Dr David Howcroft

Dr David Howcroft
Dr David Howcroft
Dr David Howcroft

Advanced Research Fellow

About
Office Address
302 Meston Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Meston Walk
AB24 3UE

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School/Department
School of Natural and Computing Sciences

Biography

I am a computational linguist primarily working on natural language generation (NLG), developing new machine learning methods for data-to-text generation, collecting corpora to train systems, and conducting human evaluations (usually through crowdsourcing). I’m also interested in psycholinguistics, linguistic representations, and Bayesian statistics. 

At Aberdeen I am working on the ASICA project, helping melanoma survivors to monitor their skin regularly for recurrences or novel melanomas.

External Memberships

Board member of SIGGEN since Jan 2023 (term ending Dec 2026). SIGGEN is the special interest group for natural language generation, part of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Research

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence

Computing Science

Research Specialisms

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Linguistics
  • Computer Science

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.