I am using computers to create human language.
What that means, exactly, is anyone's guess;
I'm focusing on how to naturally refer to visible, everyday objects.
This brings in stuff about vision, stuff about reference, and all-in-all is incredibly fun.
I am a postgraduate student in the
natural language generation (NLG) group at the University of Aberdeen. I am also a visiting scholar at the
Center for Spoken Language Understanding, part of OHSU, in Portland, Oregon. There, I work on understanding the syntactic and phonetic characteristics in the language of people with neurological disorders.
Relevant keywords: natural language generation, referring expression generation, computational linguistics and assistive technology.