I'm a Professor in the Department of Computing in the Faculty of Science at Macquarie University. My current research interests centre around automated writing assistance, natural language generation, and dialog systems. You can peruse a list of the student projects I currently supervise. Or you can click the picture at right to see a random other image.
Currently I am Director of Macquarie University's Centre for Language Technology, and Editor of Computational Linguistics. I'm also a member of the executive committee of the Association for Computational Linguistics, a member of the Executive Committee of AusTalk, and a member of the Conference Co-ordinating Committee of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing. During 2011 and 2012, I've been running the Helping Our Own Shared Task, which aims to help non-native speakers writing in English.
You can find out more about what I do at the following links:Or you can read a short bio.
I'm always interested in talking to students who are fired up about doing interesting things with the computational processing of human language. If you're a top-performing undergraduate student, we may be able to find work for you on a research project; and if you're looking at doing a PhD and want to do first class work, we may be able to help find sources of funding. Find out how I approach supervision here: the document hasn't been updated for a few years, but it's still a fairly good representation of my views on the topic.
| Postal and Courier Address | Physical Location | |
| Professor Robert Dale Centre for Language Technology Department of Computing Faculty of Science Building E6A Room 328 Macquarie University Sydney NSW 2109 Australia | Professor Robert Dale Building E6A, Room 328 Faculty of Science Macquarie University Herring Road North Ryde New South Wales |
Phone: +61 2 9850 6331
Fax: +61 2 9850 9551
Email: Robert.Dale@mq.edu.au
Directions on getting to the above address are here. For bus information on one of a number of buses that come to campus from the city, see here.