Professor Rob Gaizauskas
BA, MA, DPhil
School of Computer Science
Professor of Natural Language Processing
Co-Director of CDT in Speech and Language Technologies
Member of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) research group


Full contact details
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Rob Gaizauskas studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Toronto from 1972-74, then moved to Carleton University in Ottawa where he received an Honours BA in Philosophy in 1975 and an MA in Philosophy (with distinction) in 1978. Following two years teaching Logic as a temporary lecturer at Carleton he obtained a Diploma in Information Processing from Algonquin College, Ottawa, in 1981.
He then worked for several software companies in Ottawa, including Domus Software, Nabu Technologies, and Fulcrum Technologies (now part of Hummingbird), before moving to the U.K. in 1985, thanks to a Canadian SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and British Council ORS award, to study for a DPhil in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (now the Department of Informatics) at the University of Sussex.
He received his MA in Cognitive Studies in 1986 and was awarded his DPhil in 1992. During 1989 he lectured in Artificial Intelligence at Sussex. From 1990 to 1993 he worked as a Research Associate at the University of Sussex.
In 1993 he became a Lecturer in the Natural Language Processing Group of the Department of Computer Science, 91Ö±²¥ University, became a Reader in Computer Science in the same group in 1999, and a Professor in 2002.
- Research interests
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Rob's research interests are in natural language processing, specifically in information extraction from natural language texts, software architectures for natural language processing and evaluation of language processing systems.
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Working papers
Preprints
- Grants
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Current grants
- , EPSRC, 04/2019 - 09/2027, £5,508,850, as Co-PI
Previous grants
- A Multimodal Speech and Graphical Interface for Hands-free Data Capture and Querying in MRO: Connecting Workers to Enterprise Information Systems, EPSRC & Research England, 07/2019 - 03/2021, £85,009, as PI
- Investigating Spoken Dialogue to Support Manufacturing Processes, ESPRC, 03/2017 - 06/2018, £63,502, as PI
- SENSEI: Building the business case, 91Ö±²¥,12/2016 - 03/2017, £8,541, as PI
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Healtex: , EPSRC, 05/2016 -02/2020, £340,240, as Co-PI
- SENSEI: , EC FP7, 11/2013 - 10/2016, £459,034, as PI
- VisualSense: , EPSRC, 01/2013 - 06/2016, £310,677, as PI
- , EPSRC, 06/2012 - 05/2015, £293,127, as Co-PI
- TAAS: Terminology As A Service, EC FP7, 06/2012 - 05/2014, £268,032, as PI
- ACCURAT: , EC FP7, 01/2010 - 06/2012, £353,265, as PI
- , EPSRC, 02/2007 - 01/2010, £239,920, as Co-PI
- Cronopath: Timeline and named entity extraction for hyperlink corpora, EPSRC, 07/2005 - 12/2007, £294,632, as Co-PI
- Real-time Text Mining for the Biomedical Literature: a collaboration between DiscoveryNet & myGrid, EPSRC, 03/2005 - 02/2006, £56,588, as PI
- CLEF-Services, MRC, 01/2005 - 06/2008, £430,221, as PI
- VIKEF: Virtual Information and Knowledge Environment Framework, EC FP6, 04/2004 - 03/2007, £200,020, as PI
- Electronic cub-reporter: automatically gathering and collating background information from digital text, EPSRC, 01/2003 - 06/2006, £307,973, as PI
- MYGRID: Directly Supporting the E-Scientist, MRC, 10/2001 - 06/2005, £320,206, as PI
- CLEF: Clinical E-Science Framework, MRC, 10/2002 - 01/2006, £280,725, as PI
- CLARITY: , EC FP6, 02/2001 - 01/2004, £469,576, as PI
- , EPSRC, 06/2000 - 09/2003, £35,859, as PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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Head of Natural Language Processing (NLP) research group