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Listed here are the current staff and postgraduate students who make up the Centre for Language Technology.

	Ilya Anisimoff [Honours Student; BSc Linguistics & Computing, 2005, Macquarie U] Negotiation over referring expressions.
	Steve Cassidy [Faculty Member; PhD Computer Science, 1993, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ] Linguistic annotation, management of language resources, annotation query languages, semantic web.
	Robert Dale [Centre Director; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1988, U Edinburgh, UK] Natural language generation, reference and anaphora, intelligent text processing, information extraction, automated grammar and style checking, the semantics of typography, spoken language dialogue systems.
	Jean-Yves Delort [Research Fellow; PhD Computer Science, 2003, University of Paris 6] Text mining, user modeling, adaptive systems, visualization, social network analysis, finance.
	Mark Dras [Faculty Member; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1999, Macquarie U] Theory and applications of language transformations, including machine translation and paraphrasing, mathematical properties of pairings of languages, and computational simulations of language evolution.
	Dominique Estival [Honorary Associate, Appen; PhD Linguistics, 1986, U of Pennsylvania, USA] Grammar formalisms for language processing, linguistic engineering development environments - including evaluation -, machine translation, spoken language dialogue systems, formalisation of linguistic information for language processing.
	Mary Gardiner [BSc Hons Computing, 2003, Macquarie U; BA, 2002, University of Sydney] Sentiment analysis, lexical semantics, text rewriting and paraphrasing.
	Ben Hachey [Research Fellow; PhD Informatics, 2009, University of Edinburgh] Computational linguistics, focusing on information extraction, automatic summarisation and information aggregation. Currently working on named entity recognition/linking, natural language processing with social/collaborative media, and web-scale information extraction.
	Mark Johnson [Faculty Member; PhD Computational Linguistics and Machine Learning, 1987, Stanford University] Statistical models of Language Learning and Parsing, and their application to text and speech processing.
	Susan Howlett [PhD student; BLibStud (Hons) in Computer Science, 2008, University of Sydney] Machine translation, machine learning, statistical models of language.
	Andrew Lampert [PhD Student; BSc (Maths) and BEng Hons (Software), 2001, University of Melbourne; MSc (Speech and Language Processing), 2006, Macquarie U] Patterns of conversation in textual discourse, email summarisation, speech act classification, context-aware information delivery.
	François Lareau [Research Fellow; PhD Linguistics, 2008, U Montreal & U Paris 7] Multilingual text generation, computational lexicography, theoretical linguistics.
	Pawel Mazur [PhD Student; MSc in Computer Science, 2004, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland] Named entity recognition, temporal information recognition and normalisation, event recognition.
	Diego Mollá [Faculty Member; PhD Linguistics, 1996, U Edinburgh, UK] Text-based question answering, information extraction, natural language processing for medicine.
	Yasaman Motazedi [PhD Student; BSc in software Engineering, 2006, Azad University, Iran; MA in Artificial Intelligence, 2009, Azad University, Iran] Machine Translation, Natural Language Generation.
	Cécile Paris [Honorary Associate, CSIRO ICT Ctre; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1988, Columbia U, USA] Natural language generation, user modeling, human-computer interaction, documentation, authoring tools, internationalisation of software, controlled languages and sublanguages, usability evaluation of user interfaces, task models and contextual design, multimedia interaction, learning.
	Alexandre Rafalovitch [PhD Student; BSc Hons Computer Science, 1998, UTS] Named entity recognition, cross-document coreference resolution, information extraction, summarisation.
	Chris Rauchle [PhD Student; MBus, IT, UTS] Investigating technologies that support Social Media use appropriate to the cultural conventions of Indigenous Communities in Australia.
	Debbie Richards [Faculty Member; PhD Knowledge Based Systems, 1999, UNSW] Knowledge acquisition and reuse, machine learning and knowledge mining, qualitative and cognitive modelling, human computer interaction and natural language interfaces, visualisation and navigation of large lattices.
	Abeed Sarker [PhD student; BIS (Hons) in Computing, 2009, Macquarie University] Automatic text summarization, text processing (medical domain).
	Rolf Schwitter [Faculty Member; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1998, U Zurich, Switzerland] Controlled languages, question answering systems, logic programming.
	Marc Tilbrook [Research Programmer; BSc Computing, 2001, Macquarie U] Information extraction, intelligent text processing, text annotation.
	Stephen Wan [Honorary Associate, CSIRO ICT Ctr; PhD Computational Linguistics, 2010, Macquarie U and CSIRO; BSc Hons Computing, 2001, Macquarie U] Automatic text summarisation, natural language generation.
	Sze-Meng Jojo Wong [PhD Student; Bachelor of Computer Science, Master of Information Technology, Monash University] Native language identification, sentence grammaticality judgement, authorship profiling.

Alumni [Active Members] [Former Members]

2011

Jette Viethen [PhD Computational Linguistics, 2011, Macquarie U; BSc in Computer Science, 2002, Universität Hamburg, Germany; MA in Cognitive Science, 2003, University of New South Wales] The Generation of Natural Descriptions: Corpus-Based Investigations of Referring Expressions in Visual Domains.

2010

Stephen Wan [PhD Computational Linguistics, 2010, Macquarie U and CSIRO; BSc Hons Computing, 2001, Macquarie U] Sentence Augmentation: A Text-to-Text Generation Component for Summarisation.

2009

	Elena Akhmatova [PhD Computational Linguistics, 2009, Macquarie U; MSc Computational Linguistics, 2001, St. Petersburg, Russia] Question answering systems.
	Stephen Choularton [PhD Computational Linguistics, 2009, Macquarie U; BSc Hons Computer Science, 2002, Macquarie U] Early Stage Detection of Speech Recognition Errors.
	Vanessa Long [PhD Computational Linguistics, 2009, Macquarie U; BSc Honours With Distinction, 1999, University of Victoria, Canada] Natural language processing, dialogue systems based on tables, design and development of speech technology systems.
	Luiz Augusto Pizzato [PhD Computational Linguistics, 2009, Macquarie U and CSIRO; BSc; MSc in Computer Science, 2003, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil] Using Linguistically Motivated Features in Document Retrieval for Question Answering.

2008

	Jean-Philippe Prost [PhD Computational Linguistics, 2008, Macquarie U. and U. Provence; DEA Computer Science, 1997, Université de la Méditerranée (Marseille II), France] Modelling Syntactic Gradience with Loose Constraint-based Parsing.
	Simon Zwarts [PhD Computational Linguistics, 2008, Macquarie U; MSc in Computer Science, 2003, University of Twente] Learning structural characteristics in Machine Translation.

2000

	Sarah Boyd [PhD Computational Linguistics, 2000, Macquarie U] A Signal Processing Approach to Generating Natural Language.

1999

	Mark Dras [PhD Computational Linguistics, 1999, Macquarie U] Tree Adjoining Grammar and the Reluctant Paraphrasing of Text.
	Maria Milosavljevic [PhD Computational Linguistics, 1999, Macquarie U] The Automatic Generation of Comparisons in Descriptions of Entities.

1996

	Mark Lauer [PhD Computational Linguistics, 1996, Macquarie U] Designing Statistical Language Learners: Experiments on Noun Compounds.
	Alpha Luk [PhD Computational Linguistics, 1996, Macquarie U] A Conceptual Cohesion Based Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation.

 

Former Members [Active Members] [Alumni]

	Frederic Ehrler [PhD student, MSc Computer Science, 2003, University of Geneva, Switzerland] Text categorization, Information Retrieval
	Tanja Gaustad van Zaanen [Visiting Researcher; PhD Computational Linguistics, 2004, Groningen U, The Netherlands] Word sense disambiguation, lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, text classification, machine learning, statistical methods in computational linguistics.
	Sabine Geldof [Postdoc Researcher; PhD Language technology, 2000, U Antwerpen, B] CORAL project: Natural language generation, analysis of human provided descriptions, generation of natural route descriptions for mobile devices, route segmentation.
	Dan Jurafsky [Visitor in 2006; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1992, U California Berkeley].
	Tuomo Kakkonen [Visitor in 2008; PhD Computer Science, 2007, U of Joensuu]. Parsing technologies, parser evaluation, treebanks, Latent Semantic Analysis, Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis, Automatic essay assessment, plagiarism detection.
	Mark Lauer [Honorary Associate; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1996, Macquarie U] Statistical language learning, probabilistic models of language, semantic expectations, noun compounds.
	Josef Meyer [PhD Student; BSc Hons Computer Science and Linguistics, 1996, UWA] Associative anaphora; extracting semantic relationships from parsed corpora, HPSG and non-configurational languages, annotation tools, tools for extracting interesting examples from corpora.
	Maria Milosavljevic [Senior Research Fellow; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1999, Macquarie U] Information extraction, text generation, user modeling, forensic computing, integration, learning.
	Scott Nowson [Research Fellow; PhD Cognitive Science, 2006, University of Edinburgh, UK] Linguistic projection of personality in weblogs and CMC more generally; classification of text by author personality; data acquisition, information extraction and summarisation; question answering.
	Brett Powley [PhD student; BMath(CompSci) 1990, University of Wollongong; BA(French) 2000, University of Wollongong] Natural language processing; information extraction applied to scholarly literature; remote sensing image processing
	Sven Puhlmann [Research Programmer, MSc Computer Science, 2005, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany] Web Application Development, Information Extraction.
	Hugo de Vries [Research Programmer; MSc Speech and Language Processing, 2000, Macquarie U] Information extraction, spoken dialog systems, machine learning.
	Rainer Wasinger [Research Fellow; PhD Computer Science, 2006, Saarland U, Germany] Mobile computing, multimodal interaction, modality fusion, natural language understanding and generation, embodied conversational agents.
	Paul Watters [Faculty Member; PhD Computer Science, Macquarie U] Internet content filtering, word sense disambiguation, information retrieval.
	Mohammed J. Yagi [PhD student, MSc Computer Science, 2003, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand] Arabic Morphology root extraction and stem generation, natural language interface to logic teaching.
	Menno van Zaanen [Postdoc Researcher; PhD Computer Science, 2001, U Leeds, UK] Question answering systems, grammar induction, error correction.