Jeremy Nicholson Ph.D. Candidate Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering University of Melbourne Victoria 3010, Australia Office: ICT 6.05, 111 Barry St. Carlton Tel: +613 8344 1268 Email:

Research Interests

• Deep Lexical Acquisition
  • Precision grammar type lexicons
  • LsOTE
  • Morphology/Morphosyntax
• Computational Lexical Syntax and Semantics
  • Interpretation of Compound Nominalisations
  • Countability/Count Classifiers
• Machine Translation
  • Language Identification
  • One-to-many, Many-to-many constructions (MWE)

Publications

• Nicholson, Jeremy and Timothy Baldwin (2009) Web and Corpus Methods for Malay Count Classifier Prediction, in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies 2009 (NAACL HLT 2009).
• Nicholson, Jeremy and Timothy Baldwin (2008) Learning Count Classifier Preferences of Malay Nouns, In Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2008), Hobart, Australia, pp. 115-123.
• Dridan, Rebecca, Valia Kordoni and Jeremy Nicholson (2008) Enhancing Performance of Lexicalised Grammars, in Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (ACL HLT 2008), Columbus, USA, pp. 613-621.
• Nicholson, Jeremy and Timothy Baldwin (2008) Interpreting Compound Nominalisations, In Proceedings of LREC 2008 Workshop: Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions (MWE 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, pp. 43-45.
• Nicholson, Jeremy, Valia Kordoni, Yi Zhang, Timothy Baldwin and Rebecca Dridan (2008) Evaluating and Extending the Coverage of HPSG Grammars, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2008), Marrakech, Morocco.
• Nicholson, Jeremy, Timothy Baldwin, and Phil Blunsom (2006) Die Morphologie (f): Targeted Lexical Acquisition for Languages other than English, In Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2006), Sydney, Australia, pp. 67-74.
• Nicholson, Jeremy and Timothy Baldwin (2006) Interpretation of Compound Nominalisations using Corpus and Web Statistics, In Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties, Sydney, Australia, pp. 54-61.
• Hughes, Baden, Timothy Baldwin, Steven Bird, Jeremy Nicholson and Andrew MacKinlay (2006) Reconsidering Language Identification for Written Language Resources, In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006), Genoa, Italy, pp. 485-8.
• Nicholson, Jeremy and Nicola Stokes and Timothy Baldwin (2006) Detecting Entailment Using an Extended Implementation of the Basic Elements Overlap Metric, In Proceedings of the Second PASCAL Challenges Workshop on Recognising Textual Entailment (RTE2), Venice, Italy.
• Nicholson, Jeremy (2005) Statistical Interpretation of Compound Nouns, Honours Thesis, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• Nicholson, Jeremy and Timothy Baldwin (2005) Statistical Interpretation of Compound Nominalisations, In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005 (ALTW 2005), Sydney, Australia, pp. 152-9.

Teaching

Present

• 433-352 Data on the Web - Head Tutor

Past

• Semester 1, 2009
  • 433-380 Graphics and Computation - Head Tutor

• Semester 2, 2008
  • 433-352 Data on the Web - Head Tutor
    • Guest lecture on Web search and IR - indexing and Elias Gamma (slides courtesy of Alistair Moffat)
    • Guest lecture on Language Identification (slides TBC)
• Semester 1, 2008
  • 433-380 Graphics and Computation - Head Tutor
    • Guest lecture on GPUs, Shaders, and Ray Tracing (slides TBC)
• Semester 2, 2006
  • 433-352 Data on the Web - Head Tutor
    • Guest lecture on Language Identification (slides TBC)
• Semester 1, 2006
  • 433-380 Graphics and Computation - Head Tutor
• Semester 2, 2005
  • 433-395 Advanced Topic in Computer Science [Data on the Web] - Head Tutor
  • 433-172 Algorithmic Problem Solving - Tutor
• Semester 1, 2005
  • 433-151 Introduction to Programming (Advanced) - Lab Demonstrator