John A. Carroll

John Carroll

Professor of Computational Linguistics
Department of Informatics
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ
UK

Email: J.A.Carroll@sussex.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/nlp/carroll/
Phone: +44 1273 678029
Fax: +44 1273 877873

Research

I work in the area of intelligent computer processing of human language (natural language processing, or NLP). My current research is concerned with: natural language parsing, acquisition of lexical information from text, sentiment analysis, clinical text mining, and other applications of natural language processing to real-world tasks.

Research projects and workshops

Publications

Quick links to publicly-available NLP resources: the RASP parsing toolkit, parser efficiency comparison data, English parser evaluation corpus, morphological and orthographic tools for English, the LKB System, the Alvey NL Tools.

Current and recent responsibilities: President of ACL SIGPARSE Special Interest Group on Parsing, Dialogue 2012 invited speaker, CICLing 2012 invited speaker, ACL 2011 workshops co-chair

Best paper awards: `Finding predominant word senses in untagged text' at ACL 2004 More> and `High efficiency realization for a wide-coverage unification grammar' at IJCNLP 2005 More> and `Text categorization for improved priors of word meaning' at CICLing 2007 (3rd Best Paper) More>
 

Administration

Head of Department
 

Teaching

Introduction to Computer Systems (Spring 2013)

Office hours: Monday 11:00-12:00, Wednesday 12:00-13:00, Chichester 1 room 206

Current research students: Bilal Khaliq, Raphael Commins, Eltayeb Mohammed Ahmed, Aleksandar Savkov

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