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
Sheffield
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, Sheffield 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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- Grants
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Current grants
- UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications, 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, The University of Sheffield,12/2016 - 03/2017, £8,541, as PI
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Healtex: UK Healthcare Text Analytics Research Network, EPSRC, 05/2016 -02/2020, £340,240, as Co-PI
- SENSEI: Making Sense of Human - Human Conversation, EC FP7, 11/2013 - 10/2016, £459,034, as PI
- VisualSense: Tagging visual data with semantic descriptions, EPSRC, 01/2013 - 06/2016, £310,677, as PI
- Language Processing for Literature Based Discovery in Medicine, 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: Analysis and evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of machine Translation, EC FP7, 01/2010 - 06/2012, £353,265, as PI
- Lexical Disambiguation for the Biomedical Domain, 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: Cross language information retrieval and organisation of text and audio documents, EC FP6, 02/2001 - 01/2004, £469,576, as PI
- Emille: Enabling minority language engineering, 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