User:E.s.atwell

My current research group focus is Artificial Intelligence for understanding the Quran.

I have been a Lecturer then Senior Lecturer then Associate Professor at the University of Leeds for over 30 years, with breaks for secondments including SERC Advanced Research Fellowship; MoD Senior Research Fellowship; JISC National Coordinator for the Knowledge Based Systems Initiative; JISC-NTI National Coordinator for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech; and visiting scholarships at Universities of Dublin City, King Saud in Riyadh, Manchester, Nijmegen, Sheffield, SUST in Khartoum, Tilburg. My research background is in Corpus-based natural language engineering, English and Arabic Corpus linguistics and NLP, Part-of-Speech grammatical tagging, NLP for language learning, NLP for understanding the Quran. I have run a range of research projects, funded by EU, EPSRC, ESRC, HEFC, MoD, SERC, BriSMES, and other sources. I have (co-)authored over 300 publications, and supervised c30 successful PhD graduates. I have taught NLP, text analytics, data mining, knowledge based systems, professional development, computational modelling, corpus linguistics, etc. I am autistic, and am carer for disabled wife and son, so being away from Leeds can be challenging; nevertheless I enjoy travel when feasible, and discovering interesting people and places.