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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow
Dept of Computing and Information Systems The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010, Australia
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Major Projects
Present
- Information access through web-scale question-answer pair finding, ranking and matching (ARC Future Fellowship, 2013—2016)
- Principles, Practice, and Pragmatics of Measurement in Experimental Computer Science (ARC Discovery Project, 2011–2013)
- Talking about Place — Tapping Human Knowledge to Enrich National Spatial Data Sets (ARC Linkage Project, 2011–2014)
- NICTA biomedical text mining (with Cavedon, Zobel, Moffat et al.)
Past
- OLE (ARC Discovery Project, with Bird: Online Linguistic Exploration: Deeper, Faster, Broader Language Documentation, 2009–2011)
- Kubadji (ARC Discovery Project, with Zukerman, Sonenberg, Balbo and Bird: Personalised Content Delivery for Assisted Navigation of Information Rich, Physical Environments such as a Museum, 2007–2010)
- Web-scale Language Identification: All Languages Great and Small (Google Research Award, 2008–2009)
- Multilingual Unsupervised Parse Selection (Microsoft Research Asia Research Award, 2009–2010)
- Web User Forum Text Analysis (Microsoft Research Asia Research Award, 2008–2009)
- Information Delivery from Segmented Textual Data Streams (ARC Discovery Project: 2006–2008)
- Scalable Language Understanding for Japanese (joint research project with NTT Communication Science Labs., 2006–2008)
- Interactive Information Discovery and Delivery (NICTA project, with Cavedon, Stokes, Bird, Moffat, et al., 2005–2007)
- An Intelligent Search Infrastructure for Language Resources on the Web (ARC e-Research Special Research Initiative, with Bird and Hughes, 2006)
- Feature-rich Word Sense Disambiguation and Unknown Word Bootstrapping (joint research project with NTT Communication Science Labs., 2004–2006)
Publications
See my publications page for a reasonably up-to-date list of my papers (with links to most of my papers). My Google Scholar profile is also a reasonably accurate snapshot of my publication output.
Resources
Online systems
- FOKS: an intelligent dictionary interface for Japanese, intended to help learners of Japanese look up unknown words without having to dust off their kanji dictionary [developed in collaboration with Lars Yencken and Slaven Bilac]
- Kanji Tester: an adaptive Japanese learning environment, specifically targeted at those swatting for the JLPT 3 and 4 exams [developed in collaboration with Lars Yencken]
- SimSearch: a visual kanji search interface, based on similarity with known kanji [developed in collaboration with Lars Yencken]
- ILIAD Linux Search: Troubleshoot Linux problems via our in-house search engine
Software
- On-line Topic Modeller: implementation of an on-line topic modeller for trend analysis [developed in collaboration with Jey Han Lau]
- langid.py: fast, accurate standalone language identification toolkit [developed in collaboration with Marco Lui]
- SiteScraper: automatically scrapes data from websites based on a handful of sample URLs and strings of interest [developed in collaboration with Richard Penman and David Martinez]
- Hydrat: Python library for text categorisation/language identification [developed in collaboration with Marco Lui]
- Malay tokeniser/lemmatiser: lex/perl tools for tokenising and lemmatising Malay text
Datasets
- Lexical normalisation dictionary (described in Han et al., 2012)
- Multi-domain language identification dataset (from Lui and Baldwin, 2011)
- Topic label dataset (described in Lau et al., 2011)
- Lexical normalisation dataset (described in Han and Baldwin, 2011)
- Multilingual language identification dataset (as used in the ALTA-2010 Shared Task, and described in Baldwin and Lui, 2010)
- Web user forum thread and post structure dataset (described in Kim et al., 2010 and Wang et al., 2010)
- Topic coherence topics and human judgements (described in Newman et al., 2012)
- Language identification dataset (described in Baldwin and Lui, 2010)
- Case and punctuation restoration dataset (described in Baldwin and Joseph, 2009)
- Satire document collection (described in Burfoot and Baldwin, 2009)
- Tagalog predicate-argument parsing dataset (described in Mistica and Baldwin, 2009)
- Pooled kanji similarity dataset (described in Yencken and Baldwin, 2008)
- Noun-noun compound semantic relations (described in Kim and Baldwin, 2008)
- Compound nominalisation interpretation (described in Nicholson and Baldwin, 2008)
- Deep lexical acquisition of English verb-particle constructions (described in Baldwin, 2008)
- Parsing and WSD dataset (described in Agirre et al., 2008) — email me for access details
- Kanji similarity dataset (described in Yencken and Baldwin, 2006)
- Japanese grapheme-phoneme alignment data (described in Baldwin and Tanaka, 1999)
Miscellaneous
- Multiword expressions (companion page associated with Handbook of NLP chapter)
Teaching
Present
- COMP10001 Foundations of Computing (Semester 1, 2013)
Past
- COMP10001 Foundations of Computing (Semester 1, 2012)
- COMP90051 Statistical and Evolutionary Learning (Semester 2, 2011, co-lectured with Michael Kirley)
- COMP30018 Knowledge Technologies (2010—2012)
- INFO10001 Informatics 1 (2008—2011)
- Empirical Approaches to Multilingual Lexical Acquisition (Saarland University, Winter, 2008; taught as part of the Erasmus Mundus LCT Masters program)
- 433-352 Data on the Web (2006—2009)
- 433-484/684 Machine Learning (2006— 2008)
- ESSLLI 2006 course on Data-Driven Methods for Acquiring Linguistic Information (with Aline Villavicencio, Anna Korhonen and Valia Kordoni)
- Lexical semantics course convener and co-lecturer for ACL/HCSNet Advanced Program in Natural Language Processing (2006)
- 433-253 Algorithms and Data Structures (2006—2007, co-lectured with Linda Stern)
- 433-395 Advanced Topic in Computer Science (2005)
- 433-680 Machine Learning (2005)
- An Introduction to Computational Word Learning (Stanford University, Fall Quarter, 2003)
Staff
Present
- Paul Cook (McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow)
- Yvette Graham (Research Fellow)
Past
- Rebecca Dridan (Research Fellow working on OLE 2009—2011)
- Gintarė Grigonytė (Visiting Research Fellow 2011)
- Su Nam Kim (Research Fellow working on LangID and ILIAD 2009—2010)
- Patrick Ye (Research Fellow working on Kubadji 2009—2010)
- David Martinez (Research Fellow working on ILIAD 2007—2009)
- Marco Lui (Research Assistant working on ILIAD and LangID 2009—2010)
- Richard Penman (Research Assistant working on ILIAD 2008—2009)
- Shlomo Berkovsky (Research Fellow 2007—2008)
- Kapil Gupta (Research Fellow 2009)
Students
Present
- Jim Breen (PhD student; co-supervised with Francis Bond)
- Clint Burford (PhD student; co-supervised with Steven Bird)
- Andrew Chester (MSc(CS) student; co-supervised with Tony Wirth)
- Richard Fothergill (PhD student)
- Spandana Gella (MSc(CS) student; co-supervised with Paul Cook)
- Bo Han (PhD student; co-supervised with Paul Cook)
- Jey Han Lau (PhD student; co-supervised with Dave Newman)
- Ned Letcher (MPhil student; co-supervised with Emily Bender)
- Marco Lui (PhD student)
- Meladel Mistica (PhD student; external supervisor)
- Michael Niemann (PhD student; external supervisor)
- Bahar Salehi (MPhil student; co-supervised with Paul Cook and Su Nam Kim)
- Li Wang (PhD student; co-supervised with Su Nam Kim)
- Willy Yap (PhD student; co-supervised with Tara McIntosh)
Past
- Jared Willett (MSc(CS) student; co-supervised with David Martinez and Angus Webb)
- Luke Parkinson (MSc(CS) student; co-supervised with Paul Cook)
- Matej Korvas (MSc(CS) student)
- Igor Tytyk (MSc(CS) student)
- Andrew MacKinlay (completed PhD 2012)
- Karl Grieser (completed PhD 2012)
- Ned Letcher (completed BSc(Hons) 2010)
- Lars Yencken (completed PhD 2010)
- Marco Lui (completed BCS(Hons) 2009)
- Ben White (completed MIT 2009)
- Li Wang (completed MIT 2009)
- Patrick Ye (completed PhD 2009)
- Meladel Mistica (completed PGDip 2008)
- Lejoe Kuriakose (completed MEDC 2008)
- Paul Joseph (completed MSSE 2008)
- Su Nam Kim (submitted PhD 2008)
- Michael Yang (completed BCS(Hons) 2007)
- Sumukh Ghodke(completed MSSE 2007)
- Phil Blunsom (completed PhD 2007)
- Edward Ivanovic (completed Masters 2007)
- Aidan Furlan (completed BCS(Hons) 2006)
- Karl Grieser (completed BSc(Hons) 2006)
- Rebecca Dridan (completed Masters 2006)
- Jeremy Nicholson (completed BCS(Hons) 2005)
- Andrew MacKinlay (completed BSc(Hons) 2005)
Interested in pursuing language technology research at the University of Melbourne? Contact me directly, making sure to include a CV and description of your research interests.
UniMelb Administration
Past
- Deputy Head of Department (2011—2012)
- Teaching Committee chair (2010—2012)
- School of Engineering Education Committee (2010—2012)
- CIS Faculty of Science liaison (Science APC/PGPC: 2005—2011)
- CSSE Research Committee (2008—2011)
- CSSE Postgraduate Coursework Programmes Committee chair (2007-2009)
- School of Engineering IT Advisory Group (2009)
- Honours/PGDip Coordinator (2005-2007)
- Publications Liaison (2005-2007)
- Member of Science Tools working group, Faculty of Science (2007)
Professional Research Activities
Present
- Founding co-editor of CSLI Publications Series on Japanese Computational Linguistics
- Editorial board of Language Resources and Evaluation (2010—)
- Editorial board of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2012—)
- Executive member of the Australasian Language Technology Association (2011—2012)
- Information Officer for ACL SIGLEX (Special Interest Group on the Lexicon) (2010—)
- Programme co-chair for *SEM 2013
- Programme co-chair for EMNLP 2013
- Programme committee for ACL 2013
Past (highlights)
- Guest editor of special issue of Linguistic Issues in Language Technology on the Interaction between Linguistics and Computational Linguistics
- Guest editor of the Special Issue of Computational Linguistics on Prepositions in Applications
- Co-chair of the EACL 2009 Workshop on the Interaction between Linguistics and Computational Linguistics: Virtuous, Vicious or Vacuous?
- Editorial board of Computational Linguistics (2006—2008)
- Workshop Chair for IJCNLP 2008
- Local Chair for PACLING 2007
- Programme Chair for the ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing
- Co-organiser of the Inaugural Workshop on Computational Japanese Studies
- Lexical semantics Theme Convener for ACL/HCSNet Advanced Program in Natural Language Processing
- Publicity Chair for COLING/ACL 2006
- Programme Chair for Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2006
- Programme Chair for the Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions (at EACL 2006)
- Programme Chair for the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005
- Programme Chair for the ACL-SIGLEX Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition (at ACL 2005)
Random Miscellania
In the news:- Oregonian: Tweet talk (24/6/2011)
- Sydney Morning Herald: Big brains coming back to Melbourne (6/12/2005)
- UniNews: Reversing the brain drain (14/11/2005)
In a moment of weakness, I signed up for LinkedIn.
For the trivia lovers, here is my (almost certainly outdated) full CV.