Phd Students

Phd Students

Lorna Balkan (balka[@]essex.ac.uk)

A treatment of Verb Phrase ellipsis for Machine Translation, University of Essex 1998.

Andy Way (away[@]ca.dcu.ie)

LFG-DOT: a hybrid architecture for robust MT, University of Essex 2001.

Frederik Fouvry (fouvry[@]CoLi.Uni-SB.DE)

Robust processing for constraint-based grammar formalisms University of Essex, 2003.

Yasu Kawata (ykawat[@]essex.ac.uk)

Tagsets for Morphosyntactic Corpus Annotation: the idea of a `reference tagset' for Japanese, University of Essex, 2005.

Maria Flouraki (maria.flouraki[@]gmail.com)

Aspect in Modern Greek: an HPSG Approach, University of Essex, 2005.

Evita Linardaki (elinaro[@]essex.ac.uk)

Linguistic and statistical extensions of Data Oriented Parsing University of Essex, 2006.

Miriam Urgelles (murgel[@]essex.ac.uk)

`Anyway' A Formal Approach to the Syntax and Semantics of Discourse Markers University of Essex, 2009.

Voula Ghotsoulia (vghotsoulia[@]yahoo.co.uk)

An Entailment-Based Approach to Semantic Role Annotation University of Essex, 2010.

Ahmad Alotaibi (asdalo[@]essex.ac.uk)

The Copula in Arabic: Description and Analysis University of Essex, 2017. (Joint supervision with Bob Borsley).

Tagreed Alzahrani (tahalz[@]essex.ac.uk)

Floating and Non-floating Quantifiers in Hijazi Arabic: an HPSG Analysis University of Essex, 2019. (Joint supervision with Bob Borsley).

Fatemah Alharthy (fmdalh[@]essex.ac.uk)

working on Masdar in Modern Standard, and South Western Arabic, in LFG. (joint supervision with Louisa Sadler).

There is much wisdom about the art of PhD supervision (or, as he calls it `Thesis Prevention') to be found in the thoughts of Father A Hacker (S.J.). More seriously, Gordon B. Davis's paper `Advising and Supervising Doctoral Students: Lessons I Have Learned' is well worth reading.

Phd Students