Dr Peter Hancox

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Address: School of Computer Science   University of Birmingham   Edgbaston   Birmingham.     B15 2TT   United Kingdom.     Phone: +44 (0)121 414 4782 Fax: +44 (0)121 414 4281 Email: Admissions enquiries P.J.Hancox@bham.ac.uk     Personal timetable

Interests

I am a member of the Natural Language Processing Group. My PhD thesis was on limited machine translation. I have since worked on parsing Lexical Functional Grammar and have become interested in concurrent constraint processing solutions to NLP problems.

These two papers give a view of my interests:

• Parsing Lexical Functional Grammar
  Hancox, P. Lexical Functional Grammar constraints and concurrent constraint programming. In: AI and Cognitive Science '05: proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference, University of Ulster, Coleraine, 7-9 September 2005. Coleraine: University of Ulster, 2005. (ISBN 1-85923-197-7) pp 309-318.
• Coherence in discourse
  Smith, E. and Hancox, P. Representation, Coherence and Inference. Artificial Intelligence Review 15(4), June 2001, pp 295-323.

Research theses supervised

I have supervised a number of research students both at Birmingham and elsewhere:

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