17 November 2009:  Erasmus Mundus Masters Course - International Masters in NLP and HLT: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS students and scholars

16 October 2009:  The proceedings and presentations from the eETTS workshop are now available online.

06 August 2009:  The system developed by Iustin Dornescu was ranked first for the second year in a row at the GikiCLEF competition. Iustin competed against 16 other systems and his overall score was almost double that of the second place competitor. Iustin's system processed questions with geographical constraints in ten languages and for nine out of ten languages he obtained the best results. More information can be found here. The Research Group in Computational Linguistics would like to congratulate Iustin on his excellent performance.

09 July 2009:  Congratulations to Dr Constantin Orasan and Iustin Dornescu, who have recently been ranked second and third in the GREC Named Entity Generation Challenge 2009 for their two systems for generation of referential expression in the ACL shared task.

26 June 2009:  

Natalia Ponomareva, one of the research fellows in the Research Institute in Information and Language Processing, was recently given the prestigious award of 'Best Paper' at a top European Conference.

The Programme Committee of the 14th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems NLDB 2009 at Saarbruecken, Germany, commended Natalia with the 'Reind Van De Riet Memorial Award' for the best paper in the Main Conference for the contribution:

AIR: A Semi-Automatic System for Archiving Institutional Repositories by Natalia Ponomareva, Jose Manuel Gomez and Viktor Pekar

01 June 2009:  The Research Group of Computational Linguistics is currently a co-organiser of the international conference RANLP-2009, which is ranked as the third best Natural Language Processing conference in the world. For further information, please e-mail the organisers.

02 April 2009:  RANLP Workshop on Natural Language Processing methods and Corpora in Translation, Lexicography, and Language Learning organised by members of research group

18 February 2009:  The NP4E corpus is also available in MMAX format.

23 December 2008:  RAE 2008 results: the Research Group in Computational Linguistics is one of the top performers in UK Linguistics research

22 December 2008:  PhD Studentship in Interactive Question Answering

14 December 2008:  The video of the second QALL-ME demo is available on YouTube

19 October 2008:  CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Erasmus Mundus Masters Course International Masters in NLP and HLT

26 June 2008:  New job vacancy: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer or Reader in Natural Language Processing. Closing date: 4th August 2008

07 April 2008:  The term-based summarisation demos developed in the CAST project are back online.

04 March 2008:  New job vacancy: Research Fellow or Senior Research Fellow in Computer-aided Multiple-Choice Test Item Development. Closing date: 28 March 2008

20 February 2008:  The research group is expanding. You can find some members of the group in MB114. Please check the contact us page for details.

15 November 2007:  Mphil Studentship in Natural Language Processing (GBP 18,000 for 18 months)

29 October 2007:  New job vacancy: Research fellow on AIR. Closing date: 30 Nov 2007.

01 October 2007:  The JISC-funded project "Automated Archiving for an Institutional Repository" (AIR) which aims to develop an information extraction system allowing for speedy discovery and extraction of bibliographical data from semi-structured text has started.

13 August 2007:  The list of accepted papers at the Computer Aided Language Processing workshop is available.

03 August 2007:  We are currently migrating our server, so certain pages are currently not working. We do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to you.

04 May 2007:  System developed by PhD student performs best at international competition

31 January 2007:  The training data for the Anaphora Resolution Exercise (ARE) is available.

23 November 2006:  New Postdoctoral Research/Senior Research Fellowship in QALL-ME project

02 November 2006:  Preliminary announcement of the 1st Anaphora Resolution Exercise (ARE)

02 October 2006:  The QALL-ME project has started

22 September 2006:  The research group has participated in the WiQA competition at CLEF2006.

06 September 2006:  Three new jobs available at the Research Group in Computational Linguistics (1 Professor, 2 Research Fellows)

03 May 2006:  New job available: (Senior) Research fellow on computer-aided multiple-choice test items development.

11 October 2005:  The Research Group in Computational Lingustics has moved to new offices. Please check the contacts webpage

31 March 2005:  The stand-alone version of the term-based summariser has been released.

03 August 2004:  Article about the Research Group in Computational Linguistics published by Gabriela González in Argentina.

01 April 2004:  New British Academy funded project on Annotation of cross-document coreference has started.

17 March 2004:  New demo which retrieves words which are most similar to a particular *sense* of the target word.

30 October 2003:  The program of presentations is available online.

01 October 2003:  Georgiana Puscasu has joined the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as a PhD student working on coreference resolution and temporal processing for Question Answering.

17 June 2003:  RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN QUESTION ANSWERING (£7,500 a year). The University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences invites applications for a four-year-funded research studentship in Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate is expected to develop a question answering system for English which employs coreference resolution and temporal reasoning.

16 June 2003:  The new website was made accessible.

02 June 2003:  Our demos are back online.

31 May 2003:  Some of our demos do not work because of some problems with one of our servers. IT is investigating this problem. We hope to solve the problems soon.

29 May 2003:  A new demo by Viktor Pekar was added. This program implements several the distributional similarity measures allowing to extract the top 30 most similar nouns to a noun introduced by a user. The program implements 10 similarity measures.

28 May 2003:  The new web page will be ready soon. It will contain lots of enhancements and nice stuff. It is made using the latest technologies eg. PHP, MySQL.

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