He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2010. Prior to joining the University of New Brunswick he was a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne from 2011-2014. Paul's research interests include lexical semantics, multiword expressions (MWEs), social media text processing, and web corpus construction and analysis. His research in MWEs has focused primarily on compositionality prediction and token-level MWE identification.