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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People

Faculty	Phil Blunsom Bob Coecke Stephen Pulman
Visitors	Karo Moilanen
Research	Jamie Frost Ramon Granell Abby Levenberg Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
Students	Jan Botha Gregory Dubbin Jamie Frost Edward Grefenstette Pia-Ramona Wojtinnek
External	Dong-Hong Ji
Administration	Janet Sadler
Past Members	Nigel Crook Ramon Granell James Smith