Month: January 2016

School Seminar ‘Paraphrase Generation from Latent-Variable PCFGs for Semantic Parsing’ by Shashi Narayan

Abstract: One of the limitations of semantic parsing approaches to open-domain question answering is the lexicosyntactic gap between natural language questions and knowledge base entries — there are many ways to ask a question, all with the same answer. In this paper we propose to bridge this gap by generating paraphrases to the input question … School Seminar ‘Paraphrase Generation from Latent-Variable PCFGs for Semantic Parsing’ by Shashi Narayan

PhD Viva Success: Jakub Dostal

Congratulations to Jakub Dostal, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured below celebrating with supervisor Professor Aaron Quigley, internal examiner Dr Miguel Nacenta and external examiner Dr Keith Cheverst from the University of Lancaster.

PhD Reading Party 2015

The 2015 PhD Reading Party was held at the Burn, a Georgian Mansion at the foot of Glenesk in the North East of Scotland in December last year. It was an opportunity for research students to network, brainstorm and talk about their research and interests with colleagues in a relaxed atmosphere. There were twenty-two (22) … PhD Reading Party 2015

School Seminar: ‘Probabilistic Formal Analysis of App Usage to Inform Redesign’ by Oana Andrei

The School of Computer Science are delighted to welcome Dr Oana Andrei, from the University of Glasgow, to give her talk on Probabilistic Formal Analysis of App Usage to Inform Redesign. Abstract: Good design of mobile apps is challenging because users are seldom homogeneous or predictable in the ways they navigate around and use the … School Seminar: ‘Probabilistic Formal Analysis of App Usage to Inform Redesign’ by Oana Andrei

Funded PhD Research Studentships Closing Date 12th February

The School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews has funding for students to undertake PhD research in any of the general research areas in the school: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/research We are looking for highly motivated research students with an interest in these exciting research areas. Our only requirements are that the proposed research would … Funded PhD Research Studentships Closing Date 12th February

Seminar: “Data Exploration on Smart watches” by Dr Rachel Menzies

Abstract: For many of us, interacting with data on mobile devices such as phones and tablets is commonplace in our lives, e.g. phone call data, TV guide, maps, fitness and wearable data. With the introduction of smart watches, the screen size of mobile devices has dramatically decreased. This reduction in screen real estate provides challenges … Seminar: “Data Exploration on Smart watches” by Dr Rachel Menzies