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Ken Barker

Office:

Taylor 4.115B

Email:

kbarker@cs.utexas.edu

Homepage:

cs.utexas.edu/users/kbarker/

Research Interests

My research interests are primarily in natural language processing: specifically, in the relationship between natural language semantics and linguistic structure. My current research applies principles of computational lexical semantics to simplify the composition of large knowledge bases.

Projects

Knowledge Based Systems Research Group

Rapid Knowledge Formation: The goal of this project is to develop methods to build knowledge bases quickly without relying on experienced knowledge engineers to do the work.

Selected Publications

Using Noun Phrase Heads to Extract Document Keyphrases

A Trainable Bracketer for Noun Modifiers

Semi-Automatic Recognition of Noun Modifier Relationships