My specific research interests are detailed on my research page . Please email me if you wish to discuss anything. Lexical Aquisition in limited domains. One common problem in NLP in the limited availability of lexical and dictionary information. This is especially true in new domains such as many areas of computer science.
Dictionary writing is also a very labour intensive process.
The aim of the project is to use statistical nlp techniques to extract information from a body of text and automatically generate a dictionary. Comparison of Word Sense Disambiguation algorithms. To understand any sentence, the sense of each word must be determined. This is a current hot topic in NLP and numerious algorithms exist to tag each word in a corpus with its sense. The project involves implementing a number of such techniques and evaluating which is most effective and developing a method of combing algorithms.