notes. Évora, Portugal, 5 September 2016 - 8 September 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Don't mention the shoe! a learning to rank approach to content selection for image description generation. INLG 2016 - 9th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Proceedings of the Conference (pp 193-202) View this article in WRRO
- The SENSEI Annotated Corpus: Human Summaries of Reader Comment Conversations in On-line News. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (pp 42-52), 13 September 2016 - 15 September 2016. View this article in WRRO
- General Overview of ImageCLEF at the CLEF 2016 Labs. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, Vol. 9822. Évora, Portugal View this article in WRRO
- What's the issue here?: Task-based evaluation of reader comment summarization systems. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp 3094-3101) View this article in WRRO
- Cross-validating image description datasets and evaluation metrics. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp 3059-3066) View this article in WRRO
- A document repository for social media and speech conversations. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp 436-440)
- Automatic label generation for news comment clusters. Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference, 2016 - 2016.
- The SENSEI Project: Making Sense of Human Conversations (pp 10-33)
- A Graph-Based Approach to Topic Clustering for Online Comments to News. Advances in Information Retrieval (pp 15-29), 20 March 2016 - 23 March 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Summarizing Multi-Party Argumentative Conversations in Reader Comment on News. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining2016) (pp 12-20), August 2016 - August 2016.
- Combining Geometric, Textual and Visual Features for Predicting Prepositions in Image Descriptions. Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp 214-220). Lisbon, Portugal, 17 September 2015 - 21 September 2015. View this article in WRRO
- Defining Visually Descriptive Language. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Vision and Language, September 2015 - September 2015.
- Generating Image Descriptions with Gold Standard Visual Inputs: Motivation, Evaluation and Baselines. Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG), September 2015 - September 2015. View this article in WRRO
- Overview of the ImageCLEF 2015 Scalable Image Annotation, Localization and Sentence Generation Task. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Toulouse, France, 8 September 2015 - 11 September 2015.
- Sheffield-Trento System for Sentiment and Argument Structure Enhanced Comment-to-Article Linking in the Online News Domain (Ahmet Aker, Fabio Celli, Adam Funk, Emina Kurtic, Mark Hepple and Rob Gaizauskas). MultiLing 2015 in SIGDIAL. Prague, 2 September 2015 - 4 September 2015.
- Temporal relation classification using a model of tense and aspect. International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP, Vol. 2015-January (pp 118-122)
- Comment-to-Article Linking in the Online News Domain. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, September 2015 - September 2015. View this article in WRRO
- A Poodle or a Dog? Evaluating Automatic Image Annotation Using Human Descriptions at Different Levels of Granularity. Proceedings of the Workshop on Vision and Language 2014 (VL'14), in conjuction with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014). Dublin, 23 August 2014 - 23 August 2014.
- Collective named entity disambiguation using graph ranking and clique partitioning approaches. Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers (pp 1544-1555)
- Bilingual dictionaries for all EU languages. The Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014) (pp 2839-2845). Reykjavik, Iceland, 26 May 2014 - 31 May 2014. View this article in WRRO
- Bootstrapping Term Extractors for Multiple Languages. The Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014) (pp 483-489). Reykjavik, Iceland, 26 May 2014 - 31 May 2014. View this article in WRRO
- A Hybrid Approach to Multi-document Summarization of Opinions in Reviews. Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG), June 2014 - June 2014.
- Assigning Terms to Domains by Document Classification. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computational Terminology (Computerm), August 2014 - August 2014.
- Graph Ranking for Collective Named Entity Disambiguation. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), June 2014 - June 2014.
- Empirical Validation of Reichenbach’s Tense Framework. International Conference on Computational Semantics. ACL
- Temporal Signals Help Label Temporal Relations. Proceedings of the 51st meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. ACL
- Extracting bilingual terminologies from comparable corpora. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Sofia, Bulgaria
- Correlation between Similarity Measures for Inter-Language Linked Wikipedia Articles. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey.. Istanbul, Turkey, 21 May 2012 - 27 May 2012. View this article in WRRO
- Collecting and using comparable corpora for statistical machine translation. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012 (pp 438-445)
- TIMEN: An Open Temporal Expression Normalisation Resource.. LREC (pp 3044-3051)
- Assessing the Comparability of News Texts. LREC 2012 - EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION (pp 3996-4003)
- A light way to collect comparable corpora from the Web. LREC 2012 - EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION (pp 15-20)
- Named Entity Based Document Similarity with SVM-Based Re-ranking for Entity Linking. ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS, Vol. 322 (pp 379-388)
- Redundancy reduction for multi-document summaries using A* search and discriminative training. Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Text Summarization of the Future. Spain
- A light way to collect comparable corpora from the Web. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey. (pp 21-27)
- USFD at KBP 2011: Entity Linking, Slot Filling and Temporal Bounding.. TAC
- Time-Surfer: Time-Based Graphical Access to Document Content.. ECIR, Vol. 6611 (pp 767-771)
- Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation. LREC 2010 - SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION (pp 6-14)
- Multi-document summarization using A* search and discriminative training. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp 482-491)
- Analysing Temporally Annotated Corpora with CAVaT.. LREC
- Model Summaries for Location-related Images. Proc. of the 7th conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation
- Multi-document summarization using A* search and discriminative training. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (pp 482-491). Cambridge, MA, USA
- English-Hindi Transliteration using Multiple Similarity Metrics.. LREC
- Developing Morphological Analysers for South Asian Languages: Experimenting with the Hindi and Gujarati Languages.. LREC
- Using Dialogue Corpora to Extend Information Extraction Patterns for Natural Language Understanding of Dialogue.. LREC
- Automatic image captioning from the web for GPS photographs.. Multimedia Information Retrieval (pp 445-448)
- USFD2: Annotating Temporal Expresions and TLINKs for TempEval-2.. SemEval@ACL (pp 337-340)
- Generating image descriptions using dependency relational patterns. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (pp 1250-1258)
- Disambiguation of biomedical abbreviations. Proceedings of the Workshop on BioNLP - BioNLP '09, 4 June 2009 - 5 June 2009.
- Building a semantically annotated corpus of clinical texts.. J. Biomed. Informatics, Vol. 42 (pp 950-966) View this article in WRRO
- Knowledge sources for word sense disambiguation of biomedical text. Proceedings of the Workshop on Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing - BioNLP '08, 19 June 2008 - 19 June 2008.
- Evaluation of automatically reformulated questions in question series. Coling 2008: Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Information Retrieval for Question Answering - IRQA '08, 24 August 2008 - 24 August 2008.
- Generating image captions using topic focused multi-document summarization. Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-source Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization - MMIES '08, 23 August 2008 - 23 August 2008.
- Evaluating automatically generated user-focused multi-document summaries for geo-referenced images. Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-source Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization - MMIES '08, 23 August 2008 - 23 August 2008.
- Acquiring Sense Tagged Examples using Relevance Feedback. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-08). Manchester, UK
- Extracting clinical relationships from patient narratives. Proceedings of the Workshop on Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing - BioNLP '08, 19 June 2008 - 19 June 2008.
- ANNALIST - ANNotation ALIgnment and Scoring Tool.. LREC
- Combining Terminology Resources and Statistical Methods for Entity Recognition: an Evaluation.. LREC
- SemEval-2007 task 15. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations - SemEval '07, 23 June 2007 - 24 June 2007.
- USFD. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations - SemEval '07, 23 June 2007 - 24 June 2007.
- USFD: Preliminary exploration of features and classifiers for the TempEval-2007 tasks. ACL 2007 - SemEval 2007 - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (pp 438-441)
- SemEval-2007 task 15: TempEval temporal relation identification. ACL 2007 - SemEval 2007 - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (pp 75-80)
- Simulating cub reporter dialogues: The collection of naturalistic human-human dialogues for information access to text archives. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006 (pp 125-130)
- Language resources for background gathering. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006 (pp 1318-1321)
- Web Service Architectures for Text Mining: An Exploration of the Issues via an E-Science Demonstrator.. Int. J. Web Serv. Res., Vol. 3 (pp 95-112)
- The University of Sheffield's TREC 2006 Q&A Experiments.. TREC, Vol. 500-272
- Task-Oriented Extraction of Temporal Information: The Case of Clinical Narratives.. TIME (pp 188-195)
- Experiments in Passage Selection and Answer Identification for Question Answering.. FinTAL, Vol. 4139 (pp 291-302)
- SUPPLE. Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Parsing Technology - Parsing '05, 9 October 2005 - 10 October 2005.
- Aligning words in English-Hindi parallel corpora. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts - ParaText '05, 29 June 2005 - 30 June 2005.
- A hybrid approach to align sentences and words in English-Hindi parallel corpora. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts - ParaText '05, 29 June 2005 - 30 June 2005.
- SUPPLE: A Practical Parser for Natural Language Engineering Applications.. IWPT (pp 200-201)
- Integrating NLP tools to support information access to news archives. International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP, Vol. 2005-January (pp 452-458)
- The Role of Inference in the Temporal Annotation and Analysis of Text.. Lang. Resour. Evaluation, Vol. 39 (pp 243-265)
- The University of Sheffield's TREC 2005 Q&A Experiments.. TREC, Vol. 500-266
- Experiments on Statistical and Pattern-Based Biographical Summarization.. EPIA, Vol. 3808 (pp 611-621)
- A Labelled Corpus for Prepositional Phrase Attachment.. LREC
- A Large-Scale Resource for Storing and Recognizing Technical Terminology.. LREC
- Information retrieval for question answering a SIGIR 2004 workshop.. SIGIR Forum, Vol. 38 (pp 41-44)
- Sheffield University and the TREC 2004 Genomics Track: Query Expansion Using Synonymous Terms.. TREC, Vol. 500-261
- The University of Sheffield's TREC 2004 QA Experiments.. TREC, Vol. 500-261
- Representing Temporal and Event Knowledge for QA Systems.. New Directions in Question Answering (pp 99-112)
- Text Mining into Distributed Bioinformatics Workflows: A Web Services Implementation.. IEEE SCC (pp 145-152)
- Mining On-line Sources for Definition Knowledge.. FLAIRS Conference (pp 61-66)
- Evaluating Passage Retrieval Approaches for Question Answering.. ECIR, Vol. 2997 (pp 72-84)
- Recent Advances in Computational Terminology edited by Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin, and Marie-Claude L'Homme.. Comput. Linguistics, Vol. 29 (pp 328-332)
- CM-Builder: A Natural Language-Based CASE Tool for Object-Oriented Analysis.. Autom. Softw. Eng., Vol. 10 (pp 157-181)
- The University of Sheffield's TREC 2003 Q&A Experiments.. TREC, Vol. 500-255 (pp 782-790)
- TimeML: Robust Specification of Event and Temporal Expressions in Text.. New Directions in Question Answering (pp 28-34)
- On the Use of Agents in BioInformatics Grid.. CCGRID (pp 653-660)
- A Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for Prepositional Phrase Attachment.. LREC
- EMILLE, A 67-Million Word Corpus of Indic Languages: Data Collection, Mark-up and Harmonisation.. LREC
- Building and annotating a corpus for the study of journalistic text reuse.. LREC View this article in WRRO
- METER: MEasuring TExt Reuse. 40TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE (pp 152-159) View this article in WRRO
- The University of Sheffield TREC 2002 Q&A System.. TREC, Vol. 500-251
- Using Edit Distance Algorithms to Compare Alternative Approaches to ITS Authoring.. Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Vol. 2363 (pp 873-882)
- Utilizing text mining results: The Pasta Web System.. ACL Workshop on Natural Language Processing in the Biomedical Domain (pp 77-84)
- A pilot study on annotating temporal relations in text. Proceedings of the workshop on Temporal and spatial information processing -, 7 July 2001 - 7 July 2001.
- Intelligent access to text. Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research - HLT '01, 18 March 2001 - 21 March 2001.
- QA-LaSIE: A Natural Language Question Answering System.. Canadian Conference on AI, Vol. 2056 (pp 172-182)
- Using HLT for acquiring, retrieving and publishing knowledge in AKT. Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management -, 6 July 2001 - 7 July 2001.
- Visual Tools for Natural Language Processing.. J. Vis. Lang. Comput., Vol. 12 (pp 375-412)
- A Method Based on the Chi-Square Test for Document Classification.. SIGIR (pp 440-441)
- Annotating Events and Temporal Information in Newswire Texts.. LREC
- Automatically Augmenting Terminological Lexicons from Untagged Text.. LREC
- University of Sheffield TREC-9 Q&A System.. TREC, Vol. 500-249
- CM-Builder: An Automated NL-Based CASE Tool.. ASE (pp 45-54)
- Experiments on Sentence Boundary Detection.. ANLP (pp 84-89)
- Using Corpus-derived Name Lists for Named Entity Recognition.. ANLP (pp 290-295)
- Using coreference chains for text summarization. Proceedings of the Workshop on Coreference and its Applications - CorefApp '99, 22 June 1999 - 22 June 1999.
- Compacting the Penn Treebank Grammar. CoRR, Vol. cs.CL/9902001
- Using a Language Independent Domain Model for Multilingual Information Extraction.. Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 13 (pp 705-724)
- University of Sheffield TREC-8 Q&A System.. TREC, Vol. 500-246 View this article in WRRO
- Evaluating a Focus-Based Approach to Anaphora Resolution. CoRR, Vol. cmp-lg/9807001
- Evaluation in language and speech technology.. Comput. Speech Lang., Vol. 12 (pp 249-262)
- Compacting the Penn Treebank Grammar.. COLING-ACL (pp 699-703)
- Evaluating a Focus-Based Approach to Anaphora Resolution.. COLING-ACL (pp 74-78)
- A scheme for comparative evaluation of diverse parsing systems.. LREC (pp 143-152)
- University of Sheffield: Description of the LaSIE-II system as used for MUC-7. 7th Message Understanding Conference, MUC 1998 - Proceedings
- Conception vs. Lexicons: An Architecture for Multilingual Information Extraction.. SCIE, Vol. 1299 (pp 28-43)
- Event coreference for information extraction. Proceedings of a Workshop on Operational Factors in Practical, Robust Anaphora Resolution for Unrestricted Texts - ANARESOLUTION '97, 11 July 1997 - 11 July 1997.
- Visual execution and data visualisation in natural language processing. 1997 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON VISUAL LANGUAGES, PROCEEDINGS (pp 338-343)
- Software Infrastructure for Natural Language Processing. CoRR, Vol. cmp-lg/9702005
- Visual Execution and Data Visualization in Natural Language Processing.. VL (pp 342-347)
- Coupling information retrieval and information extraction: A new text technology for gathering information from the web.. RIAO (pp 356-373)
- On the Marriage of Information Retrieval and Information Extraction.. BCS-IRSG Annual Colloquium on IR Research
- GATE - a General Architecture for Text Engineering.. ANLP (pp 29-30)
- Software Infrastructure for Natural Language Processing.. ANLP (pp 237-244)
- NEC corporation and University of Sheffield. Proceedings of a workshop on held at Vienna, Virginia May 6-8, 1996 -, 6 May 1996 - 8 May 1996.
- TIPSTER-compatible projects at Sheffield. Proceedings of a workshop on held at Vienna, Virginia May 6-8, 1996 -, 6 May 1996 - 8 May 1996.
- XI: A simple prolog-based language for cross-classification and inheritance. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: METHODOLOGY, SYSTEMS, APPLICATIONS, Vol. 35 (pp 86-95)
- Evaluation of an Algorithm for the Recognition and Classification of Proper Names.. COLING (pp 418-423)
- GATE-a General Architecture for Text Engineering.. COLING (pp 1057-1060)
- GATE: An environment to support research and development in natural language engineering. EIGHTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOOLS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, PROCEEDINGS (pp 58-66)
- University of Sheffield: description of the LaSIE system as used for MUC-6.. MUC (pp 207-220)
- Sussex University: description of the Sussex system used for MUC-5.. MUC (pp 321-335)
- Deriving Answers to Logical Queries Via Answer Composition.. ALPUK (pp 112-134)
- POETIC - THE PORTABLE EXTENDIBLE TRAFFIC INFORMATION COLLATOR. OECD WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE-BASED EXPERT SYSTEMS IN TRANSPORTATION, VOL 1, Vol. 116 (pp 171-184)
- USFD at KBP 2011: Entity Linking, Slot Filling and Temporal Bounding
- A Corpus-based Study of Temporal Signals. Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Corpus Linguistics (2011),
No. 197, pp. 1--8
- An Annotation Scheme for Reichenbach's Verbal Tense Structure. Proc. 6th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic
Annotation (2011) 10-17
- Using Signals to Improve Automatic Classification of Temporal Relations
- USFD2: Annotating Temporal Expresions and TLINKs for TempEval-2. Proc. 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2010)
337-340
- Analysing Temporally Annotated Corpora with CAVaT. Proc. LREC (2010) 398-404
- A Data Driven Approach to Query Expansion in Question Answering. Proc. IR4QA Workshop (2008) 34-41 View this article in WRRO
- Generating image descriptions using dependency relational patterns. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp 1250-1258). Uppsala, Sweden, 11 July 2010 - 16 July 2010.
Working papers
- Report of the Study Group on Assessment and Evaluation.
Preprints
- Rulebreakers Challenge: Revealing a Blind Spot in Large Language Models'
Reasoning with Formal Logic.
- Compacting the Penn Treebank Grammar, arXiv.
- Evaluating a Focus-Based Approach to Anaphora Resolution, arXiv.
- Software Infrastructure for Natural Language Processing, arXiv.
- New Methods, Current Trends and Software Infrastructure for NLP, arXiv.
- A General Architecture for Language Engineering (GATE) - a new approach
to Language Engineering R&D, arXiv.
- The Language Of Time. Oxford University PressOxford.
- Grants
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Current grants
- UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications, EPSRC, 04/2019 - 09/2027, £5,508,850, as Co-PI
Previous grants
- A Multimodal Speech and Graphical Interface for Hands-free Data Capture and Querying in MRO: Connecting Workers to Enterprise Information Systems, EPSRC & Research England, 07/2019 - 03/2021, £85,009, as PI
- Investigating Spoken Dialogue to Support Manufacturing Processes, ESPRC, 03/2017 - 06/2018, £63,502, as PI
- SENSEI: Building the business case, The University of Sheffield,12/2016 - 03/2017, £8,541, as PI
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Healtex: UK Healthcare Text Analytics Research Network, EPSRC, 05/2016 -02/2020, £340,240, as Co-PI
- SENSEI: Making Sense of Human - Human Conversation, EC FP7, 11/2013 - 10/2016, £459,034, as PI
- VisualSense: Tagging visual data with semantic descriptions, EPSRC, 01/2013 - 06/2016, £310,677, as PI
- Language Processing for Literature Based Discovery in Medicine, EPSRC, 06/2012 - 05/2015, £293,127, as Co-PI
- TAAS: Terminology As A Service, EC FP7, 06/2012 - 05/2014, £268,032, as PI
- ACCURAT: Analysis and evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of machine Translation, EC FP7, 01/2010 - 06/2012, £353,265, as PI
- Lexical Disambiguation for the Biomedical Domain, EPSRC, 02/2007 - 01/2010, £239,920, as Co-PI
- Cronopath: Timeline and named entity extraction for hyperlink corpora, EPSRC, 07/2005 - 12/2007, £294,632, as Co-PI
- Real-time Text Mining for the Biomedical Literature: a collaboration between DiscoveryNet & myGrid, EPSRC, 03/2005 - 02/2006, £56,588, as PI
- CLEF-Services, MRC, 01/2005 - 06/2008, £430,221, as PI
- VIKEF: Virtual Information and Knowledge Environment Framework, EC FP6, 04/2004 - 03/2007, £200,020, as PI
- Electronic cub-reporter: automatically gathering and collating background information from digital text, EPSRC, 01/2003 - 06/2006, £307,973, as PI
- MYGRID: Directly Supporting the E-Scientist, MRC, 10/2001 - 06/2005, £320,206, as PI
- CLEF: Clinical E-Science Framework, MRC, 10/2002 - 01/2006, £280,725, as PI
- CLARITY: Cross language information retrieval and organisation of text and audio documents, EC FP6, 02/2001 - 01/2004, £469,576, as PI
- Emille: Enabling minority language engineering, EPSRC, 06/2000 - 09/2003, £35,859, as PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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Head of Natural Language Processing (NLP) research group