madras@ics.mq.edu.au

Username: madras@ics.mq.edu.au

Participant details

Mark DrasNetwork MemberMark Dras
Organisation/InstitutionMacquarie University
Department/CentreCentre for Language Technology
Lab
Websitehttp://www.comp.mq.edu.au/~madras/
Research areaNatural Language Processing
Computing
Research keywords

Research Interests

I'm interested in the nature of language transformations, and models of these. The language transformations are of various types: the transformations between languages and the structures that are used to represent them (e.g. syntax trees), as occurs in machine translation; the transformations between different expressions of similar semantic content within a language, as in paraphrasing; and the transformation of a language over time. Within these domains, I am looking at the properties of synchronous formalisms that are used to model these transformations; the ability of these formalisms to represent transformations that occur in natural languages; and the use of agent-based models as alternatives, particularly in language change.

 

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