Professor Ann Copestake

My research is in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing - developing computer models of human languages (or, more precisely, models of some aspects of human languages).   In conjunction with DELPH-IN, an informal international consortium, I have developed software which has been used to develop formal computational accounts of the syntax and compositional semantics of many different languages. Apart from DELPH-IN, my current research mainly concerns semantics: I aim to develop models of compositional and lexical semantics which are compatible with broad-coverage computational processing (parsing and generation).  I've worked on a variety of application areas including scientific text processing, information extraction, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), machine translation, Natural Language Interfaces, lexical acquisition and on tools for lexicographers.