Rob Gaizauskas: Teaching

UG/MSc Modules

• COM6911: Team Project -- Spring Semester 2025/2026: See Module Homepage on Blackboard

Third Year Projects

• Project Descriptions 2026-2027

PhD Supervision

Current

• Callum Booth (joint supervision with Prof. R. Shoemaker, History) -- Information Extraction and Entity Linkage in Historical Crime Records
• Jason Chan (joint supervision with Cass Zhao, Computer Science) -- Investigating the reasoning properties of LLMs
• Jonathan Clayton -- Summarisation of Argumentative Conversation
• Varvara Papazoglou -- Computational Interpretation of Song Lyrics
• Donovan Wright -- Sources of Overfitting and Noise in Neural Abstractive Summarization of Scraped News and Business Text

Completed

• Tarfah Alrashid -- Automatic Detection of Visually Descriptive Language and Scene Boundaries in Narrative Text (2024)
• Hesah Aldihan (joint supervision with Prof. S. Fitzmaurice, English Language and Linguistics) -- A Computational Linguistic Approach to Gender Analysis and Classification of Kuwaiti Arabic (2024)
• Abdulsalam Alsunaidi -- Predicting Actions in Images Using Distributed Lexical Representations (2023)
• Nigel Dewdney -- Detecting New, Informative Propositions in Social Media (2018)
• Ayman Alhelbawy -- Collective Approaches to Named Entity Disambiguation (2014)
• Ahmet Aker -- Entity Type Modeling for Multi-Document Summarization: Generating Descriptive Summaries of Geo-Located Entities (2013)
• Leon Derczynski -- Determining the Types of Temporal Relations in Discourse (2013) (PDF)
• Pino DiFabbrizio -- Automatic Summarization of Opinions in Service and Product Reviews (2013) (PDF)
• Angus Roberts -- Clinical Information Extraction: Lowering the Barrier (2012) (PDF)
• Niraj Aswani -- Designing a General Framework for Text Alignment: Case Studies with Two South Asian Languages (2012) (PDF)
• David Guthrie -- Unsupervised Detection of Anomalous Text (2008) (PDF)
• Mike Conway -- Approaches to Automatic Biographical Sentence Classification: An Empirical Study (2007) (PDF)
• Mark Greenwood -- Open-Domain Question Answering (2006) (PDF)
• Brian Mitchell -- Prepositional Phrase Attachment Using Machine Learning Algorithms (2004) (Compressed PS)
• Andrea Setzer -- Temporal Information in Newswire Articles: An Annotation Scheme and Corpus Study (2002) (PDF)
• H.M. Harmain -- Building Object-Oriented Conceptual Models Using Natural Language Processing Techniques (2000) (Compressed PS)