Former Ph.D. Student
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Email: swier at cs dot toronto dot edu
Area: Computational Linguistics
Advisor: Suzanne Stevenson
Current webpage at Kindai University: Robert Swier
From 2002 to 2008, I was a Ph.D. student in the Computational Linguistics group of the University of Toronto Department of Computer Science. My research investigated methods for the unsupervised labeling of semantic roles in text using information about possible role assignments in a verb lexicon as a substitute for labelled training data. I am currently a Ph.D. student in computer-assisted language learning at Kyoto University in Japan, and a full-time, permanent member of the Faculty of Literature, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Kindai University in Osaka, Japan.
Publications based on my work at the University of Toronto:
Robert S. Swier and Suzanne Stevenson, Exploiting a Verb Lexicon in Automatic Semantic Role Labelling. Proceedings of the Joint Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP-05). Vancouver, British Columbia, October, 2005. PDF
Robert S. Swier and Suzanne Stevenson, Unsupervised Semantic Role Labelling. Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2004), pp. 95-102, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. PDF