 Nadjet Bouayad-Agha PhD student 1997-2001 Graduated September 2001 |
I came to ITRI after finishing a master degree at a parisian university
in computational linguistics. I had done my master's thesis in Natural
Language Generation (NLG) and wanted to carry on doing a PhD. So when I
saw this ad for a research officer in the ICONOCLAST project at ITRI, to
work on NLG, in a reputable NLG team, and with the possibility of doing
a PhD at the same time, I did not think twice. I found the work
environment very stimulating, with people coming from different areas,
backgrounds and countries. Students are encouraged to lead an active
research life, giving seminars, submitting to conferences and
collaborating in projects. My PhD research focused on one of my topics
of predilection in NLG, text planning, and explored the issues and
implications for generating laid-out documents. Although my first
contact with Brighton was a rainy day in late winter, I since then had
the opportunity to sample many of its charms. And god did I have a
fantastic time!...
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 Ling Yin PhD Student 2002- |
Hi, I am Yin, Ling, a first-year PhD student at ITRI. Before coming to the UK, I studied in Shanghai for nearly seven years and got my master degree for computer science and engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in March, 2002. SJTU is one of the oldest universities in China, and it is famous for science and technology. Because of the cooperation between SJTU and the German Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DFKI), I also got a chance to practice at DFKI for half a year in 2001.
I took a long journey from China to Brighton last summer, this was the first time I'd been to England. For me, life in England is not as difficult as I imagined. ITRI has an international atmosphere with people from many different countries, and they are all ready to help anytime you have problems. The research work I have done before are mainly in the area of Computational Linguistics. My master thesis work focuses on the research about Chinese Semantic Analysis. Apart from that, I also had some experiences in Natural Language Generation (NLG). Now I am mainly engaged in the research about Knowledge Representation, Ontology, the Semantic Web and Information Retrieval, etc. If you are also interested in these topics and want to find somebody for discussion, I am enthusiastic about it.
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 Ivandre Paraboni PhD Student 1998-2003 |
I heard about ITRI many years ago, probably around 1996, while I was
still doing my MSc on computational linguistics in Brazil. At that time
I was already interested in Natural Language Generation, which is one of the main research
fields at ITRI.
I joined ITRI in 1998 to pursue my PhD degree (now nearly finished!), focusing on the generation of referring expressions, and I strongly recommend ITRI to anyone interested in computational linguistics. The number and quality of research projects in the field is impressive, and the study environment is second to none. The group is small and friendly, with members from all corners of the world and various research interests. This is the type of place where people really come out of their way to help you, to discuss any matter you might be interested in, or simply to chat over a cup of coffee. Living in Brighton has also been a pleasant experience. Brighton is a
small but vibrant seaside town, with a somewhat 'continental' atmosphere
and great summers.
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 Marina Santini PhD Student 2002- |
I come from a nice area 20 km south of Rome, Castelli Romani , and am now enjoying the brackish air of Brighton, a lively Regency-style town on the south coast of England, surrounded by green rolling downs and overlooking The Channel.
I used to work as a software localizer (I have a degree in Translation and another one in History of the Italian Language), but being strongly attracted by research, finally I made up my mind and went back into the academic world to start a new track in my life. I first got a Master's Degree in Natural Language Processing at UMIST (Manchester, UK) and am now a PhD student at ITRI (Information Technology Research Institute) at the University of Brighton (UK). Life at ITRI is quite exciting for a research student: we can access a number of libraries and good library services, interesting seminars |
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 Jon Herring PhD Student 1999- I came to ITRI in 1999 after I had been studying Basque morphology at the University of Sussex. I already knew a lot about the work of my future supervisors: a paper by Lynne Cahill on "inflectional phonology" was the thing that had caught my imagination and got me interested in NLP many years before when I was doing my MA. And I had started using DATR, the lexical knowledge representation language built by Roger Evans and Gerald Gazdar, in my Basque project. So it was to work with them that I came here.
| ITRI is large enough to mean that there is a lot of diverse research going on, but small enough that you get lots of help and attention at all stages of your PhD. You get an amazing learning environment and your own work space, something that is quite rare for postgrad students. Plus it's in Brighton (probably the best city in the UK to live, and believe me I've lived in a lot of places). |
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