About
I am a Senior Researcher in the Natural Language Processing group
of the Department of Computer
Science, at the University of
Sheffield.
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Education
| Degree |
Subject |
Institution |
| PhD |
Portable Information Extraction |
University of Sheffield, UK (2010) |
| MSc |
Parallel and Distributed Computing |
University of Iasi, Romania (1999) |
| BSc |
Computer Science |
University of Iasi, Romania (1998) |
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Research
I am a member of the GATE team
since 1999. The main projects that I worked on include:
| Project |
Contribution |
| GATE |
- implementation of most of the ANNIE
components;
- design and implementation of large chunks of the GATE
Developer user interface;
- implementation of the JAPE execution
environment;
- training materials for the programming track of GATE training
events;
- general stewardship of the project, together with my
colleagues in the GATE core
team.
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| Multiflora |
Development of an Information Extraction system that can
identify relevant entities (plant species, parts, organs,
descriptions, etc.) in botanical texts. |
| GATE/ETCSL |
Development of a system for morphological analysis of
Sumerian literary text. |
| EMILLE |
Unicode-aware tools for corpus management. Unicode
support in GATE for Indic languages. |
| PrestoSpace |
Contributions to the design and implementation of an
Information Extraction system used to semantically annotate
transcripts of news broadcasts. Project management. |
| MediaCampaign |
Contributions to the design and implementation of a
semantic annotation system for multimedia material (TV, press, and
Internet adverts). Project management. |
| OLLIE |
A very rough first prototype of what went on to become GATE Teamware. |
Mímir
(a multi-paradigm index for text, annotations, and semantics) |
System design, system implementation (together with Ian
Roberts, Niraj Aswani, and with some help from Sebastiano Vigna). |
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Publications
You can get a list of my publications on the
departmental
publications server. If you prefer, you can also browse the
publications of the entire GATE team, which
include most of my own. |
Contact
If you require help with GATE, please visit our support page, which
explains how to search the mailling list archives, and how to join the
gate-users mailing list, where you can get help!
| Postal Address: |
University of Sheffield
Department of Coputer Science
Regent Court, 211 Portobello
S1 4DP, Sheffield
United Kingdom
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| Email: |
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| Personal Website |
http://valentin.tablan.net |
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