LANGUAGE RESEARCH GROUP

Language research in Computing is also known as Natural Language Processing , Computational Linguistics , or Language Engineering . Central to our research is the computational modelling of language data; a CORPUS is a text dataset representative of the language to be analysed. Our research is reported in our PUBLICATIONS.

Academic Staff

Eric Atwell
Corpus Linguistics, Machine Learning from corpora, chatbots and their applications, Arabic language processing, international English, morphosyntactic tagging, evaluation. PUBLICATIONS.

Katja Markert
Data-intensive, corpus-based and web-based natural language processing, Anaphora Resolution, Figurative Language Resolution, Textual Entailment, Sentiment Analysis. PUBLICATIONS.

We collaborate with academic staff in the Centre for Translation Studies :

Tony Hartley
Evaluation of machine translation systems, Controlled languages, Natural Language Generation, Quality in translation and interpreting, Computer Supported Collaborative Working. PUBLICATIONS

Serge Sharoff
Corpus linguistics, Natural Language Understanding, Natural Language Generation, Lexical semantics, Systemic-Functional grammar. PUBLICATIONS

Research Students

STUDENT	RESEARCH TOPIC
Noorhan Abbas	Integrating the Qur'an into the NLTK Natural Language Tool Kit
Amal Alsaif	Rhetorical Structure Theory and Arabic discourse analysis
Claire Brierley	Corpus-based evaluation of prosodic phrase break prediction
Svitlana Kurella	Methodology for computer-assisted acquisition of reading abilities in L3
Owen Nancarrow	A Comparative study of the tagging of adverbs in modern English corpora
Andy Roberts	Unsupervised and semi-supervised approaches for Grammar Inference on inflectional languages
Alina Secară	Developing a semi-automatic subtitler's workbench within the systemic functional grammar framework
Majdi Sawalha	Part of Speech tagging systems for Arabic language text
Fangzhong Su	Computational modelling of word sense sentiment
Martin Thomas	Localising Pack Messages
Justin Washtell	A Distance-Based Language Model of Lexical Dependency in Corpora
Russell Wilson	Towards a Linguistically Informed Kansei Engineering

Potential PhD students are very welcome to contact any of the academic staff (Atwell, Markert, Hartley, and Sharoff) for further information.

Alumni: graduates of the Language research group

GRADUATE	THESIS
Bayan Abu Shawar	A Corpus Based Approach to Generalise a Chatbot System (PDF). 2005
Latifa Al-Sulaiti	Designing and Developing a Corpus of Contemporary Arabic (PDF). 2004
Simon Arnfield	Prosody and syntax in corpus-based analysis of spoken English. 1994
Bogdan Babych	Information Extraction techniques in Machine Translation. 2005
Adam Bull	The formal description of aerobic dance exercise - a corpus-based computational linguistics approach . 1996
Gavin Churcher	Improving the performance of speech driven applications using linguistic knowledge . 1996
George Demetriou	Lexical semantic information processing for large vocabulary human-computer speech communication. 1997
Xiao Yuan Duan	Lexical Semantic Association Between Web Documents (PDF). 2002
Debra Elliott	Corpus-based machine translation evaluation via automated error detection in output texts. 2007
John Robert Elliott	Natural Language Learning for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Computational Methods for Discriminating Language from Non-Language and Detecting Core Structural Syntactic Elements. 2004
Alec Grierson	Generating cohesive texts from simulations used in computer-aided instruction. 1994
John S Hughes	Automatically acquiring a classification of words (PDF). 1994
Uwe Jost	Probabilistic language modelling for speech recognition. 1995
Toshifumi Oba	Using the HTK Speech Recogniser to Analyse Prosody in a Corpus of German Spoken Learner's English (PDF). 2003
Timothy O'Donoghue	Reversing the process of generation in Systemic Grammar. 1993
Amanda Schiffrin	Modelling Speech Acts in Conversational Discourse (PDF). 2005
Michael Schillo	Working while driving: corpus based modelling of anatural English voice userinterface to the in-car personal assistant (PDF). 1996
Nicholas Silver	Inferencing methods using systemic functional grammar. 1995
Clive Souter	A corpus-trained parser for systemic-functional syntax (PDF). 1996
Menno Van Zaanen	Bootstrapping Structure into Language: Alignment-Based Learning (PDF). 2002
Xuegang Wang	Negation in logic and deductive databases (PDF). 2000
Xiaoda Zhang	MIRTH Chinese and English search engine: a multilingual retrieval tool hierarchy for a World Wide Web virtual corpus. 1996

Leeds Corpus Linguistics research seminars

including links to related Leeds University research groups in Knowledge Management, Translation Studies, Linguistics and Phonetics, Modern Languages and Cultures, Language Education, English Language.

International Conferences