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