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Phd Students

These are my recent and current PhD students:
Lorna Balkan (balka[@]essex.ac.uk,webpage)
A treatment of Verb Phrase ellipsis for Machine Translation, University of Essex 1998.
Andy Way (away[@]ca.dcu.ie,webpage)
LFG-DOT: a hybrid architecture for robust MT, University of Essex 2001.
Frederik Fouvry (fouvry[@]CoLi.Uni-SB.DE,webpage)
Robust processing for constraint-based grammar formalisms University of Essex, 2003.
Yasu Kawata (ykawat[@]essex.ac.uk,webpage)
Tagsets for Morphosyntactic Corpus Annotation: the idea of a `reference tagset' for Japanese, University of Essex, 2005.
Maria Flouraki (maria.flouraki[@]gmail.com,webpage)
Aspect in Modern Greek: an HPSG Approach, University of Essex, 2005.
Evita Linardaki (elinaro[@]essex.ac.uk,webpage)
Linguistic and statistical extensions of Data Oriented Parsing University of Essex, 2006.
Miriam Urgelles (murgel[@]essex.ac.uk,webpage)
`Anyway' A Formal Approach to the Syntax and Semantics of Discourse Markers University of Essex, 2009.
Voula Ghotsoulia (vghotsoulia[@]yahoo.co.uk,webpage)
An Entailment-Based Approach to Semantic Role Annotation University of Essex, 2010.
James Read (jcread[@]essex.ac.uk,webpage)
working on Machine Translation.

There is much wisdom about the art of PhD supervision (or, as he calls it `Thesis Prevention') to be found in the thoughts of Father A Hacker (S.J.). More seriously, Gordon B. Davis's paper Advising and Supervising Doctoral Students: Lessons I Have Learned is well worth reading.


doug@essex.ac.uk

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