Deputy Department Chair and Professor, Department of Natural Language Processing, MBZUAI
Professor Ted Briscoe is a Deputy Chair and Professor in the Natural Language Processing Department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
Biography
Prof. Briscoe served as a professor of computational linguistics at the University of Cambridge for 33 years before joining MBZUAI. For more than 20 years, he led the Natural Language and Information Processing (NLIP) research group in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. He was also a co-founder and the inaugural director of the university's interdisciplinary Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA) Institute.
In 2003, he co-founded iLexIR Ltd, a NLP consultancy and technology provider, and was its CEO until 2022. In 2013, he co-founded English Language iTutoring and was its chief scientist until 2019, and from 2020 until 2022 he was chief scientist for RegGenome Ltd. He has been an area chair for five conferences of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) and served on the programme committees of many more ACL conferences and workshops, as well as of EMNLP, COLING, CoNLL, LREC and EVOLANG.
Briscoe has been principal investigator on 16 externally funded UK and European research grants, taught at four European Summer Schools, and been a technical advisor or consultant to more than a dozen companies. He currently advises Cambridge Innovation Capital on investment in the AI/ML/NLP space. He has presented his research in invited talks at conferences and workshops at more than 30 events including two Dagstuhl Seminars, the Royal Statistical Society, the American Association for Advancement of Science, the Beckman Frontiers of Science Symposium, National Academy of Sciences, and the ESPRIT, eLex, CLIN, CLUK, STIL and Iberamia annual conferences.
His specific research interests include statistical and robust parsing algorithms, computational approaches to lexicon acquisition and to representation of lexical, syntactic and semantic knowledge, textual information extraction from scientific articles and regulatory documents, models of human language learning and processing, and evolutionary models of language development and change. His recent work has mostly focused on NLP and ML techniques in support of language learning.
Briscoe has been on the editorial boards of the journals: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Engineering, and Lingua and was a senior editor of Computer Speech and Language from 2001 to 2015. He is a member of the NCCR Evolving Language Review Board and of the Sheffield EPSRC CDT for Speech and Language Technology Advisory Board.
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About Ted Briscoe
Professor Ted Briscoe is a Deputy Chair and Professor in the Natural Language Processing Department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
Biography
Prof. Briscoe served as a professor of computational linguistics at the University of Cambridge for 33 years before joining MBZUAI. For more than 20 years, he led the Natural Language and Information Processing (NLIP) research group in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. He was also a co-founder and the inaugural director of the university's interdisciplinary Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA) Institute.
In 2003, he co-founded iLexIR Ltd, a NLP consultancy and technology provider, and was its CEO until 2022. In 2013, he co-founded English Language iTutoring and was its chief scientist until 2019, and from 2020 until 2022 he was chief scientist for RegGenome Ltd. He has been an area chair for five conferences of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) and served on the programme committees of many more ACL conferences and workshops, as well as of EMNLP, COLING, CoNLL, LREC and EVOLANG.
Briscoe has been principal investigator on 16 externally funded UK and European research grants, taught at four European Summer Schools, and been a technical advisor or consultant to more than a dozen companies. He currently advises Cambridge Innovation Capital on investment in the AI/ML/NLP space. He has presented his research in invited talks at conferences and workshops at more than 30 events including two Dagstuhl Seminars, the Royal Statistical Society, the American Association for Advancement of Science, the Beckman Frontiers of Science Symposium, National Academy of Sciences, and the ESPRIT, eLex, CLIN, CLUK, STIL and Iberamia annual conferences.
His specific research interests include statistical and robust parsing algorithms, computational approaches to lexicon acquisition and to representation of lexical, syntactic and semantic knowledge, textual information extraction from scientific articles and regulatory documents, models of human language learning and processing, and evolutionary models of language development and change. His recent work has mostly focused on NLP and ML techniques in support of language learning.
Briscoe has been on the editorial boards of the journals: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Engineering, and Lingua and was a senior editor of Computer Speech and Language from 2001 to 2015. He is a member of the NCCR Evolving Language Review Board and of the Sheffield EPSRC CDT for Speech and Language Technology Advisory Board.
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