C. Paul Cook

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M.Sc. Ph.D. Student, Computational Linguistics , Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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

Conferences
EMNLP

Funding
My research is financially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Dictionary Society of North America.

Publications
(Here are BibTex entries for my publications)

Forthcoming
Paul Cook and Suzanne Stevenson. Automatically Identifying the Source Words of Lexical Blends in English. To appear in Computational Linguistics.

2009
Paul Cook and Suzanne Stevenson. An Unsupervised Model for Text Message Normalization. In Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity, pages 71–78, Boulder, Colorado, June. .pdf

Afsaneh Fazly, Paul Cook, and Suzanne Stevenson. Unsupervised type and token identification of idiomatic expressions. Computational Linguistics 35:1, 61–103. .pdf

2008
Paul Cook, Afsaneh Fazly, and Suzanne Stevenson. 2008. The VNC-Tokens dataset. In Proceedings of the LREC Workshop: 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
CSC300 Winter, 2009 with Danny Heap
CSC108 Fall, 2008 with Jennifer Campbell
Computing Insights Summer, 2008 with Noah Lockwood

In April, 2005 I completed my TATP certificate

Places to spot Paul when he's not in his office
At home at Dundas and Ossington
Hanging out with Hannah.
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)
Drinking coffee at I Deal Coffee or The Common