Research in ILCC

Research Groups

Research groups in ILCC with regular meetings include the following.

Dialogue and Interaction	Listen! Speech recognition	Probabilistic Models of Language	Speak! Speech synthesis	Statistical Machine Translation

Research Areas

Research in ILCC spans a broad spectrum covering computational approaches to language, communication, and cognition.  Below we list some of the areas we study, along with the researchers involved in each area. 

• Natural language processing and computational linguistics
  
• Spoken language processing
• Dialogue and multimodal interaction
  
• Information extraction, retrieval and presentation
• Computational theories of human cognition
  
• Educational and assistive technology
  

Natural language processing and computational linguistics:

Annotation and markup technology: Jean Carletta, Henry Thompson

Biomedical NLP: Claire Grover, Bonnie Webber

Computational semantics: Ewan Klein, Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides, Colin Matheson, Bonnie Webber

Discourse: Jean Carletta, Alex Lascarides, Colin Matheson, Johanna Moore, Bonnie Webber

Machine learning for NLP: Sharon Goldwater, Mirella Lapata, Miles Osborne, Charles Sutton

Natural language generation: Mirella Lapata, Johanna Moore, Jon Oberlander

Natural language parsing: Frank Keller, Mark Steedman

Statistical machine translation: Philipp Koehn, Miles Osborne

Spoken language processing:

Automatic speech recognition: Simon King, Steve Renals, Hiroshi Shimodaira

Inclusive speech technology: Johanna Moore, Steve Renals, Maria Wolters

Models of language acquisition from speech: Sharon Goldwater

Prosody and information structure: Rob Clark, Mark Steedman

Speech synthesis: Rob Clark, Simon King, Steve Renals, Maria Wolters

Dialogue and multimodal interaction:

Conversational agents: Hiroshi Shimodaira, Mark Steedman

Dialogue systems: Jean Carletta, Alex Lascarides, Colin Matheson, Johanna Moore, Maria Wolters

Graphical communication: John Lee, Jon Oberlander

Multi-agent meaning negotiation: Ewan Klein

Multimodal information retrieval: Mirella Lapata, Victor Lavrenko, Johanna Moore

Multi-party interaction: Jean Carletta, Johanna Moore, Steve Renals

Planning: Mark Steedman

Information extraction, retrieval and presentation:

Automatic summarization: Mirella Lapata

Social media: Miles Osborne

Information extraction: Claire Grover, Ewan Klein, Bonnie Webber

Information retrieval: Mirella Lapata, Victor Lavrenko, Bonnie Webber

Question answering: Bonnie Webber

Computational theories of human cognition:

Adult language processing: Frank Keller, Richard Shillcock, Mark Steedman

Child language acquisition: Sharon Goldwater, Mark Steedman

Dialogue and discourse: Jean Carletta, Alex Lascarides, Johanna Moore, Jon Oberlander

Gesture: Alex Lascarides  

Semantics: Ewan Klein, Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides, Bonnie Webber

Musical analysis: Mark Steedman

Synchronous linguistic and visual processing: Frank Keller

Educational and assistive technology:

Assistive technology for special user groups: Johanna Moore, Steve Renals, Maria Wolters, Helen Pain

Clinical applications: Simon King, Steve Renals, Junichi Yamagishi

Education and educational technology: John Lee, Johanna Moore, Helen Pain