Diego Mollá Aliod's research interests include bridging the gap between theoretical linguistics, especially semantics and logical forms, and practical Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. He obtained a 5-year computer science degree at the Universidad Politècnica de Valencia, 1990). He completed an MSc course at the University of Edinburgh (distinction, 1992), where he studied tools and techniques for processing speech and language. Also at the University of Edinburgh he completed a PhD on formal semantics (Aspectual Composition and Sentence Interpretation: A Formal Approach, 1997). At the University of Zurich (1996-2000) he participated in the ExtrAns project, an answer extraction system over a set of about 500 Unix manpages. The ideas developed in ExtrAns are now being applied in the AnswerFinder project, an open-domain question-answering system that combines Information Retrieval and Information Extraction techniques with logical approaches. He is currently a lecturer at Macquarie University since October 2000, where he is undertaking research and teaching in several units of the new program on Language Technology. |
