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Computational Linguistics

The appointment of Stephen Clark in 2004 and the move in 2006 from Oxford's Linguistics department by Prof. Stephen Pulman established a leading group in computational linguistics. Their work encompasses and combines established knowledge-based approaches with statistical and machine learning methods. Their new group, currently comprising 15 members, is growing rapidly and has been particularly successful in attracting top-class doctoral students. The group has links with industry such as Sharp Laboratories of Europe, currently sponsoring an EPSRC CASE studentship, and Corpora Software, fully funding a DPhil student. The group also has interdisciplinary links with other Oxford departments, a notable example being a collaboration with the Engineering Department on robot navigation. It is a partner in the 12M Euro FP6 Companions project for research into learning methods for human-machine dialogues, and the FP7: Europa European Robotic Pedestrian Assistant project. Phil Blunsom joined the group in Oct 2009, replacing Stephen Clark who has moved to Cambridge.

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Experimenting with Transitive Verbs in a DisCoCat

Edward Grefenstette and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

In Proceedings of the GEMS 2011 Workshop on GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics. 2011.

Concrete Sentence Spaces for Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning

Edward Grefenstette‚ Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh‚ Stephen Clark‚ Bob Coecke and Stephen Pulman

In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS11). Pages 125–134. 2011.

A Compositional Distributional Semantics‚ Two Concrete Constructions‚ and some Experimental Evaluations

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Edward Grefenstette

In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7052. Pages 35–47. 2011.

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