This photo is from 2007, of me and my daughter. We appear to be looking at you suspiciously, but don't be deterred.
CONTACT DETAILS
| addr: |
Department of Computing
Macquarie University North Ryde NSW 2109 Australia |
| email: | madras AT ics . mq . edu . au |
| phone: | +61 2 9850 9580 |
| fax: | +61 2 9850 9551 |
| room: | building E6A, room 380 |
Workwise, I'm a senior lecturer in the Department of Computing of Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia. Before that, I spent two years at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.
RESEARCH
I work in language technology and computational linguistics, and am a member of Macquarie's Centre for Language Technology.
In general terms, the theme of my research is language structure and transformation. I am interested in the ways that natural languages and their mathematical or formal representations can be transformed, and the contexts in which these transformations occur; specifically, I work on machine translation, paraphrase and models of language change. In the bigger picture, what kind of structure is computationally amenable to transformation provides another view on what the structure of language may be. For more detail, there is:
- a description of the particular projects I'm working on;
- a list of publications;
- a list of my students.
I have funding for a PhD position on phishing detection (for a local or international student) as part of an Australian Research Council Linkage grant. (Even if the official deadline has passed, send me an email if you're interested.)
TEACHING
In semester 1, 2008, I'm doing the following:
- I'm convening and teaching COMP348: Document Processing and the Semantic Web;
- I'm teaching on COMP496: Computing Research Methods and Communication;
- I'm the convenor for the honours program;
- I have some proposed honours projects; and
- I have office hours Thursday 2-3.
I've also taught a range of units over the years.
OTHER
Some other things.