Natural language processing | The Alan Turing Institute

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This interest group focuses both on core natural language processing methods and tasks (such as text classification, information extraction, summarisation) and applications of natural language processing to the social sciences and humanities.

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Organisers

Dr Maria Liakata

Dr Maria Liakata

Turing Fellow

Dong Nguyen

Dr Dong Nguyen

Turing Research Fellow

Researchers

Dr Nigel Collier

Dr Nigel Collier

Turing Fellow

Dr Scott Hale

Dr Scott Hale

Turing Fellow

Professor Thomas Lukasiewicz

Professor Thomas Lukasiewicz

Turing Fellow

Dr Charles Sutton

Dr Charles Sutton

Turing Fellow

Dr Beatrice Alex

Dr Beatrice Alex

Turing Fellow

Dr Annie Louis

Dr Annie Louis

Turing Research Fellow

Foto of Barbara McGillivray

Dr Barbara McGillivray

Turing Research Fellow

Elena Kochkina

Doctoral Student

Nicole Peinelt

Nicole Peinelt

Doctoral Student

Bo Wang

Bo Wang

Visiting researcher

Adam Tsakalidis

Adam Tsakalidis

Visiting Researcher

Dr Giovanni Colavizza

Dr Giovanni Colavizza

Senior Research Data Scientist

Contact info

[email protected]

External researchers

Radoslaw Kowalski, UCL

Pasquale Minervini, UCL

Andrew Moore, Lancaster University

Marek Rei, University of Cambridge

Unsupervised Acquisition of Verb Subcategorization Frames from Shallow-Parsed Corpora

In this paper, we reported experiments of unsupervised automatic acquisition of Italian and English...

Lenci, A., McGillivray, B., Montemagni, S., and Pirrelli, V. (2008), Unsupervised Acquisition of Verb Subcategorization Frames from Shallow-Parsed Corpora . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08), Marrakech

Semantic structure from Correspondence Analysis

A common problem for clustering tech- niques is that clusters overlap, which makes graphing...

McGillivray, B., Johansson, C., and Apollon, D. (2008). Semantic structure from Correspondence Analysis . In Proceedings of the Workshop on Graph-based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing (COLING 2008), Manchester

Selectional Preferences from a Latin Treebank

We present a system that automatically induces Selectional Preferences (SPs) for Latin verbs from...

McGillivray, B. (2009). Selectional Preferences from a Latin Treebank. In Przepiórkowski A., M. Passarotti, S. Raynaud, and F. van Eynde (eds.) Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT8). Milan: EDUCatt

The Development of the Index Thomisticus Treebank Valency Lexicon.

We present a valency lexicon for Latin verbs extracted from the Index Thomisticus Tree-...

McGillivray, B. and Passarotti, M. (2009). The Development of the Index Thomisticus Treebank Valency Lexicon. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education, Athens

Automatic Selectional Preference Acquisition for Latin verbs

We present a system that automatically induces Selectional Preferences (SPs) for Latin verbs from...

McGillivray, B. (2010). Automatic Selectional Preference Acquisition for Latin verbs. In Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Student Research Workshop , Uppsala

Accessing and using a corpus-driven Latin Valency Lexicon

McGillivray, B. and Passarotti, M. (2015). Accessing and using a corpus-driven Latin Valency Lexicon . In Haverling, G. (Ed.), Latin linguistics in the early 21st century. Acts of the 16th international colloquium on Latin linguistics, Uppsala, June 6th-11th, 2011, Uppsala

Exploiting the Web for Semantic Change Detection

Detecting significant linguistic shifts in the meaning and usage of words has gained more...

Basili, P. and McGillivray, B. (2018). Exploiting the Web for Semantic Change Detection. In 21st International Conference, DS 2018, Limassol, Cyprus, October 29-31, 2018, Proceedings

A Distributional Semantic Methodology for Enhanced Search in Historical Records

A Case Study on Smell

McGregor, S. and McGillivray, B. (2018). A Distributional Semantic Methodology for Enhanced Search in Historical Records: A Case Study on Smell . Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2018) Vienna, Austria, September 19-21, 2018. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.

Tools for historical corpus research, and a corpus of Latin

We present LatinISE, a Latin corpus for the Sketch Engine. LatinISE consists of Latin...

McGillivray, B. and Kilgarriff, A. (2013). Tools for historical corpus research, and a corpus of Latin . In Paul Bennett, Martin Durrell, Silke Scheible, Richard J. Whitt (eds.), New Methods in Historical Corpus Linguistics , Tübingen: Narr.

Metodi in linguistica computazionale latina

McGillivray, B. (2015). Metodi in linguistica computazionale latina . In Molinelli, P., Putzu, I. (Eds.), Modelli epistemologici, metodologie della ricerca e qualità del dato. Dalla linguistica storica alla sociolinguistica storica . Milan: FrancoAngeli.

Making sense through correspondence

McGillivray, B. and Johansson, C. (2009). Making sense through correspondence . Arena Romanistica, vol. 4

Quantitative Historical Linguistics.

A Corpus Framework

Jenset, G. B. and McGillivray, B. (2017). Quantitative Historical Linguistics. A Corpus Framework , Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Data Study Group Final Report: Global bank

Data Study Groups are week-long events at The Alan Turing Institute bringing together some...

Data Study Group team. (2019). Data Study Group Final Report: Global bank. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2557809

Getting to Hearer-old: Charting Referring Expressions Across Time

When a reader is first introduced to an entity, its referring expression must describe...

Ieva Staliunaite, Hannah Rohde, Bonnie Webber and Annie Louis, "Getting to Hearer-old : Charting Referring Expressions Across Time", Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2018

The University of Edinburgh’s Neural MT Systems for WMT17

This paper describes the University of Edinburgh's submissions to the WMT17 shared news translation...

Sennrich, R, Birch-Mayne, A, Currey, A, Germann, U, Haddow, B, Heafield, K, Miceli Barone, A & Williams, P 2017, The University of Edinburgh’s Neural MT Systems for WMT17. in EMNLP 2017: The Second Conference on Machine Translation, Volume 2: Shared Task Papers.. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 389-399, Proceedings of the Second Conference on Machine Translation, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7-8 September. DOI: 10.18653/v1/W17-4739

Emo, love and god: making sense of Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourced online dictionary

The Internet facilitates large-scale collaborative projects and the emergence of Web 2.0 platforms, where...

Nguyen, D, McGillivray, B & Yasseri, T 2018, 'Emo, love and god: making sense of Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourced online dictionary' Royal Society Open Science , vol 5, pp. 1-16. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.172320

Uncovering Wireless Blackspots using Twitter Data

Blackspots are areas of poor signal coverage or service delivery that leads to customer...

Guo, W.; Zhang, J.: 'Uncovering wireless blackspots using Twitter data', Electronics Letters, 2017, 53, (12), p. 814-816, DOI: 10.1049