Ph.D. candidate, Computational Linguistics ,
Department of
Computer Science,
University of Toronto
Supervisor: Suzanne
Stevenson
Contact Info
Paul Cook
Department of Computer Science
10 King's College Road, Rm. 3302
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4 CANADA
email: pcook at cs dot toronto dot edu
Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity 2010 (CALC-10)
I am co-organizing the HLT
NAACL 2010 workshop Computational
Approaches to Linguistic Creativity (in collaboration
with Anna
Feldman). More details about this workshop will be available
soon. (The call for papers will be out no later than 18 December.) In
the meantime, check
out last year's
workshop, CALC-09.
Job Hunt
I am expecting to complete my Ph.D. in summer, 2010, and am looking
for a faculty or postdoc position starting in fall, 2010. Although I
am primarily interested in an academic career, I am also open to
interesting opportunities in industry.
CV
Research statement
Teaching statement
Research Interests
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. (Contact me if you're interested in a pre-publication draft of this paper.)
2009
Paul Cook and Suzanne Stevenson. 2009. 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. 2009. 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), pages 19–22, 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
CSC 108 Fall, 2009 with Diane Horton
CSC300 Winter, 2009 with Danny Heap
CSC108 Fall, 2008 with Jennifer Campbell
In April, 2005 I completed my
TATP certificate
Places to spot Paul when he's not in his office
At home in West Queen West
Hanging out with Hannah
Drinking coffee at I Deal Coffee or The Common