A brief history of Chris
- I don't normally start out talks with a history of me page, but..
- I got my PhD from Michigan in 1994. (I worked with Steve Lytinen,
Bill Rounds, John Laird and Steve Kaplan.)
- While at Michigan I worked on MUC-4 and MUC-5.
- My thesis was on Plink: A Practical System for Human-Like
Parsing (Huyck-2000 ECAI).
- I taught at the American University of Cairo for two years
with the first summer here at Sheffield.
- I then moved to England and did a year's post-doc here at Sheffield.
- I then went to Middlesex (98) where I'm now the Reader in AI.
- One of the problems that Plink had was resolving PP-attachment
ambiguities.
- I thought of a way to resolve them (using a corpus, wordnet and
some machine learning), but thought that would only get 90% or so
of them. (We just implemented that solution and it gets the best
results around (Nadh and Huyck 2009).)
- From Kaplan, I knew about CAs, and thought I'd just use someone's
work on this for learning and solve the PP-attachment problem "the
way people do".
- I did that, but it's taken me more than 10 years.
