Topic:
Introduction to NLP and Corpus Linguistics
Bio of the Speaker:
Steven Bird is currently investigating computational models for linguistic structures and processes, with application to language technologies and to the documentation of endangered languages. His current focus is on efficient query for databases of hierarchically annotated data. After completing a PhD on computational phonology at the University of Edinburgh in 1990, he worked on a series of European research projects and conducted linguistic fieldwork in Cameroon with SIL. In 1998 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, becoming Associate Director of the LDC, and working on models and tools for linguistic annotation. In 2002 he returned home to Australia and established the Melbourne University Language Technology Group.
Homepage: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb/
Email: sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au
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