Theses Written by ALTA Members

Below you will find a list of computational linguistics and language technology related theses written and/or supervised by past and present ALTA members. The idea is to showcase the research done by ALTA members and institutions.

This list is (of course) incomplete. If you would like to have your thesis added to this list, please contact the current Student Member of the ALTA Executive Committee, Pawel Mazur

PhD Theses

• Bahadorreza Ofoghi (2009) Enhancing Factoid Question Answering Using Frame Semantic-based Approaches, University of Ballarat
• Patrick Ye (2008, in submission) Natural Language Understanding in Controlled Virtual Environments, The University of Melbourne
• Luiz Pizzato (2008) Using Linguistically Motivated Features in Document Retrieval for Question Answering, Macquarie University
• Su Nam Kim (2008) Statistical modeling of multiword expressions, The University of Melbourne
• Simon Zwarts (2008) An Analysis of the Use of Syntax in Statistical Machine Translation, Macquarie University
• Jean-Philippe Prost (2008) Modelling Syntactic Gradience with Loose Constraint-based Parsing, Macquarie University
• Philip Blunsom (2007) Structured Classication for Multilingual Natural Language Processing, University of Melbourne
• Stephen Choularton (2007, In Submission), Early Stage Detection of Speech Recognition Errors, Macquarie University
• Rod Farmer (2007) A situated task analysis framework within the context of computer-assisted language learning system design, University of Melbourne
• Trevor Cohn (2006) Generalizing conditional random fields for natural language processing, University of Melbourne
• Scott Nowson (2006) The Language of Weblogs: A study of genre and individual differences , University of Edinburgh
• Corrin Lakeland (2005) Lexical Approaches to Backoff in Statistical Parsing, University of Otago
• Einat Amitay (2001), What Lays in the Layout: Using anchor-paragraph arrangements to extract descriptions of Web documents, Macquarie University
• Maria Milosavljevic (1999) The Automatic Generation of Comparisons in Descriptions of Entities, Macquarie University
• Mark Dras (1999) Tree Adjoining Grammar and the Reluctant Paraphrasing of Text, Macquarie University
• Diego Mollá Aliod (1997) Aspectual Composition and Sentence Interpretation: A formal approach, University of Edinburgh
• Mark Lauer (1995) Designing Statistical Language Learners: Experiments on Noun Compounds, Macquarie University
• Steve Cassidy (1993) A computer model of reading development, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Masters Theses

• Edward Ivanovic (2008) Automatic instant messaging dialogue using statistical models and dialogue acts, University of Melbourne
• Robert Marshall (2007) Improving the efficiency and capabilities of document structuring, University of Melbourne
• Rebecca Dridan (2006) Using Minimal Recursion Semantics in Japanese question answering, University of Melbourne
• David Penton (2006) XML technologies for modelling, exploring and visualizing linguistic data, University of Melbourne
• Catherine Lai (2006) A Formal Framework for Linguistic Tree Query, University of Melbourne
• Andrew Lampert (2005) Annotation of Speech Acts in Email, Macquarie University

PGDip Theses

• Meladel Mistica (2008) Towards the Utilisation of Information Structure to Predict Word Order in Tagalog, The University of Melbourne

Honours Theses

• Willy Yap (2007) Context-sensitive glossing of Japanese web pages, University of Melbourne
• Benjamin Goudey (2007) Gene identification and normalisation in biomedical texts, University of Melbourne
• Joseph Paterson (2007) Robust recognition in spoken dialogue systems, University of Melbourne
• Michael Yang (2007) Dynamically Detecting and Modelling the Visitor's Interests in a Museum Environment, University of Melbourne
• Aidan Furlan (2006) The Production of Meaningful Route Directions Using Landmark Extraction, University of Melbourne
• Karl Grieser (2006) Analysis and prediction of user behaviour in a museum environment, University of Melbourne
• Jeremy Nicholson (2005) Statistical Interpretation of Compound Nouns, University of Melbourne
• Andrew MacKinlay (2005) The Effects of Part-of-Speech Tagsets on Tagger Performance, University of Melbourne
• Charlotte Wilson (2004) Combining Part of Speech Induction and Morphological Induction, University of Melbourne
• Olivia March (2004) Natural language as an Agent Communication Language, University of Melbourne
• James Noble (2003) Spoken Emotion Recognition with Support Vector Machines, University of Melbourne
• Claire Taylor (2003) XSLT as a Linguistic Query Language, University of Melbourne