CURRENT STUDENTS

PhD Students

Andy Chiu
Thesis topic: Automated ontology learning
Co-supervised with Pascal Poupart (Computer Science)

Kelly Itakura
Thesis topic: Pragmatics in conversational information retrieval
Co-supervised with Charles Clarke (Computer Science)

Fred Kroon
Thesis title: Mapping scientific communities using citation analysis
Co-supervised with Paul Thagard (Philosophy)

Claus Spitzer
Thesis topic: Real-time repair in Natural Language Generation

John Whissell
Co-supervised with Charles Clarke (Computer Science)

MMath Students

Xiaofen He
Thesis title: Using lexical chaining as a basis to rank the biological validity of protein-protein interactions

David Hirtle

Nicholas Miller

Radoslav Radoulov
Co-supervised with Pascal Poupart (Computer Science)

Jianan Wang

Undergraduate Students (past and present)

Mary Ellen Foster (HealthDocI Project, Edinburgh PhD 2005)

Jon Litchfield (HealthDocI Project)

John Wilkinson (HealthDocI Project)

PREVIOUS STUDENTS

Year of Completion

2006

Andy Chiu (MMath)
Thesis title: From electrons to planets: Discover Lexical analogies from natural language text
Co-supervised with Pascal Poupart (Computer Science)

Matthew Enss (MMath)
Thesis title: An investigation of word sense disambiguation for improving lexical chaining

John Whissell (MMath)
Thesis title: Significant feature clustering
Co-supervised with Charles Clarke (Computer Science)

Aaron Scriver (MMath)
Thesis title: An investigation of lexical semantic relatedness in semantic networks

2005

Cathy Yang (MMath)
Thesis title: Design of a knowledge acquisition tool using a constructivist approach for creating tailorable patient education materials
Co-supervised with Dominic Covvey (Faculty of Science)

2002

Alfred Renaud (MMath)
Thesis title: Diagnostic evaluation measures for improving performance of word prediction systems

1999

Steven Banks (MMath)
Thesis title: English to sentence plan translation using subsumption on stylistic abstraction

1997

Kimberley Parsons (MMath)
Thesis title: An authoring tool for customizable documents
Co-supervised with Graeme Hirst (Computer Science, Toronto)

Susan Williams (MMath)
Thesis title: Constituent ordering in natural language generation: Ordering of adverbials

Bruce Jakeway (MMath)
Thesis title: SPLAT: A sentence plan authoring tool for natural language generation

1994

Toby Donaldson (MMath)
Thesis title: Constraining focus of attention through domain and user modelling in natural language report generation

1993

David Sugar (MMath)
Thesis title: An adaptive medical natural language parser

Patricia A. Hoyt (MMath)
Thesis title: A goal-directed functionally-based stylistic analyzer

1992

Stephen J. Green (MMath)
Thesis title: A functional theory of style for natural language generation

Cameron Shelley (MMath)
Thesis title: Speech acts and pragmatics in sentence generation

Nadia BenHassine (MMath)
Thesis title: A formal approach to controlling style in generation

1991

Marzena Makuta-Giluk (MMath)
Thesis title: A computational rhetoric for syntactic aspects of text
University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics Technical Report CS-91-54,
October 1991.

Keith Mah (MMath)
Thesis title: Comparative stylistics in an integrated machine translation system
University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics Technical Report CS-91-67,
October 1991.

Graduate Students