I was previously a PhD student on the Edinburgh-Stanford Link-funded EASIE project (Edinburgh And Stanford Information Extraction). I defended my thesis on 5 September 2008 and received minor corrections.

Before becoming a PhD student, I worked on several projects in the Language Technology Group within the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems.

SUM

The Flexible Summaries project examined the use of rhetorical/discourse structure information and sentence extraction for flexible automatic text summarisation in the legal domain.

SEER

The Stanford-Edinburgh Entity Recognition project explored minimally supervised machine learning of entity recognisers. With Markus Becker and Beatrice Alex, I worked on bootstrapping NER in astronomy abstracts using active learning.

CROSSMARC

The CROSS-lingual Multi-Agent Retail Comparison project developed techniques for modular cross-lingual e-retail comparison for rapid adaptation to new product domains.

I also studied in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, earning an MSc in Speech and Language Processing with European Masters certification from EACL and ICSA. My dissertation was on recognising clause structure.

Before moving to Edinburgh, I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota (double major in Linguistics and Computer Science). I also did an internship on the Spoken Language User Interface Toolkit project at BCL Technologies in Santa Clara, California.

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