Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Researcher in Natural Language Processing (text analytics) with extensive experience in academic and commercial environments. Specialties: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Language Engineering, Text Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, search and information retrieval, user interfaces, applications to medicine and software testing
- Carried out teaching and research in Computer Science - Research funded by European Union, UK research councils and industry. - Co-ordinator of 2.3 million Euro EU funded project involving six partners (http://www.paths-project.eu/) - Investigator or co-investigator on four EPSRC projects, including 5 year fellowship - Delivered courses at all levels of undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum - Supervise Masters and PhD research projects - Departmental admissions tutor
- Data and text analytics
- Selected as inaugural fellow for nine month sabbatical from 30 internal Reuters candidates. - Produced an internet search engine which targeted aid-related web sites with by Reuters' AlertNet news service, a disaster relief information portal.
- Evaluated technology from third party companies. - Produced reports and tutorial presentations on new technologies relevant to business-units. - Projects included a corpus of English language news stories (http://about.reuters.com/researchandstandards/corpus/)
- Secondment carried out at British Telecom's research labs. - Added named entity software to an existing product to index a corpus of newswire stories gathered automatically from the internet.