Dear Teaching Colleagues
In July, we are embarking on a three-year, EPSRC-funded research
project which concerns the classification of rare words in the lexicon.
More precisely, we will record the items occurring for the first time,
in the lower frequency ranges only, across successive years of
electronic journalistic text. The aim is to develop a system of
automated classification, accounting qualitatively and quantitatively for
the features found in huge amounts of text, and to be able to
extrapolate from this to predict the structure of the future lexicon.
The system is intended to be of benefit to NLP researchers and to all in
academia and industry who need to fine-tune textually-derived or
textually-applied knowledge bases.
Among other things, this will clearly involve a close study of the
morphology at this productive level of the lexicon. We would like to
add to the human resources and expertise already available to the
project by recruiting a PhD student, again hopefully to be funded by
EPSRC, who has a good undergraduate or other grounding in morphology
(or computational morphology) and who would be interested in the topic.
Have you an outstanding undergraduate finalist (UK-based, with UK or
EU nationality) who fits this category, and whom you would be ready to
relinquish?
The ideal starting date would be July 1st, but we could cope with an
element of delay if necessary.
Thank you for your attention
Antoinette Renouf
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Antoinette Renouf
Director
Research and Development Unit for English Studies
University of Liverpool
19 Abercromby Square
Liverpool
L69 7ZG
tel sec unit: +44 (0)151 794 2289
tel: +44 (0)151 794 2286
fax: +44 (0)151 794 2298
email: ajrenouf@liv.ac.uk
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