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Diego Mollá Aliod Email: diego.molla-aliod at mq.edu.au Address: Macquarie University Division of Information and Communication Sciences Computing Department Sydney NSW 2109 Australia Tel: +61-(0)2-9850-9531 Fax: +61-(0)2-9850-9551

Hi, welcome to my home page. My full name is Diego Mollá Aliod, where my family name is the double word Mollá Aliod. It is like a hyphenated surname, but without a hyphen!

Current Status

I am a senior lecturer at the Department of Computing, Macquarie University.

• Teaching responsibilities (2010, Semester 2):
• ITEC830 - XML Technologies
• COMP401/901 - Research Methods and Communication
• COMP448 - Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing
• Administration Responsibilities (2010, Semester 2):
• Exemptions officer
• Honours convenor
• Research Projects:
  • NLP for Evidence Based Medicine
  • AnswerFinder
  • List of PhD, Honours, Masters and Summer Vacation projects
• Units I've taught in the recent past:
  • COMP123: 2001H2, 2002H1
  • COMP125: 2004H2, 2005H1, 2006H1, 2007H1, 2008H1, 2009H1, 2010H1
  • COMP248: 2000H2, 2001H2, 2002H2, 2003H2, 2006H2, 2008H2
  • COMP249: 2004H1
  • COMP348: 2001H1, 2002H1, 2003H1, 2007H1, 2007H2, 2008H1, 2009H1, 2010H1
  • COMP448: 2005H1, 2006H1, 2008H1, 2009H1
  • COMP453: 2002H2, 2003H2, 2004H2
  • ITEC830: 2006H2
  • SLP148: 2003H1, 2004H1, 2005H1, 2006H1, 2007H2, 2008H2
• Current administration responsibilities:
  • President of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA)

Research Interests

My general research interests lie in the intersection between linguistics and computer science. Of special interest is the understanding of human languages and how this understanding can be used in practical computer applications.

Here's the tag cloud of the bibliography I'm keeping in bibsonomy (updated 24 Jul 2009):

• abduction
• AI
• ambiguity
• anaphora
• annotation
• answer_extraction
• AnswerFinder
• biomedical
• CLE
• clinical
• COMP448
• computer
• conceptual_graphs
• constraint_programming
• context
• dependencies
• DG
• dialogue_system
• discourse
• distr_coll
• entailment
• evaluation
• ExtrAns
• flat_semantics
• folksonomy
• generation
• gram_rels
• grammar
• graphs
• HPSG
• inf_extraction
• inf_retrieval
• linguistics
• link_grammar
• logic
• machine_learning
• machine_translation
• molla_publication
• named_entities
• NLP
• ontology
• parsers
• pp_attachment
• prolog
• property_grammar
• quantification
• question_answering
• questions
• reification
• resources
• robust_parsing
• semantic_closeness
• semantic_web
• semantics
• similarity
• speech
• statistic_nlp
• summarisation
• syntax
• text_mining
• tutoring_system
• underspecification
• web
• web_data_extraction
• word_sense
• WordNet
• XML

Current research topics are:

Answer Extraction and Question Answering

Currently I am working on AnswerFinder, a system that uses ExtrAns' technology to perform question answering from larger volumes of text, on the line of the question answering track of TREC.

From Nov. 1995 to end of Oct 1999 I participated in ExtrAns, an answer extraction system, and the extension WebExtrAns. Relevant links are:

• A short description of ExtrAns and relevant papers.
• A short description of WebExtrAns and relevant papers.
• A longer description of ExtrAns, adapted to HTML from a publication in CLIP.
• A demo of ExtrAns (Send me an email if it doesn't work).

PhD Research

My PhD focused on a formal specification of a subset of the aspectual interactions between nouns and verbs. Relevant links are:

• Abstract.
• Source (gzipped PostScript format, 271K).
• References used during the PhD.