About

Nigel’s main research interests span core work on machine learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP). He is active in the areas of Information Extraction and Text Mining, Social Media, Textual Inference, Generation and Real-World Applications. He has experience in applications for the life sciences (including global public health) and finance.

He joined the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics in 2015 as Director of Research in Computational Linguistics and is currently both a University Lecturer and an EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow. He has a joint affiliation with the Alan Turing Institute for data science and artificial intelligence where he holds a fellowship. From 2012 to 2014 he was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge and prior to this an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo where he led the NLP laboratory.  He received his doctorate from the University of Manchester in 1996 and held post-doctoral positions at Toshiba Corporation and the University of Tokyo. His research has been funded by UK, EU and Japanese research councils (JSPS, JST, FP7, EPSRC, MRC).

Research

• Information Extraction and Text Mining
• Integration of Text and Knowledge Graph
• Social Media
• Fact Verification
• Textual Inference
• Text Generation
• NLP for Real-World Application