Edward Grefenstette
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Edward
Thomas
Grefenstette
Research Assistant
College Lecturer,
Hertford College
edward.grefenstette@cs.ox.ac.uk
Personal: +44 7841 143380
Office: +44 1865 273825
Room 217, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD |
Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computational Linguistics
- Information Retrieval
- Category Theory
- Quantum Informatics
- Foundations of Mathematics
Biography
I am a Franco-American computer scientist, working as a research assistant on EPSRC Project EP/I03808X/1 entitled A Unified Model of Compositional and Distributional Semantics: Theory and Applications. I am also lecturing at Hertford College to students taking Oxford's new computer science and philosophy course.
I recently finished a DPhil on compositional distributional models of natural language semantics, funded by an EPSRC Doctoral Training Account, supervised by Bob Coecke, Stephen Pulman, and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh. My doctoral thesis was on Category-Theoretic Quantitative Compositional Distributional Models of Natural Language Semantics, and was examined by Samson Abramsky and Shalom Lappin.
Before coming to the department in 2008 to do the MSc which led to my DPhil, I did graduate work in the philosophy departments at the University of St Andrews in mathematical logic, the foundation of mathematics, and some philosophy of language. Prior to this, I obtained a BSc in Physics & Philosophy from the University of Sheffield.
Current Work
I am working on the relation between logic, inference, and compositional distributional semantics (cf. this paper and this paper, which recieved the best long paper award at *SEM 2013). I am also interested in linking tensor-based models of semantics with deep learning.
I recently completed work with Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Chris Heunen as an editor on the production of a book entitled Quantum physics and linguistics: a compositional, diagrammatic discourse, first published by Oxford University Press in February 2013.
Teaching
Collaborators
- Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
- Stephen Clark
- Stephen Pulman
- Bob Coecke
- Karl Moritz Hermann
- Phil Blunsom
- Marco Baroni
- Georgiana Dinu
Extracurricular
In addition to my research, I am keenly interested in helping with the outreach activities of the department and University, and regularly participate in open days and school events promoting interest in Computer Science and CompPhil, state school accessibility to Oxford, and encouraging young women to consider science at university.
When not working in my office (Room 217), I can be found:
Links
Personal Webpage
Curriculum Vitae
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EMNLP 2011 Dataset
Recent News
Publications
Summer Conference Success for Oxford Computational Linguistics Group
Oxford's Computational Linguistics group will have a strong presence in some of this summer's top-tier computational linguistics conferences and associated workshops.
Selected Publications
| "Not not bad" is not "bad": A distributional account of negation Karl Moritz Hermann‚ Edward Grefenstette and Phil Blunsom In Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality. August, 2013. |
| Quantum Physics and Linguistics: A Compositional‚ Diagrammatic Discourse Chris Heunen‚ Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Edward Grefenstette, editors Oxford University Press. February, 2013. |
| Towards a Formal Distributional Semantics: Simulating Logical Calculi with Tensors Edward Grefenstette In Proceedings of the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. 2013. |
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Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning | Quantum Group | Computational Linguistics |
