Research Interests

My interests span many areas, with an emphasis on the use of text analytics for intelligence gathering:

• Language Technology
  • Statistical information extraction or text mining (e.g. identifying entities, properties, relationships, comparisons, events in text)
  • Information integration (e.g. customer information for fraud detection)
  • Personal network analysis
  • Shallow text processing
  • Corpus analysis
  • Language generation/adaptive information presentation
  • Dynamic/adaptive hypertext/web systems
  • User modelling
• Cognitive Science
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Education
  • Educational Psychology
  • Educational Data Mining
  • AI in Education
  • Personality Theories and their relationship to learning (I am an INTJ and an Enneagram 5/6)
• Knowledge-Based Systems
• User Training
• Software Engineering
  • Technical Architecture
  • Business/User Requirements Analysis
  • Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (using UML)
  • System/Data Integration (using language technology)
  • Usability
• XML