Welcome
Hi and welcome to my academic home page. I am a research student in the Computing Department at Lancaster University. I started reading for a PhD in October 2006, supervised by Dr. Paul Rayson and Dr. Chris Paice.
My main research interest centres around the problem of spelling variation in historical corpora (particularly Early Modern English) when using automatic corpus linguistic tools. My research so far has resulted in the production of an interactive piece of software named VARD 2. This tool uses methods from modern spell checkers, such as edit distance algorithms, phonetic matching techniques and letter replacement heuristics, to find candidate replacements for spelling variants found within historical texts.
The immediate future plans for my research include:
- Improving the precision of the VARD 2 software through specializing modern spell checking techniques.
- Further analysis of the impact of spelling variation on automatic corpus linguistic tools.
- The evaluation of the VARD 2 tool's usability and accuracy.
My publications already include several papers and presentations as well as a co-authored book.
If you'd like to contact me about any matter my details are in the contact section.
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