Monday, May 06, 2013

Me

I thought I would put up some information about myself. So here goes:

Name: Matthew Shardlow

Location: Manchester, United Kingdom

Occupation: PhD student, Graduate Teaching Assistant

Employer: University of Manchester

Supervisor: John McNaught

Co-Supervisor: Simon Harper

Project Title: Lexical Simplification

PhD Track: 4-year centre for doctoral training

Finish date: September 2015

Funding body: EPSRC grant no. EP/I028099/1

Project Description: Making difficult language easier to read by detecting and translating complex vocabulary into easy words.

Research Interests:
  • Text simplification
  • Complex word identification
  • Substitution generation
  • Word sense disambiguation
  • Lexical complexity
  • Large scale corpus linguistics
  • The use of Wikipedia as a corpus

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