The Natural Language Technology Group (NLTG) explores ways in which computer technology can be applied to tasks which involve the use of natural (human) languages (like English, French or Chinese). We are particularly interested in statistical generation, lexical representation, multilingualism, emotional content in text, and natural language systems and architectures.
NLTG Website
News
Anja Belz is leading the organisation of Generation Challenges 2010, an umbrella event
designed to bring together a variety of shared-task evaluation efforts that involve the generation of natural language, and successor Generation Challenges 2009.
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Lynne Cahill has been awarded an ESRC grant, Araborth, to construct an inheritance-based lexicon for Arabic combining phonology and morphology with orthography.
Araborth starts in November 2009 and last for eighteen months.
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Anja Belz has been awarded an EPSRC grant to lead a new EPSRC network on Vision and Language, together with Dimitrios Makris (Kingston). V&L Net starts in October 2009, and runs for three years.
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We are very pleased to announce that the university has agreed the appointment of Dunstan Brown
from the Surrey Morphology Group as a visiting researcher at NLTG for three years from April 2009.
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Congratulations to Anja Belz and Eric Kow on receiving the Best Paper award at ENLG 2009.
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Anja Belz has been interviewed on BBC Southern Counties Radio about her research on automatic generation of weather forecasts.
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Lynne Cahill and Roger Evans have negotiated a consultancy contract with the University of Sussex to explore the possibility of providing support for the PATSy software system.
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NLTG is participating in 3D-COFORM, a large-scale European project led by Brighton's Cultural Informatics Group.
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Current research
- Araborth (ESRC) - construction of an inheritance-based lexicon for Arabic combining phonology and morphology with orthography
- Vision and Language Network (EPSRC) - a forum for researchers from Computer Vision and Language Technology to meet and exchange ideas, expertise and technology joint with Kingston, and other network partners
- Generation Challenges 2010 - an initiative to promote evaluation of language generation systems (joint with Aberdeen and Saarland)
- 3D-COFORM (EC) - using language technology in cultural heritage applications
- PRODIGY (EPSRC) - exploring approaches to probabilistic deep generation
- DATR - a default-logic-like language for lexical knowledge representation
- Detecting generic topic in texts
Group members
- Academic staff: Roger Evans (research group leader), Anja Belz
- Research staff: Lynne Cahill, Eric Kow
- Visiting staff: Dunstan Brown (Visiting fellow) Gerald Gazdar (Visiting professor)
- Research students: Yin Ling
Recent Publications
Please see the publications page on the NLTG website.
