Teaching

At Queen Mary, I teach a postgraduate module: ECS7001, Neural Networks and NLP.

I am happy to supervise MS-level projects, particularly in NLP, Games-with-a-Purpose, and in more cognitive areas, such as the use of brain data for NLP. Come talk to me about it.

I have also taught tutorials and courses on Computational Linguistics, Anaphora Resolution, and Crowdsourcing at a variety of Summer and Winter Schools.

• Postgraduate (Msc) Modules
  • ECS7001: Neural Networks and NLP (MSc Level) (Restricted access, an open site will become available soon)
• Courses and tutorials taught at Essex
  • CE206: Human-Computer Interaction (undergraduate)
  • CE807: Text Analytics (MSc level)
  • Text Analytics: this intensive tutorial, taught with Udo Kruschwitz and Maha Althobaiti, had a theoretical part and a hands-on part, and was typically taught as a 4-hours course as part of Proficio but also e.g., at CEEC.
• Language and Computation Seminars
  • 2013/14: Hadoop and MapReduce
  • 2011/12: A variety of topics in HLT
  • 2010/11: Bayesian Methods in NLP
  • 2005/06: Empirical Methods in NLP
  • 2004/05: Incrementality and Underspecification
  • 2003/04: The Acquisition of Lexical and Commonsense Knowledge
• Courses taught outside QMUL
  • 2006 Vilem Mathesius Lectures: Empirical Investigations of Anaphora and Salience
  • 2014: Crowdsourcing (Anaphoric) Annotation
• Current and past PhD students:
  • Ans Alghamdi - Active Expert Sourcing: Knowledge Extraction from Domain Specific Information (Essex, 2019)
  • Abdulrahman Almuhareb - Attributes in Lexical Acquisition (Essex, 2006)
  • Abdulrahman Aloraini - Coreference and Entity Linking in Arabic (QMUL)
  • Maha Althobaiti - Minimally Supervised Methods for Arabic Named Entity Recognition (Essex, 2016)
  • Eduard Barbu - Extracting conceptual structures from multiple sources (Trento, 2010)
  • Andrea Bruera - Individual Entities in Distributional Semantics (provisional title) (Queen Mary)
  • Federica Cavicchio - Computational Modelling of (Un)Cooperation: the role of Emotions (Trento, 2010)
  • Fabio Celli - Adaptive Personality Recognition from Text (Trento, 2012)
  • Jon Chamberlain - Harnessing Collective Intelligence on Social Networks (Essex, 2015)
  • Tommaso Fornaciari - Deception detection in Italian Court Testimonies (Trento, 2012)
  • Kevin Glover - The Genitive Ratio and Its Applications (Essex, 2016)
  • Abdulbaeset Goweder - Stemming and IR: the case of the Broken Plural (Essex, 2004)
  • Janosch Haber - Underspecified expressions and ambiguous language use in dialogue settings (provisional title) (Queen Mary)
  • Mijail Kabadjov - A comprehensive evaluation of anaphora resolution and discourse-new classification (Essex, 2007)
  • Nikiforos Karamanis - Entity coherence for descriptive text structuring (Edinburgh, 2004)
  • Chris Madge - Gamifying Language Resource Acquisition (Queen Mary, 2019)
  • Silviu Paun - Topic Models for Short Text Data (Essex, 2015)
  • Kepa Rodriguez - Resources for linguistically motivated multilingual anaphora resolution (Trento, 2010)
  • Alexandra Uma - Disagreements in Anaphoric Reference (Queen Mary)
  • Renata Vieira - Definite description resolution in unrestricted text (Edinburgh, 1998)