IBM fellowships
20 August 2004

Dr Andy Way, Dr Josef van Genabith (joint supervisors), Mick Burke (postgraduate student), Brian O'Donovan (IBM)

Mick Burke, a PhD student at the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) in the School of Computing, has been awarded a prestigious IBM Fellowship Award which will fund his research for one year from October 2005.

These awards are very competitive and are highly sought after. Mick is co-supervised by Josef Van Genabith and Andy Way in the area of automatic annotation of treebanks with grammatical information which is the extraction of dictionary entries and grammar rules from large collection of texts for natural language understanding; a computer can interpret the fundamental workings of a language. This is the second year in a row that students in the NCLT have received one of these awards, following the success last year of Nano Gough (also supervised by Andy).