I work in Computational Linguistics, a research area that belongs to both Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. I am a member of the Natural Language Processing group in the Computing and Information Sciences department. As of March 2024, I am an Emeritus Professor, who does not take on new students.
My main area of expertise is Natural Language Generation (NLG). I work with linguists, logicians, and psychologists to produce computer programs that
- mimic the choices that human speakers make when referring to objects, or
- analyse a photograph to produce a textual description (e.g., A dog chasing a ball), or
- analyse weather data to produce a weather report (e.g., A sunny day, with occasional showers), or
- manipulate a logical formula to produce a βtranslationβ of the formula in Dutch or English
I take a lively interest in methodological issues arising from this work. My colleagues and I have also started a line of work in which we look specifically at the challenges to NLG posed by Mandarin.
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Natural Language Generation