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Dr. Roger Evans

Reader in Computer Science
Research leader of the Natural Language Technology Group.

Contact details NLTG
Watts Building
University of Brighton
Lewes Rd, Brighton
BN2 4GJ, UK

Phone: +44 1273 642907
Fax: +44 1273 642908
Email: R.P.Evans at brighton.ac.uk
URL: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg/home/Roger.Evans

Research Interests Foundations, architectures and applications of computational linguistics and language engineering: particularly lexical description and representation; natural language generation architectures; control issues for wide-coverage generation; statistical and symbolic methodologies; multilingual issues; eScience and GRID applications for NLP.

Current activities
COGENT Controlled generation of text
Joint with the University of Sussex, funded by the EPSRC
Investigation of non-determinism and ambiguity in wide-coverage generation.
See http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/projects/cogent.
DATR DATR: a language for lexical representation.
See http://www.datr.org
WYSIWYM   WYSIWYM: generation-based knowledge editing interfaces.
See http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/projects/WYSIWYM/wysiwym.html

Recent publications and reports Evans, R., P. Piwek, L. Cahill and N. Tipper, (forthcoming) "Natural Language Processing in CLIME -- a multilingual legal advisory system," Natural Language Engineering

Généreux, M. and R. Evans 2006 "Towards a validated model for affective classification of texts," Sentiment and Subjectivity in Text. Workshop at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2006) Sydney, Australia.

Santini, M., R. Power and R. Evans 2006 "Implementing a Characterization of Genre for Automatic Genre Identification of Web Pages," ACL 2006 Poster Session Sydney. Australia.

Généreux, M. and R. Evans 2006 "Distinguishing affective states in weblogs," Proceedings of the AAAI-2006 Spring Symposium on "Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs", Stanford, California, USA.

Baud, R. H., M. Nyström, L. Borin, R. Evans, S. Schulz, P. Zweigenbaum, 2005 "Interchanging Lexical Information for a Multilingual Dictionary," in C.P Friedman, J. Ash and P. Tarczy-Hornoch (eds.), Biomedical and Health Informatics: From Foundations to Applications to Policy, Washingon DC, USA, pp. 31-35.

Carroll, J., R. Evans and E. Klein, 2005 "Supporting text mining for e-Science: the challenges for Grid-enabled Natural Language Processing," in S. Cox and D.W. Walker (eds.), Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2005, Nottingham, UK, ISBN 1-904425-53-4, pp. 233-238.

Paiva, D. S. and R. Evans, 2005 "Empirically-based control of natural language generation," in K. Knight, H.T. Ng and K. Oflazer (eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005), Ann Arbor, USA, pp. 58-65.

Belz, A., R. Evans and P. Piwek, 2004, Natural Language Generation, Third International Conference, INLG 2004, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, no. 3123, Springer, Heidelburg, Germany. ISBN 3-540-22340-1.

Belz, A., R. Evans and P. Piwek 2004 INLG04 Posters: Extended abstracts of posters presented at the Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation ITRI technical report ITRI-04-01, ITRI, University of Brighton.

Mellish, C. and R. Evans, 2004, "Implementation Architectures for Natural Language Generation," Natural Language Engineering 10(3/4), pp. 261-282.

Mellish, C., M. Reape, L. Cahill, R. Evans, D. Paiva, D. Scott, 2004, "Towards a Reference Architecture for Generation Systems," Natural Language Engineering 10 (3/4), pp. 227-260.

Paiva, D. S. and R. Evans, 2004, "A framework for stylistically controlled generation," in Belz, A., R. Evans and P. Piwek, Natural Language Generation, Third International Conference, INLG 2004, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, no. 3123, Springer, Heidelburg, Germany, pp. 120-129. (Also available as ITRI technical report ITRI-04-12)

Erjavec, T., R. Evans, N. Ide and A. Kilgarriff, 2003 "From Machine Readable Dictionaries to lexical Databases: the CONCEDE experience," Proceedings of COMPLEX 2003, Budapest, Hungary. (Also available as ITRI technical report ITRI-03-03)

Evans, R. and R. Power, 2003 WYSIWYM - building user interfaces with natural language feedback, ITRI technical report ITRI-03-01, ITRI, University of Brighton.

Evans, R., C. Tiberius, D. Brown, and G.G. Corbett, 2003a "A large-scale inheritance-based morphological lexicon for Russian," Proceedings of the EACL-03 Workshop on Slavic Morphology, Budapest, Hungary. (Also available as ITRI technical report ITRI-03-02)

Evans, R., C. Tiberius, D. Brown, and G.G. Corbett, 2003b Russian lemmatisation with DATR, Paper at SLOVKO 2003, Bratislava, Slovakia. ITRI technical report ITRI-03-23, ITRI, University of Brighton.

Kilgarriff, A., R.Evans, R. Koeling, M. Rundell and D. Tugwell, 2003 "WASPBENCH: a lexicographer's workbench supporting state-of-the-art word sense disambiguation," Research notes and demonstration papers at EACL-03, Budapest, Hungary. (Also available as ITRI technical report ITRI-03-14)

Koeling, R., A. Kilgarriff, D. Tugwell and R. Evans, 2003 "An evaluation of a lexicographer's workbench: building lexicons for machine translation," Proceedings of the EACL-03 EAMT workshop, Budapest, Hungary.

Evans. R., P. Piwek and L.J. Cahill, 2002 "What is NLG?" Proceedings of INLG 2002, New York, USA. (Also available as ITRI technical report ITRI-02-05)

Cahill, L., J. Carroll, R. Evans, D. Paiva, R. Power, D.Scott and K. van Deemter, 2001 "From RAGS to RICHES: exploiting the potential of a flexible generation architecture" Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2001), Toulouse, France, (Also available as ITRI technical report ITRI-01-07)

Evans, R., G. Gazdar and D. Weir, 2001, " 'Lexical Rules' are just lexical rules," in A. Abeille and O. Rambow (eds.) Tree adjoining grammars: linguistic, formal and computational properties, CSLI Lecture Notes, Chicago University Press. (Also available as ITRI technical report ITRI-98-15)

For a complete list of my publications, see the Publications page of my CV.

Outside interests

Much of my free time is taken up with my family (wife Linda and children Matthew, Benjamin, Alexander and Jack), and I enjoy sport (especially badminton and soccer - the latter mainly as a spectator these days), music (I play piano, violin, classical guitar and saxaphone, though not very well) and bridge. I am a former Governors at St. Luke's Infant School, Brighton (former chair and vice-chair, with specific responsibility for finance, personnel and ICT), and treasurer of Brighton Cougars Basketball Club.


Further information For additional information about me and my professional activities and interests, please see my CV.


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Last updated 19 September 2006

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