College position(s)
Fellow
Subject
Computer Science
Specialising in
Supernumerary Fellow
Professor Edward J Briscoe
Degrees, Awards and Prizes
BA (Lancaster), MPhil, PhD
Research Themes
My broad research interests include Computational Linguistics, Speech and Language Processing, Textual Information Management and Evolutionary Linguistics. I have published over 70 research articles, edited three books, and been Principal/Co-Investigator or Coordinator of fourteen EU and UK funded projects since 1985. I am joint editor of Computer Speech and Language and on the editorial board of Natural Language Engineering. My extensive range of publications, are listed in my CV (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ejb1/).
Specific areas of (current) research:
(nearly-)deterministic, statistical, and robust parsing techniques; text classification, filtering and mining using linguistic features; textual information extraction from scientific articles; acquiring lexical information from on-line text and dictionaries; exploiting punctuation and document structure during parsing; models of human language learning and parsing; evolutionary simulation of language development and change.
Responsibilities
I am a Professor of Computational Linguistic and supervise a number of Ph.D. students within the Natural Language and Information Processing (NLIP) Research Group. This works on a wide range of topics in Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. I directed and was heavily involved in the teaching of the M Phil in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology, taught jointly with the Engineering Department.
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