Diana McCarthy

Current Projects

I hold a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship from the Royal Society and an EPSRC project Ranking Word Senses for Disambiguation: Models and Applications

Research Projects I have previously worked on:

July 2004 - January 2005:
MEANING - Developing Multilingual Web-scale Language Technologies: an EU 5th Framework project. In this project I worked on automatic lexical acquisition and word sense disambiguation.

July 2001 - June 2004:
The EPSRC funded project `Robust Accurate Statistical Parsing' (RASP). The project involved integrating and extending several strands of research on robust statistical parsing and automated grammar and lexicon induction, to produce a new parsing toolkit.

2000 - 2001:
PSET: Practical Simplification of English Text:. (EPSRC) The project involved simplifying newspaper test for adults with aphasia which impairs their comprehension of written language. I worked on word sense disambiguation of nouns, verbs and adjectives with view to using this before replacing words from these classes with more common, or familiar synonyms.

1996-1998:
SPARKLE (Shallow PARsing and Knowledge extraction for Language Engineering) project. This project involved developing shallow parsers alongside corpus based lexical acquisition techniques for use by other European partners in applications such as Information Retrieval.


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