Natural Language Laboratory at Simon Fraser University
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Four faculty are associated with the laboratory:
The following people are actively involved with the laboratory:
Research assistants are students who provide the laboratory with programming support.
Adjunct personnel make use of laboratory facilities for research purposes.
Six graduate students are associated with the laboratory:
Alumni are former staff and students of the laboratory. Click on the graduation years of students for titles of their theses.
- Staff
- Graduate Students
- Nicolas Demers, MSc (1999), thesis online (117 pp., PostScript)
- Petr Pp Kubon, PhD (1999), thesis online (276 pp., PDF)
- Trude Heift, PhD (1998)
- Janine Toole, PhD (1998)
- Caroline Barriere, PhD (1997), thesis online (323 pp., 0.534MB, PostScript)
- Milan Mosny, MSc (1996), thesis online (137 pp., 245k, PostScript)
- Joerg Ueberla, PhD (1994), thesis online (140 pp., 371k, PostScript)
- Sandi Kodric, MSc (1993), thesis online (75 pp., 135k, PostScript)
- T. Pattabhiraman, PhD (1992), thesis online (191 pp., 342k, PostScript)
- Bruce Wiebe, MSc (1992), thesis online (135 pp., 222k, PostScript)
- Carl Vogel, MSc (1990), thesis online (97 pp., 288k, PostScript)
- Stefan Joseph, MSc (1988)
- Pierre Massicotte, MSc (1988)
- Charles Brown, PhD (1987)
- Gary Hall, MSc (1986)
- Mimi Kao, MSc (1986)
- Tomek Strzalkowski, PhD (1986)
- Fred Popowich, MSc (1985)
Rogers CableSystems granted Cercone et al (1990-93) a three-year grant to study expert information management and develop the SystemX natural language interface. Rogers have granted Cercone et al a further two-year grant (1994-95) to continue their work.
TCC markets the
TeleTranslator, an innovative real-time machine translation
product. The grammars, lexicons and engine from the lab's machine translation work will go into the next
generation of TeleTranslator.
IRIS is the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Ottawa, ON.
PRECARN is the Precompetitive and Applied Research Network, Ottawa, ON. Nick Cercone et al
(1990-94) were granted a four year IRIS award to work on Design and Human Interfaces within its B-4 node.
Under IRIS 2, Cercone et al (1994-98) were granted a four year award to work on HMI-2:
Intelligent Interfaces for Information Access.
NSERC is the National Science and Engineering Research Council, Ottawa, ON. Faculty associated with the laboratory have received operating awards, strategic, infrastructure and equipment grants.
ASI is the Advanced Systems
Institute of British Columbia, Burnaby, BC.
Fred Popowich (1989-92) was granted an ASI fellowship to study unification-based grammars. Paul McFetridge is currently an ASI fellow.
The Natural Language Laboratory is equipped with ten SUN workstations,
a Macintosh 7300/200 PowerPC, a 450MHz Pentium-II PC, and a laptop.
The SUN workstations comprise a SUN Ultra 60 Model 2300 (2 x 300Mhz
processors), a SUN Ultra 5, one SPARCstation 20, a SPARCstation 10,
two SPARCstation 5s, a SPARCstation 4, a SPARCstation IPX, and three
SPARCstation 1s. Software available includes C, C++, Quintus Prolog, and
Sicstus Prolog. There is also a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4 laser
printer.
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