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James Curran

PhD Edinburgh BSc Adv (Hons)
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow
Director, NCSS
Coordinator, Talented Student Program

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Research interests

Computational Linguistics specifically statistical approaches to Natural Language Processing (NLP) ranging from theoretical and low-level component development through to high-level systems development in Question Answering and Information Extraction.

Selected publications

  • Wide-Coverage Efficient Statistical Parsing with CCG and Log-Linear Models
    S. Clark and J.R. Curran
    Computational Linguistics, 57 pages (accepted February, 2007).
  • Multi-Tagging for Lexicalized-Grammar Parsing
    J.R. Curran, S. Clark, and D. Vadas (2006)
    In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 697 – 704, Sydney, Australia. 2006.
  • Scaling Distributional Similarity to Large Corpora
    J. Gorman and J.R. Curran
    In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 361 – 368, Sydney, Australia. 2006.
  • Supersense Tagging of Unknown Nouns Using Semantic Similarity
    J.R. Curran
    In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 26 – 33, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2005.
  • Parsing the WSJ using CCG and Log-Linear Models
    S. Clark and J.R. Curran
    In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 104 – 111, Barcelona, Spain. 2004.
  • The Importance of Supertagging for Wide-Coverage CCG Parsing
    S. Clark and J.R. Curran
    In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 282 – 288, Geneva, Switzerland. 2004.
  • Investigating GIS and Smoothing for Maximum Entropy Taggers
    J.R. Curran and S. Clark
    In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL),
    pages 91 – 98, Budapest, Hungary. 2003.
  • Scaling Context Space
    J.R. Curran and M. Moens
    In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 231 – 238, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2002.
  • Improvements in Automatic Thesaurus Extraction
    J.R. Curran and M. Moens
    In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition, pages 59 – 67, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2002.
  • Ensemble Methods for Automatic Thesaurus Extraction
    J.R. Curran
    In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 222 – 229, Philadelphia PA, USA. 2002.

Units of study taught

INFO1903 Foundations of Information Technology (Adv.)