Syntax: how we can model the relation between strings of words and
their meanings. The syntactic systems of different languages.
The full
text (in postscript format) of my thesis "Dynamic syntax" is
available.
The automatic extraction of linguistically useful information from
language corpora. Word frequencies, collocations and word senses.
Probabilistic parsing. Combining the two above. Particularly the
construction of a language model which predicts the likelihood
of a particular sequence of words
Projects
Since September 1999 I have been working on the WASPS project at ITRI.
Publications
See here. A full paper is available in most cases.
