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Description: Speech and language technology for English language
teaching and pronunciation tutoring; English grammar models for speech
systems; evaluation and best practice in spoken dialogue systems.
Leeds Uni
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My job
Senior Lecturer, Tutor for MSc in Distributed Multimedia Systems,
Tutor for ERASMUS/SOCRATES and Junior Year Abroad exchange students,
Director of CCALAS: Centre for Computer Analysis of Language and
Speech.
Interests
Research (Corpus-based Natural Language Processing, including: English
grammatical analysis; language technology for English language
teaching; language learning and the Search for Extra Terrestrial
Intelligence; language resources and evaluation), teaching (Natural
Language Processing, Object Oriented Programming, Future Directions in
Distributed Multimedia Systems), writing, family (4 children need a
lot of tender loving care!), travel (eg to international
conferences!), films and TV (sci-fi, comedy), computing, 80's punk
rock; but not necessarily in that order.
Recent Research Interests (1996-2000)
I coordinate the Natural Language Processing research group
(nlp@comp.leeds.ac.uk), which includes: Eric Atwell (me! - Senior
Lecturer), Rens Bod (Lecturer and EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow,
currently on sabbatical), Peter Howarth (Senior Teaching Fellow in the
Language Centre, researcher on ISLE project), Peter Millican (Senior
Lecturer), Clive Souter (Associate Lecturer and Director, Centre for
Joint Honours, Science Division), Bill Whyte (Senior Research
Manager), and current research students Xiao-Yuan Duan, John Elliott,
David Roberts, Mandy Schiffrin, Menno van Zaanen.
Leeds has a long and well-established record in language and speech
processing. My recent research has focussed on the following areas:
The EPSRC-funded AMALGAM project has been especially successful in
creating mappings among lexico-grammatical annotation formalisms for
English language corpus texts, and has led to the development of
part-of-speech taggers for virtually all state-of-the-art English
corpus annotation schemes [Atwell et al 2000a].
Work on Language Engineering applied to English Language Teaching,
including collaborative EU project ISLE: Interactive Spoken Language
Education (with downloadable pronunciation tutor demo system), has
been highly regarded by ELT practitioners: the British Council
commissioned and published an overview [Atwell 99] to promote British
excellence in this field worldwide; I have been invited speaker at
ITI99 (Institute of Translators and Interpreters), IATEFL99
(International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign
Language), TESL-Canada2000 (Teachers of English as a Second Language),
ROCMELIA2000 (Republic of China - Multimedia and English Language
Instruction) as well as reaching a Language Engineering audience, eg
[Atwell et al 2000b], [Herron et al 1999], [Menzel et al 2000].
A novel (some might say outlandish?) research direction is the
detection of intelligent language-like features for SETI (Search for
Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), eg [Elliott and Atwell 1999, 2000],
[Elliott et al 2000a,b]. Aliens probably don't use the English
language, but we can detect generic features shared by English and
other languages, and look for these in unknown incoming digital
signals.
An overarching theme linking these topics is research into evaluation
of language resources, including corpora, dictionaries, and systems,
eg [Atwell 1999], [Demetriou et al 2000], [Atwell et al 2000a,c],
[Demetriou et al 1997], [Churcher et al 1997], [Hughes and Atwell
1994]
CCALAS(the Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech) is a
University interdisciplinary research centre for PhD and postdoctoral
research in NLP, including Corpus-based systems for processing English
and a range of other Natural Languages.
I have supervised recent externally-funded research projects:
+ 1998-2000: ISLE: Interactive Spoken Language Education (c#720,000
total project grant, of which c#65,000 to Leeds University, from
European Union Language Engineering research programme). I am
Principal Investigator (university terminology for Supervisor) of
the Leeds University contribution to the project; others at Leeds
who have contributed to this project include Peter Howarth, Fiona
Skilling, Clive Souter, Jennifer Tillotson, Nicole Whitworth. The
other partners funded by the European Union are Universitaet
Hamburg, Universita' di Milano Bicocca, DIDA+EL (Milan),
Entropic/Microsoft (Cambridge UK) and Ernst Klett Verlag
(Stuttgart).
+ 1994-97: AMALGAM: Automatic Mapping Among Lexico-Grammatical
Annotation Models (c#170K from Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council (EPSRC)). I was Principal Investigator, ie
project supervisor; others at Leeds who contributed to this
project include George Demetriou, John Hughes, Amanda Schiffrin,
Clive Souter, Sean Wilcock, Tim Willis.
+ 1994-96: CALAS-NTI: Coordination and Standardisation of World Wide
Web Computer-based Training Resources in Knowledge Based Systems
(KBS) and Speech And Language Technology (SALT) (c#92K from HEFCs
New Technologies Initiative) I was Principal Investigator, ie
project supervisor; Xiaoda Zhang also contributed to this project.
I supervised the following research students to successful completion
of Theses:
+ 1998: Gavin E CHURCHER, Dialogue Management in Speech Recognition
Applications (funded by University of Leeds Studentship, topped up
with grant from Visionair Ltd)
+ 1997: George C DEMETRIOU, Lexical Semantic Information Processing
for Large Vocabulary Human-Computer Speech Communication (funded
by grant from Greek Govt, topped up with grant from School of
Computer Studies)
+ 1996: Adam BULL, The Formal Description of Aerobic Dance Exercise:
a Corpus-Based Computational Linguistics Approach [MPhil] (funded
by EPSRC Studentship, topped up with earnings as Aerobics
instructor)
+ 1996: Xiaoda ZHANG, MIRTH Search Engine: A Multilingual
Information Retrieval Tool Hierarchy for a World Wide Web Virtual
Corpus [MSc] (funded by CALAS-NTI project)
+ 1996: Clive SOUTER, A Corpus-Trained Parser for
Systemic-Functional Syntax (staff, supported by School of Computer
Studies through lightening of teaching load)
+ I also supervised part-time PhD research by Sean Wilcock, Teaching
Assistant; but he gave up this research to take up a Lectureship
at Leeds Metropolitan University.
+ I currently supervise two PhD students (Xiao-Yuan Duan and John
Elliott) and act as informal advisor to other PhD students in the
NLP research group.
I have also been PhD External Examiner at Universities of Aberystyth,
Cardiff, Durham, Hertfordshire, Liverpool John Moores, Sheffield, and
Nottingham Trent; I am on the Advisory Panel for EU project MATE:
Multi-level Annotation Tools Engineering (http://mate.mip.ou.dk/); and
on the Advisory Board of ICAME, the International Computer Archive of
Modern and medieval English (http://www.hd.uib.no/icame.html).
Main Publications 1994-2000 (with ISBN/ISSN)
NOTE: Publications with ISBN/ISSN have been lodged with the British
Library and should be available via inter-library loan, or a bookshop
can use the ISBN/ISSN to locate a copy for you to purchase.
[online preprint] indicates that a pre-publication draft can be
downloaded from my personal webpage http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/
(generally postscript format); if you download and read a draft, you
are of course encouraged to purchase the final version from the
publisher or a bookshop!
Atwell E. 1999. The Language Machine, 66 pages, British Council,
London. ISBN: 0 86355 438 5 (paperback), 0 86355 439 3 (PDF online
version). [Free PDF preview sample][ Leeds University Library full
version - for Leeds University students and staff only, sorry!]
Atwell E. 1996. Comparative Evaluation of Grammatical Annotation
Models in Sutcliffe R, Koch H-D, and McElligott A (editors),
Industrial Parsing of Technical Manuals, pages 25-46, Rodopi,
Amsterdam. ISBN: 90-420-0114-3 (hardback), 90-420-0102-X (paperback).
[online preprint]
Atwell E. 1996. Machine Learning from Corpus Resources for Speech And
Handwriting Recognition in Thomas J, and Short M (editors), Using
Corpora for Language Research: Studies in the Honour of Geoffrey
Leech, pages 151-166, Longman, Harlow. ISBN: 0 582 24877-9 (hardback),
0 582 24878-7 (paperback). [online preprint]
Atwell E, Demetriou G, Hughes J, Schiffrin A, Souter C, and Wilcock S.
2000. A comparative evaluation of modern English corpus grammatical
annotation schemes. ICAME Journal, volume 24, pages 7-23,
International Computer Archive of Modern and medieval English, HIT
Centre, Bergen University. ISSN: 0801-5775 [online preprint]
Atwell E, Howarth P, Souter C, Baldo P, Bisiani R, Bonaventura P,
Herron D, Menzel W, Morton R, and Wick H. 2000. User-Guided System
Development in Interactive Spoken Language Education to appear in
Natural Language Engineering journal, vol.6 no.3, October 2000. ISSN:
1351-3249. [online preprint]
Churcher G, Atwell E and Souter C. 1997. The semantic/pragmatic
annotation of an Air Traffic Control corpus for use in Speech
Recognition in Ljung M (editor), Corpus-based Studies in English:
Papers from ICAME 17th International Conference on English Language
Research on Computerized Corpora, pages 353-374, Rodopi, Amsterdam.
ISBN: 90-420-0341-3 (hardback), 90-420-0331-6 (paperback).
Elliott J and Atwell E. 2000. Is anybody out there?: the detection of
intelligent and generic language-like features. In Journal of the
British Interplanetary Society, volume 53 no.1/2 pages 13-22, British
Interplanetary Society, London. ISSN: 0007-084X. [online preprint]
Elliott J, Atwell, E and Whyte B. 2000. Language identification in
unknown signals. in Proceeding of COLING'2000, 18th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1021-1026, Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
San Francisco. ISBN: 1-55860-717-X (2 volumes). [online preprint]
Souter C and Atwell E. 1994. Using parsed corpora: a review of current
practice in Oostdijk N and de Haan P, (editors), Corpus-based Research
Into Language, pp143-158, Rodopi, Amsterdam. ISBN: 90-5183-588-4
(paperback).
Hughes J and Atwell E. 1994. The automated evaluation of inferred word
classifications in Cohn A G, (editor), Proceedings of ECAI'94: 11th
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 535-540, John
Wiley, Chichester. ISBN: 0471 950696.
Jost U and Atwell E. 1994. Intrinsic error estimation for
corpus-trained probabilistic language models in Cohn A G, (editor),
Proceedings of ECAI'94: 11th European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, pages 550-555, John Wiley, Chichester. ISBN: 0471
950696.
Other Publications 1994-2000
(without ISBN/ISSN, only available direct from source)
Atwell E. 1998. What has SALT got to offer the English teaching
professional? Article in English Teaching Professional, Spring 1998.
Atwell E. 1997. The world of language: speech and language technology
in: Bowers R (editor), The World of Language: preliminary studies, The
World of Language / British Council; online:
http://www.worldoflanguage.com/atwell-1.htm
Atwell E, Demetriou G, Hughes J, Schiffrin A, Souter C, and Wilcock S.
2000. Comparing linguistic interpretation schemes for English corpora.
in Brants T (editor), Proceedings of COLING LINC-2000 Workshop on
Linguistically Interpreted Corpora, pp1-10, Centre Universitaire,
Luxembourg. [online preprint]
Atwell E, Demetriou G, Hughes J, Schiffrin A, Souter C, and Wilcock S.
1997. Tagging Email with 8 Tagsets: lessons on evaluation in
Gaizauskas R (editor), Evaluation in Speech and Language Technology:
Proceedings of the SALT Club Workshop", Sheffield University.
Atwell E and Sutcliffe R. 1997. Industrial Parsing of Software
Manuals: Empirical Qualitative Comparison of Parsers and Parsing
Schemes in Gaizauskas R (editor), Evaluation in Speech and Language
Technology: Proceedings of the SALT Club Workshop", Sheffield
University.
Churcher G, Atwell E and Souter C. 1997. Generic template for the
evaluation of dialogue management systems in Proceedings of
EUROSPEECH'97: 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and
Technology.
Churcher G, Atwell E and Souter C. 1997. Developing a corpus-based
grammar model within a commercial continuous speech recognition
packagein WEB-SLS: WWW European Student Journal of Language and
Speech, V.1 #97.03, online:
http://web-sls.essex.ac.uk/web-sls/papers/97-03/97-03.html
Churcher G, Atwell E and Souter C. 1997. A Generic Template to
evaluate integrated components in spoken dialogue systems in
Hirschberg J, Kamm C and Walker M (editors), Proceedings of
ACL/EACL'97 Workshop on Interactive Spoken Dialog Systems: bringing
speech and NLP together in real applications", pp 9-16, Madrid.
Churcher G, Atwell E and Souter C. 1997. A Generic Template to
evaluate integrated components in spoken dialogue systems in
Gaizauskas, R (editor), Evaluation in Speech and Language Technology:
Proceedings of the SALT Club Workshop", Sheffield University.
Churcher G, Atwell E and Souter C. 1996. Dialogues in air traffic
control in: Proceedings of 11th Twente Workshop on Language
Technology, Twente, Netherlands. [online preprint]
Demetriou G, Atwell E and Souter C. 2000. Using lexical semantic
knowledge from machine readable dictionaries for domain independent
language modelling in Gavrilidou M, Carayannis G, Markantionatou S,
Piperidis S, Stainhaouer G (editors) Proceedings of LREC2000: Second
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Athens,
vol.2 pp.777-782. Published and distributed by ELRA - European
Language Resources Association. [online preprint]
Demetriou G, Atwell E and Souter C. 1997. Large-scale lexical
semantics for speech recognition support in Proceedings of
EUROSPEECH'97: 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and
Technology, Rhodes, Greece.
Demetriou G, Atwell E, and Souter C. 1997. Measuring the Uncertainty
in Grammatical Classification in Gaizauskas, R (editor), Evaluation in
Speech and Language Technology: Proceedings of the SALT Club
Workshop", Sheffield University.
Elliott J, Atwell, E and Whyte B. 2000. Increasing our ignorance of
language: identifying language structure in an unknown signal in
Daelemans W (ed) Proceedings of CoNLL-2000: International Conference
on Computational Natural Language Learning, Lisbon, Portugal. [online
preprint]
Elliott J and Atwell E. 1999. Language in signals: the detection of
generic species-independent intelligent language features in symbolic
and oral communications in Proceedings of the 50th International
Astronautical Congress, paper IAA-99-IAA.9.1.08, Amsterdam.
International Astronautical Federation, Paris. [online preprint]
Herron D, Menzel W, Atwell E, Bisiani R, Daneluzzi F, Morton R and
Schmidt J. 1999. Automatic localization and diagnosis of pronunciation
errors for second language learners of English in Proceedings of
EUROSPEECH'99: 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and
Technology, Budapest, Hungary. [online preprint]
Menzel W, Atwell E, Bonaventura P, Herron D, Howarth P, Morton R, and
Souter C. 2000. The ISLE Corpus of non-native spoken English in
Gavrilidou M, Carayannis G, Markantionatou S, Piperidis S, Stainhaouer
G (editors) Proceedings of LREC2000: Second International Conference
on Language Resources and Evaluation, Athens, vol.2 pp.957-964.
Published and distributed by ELRA - European Language Resources
Association. [online preprint]
Schillo, M, Atwell, E, Souter, C, Denson, T. 1996. Language Modelling
for the In-Car Intelligent Personal Assistant in Moghrabi, C (editor),
Proceedings of NLP+IA'96: International Conference on Natural Language
Processing and Industrial Applications, Universite de Moncton, Canada.
[online preprint]
Zhang X, Liu J and Atwell E. 1997. A multilingual information
retrieval tool hierarchy for a WWW virtual corpus in Spyropoulos, C
(editor), Proceedings of MULSAIC'97: 2nd workshop on Multilinguality
in the Software industry - the Artificial Intelligence Contribution,
pp17-23, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-97), Nagoya, Japan. [online preprint]
Teaching Interests
Currently (academic year 2000-2001) I teach a final-year Computing
undergraduate module on Natural Language Processing (based on Jurafsky
and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, Prentice-Hall, 2000); a
Computing MSc module on Object Oriented Programming (based on Deitel
and Deitel, A Complete Java Training Course, Prentice-Hall, 2000); and
a Computing MSc module on Future Directions in Distributed Multimedia
Systems (based on a range of sources. I am Tutor for the MSc course in
Distributed Multimedia Systems, and represent MSc interests on the
School of Computing's Graduate Education Committee and Staff-Student
Committee. I am Tutor for students visiting Leeds University from
overseas under the SOCRATES/ERASMUS and Junior Year Abroad student
exchange schemes. I am also Tutor to a range of home undergraduates,
and supervise a range of undergraduate and MSc student Final Projects.
I have also collected some WWW teaching resources in Knowledge Based
Systems and Speech And Language Technology. You can also take a look
at my first perl-script - a simple example for beginners; but DON'T
READ THIS PAGE - my second perl-script is an example of what NOT to
write!
I enjoy supervision of Research Students in the interdisciplinary
CCALAS field. Several of my publications are jointly authored with
successful past research students, (Simon Arnfield, Adam Bull, Gavin
Churcher, George Demetriou, John Hughes, Uwe Jost, Tim O'Donoghue,
Michael Schillo, Clive Souter, Xiaoda Zhang) and current Ph.D.
students (John Elliott, Amanda Schiffrin). See
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/nlp/ for a list of Thesis titles. by these
past students and others in the nlp group. I am keen to recruit new
Ph.D. students with diverse backgrounds for a range of projects;
please email me if you're interested!
A selection of earlier publications (pre-1994)
For a full publications list, see the page with all the workshop
papers, research reports, etc.
Atwell, E, The HEFCs' Knowledge Based Systems Initiative in Atwell, E
(Guest Editor), Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour
Quarterly No.83/84, pp. 29-34, 1993.
Atwell, E, Introduction and Overview of the HEFCs' Knowledge Based
Systems Initiative
Atwell, E, & Lajos, G, Knowledge and Constraint Management: Large
Scale Applications
Atwell, E, Linguistic Constraints for Large-Vocabulary Speech
Recognition
all in Atwell, E (editor), Knowledge at Work in Universities:
Proceedings of the second annual conference of the Higher Education
Funding Councils' Knowledge Based Systems Initiative,147pp, Leeds
University Press, 1993.
Atwell, E, Corpus-based statistical modelling of English grammar in
Souter, C & Atwell E (editors), Corpus-based computational
linguistics: proceedings of the 12th conference of the International
Computer Archive of Modern English, pp195-214, Amsterdam, Rodopi,
1993.
Atwell, E, Measuring grammaticality of machine-readable text in
Bahner, W, Schildt, J &Viehweger, D (editors), Proceedings of the
Fourteenth International Congress of Linguists, Volume III,
pp2275-2277, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1990.
Atwell, E, A lexical database for English learners and users: the
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary in McCrank, L (editor), Databases
in the Humanities and Social Sciences 4: Proceedings of the
International Conference", pp21-34, New Jersey, Learned Information,
1989.
Sampson, G, Haigh, R, & Atwell, E, Natural language analysis by
stochastic optimisation: a progress report on Project APRIL in JETAI:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence,
Volume 1, pp271-287, 1989.
Brockett, A, Atwell, E, Taylor, O & Page, M, An Arabic text database
and glossary system for students in Proceedings of the Seminar on
Bilingual Computing in Arabic and English, pp154-162, University of
Cambridge, 1989.
Haigh, R, Sampson, G & Atwell, E, Project APRIL - a progress report in
Proceedings of ACL, the 26th Conference of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, pp104-112, New Jersey, ACL, 1988.
Atwell, E, Grammatical analysis of English by statistical pattern
recognition in Kittler, J (editor), Pattern Recognition: Proceedings
of the 4th International Conference, pp626-635, Berlin,
Springer-Verlag, 1988.
Atwell, E, Transforming a Parsed Corpus into a Corpus Parser in Kyto,
M, Ihalainen, O & Risanen, M (editors), Corpus Linguistics, Hard and
Soft: Proceedings of the ICAME 8th International Conference on English
Language Research on Computerised Corpora, pp61-70, Rodopi, 1988.
Atwell, E, Constituent-likelihood grammar
Atwell, E & Elliot, S, Dealing with ill-formed English text
both in Garside, R, Sampson, G & Leech, G (editors) The computational
analysis of English: a corpus-based approach, London, Longman, 1987.
Atwell, E, How to detect grammatical errors in a text without parsing
it
Atwell, E & Drakos, N Pattern Recognition Applied to the Acquisition
of a Grammatical Classification System from Unrestricted English Text
both in Maegaard, B (editor), Proceedings of EACL: the Third
Conference of European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, New Jersey, ACL, 1987.
Cliff, D & Atwell, E, Leeds Unix Knowledge Expert: a domain-dependent
Expert System generated with domain-independent tools in BCS-SGES:
Newsletter of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert
Systems no.19 pp.49-51, 1987.
Atwell, E, A parsing expert system which learns from corpus analysis
in Meijs, W, (editor), Corpus Linguistics and Beyond: Proceedings of
the ICAME 7th International Conference on English Language Research on
Computerised Corpora, pp227-235, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1987.
Atwell, E, Converting the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary into a
structured database" in Oakman, R & Pantonial, B (editors), ICCH87:
Eighth International Conference on Computers and the Humanities,
Columbia, South Carolina; Association for Computers and the
Humanities, 1987.
Johansson, S, Atwell, E, Garside, R & Leech, G, The Tagged LOB Corpus
- User Manual, 160pp, Bergen, Norwegian Computing Centre for the
Humanities, 1986.
Atwell, E, Beyond the micro: advanced software for research and
teaching from computer science and artificial intelligence in Leech, G
& Candlin, C (editors) Computers in English language teaching and
research: selected papers from the British Council Symposium,
pp167-183, Longman, 1986.
Atwell, E, Leech, G & Garside, R, Analysis of the LOB Corpus: progress
and prospects in Aarts, J & Meijs, W (editors), Corpus Linguistics:
Proceedings of the ICAME 4th International Conference on the Use of
Computer Corpora in English Language Research, pp40-52, Rodopi, 1984.
Leech, G, Garside, R & Atwell, E, Recent developments in the use of
computer corpora in English language research, in Transactions of the
Philological Society, pp.23-40, 1983.
Atwell, E, Constituent-Likelihood Grammar
Leech, G, Garside, R & Atwell, E, The Automatic Grammatical Tagging of
the LOB Corpus
Johansson, S & Atwell, E, Seminar on the use of computers in English
language research
all in ICAME Journal of the International Computer Archive of Modern
English Vol.7, 1983.
Atwell, E, LOB Corpus Tagging Project: Manual Post-edit Handbook,
45pp, Departments of Computer Studies and Linguistics, Lancaster
University, 1982.
Previous research grants (before 1996)
+ 1994-95: Know-TIS: Knowledge-Based Timetable Information System
(c#37K from HEFCs' New Technologies Initiative), jointly with Tony
Cohn, School of Computer Studies
+ 1994-96: Visionair sponsorship of PhD studentship for Gavin
Churcher (c#21K plus speech recognition systems, PC etc from
Visionair), jointly with Clive Souter, School of Computer Studies
+ 1994: Nuffield Vacation Scholarship attached to AMALGAM project
(#1K+ from Nuffield Foundation)
+ 1991-94: UFC-KBSI National Coordinator: University Funding
Council's Knowledge Based Systems Initiative National Coordinator
(c#141K from Universities Funding Council's Information Systems
Committee)
+ 1993-94: CCALAS-CPE: European Training Centre in computer analysis
of language and speech (c#20K from Leeds University Academic
Development Fund)
+ 1992-94: SOPPP: Speech Oriented Probabilistic Parsing Project
(c#138K plus a range of Sun/Sparc equipment, from Speech Research
Unit, Defence Research Agency)
+ 1993: CCALAS-ADF: Development of CCALAS World Wide Web information
server and teaching materials for Natural Language Processing
(c#2K from internal School of Computer Studies funds, plus c#2K
from Leeds University Academic Development Fund)
+ 1990-93: UFC-KCM Project: University Funding Council's Knowledge
Crunching Machine Initiative (ICL Knowledge Crunching Machine
valued at c#120K, c#15K Sparcstation, plus c#85K grant, jointly
with other AI researchers at Leeds)
+ 1991-93: CONNEX (c#5K from British Telecom)
+ 1990-91: SERC Advanced Research Fellowship (approx c#220K from
Science and Engineering Research Council). Project: Grammatical
analysis of SCRIBE (Spoken Corpus Recordings In British English)
+ 1989-90: Abc3: Arabic By Computer (c#16K from BrisMES) jointly
with Adrian Brockett of Dept of Modern Arabic Studies
+ 1988-89: Parsing in COMMUNAL: Convivial Man-Machine Understanding
though Natural Language (c#83K from Longman/ICL/RSRE Speech
Research Unit)
+ 1986-89: APRIL: Annealing Parser for Realistic Input Language
(c#117K from MoD RSRE Speech Research Unit) jointly with Prof
Geoffrey Sampson of the Dept of Linguistics and Phonetics
+ 1987: Evaluation of Apricot Portable speech recogniser (c#2K from
ISTEL)
+ In addition, I have received a number of minor awards (for travel
etc) from the British Council, BCS, AISB, and a number of
companies including ICL, OUP, Borland International, Symantec.
+ I have also been a Consultant to the Department of Trade and
Industry, as a Monitoring Officer for DTI/SERC-funded
collaborative research; and I have experience of organising
conferences (ICAME'91, KCM'92, KBSI'92, Expert Systems '93,
KBSI'93, NTI-KBS'95).
Personal details
+ Born 5th January 1960, London, UK
+ British passport, unblemished driving licence
+ Male, married, with family (wife, 2 sons, 2 daughters,
mother-in-law, dog, cat, rabbit, 2 guinea pigs, several fish, ...)
+ I have enjoyed visiting interesting places in England, Scotland,
Wales, Northern Ireland, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Eire, East
Germany, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy,
Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, ...
+ what other personal details do you want to know??!
Career to date
+ 1984-present: Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer, Department of
Computer Studies now renamed School of Computing, Leeds
University; this post included various other roles...
+ 1987-present: founding Deputy Director and then Director, Centre
for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS), Leeds
University. CCALAS is a node in EU Network of Excellence ELSNET
(European Language and Speech Network).
+ 1989-present: founding member, Institute of Communication Studies,
Leeds University.
+ 1994-1996: Director of Computer Analysis of Language And Speech
Project, a Professorial-level National Coordinator post funded by
HEFC's New Technologies Initiative (see below), based at CCALAS,
School of Computer Studies, Leeds University.
+ spring 1995: visiting scholar, Department of Computer
Applications, Dublin City University, Ireland.
+ autumn 1994: visiting scholar, Institute for Language Technology
and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
+ 1991-1994: National Coordinator for the UFC-ISC Knowledge Based
Systems Initiative, later subsumed in the HEFCs' JISC New
Technologies Initiative.
+ 1992-1993: Senior Research Fellow on the MoD-funded Speech
Oriented Probabilistic Parsing Project.
+ 1990-1991: SERC Advanced Research Fellowship.
+ summer 1989: visiting scholar, Max Planck Institute and Department
of Language and Speech, Nijmegen University, the Netherlands.
1983-1984: ICL Research Associate, Unit for Computer Research on the
English Language (UCREL), Dept of Linguistics and Modern English
Language, Lancaster University, researching NLP for Word Processing.
1981-1983: Research Associate, Unit for Computer Research on the
English Language (UCREL), Dept of Linguistics and Modern English
Language, Lancaster University, building the Tagged LOB Corpus.
1978-1981: B.A. (First Class Honours), Lancaster University, in
Computer Studies, Linguistics and Punk Rock; summer vacation jobs in
Vauxhall car factory, NHS mental hospital, Greene King brewery,
Safeway supermarket.
Some interesting links
Welcome to Leeds: a summary of what the city has to offer;
Leeds City Council website has everything you need to know about
Leeds!
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teaching - click this link
Web-pages for the School of Computing:
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