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Hi, welcome to my home page. My full name is Diego Mollá Aliod, where my family name is the double word Mollá Aliod. It is like a hyphenated surname, but without a hyphen!

Email:   diego at ics.mq.edu.au

Address: Macquarie University
         Division of Information and Communication Sciences
         Computing Department
         Sydney 
         NSW 2109
         Australia

Tel:    +61-(0)2-9850-9531
Fax:    +61-(0)2-9850-9551

Curriculum Vitae

LinkedIn Profile

Publications and Presentations

Current Status

I am a lecturer at the Department of Computing, Macquarie University. I am lecturing part of the following units of the undergraduate Language Technology program

• Current teaching responsibilities:
• SLP148: Language and Computation
• COMP248: Language Technology
• Research Projects:
  • AnswerFinder
  • List of Honours, Masters and Summer Vacation projects
• Units I've taught in the recent past:
  • COMP123: 2001H2, 2002H1
  • COMP125: 2004H2, 2005H1, 2006H1, 2007H1, 2008H1
  • COMP248: 2000H2, 2001H2, 2002H2, 2003H2, 2006H2
  • COMP249: 2004H1
  • COMP348: 2001H1, 2002H1, 2003H1, 2007H1, 2007H2, 2008H1
  • COMP448: 2005H1, 2006H1, 2008H1
  • COMP453: 2002H2, 2003H2, 2004H2
  • ITEC830: 2006H2
  • SLP148: 2003H1, 2004H1, 2005H1, 2006H1, 2007H2
• Current administration responsibilities:
  • Secretary and webmaster of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA)

Research Interests

My general research interests lie in the intersection between linguistics and computer science. Of special interest is the understanding of human languages and how this understanding can be used in practical computer applications.

Here's the tag cloud of the bibliography I'm keeping in bibsonomy (updated 19 Aug 2008):

• AI
• AnswerFinder
• CLE
• COMP448
• DG
• ExtrAns
• HPSG
• NLP
• WordNet
• XML
• abduction
• ambiguity
• anaphora
• annotation
• answer_extraction
• biomedical
• clinical
• computer
• conceptual_graphs
• constraint_programming
• context
• dependencies
• dialogue_system
• discourse
• distr_coll
• evaluation
• flat_semantics
• folksonomy
• generation
• gram_rels
• grammar
• graphs
• inf_extraction
• inf_retrieval
• linguistics
• link_grammar
• logic
• machine_learning
• machine_translation
• molla_publication
• named_entities
• ontology
• parsers
• pp_attachment
• prolog
• property_grammar
• quantification
• question_answering
• questions
• reification
• resources
• robust_parsing
• semantic_closeness
• semantic_web
• semantics
• speech
• statistic_nlp
• summarisation
• syntax
• text_mining
• tutoring_system
• underspecification
• web
• web_data_extraction
• word_sense

Current research topics are:

Answer Extraction and Question Answering

Currently I am working on AnswerFinder, a system that uses ExtrAns' technology to perform question answering from larger volumes of text, on the line of the question answering track of TREC.

From Nov. 1995 to end of Oct 1999 I participated in ExtrAns, an answer extraction system, and the extension WebExtrAns. Relevant links are:

• A short description of ExtrAns and relevant papers.
• A short description of WebExtrAns and relevant papers.
• A longer description of ExtrAns, adapted to HTML from a publication in CLIP.
• A demo of ExtrAns (Send me an email if it doesn't work).

PhD Research

My PhD focused on a formal specification of a subset of the aspectual interactions between nouns and verbs. Relevant links are:

• Abstract.
• Source (gzipped PostScript format, 271K).
• References used during the PhD.

Diego Mollá Aliod