Mark Stevenson

I am a member of Sheffield University's Natural Language Processing group where I have worked since 1995. I have participated in projects funded by the EU and UK research councils on topics including word sense disambiguation, information extraction and retrieval, named entity recognition and the processing of automatically transcribed speech.

I also completed a Ph.D. supervised by Yorick Wilks with a thesis on the combination of various linguistic knowledge sources for the word sense disambiguation problem. My PhD thesis was published by CSLI Publications.

In 2000 I was a short term research fellow in the Knowledge Management group of British Telecom's research labs, Adastral Park in Ipswich, where I worked on applying information and name extraction technology to a search engine.

From 2001 to 2002 I worked for for Reuters in London as part of their Research and Standards Group where, among other things, I was involved in the production and dissemination of the Reuters Corpus. I spent October 2001 to June 2002 as a Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Fellow working at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. During this time I worked on applications of language technology to problems in the developing world, collaborating with various Silicon Valley companies.

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