Experience

University of Leeds

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professor

  • Jan 2018 - Present

• Associate Professor

  • 1996 - Jan 2018

  Language research group leader, I-AIBS Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Biological Systems, School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering



Jisc

• United Kingdom
• Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• National Coordinator, NTI Language and Speech projects

  • 1994 - 1996

  The JISC New Technologies Initiative promoted takeup of New Technologies in UK universities. As National Coordinator of NTI language and speech projects, I coordinated and monitored language and speech projects funded by the Initiative.

• National Coordinator, Knowledge Based Systems Initiative

  • 1991 - 1994

  KBSI was a national initiative to promote takeup of Knowledge Based Systems in UK universities, sponsored by the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.My role was to coordinate and monitor c20 KBSI projects in UK universities.



Science and Engineering Research Council

• SERC Advanced Research Fellowship

  • 1990 - 1991

  5-year grant for research on bootstrapping linguistic knowledge and resources from text 5-year grant for research on bootstrapping linguistic knowledge and resources from text



University of Leeds

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer in Computer Studies

  • 1984 - 1990

  Teaching and research in computer studies and corpus linguistics Teaching and research in computer studies and corpus linguistics



Lancaster University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate

  • 1981 - 1984

  Researcher on LOB Corpus Tagging Project; then on Grammar Checker for ICL Word Processors ... until ICL decided that Word Processors and desktop Personal Computers had no future, they made a strategic decision to focus on their core business, large Mainframe computers (!) (meanwhile, a friend in America continuerd work on Word processor Grammar-Checkers for a little-known software company, MicroSoft...) Researcher on LOB Corpus Tagging Project; then on Grammar Checker for ICL Word Processors ... until ICL decided that Word Processors and desktop Personal Computers had no future, they made a strategic decision to focus on their core business, large Mainframe computers (!) (meanwhile, a friend in America continuerd work on Word processor Grammar-Checkers for a little-known software company, MicroSoft...)