research interest

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My research interests lie in Information Extraction (IE). My PhD thesis, supervised by Dr. R. Gaizauskas, was in IE as is the NAMIC project I have been working on for 2 years (01/2000 -04/2002). Afterwards I strayed into the area of Dialogue System and worked on the the COMIC project, which deals with multi-modal dialogue. We at Sheffield were mainly involved in the dialogue and action management (03/2002 - 02/2005).
Now (as of March 2005) I am again involved in an Information Extraction project called CLEF Services, a follow-up project of CLEF, where I am primarily working on temporal information extraction.

I have co-organised a workshop at LREC2002 and I was involved in the TERQAS workshop about time and event recognition for question answering systems.

publications

  • Temporal IE

  • Dialogue Systems

    • Multimodal Dialogue Management in the COMIC Project
      Roberta Catizone, Andrea Setzer, and Yorick Wilks
      Workshop on 'Dialogue Systems: interaction, adaptation and styles of management', European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics(EACL), Budapest, Hungary, April 2003

    • Machine Learning Approaches to Human Dialogue Modelling
      Y. Wilks, N. Webb, Setzer, A. Catizone, R.
      In Kuppervelt, Smith (eds.) Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue, Kluwer, Berlin (2004).

  • IE

    • Scaling-up Information Extraction
      Roberta Catizone, Andrea Setzer and Nick Webb

      Workshop on 'Event Modelling for Multilingual Document Linking', Language Resources and Evaluation Conference(LREC 2002), Las Palmas Canary Islands, June 2002

    • Multilingual Authoring: the NAMIC Approach
      Basili, R., R. Catizone, L. Padro, M. T. Pazienza, G. Rigau, A. Setzer, N. Webb, Y. Wilks, and F. M. Zanzotto

      ACL 2001, Workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management




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