Eric Atwell

Current

Senior Lecturer at University of Leeds

Past

National Coordinator, NTI Language and Speech projects at Joint Information Systems Committee
National Coordinator, Knowledge Based Systems Initiative at Joint Information Systems Committee
SERC Advanced Research Fellowship at Science and Engineering Research Council

Lecturer in Computer Studies at University of Leeds
Research Associate at Lancaster University

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Education

University of Leeds
Lancaster University

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Eric Atwell’s Summary

Research and teaching in Corpus Linguistics and language computing, bootstrapping linguistic knowledge and resources from text

Eric Atwell’s Specialties:

Corpus Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Language Engineering, Machine Learning from corpora, chatbots and their applications, Arabic language processing, international English, morphosyntactic tagging, evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management.

Eric Atwell’s Experience

Senior Lecturer

University of Leeds

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

1996 — Present (13 years )

Language research group leader, School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering
National Coordinator, NTI Language and Speech projects

Joint Information Systems Committee

(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

1994 — 1996 (2 years )

The JISC New Technologies Initiative promoted takeup of New Technologies in UK universities. As National Coordinator of NTI language and speech projects, I coordinated and monitored language and speech projects funded by the Initiative.
National Coordinator, Knowledge Based Systems Initiative

Joint Information Systems Committee

(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

1991 — 1994 (3 years )

KBSI was a national initiative to promote takeup of Knowledge Based Systems in UK universities, sponsored by the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
My role was to coordinate and monitor c20 KBSI projects in UK universities.
SERC Advanced Research Fellowship

Science and Engineering Research Council

(Research industry)

1990 — 1991 (1 year )

5-year grant for research on bootstrapping linguistic knowledge and resources from text
Lecturer in Computer Studies

University of Leeds

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

1984 — 1990 (6 years )

Teaching and research in computer studies and corpus linguistics
Research Associate

Lancaster University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

1981 — 1984 (3 years )

Researcher on LOB Corpus Tagging Project; then on Grammar Checker for ICL Word Processors ... until ICL decided that Word Processors and desktop Personal Computers had no future, they made a strategic decision to focus on their core business, large Mainframe computers (!) (meanwhile, a friend in America continuerd work on Word processor Grammar-Checkers for a little-known software company, MicroSoft...)

Eric Atwell’s Education

University of Leeds

PhD , Corpus Linguistics , 1984 — 2008
Lancaster University

B.A. , Computing and Linguistics , 1978 — 1981

with Elective in Independent Studies: Punk Rock