Today I went and presented my research work for my PhD thesis to a group of really knowledgeable researchers. It was excellent to get feedback, pointers, help and some insight into how huge this area of research is.
I thought I would share my slides with you. This is of no interest to SEO right now and will perhaps tickle the fancy of some computer scientists (unless you are a curious SEO!).
I would appreciate questions, feedback, discussion…anything that might be helpful to the writing up process so please feel free to get in touch.
It is a very high level overview and I don’t go into great detail, I’m still writing all of that up in proper English.
Congratulations for your presentation. Very interesting topic.
off-topic: have you noticed that some menu items are “hidden”, or maybe, “not properly hidden”? Maybe it’s just my browser – FF 3.0.12 (not the FF3.5 yet due to plugin issues)
Hi Frank thank you
– no it’s not your browser it’s a glitch with the template that I haven’t got round to fixing yet. Soon! I promise.
Ok, let me disturb you a little more!
I’m graduating in Computer Science this year and I need to present a “Graduation Thesis” – do you believe there’s something on the topics you cover which could be developed/studied/researched “easily”? Or maybe recommend one of them.
Ok, I know it’s not easy, and I know that anything could be done with hard work, but could you please point out something? Natural Language Understanding/Generation? Human Computer Interaction? Any other?
I’d appreciate that. Thanks!
It depends what depth you have to go into really. I mean all of these areas are enormous and in 5 years I have barely scratched the surface. Choose something you’re interested in because none of it is easy. You can probably do something about OWL and its application to the new web, that should pretty manageable
Ok! Thank you very much!
Very interesting. You will do it great.
I finishing writing my thesis and I had my Viva last week. I passed with minor corrections. I am sure you will have a similar result soon.
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Congratulations Dr Servin
Thanks for sharing this was really interesting. I will admit some of it was a little over my head but it seems like a really complex but fun project to be involved in.
One thing I didn’t quite understand probabally because I don’t have a degree in computer science.
Is such a system potentially scalable across other languages or will the unique grammar composition of different language cause it to stop working or, are these different grammar patterns something that has already been identified and you guys need to translate them into the programming?
The CxG comes from cognitive linguistics and what we did was make it compute if you like. It’s all built in Java (yes, that surprised me too!) and it’s all supported by OWL ontologies where the “world knowledge” and the constructions themselves are housed. The use of OWL means that you can relatively easily plug in other ontologies. This means that eventually you could have it running of the semantic web.
Yes you could adapt it to Russian or whatever but you would need to identify the constructions first and then build your ontologies too.