The Research Group in Computational Linguistics was founded in 1998 as part of the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences and since 2005 it has been a member of the Research Institute in Information and Language Processing. The group is led by Prof. Ruslan Mitkov and is pursuing active research in a wide variety of topics in computational linguistics. The group has established an international reputation which can be seen through our projects and papers.

The results from the recent Research Assessment Exercise announced on 17 December 2008 confirm the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research output of the group has been rated as internationally leading, internationally excellent and internationally recognised.

Computational Linguistics was entered in Unit of Assessment "Linguistics" and Wolverhampton was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities. According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton is one of the top 6 best in the UK.

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• 2010-06-17Alison Carminke, Natalia Ponomareva and Yvonne Skalban have raised a total of £236.64 by participating in Race for Life
  
  
• 2010-05-09The systems developed by Lucia Specia and Wilker Aziz were ranked second and fourth (out of 14 participants) at the SEMEVAL's Cross Lingual Lexical Substitution competition. The systems are based on dictionaries automatically extracted from parallel corpora using mutual information, statistical machine translation and online learning.

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