PhD Supervision

Shailesh Pandey: Learning for Complex Question Answering
Shuguang Li: Dialogue and Polarity in Interactive Question Answering
Burcu Can: Unsupervised Learning for Resource Scarce Langauages
Azniah Ismail: Techniques for Minimally Supervised Machine Translation
Ioannis Korkontzelos: Unsupervised acquisition of natural language semantics
Bartosz Ziolko: Language models for speech recognition (jointly with Richard Wilson); completed in 1 June 2009
Ioannis P. Klapaftis: Unsupervised Learning of Lexical Taxonomies; completed in 1 August 2009
Silvia Quarteroni: Dialogue Systems for Open Domain Question Answering; completed in 1 October 2007
Pierre Andrews: Persuasive Computer Dialogue: Improving Human-Computer Communication; completed in 1 December 2008
Thimal Jayasooriya: Lightweight natural language understanding
Joanna Moy: Word order and case in models of simulated language evolution; completed in 2006
Marco De Boni: Relevance in Question Answering; completed in 2004
Jose-Luis Jara-Valencia: Portable named entity recognition; completed in 2005
Enrique Alfonseca: Learning of lexical relations; completed in 2003
Jonathan Pickering: Intelligent Camera Planning for Computer Graphics (jointly with Patrick Olivier); completed in 2003
Stephen Watkinson: Learning of Categorial Grammars; completed in 2002
Alistair Willis: Quantifier scopings in an underspecified semantic representation; completed in 2001

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