Nigel Collier

Cambridge, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Principal Research Associate at the University of Cambridge

Education

I am a Principal Research Associate in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute. My research is in the broad area of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics and brings together computational techniques such as machine learning, syntactic parsing and concept understanding with the aim of providing a machine-understandable semantic representation of text. This is used to support real-world tasks, e.g. question answering and knowledge discovery from very large scale data sources such as the World Wide Web. I work in close collaboration with colleagues from computer ...