JoelNothman.com

Joel Nothman is currently a PhD student at the University of Sydney’s School of IT under the supervision of James Curran in Schwa Lab (see my page there).

In 2008, I completed an undergraduate B.Sc. (adv) in Computer Science receiving First Class Honours and University Medal, as well as a B.A. with majors in Linguistics and Classical Hebrew.

My research interests in Computational Linguistics include:

• novel sources of computational-linguistic data
• semi-supervised acquisition of lexical-semantic resources
• harnessing Wikipedia and related resources (for linguistic knowledge, not just world knowledge)
• (domain-adaptive) information extraction
• methods of corpus comparison
• machine learning: joint models; semi-supervised approaches
• tokenization, multi-word expressions, named entities, compound-noun structure

Demos and downloads

See:

• Resources related to Wikipedia to NER

Publications

• [2009,inproceedings] bibtex
  J. Nothman, T. Murphy, and J. R. Curran, "Analysing Wikipedia and Gold Standard Corpora for NER Training," in Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009.
  @INPROCEEDINGS{Nothman2009,
  author = {Joel Nothman and Tara Murphy and James R. Curran},
  title = {Analysing {Wikipedia} and Gold Standard Corpora for {NER} Training},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2009},
  url = {http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/E/E09/E09-1070.pdf},
  }
• [2009,inproceedings] bibtex
  M. Honnibal, J. Nothman, and J. R. Curran, "Evaluating a Statistical CCG Parser on Wikipedia," in Proceedings of the Workshop on the People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, 2009.
  @INPROCEEDINGS{Honnibal2009,
  author = {Matthew Honnibal and Joel Nothman and James R. Curran},
  title = {Evaluating a Statistical CCG Parser on Wikipedia},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on the People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources},
  url = {http://www.joelnothman.com/downloads/PeoplesWeb06.pdf},
  year = {2009}
}
• [2009,inproceedings] bibtex
  D. Balasuriya, N. Ringland, J. Nothman, T. Murphy, and J. R. Curran, "Named Entity Recognition in Wikipedia," in Proceedings of the Workshop on the People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, 2009.
  @INPROCEEDINGS{Balasuriya2009,
  author = {Dominic Balasuriya and Nicky Ringland and Joel Nothman and Tara Murphy and James R. Curran},
  title = {Named Entity Recognition in Wikipedia},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on the People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources},
  url = {http://www.joelnothman.com/downloads/PeoplesWeb02.pdf},
  year = {2009}
}
• [2009,inproceedings] bibtex
  N. Ringland, J. Nothman, T. Murphy, and J. R. Curran, "Classifying articles in English and German Wikipedia," in Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop, Sydney, Australia, 2009, pp. 20-28.
  @INPROCEEDINGS{Ringland2009,
  author = {Nicky Ringland and Joel Nothman and Tara Murphy and James R Curran},
  title = {Classifying articles in {English} and {German} {Wikipedia}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop},
  year = {2009},
  pages = {20--28},
  address = {Sydney, Australia},
  month = {December},
  url = {http://www.alta.asn.au/events/alta2009/pdf/ALTA2009_03.pdf}
}
• [2008,inproceedings] bibtex
  J. Nothman, J. R. Curran, and T. Murphy, "Transforming Wikipedia into Named Entity Training Data," in Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop, 2008.
  @INPROCEEDINGS{Nothman2008,
  author = {Joel Nothman and James R. Curran and Tara Murphy},
  title = {Transforming {Wikipedia} into Named Entity Training Data},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop},
  year = {2008},
  url = {http://www.alta.asn.au/events/alta2008/proceedings/pdf/ALTA2008_16.pdf},
  }
• [2008,thesis] bibtex
  J. Nothman, "Learning Named Entity Recognition from Wikipedia," Honours Thesis , School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, 2008.
  @thesis{Nothman2008thesis,
  author = {Joel Nothman},
  title = {Learning Named Entity Recognition from {Wikipedia}},
  year = {2008},
  url = {http://www.joelnothman.com/downloads/honsthesis.pdf},
  type = {Honours Thesis},
  institution = {School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney},
  }
• [2005,inproceedings] bibtex
  B. Hughes, J. Haggerty, J. Nothman, S. Manickam, and J. Curran, "A Distributed Architecture for Interactive Parse Annotation," in Proceedings of the Australian Language Technology Workshop, 2005.
  @INPROCEEDINGS{Hughes2005,
  author = {Hughes, Baden and Haggerty, James and Nothman, Joel and Manickam, Saritha and Curran, James},
  title = {A Distributed Architecture for Interactive Parse Annotation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Australian Language Technology Workshop},
  year = {2005},
  url = {http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2005/cdrom/pdf/ALTA200529.pdf}
}