The Research Group in Computational Linguistics is pursuing active research in many areas including anaphora resolution, automatic summarization, terminology extraction, corpus development and exploitation, information extraction, named entity recognition, question answering, multiple choice questions and multilingual applications. In addition to these topics, the members of the team have their own particular reseach interests. Please visit the People page to find out more about these interests. In order to pursue successful research in these areas the members of the Research Group have a very strong background in computer science being able to program in a wide range of programming languages such as C, C#, Java, Perl, PHP and in areas such as database and XML technologies, and web applications.
Most of the research is carried out as part of externally funded projects. If you are interested you can find out more about our current and past projects.
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 in the UK.