Contact Details:
Phone Number : +353 1 700 5263
Fax Number : +353 1 700 5442
Room: L2.16
Email Address : jfoster at computing dot dcu dot ie
Postal Address: National Centre for Language Technology, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland.
Research Interests:
- Robust Statistical Parsing, Parser Domain Adaptation, Parser Evaluation
- Applications of Parsing (Grammatical Error Detection, Sentiment Analysis, Machine Translation)
- Grammaticality Judgements and Linguistic Evidence
- NLP for the Irish language
Research Projects
- November 2011-November 2014: Confident MT. An IRCSET/Symantec co-funded Enterprise Partnership project.
- March 2008-March 2011: LORG: Language-Oriented Retrieval and Generation. An Enterprise Ireland-funded project.
- March 2006-March 2008: Error-Aware Probabilistic Parsing: Detecting and Correctly Parsing Ungrammatical Sentences in English. An IRCSET-funded project.