M.Sc. Ph.D. Student,
Department of
Computer Science,
University of Toronto
Area: Computational
Linguistics
Supervisor: Suzanne
Stevenson
Contact Info
Paul Cook
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
10 King's College Rd.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4
Canada
email: pcook at cs dot toronto dot edu
Research Interests
Publications
(Here are BibTex entries for my publications)
Forthcoming
Afsaneh Fazly, Paul Cook, and Suzanne Stevenson. Unsupervised type and
token identification of idiomatic expressions, accepted for publication
in Computational Linguistics.
2008
Paul Cook, Afsaneh Fazly, and Suzanne Stevenson. 2008. The VNC-Tokens
dataset. To appear in Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Towards
a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions (MWE 2008), Marrakech,
Morocco, June. .pdf
The VNC-Tokens dataset is available from the Multiword Expressions Web.
2007
Paul Cook and Suzanne Stevenson. 2007. Automagically
inferring the source words of lexical blends. In Proceedings of
the 10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational
Linguistics (PACLING 2007), pages 289–297, Melbourne,
Australia, September. .pdf
Paul Cook, Afsaneh Fazly, and Suzanne Stevenson. 2007. Pulling their weight: Exploiting syntactic forms for the automatic identification of idiomatic expressions in context. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on A Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2007), pages 41–48, Prague, Czech Republic, June. .pdf
2006
Paul Cook. 2006. Automatically Classifying English Verb-Particle Constructions by Particle Semantics. M.Sc. thesis, University of Toronto, August. .pdf
Paul Cook and Suzanne Stevenson. 2006. Classifying particle semantics in English verb-particle constructions. In Proceedings of the ACL/COLING Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties (MWE 2006), pages 45–53. Sydney, Australia, July. .pdf
Recent TA Activities
CSC108 Winter, 2008 with Karen Reid
CSC120 Winter, 2008 with Jennifer Campbell
CSC2501/485 Fall, 2007 with Graeme Hirst
CSCB07 Summer, 2007 (at UTSC) with Michael Szamosi
In April, 2005 I completed my
TATP certificate
Linguistic facts about Paul
My name (C. Paul Cook) is a sentence.
My favourite words are ygology (the study of palindromes) and
gnar (a clipped form of gnarly) when used as a verb.
I am a big fan of Canadian English.
Places to spot Paul when he's not in his office
At home in Queen West
Longboarding, perhaps at a session organized on the Ontario Longboarding Forum
Surfing Lake Ontario (You can surf the
Great Lakes, just watch various
weather forecasts)
Snowboarding, probably at Blue Mountain
Drinking coffee at I Deal Coffee
Enjoying a pint of Saint
Andre at the Done Right Inn
