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Associate Professor
Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering University of Melbourne Victoria 3010, Australia
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Major Projects
Present
- OLE (ARC Discovery Project: Online Linguistic Exploration: Deeper, Faster, Broader Language Documentation, 2009–2011)
- BioTALA (NICTA project, with Cavedon, Zobel, Bailey, Moffat, Bird, et al.: Biological Text and Language Applications 2008–2011)
- Web-scale Language Identification: All Languages Great and Small (Google Research Award, 2008–2009)
- Web User Forum Text Analysis (Microsoft Research Asia Research Award, 2008–2009)
- 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, 2007–2009)
- ILIAD (ARC Discovery Project: Information Delivery from Segmented Textual Data Streams, 2006–2008)
Past
- 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)
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]
- ILIAD Linux Search: Troubleshoot Linux problems via our in-house search engine
Software
- 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
- 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)
- Satire document collection (described in Burfoot and Baldwin, 2009)
- Tagalog predicate-argument parsing dataset (described in Mistica and Baldwin, 2009)
- Parsing and WSD dataset (described in Agirre et al., 2008) — email me for access details
Miscellaneous
- Multiword expressions (companion page associated with Handbook of NLP chapter)
Teaching
Present
- 600-151 Informatics 1 (Semester 2, 2010)
- 433-327 Knowledge Technologies (Semester 2, 2010)
Past
- 600-151 Informatics 1 (2008—)
- 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
- Rebecca Dridan (Research Fellow working on OLE)
- Su Nam Kim (Research Fellow working on LangID and web user forum analysis)
- David Martinez (NICTA Research Fellow)
- Patrick Ye (Research Fellow working on Kubadji)
Past
- Marco Lui (Research Assistant working on ILIAD and LangID)
- 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)
- Clint Burfoot (PhD student; co-supervised with Steven Bird)
- Richard Fothergill (Masters student)
- Karl Grieser (PhD student; co-supervised with Liz Sonenberg)
- Jey Han Lau (Masters student; co-supervised with Dave Newman)
- Marco Lui (Honours student)
- Andrew MacKinlay (PhD student)
- Olivia March (Masters student; co-supervised with Steven Bird)
- Meladel Mistica (PhD student; external supervisor)
- Jeremy Nicholson (PhD student)
- Michael Niemann (PhD student; external supervisor)
- Willy Yap (PhD student)
- Lars Yencken (PhD student)
Past
- Ben White (Masters by Coursework student)
- Li Wang (Masters by Coursework student)
- 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)
Click here for a random selection of (very much outdated) student project ideas, or contact me directly if you are interested in pursuing language technology research at the University of Melbourne.
UniMelb Administration
Present
- CSSE Postgraduate Coursework Programmes Committee chair (2007-present)
- CSSE Faculty of Science liaison (Science APC/PGPC: 2005-present)
- School of Engineering IT Advisory Group (2009-present)
Past
- Honours/PGDip Coordinator (2005-2007)
- Publications Liaison (2005-2007)
- Member of Science Tools working group, Faculty of Science (2007)
Professional Research Activities
Present
- Guest editor of special issue of Linguistic Issues in Language Technology on the Interaction between Linguistics and Computational Linguistics
- Founding co-editor of CSLI Publications Series on Japanese Computational Linguistics
- Area Chair for lexical semantics and word sense disambiguation for the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010)
- Reviewer for COLING 2010
- Programme Committee for WWW 2010 workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web
- Reviewer for SIGIR 2010
- Reviewer for ECAI 2010 workshop on: Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2010)
- Editorial board of Language Resources and Evaluation (2010—)
- Programme committee for The 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 24)
- Programme Committee for the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs: The Identification and Representation of Verb Features
Past (highlights)
- Exhibits Co-chair for ACL-IJCNLP 2009
- Co-organiser of the Victorian state round of the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO) 2008—2009
- 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
- Area Chair for lexicon, lexical databases, ontologies, language resources at ACL 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
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For the trivia lovers, here is my full CV.