School of Computer Science and Statistics
Martin Emms There are various corpora of ‘gold standard’ syntactically analysed natural language. Below is a sample from the ‘Penn TreeBank’, analysing the sentence ‘W.R. Grace holds three of Grace Energy ‘s seven board seats’ ( (S (NP-SBJ (NNP W.R.) (NNP Grace) ) (VP (VBZ holds) (NP (NP (CD three) ) (PP (IN of) (NP (NP (NNP … Read more
BRIEFLY: for pairs of languages there seem to be ‘sound substitutions’ that systematically map words of one language to words of similar meaning in another, something explicable by supposing that the words in question languages are descended from a common ancestor, with systematic and divergent sound evolutions along the way. Working with pencil-and-paper in a … Read more
There is a theoretical and implementational field ‘Game Theory’ (GT), originating in the 1940s, concerned with ‘games’: situations where players interact with each other and possibly some other objects in a very formalised way, gaining individual ‘pay-offs’ when the ‘game’ ends. Tic-Tac-Toe is a so-called ‘2-person zero-sum game’ and GT is concerned with what are … Read more
Individuals in a species (esp. humans) may cooperate and they may communicate. Recent decades have seen quite a lot of efforts to use computational simulation — so-called individual/agent-based modelling — to investigate what cooperation is , and how communication factors into it, striving to fit this into a general picture of varying levels of survival … Read more
My teaching and research relate to natural language processing and machine learning. There’s code I have developed for algorithms relating to this, some traditional and some more novel. There is scope for projects relating to this pre-existing code and algorithms that is not necessarily related to improving the bottom-line performance of these algorithms, but more … Read more
The online OED (see bottom for url ) contains a great deal of information about a word, including ‘etymological’ information on the words ‘origin‘. This info is given near the top of an entry in very terse format, making it accessible really only to specialists. There are several things that could be done to generate … Read more