Bonnie Webber's Home Page

"Gillian Parkin sighed. She was an intelligent, enthusiastic 24-year old, and it always depressed her when people hadn't heard of her thesis topic."
[Robert Barnard, A Gathering of Vultures]

This is me comparing apples and oranges at Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, where I lived for many years before moving to Edinburgh.

Address:

Bonnie Webber

Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation

School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Scotland

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My latest paper Discourse Structure and Language Technology will appear in Natural Language Engineering.
Pointers to other recent papers can be found here.

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Pointers to some of my favorite quotes can be found here,

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I spend alot of my time on Girl Geek Scotland, and our fabulous monthly dinners.

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At Edinburgh, I work on discourse phenomena, collaborating on the development and use of the Penn Discourse TreeBank. I am also interested in question-answering and the stability of language technology tools across changes in genre.

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My current PhD students are:

• Annette Leonhard
• Sarah Luger
• Silvia Pareti
• Philipp Petrenz

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Recently graduated PhD students include:

• Silke Scheible, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester.
• Michael Kaisser, Bing (Germany)
• Kisuh Ahn, Samsung Electronics (Korea)

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  For information about applying to study for an MSc or PhD degree in Informatics at Edinburgh, look here.

  Bonnie Webber / firstname.lastname at ed.ac.uk / revised October 2011