Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Automatic Summarisation, Machine Learning
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
June 2008 — Present (5 months)
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
October 2004 — June 2008 (3 years 9 months)
Developing novel frameworks for automatic summarisation and sentence compression. Covering many aspects of compression including annotation methods, data analysis, models, frameworks and evaluation techniques. Formalisation of the compression task within an Integer Linear Programming Framework in which models can be supplemented with linguistic constraints.
PhD, Informatics, 2004 — 2008
MSc, Advanced Computer Science, 2003 — 2004
Dissertation on clustering techniques for multi-document summarisation. Involved an investigation into the influence of different clustering techniques for theme detection used during multi-document summarisation. Explored: pattern representations, similarity measures and clustering algorithms.
BSc, Computer Science, 2000 — 2003
Graduated with a first class degree and honours. Final year project involved the research, design and implementation of a multicast file transfer program with rsync capabilities. This resulted in a program capable of synchronising files from a source machine to many clients at once efficiently using multicasting. Involved the creation of a reliable and scalable multicast protocol and modification of the rsync algorithm to work efficiently over multicast.
ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
Best Paper Award, EMNLP-CoNNL 2007