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T. Mark Ellison
B.Sc.(Hons) in Pure Mathematics: University of Sydney
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Linguistics: University of
Western Australia
Diploma in Polish Language and Culture: Jagiellonian
University in Krakow
Honorary Research Fellow
Linguistics, School of Humanities (M258)
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley, WA 6009
Telephone +61 8 6488 2862
Fax +61 8 6488 1157
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Research Interests
My research interests centre around computational linguistics. At the
moment I am focussed on the application of computational and Bayesian
methods to identifying language relatedness and doing comparative
reconstruction. My doctoral dissertation developed machine-learning
methods for discovering phonological features of languages from lists
of words. While an RA then lecturer at Edinburgh, I became involved in
both the computational phonology and the machine learning of language
research communities, participating in founding ACL special interest
groups, and organising workshops for both groups. In 2003 these two
streams of interest converged on computational historical linguistics,
leading to a paper at ACL in 2006 and a workshop on computational
historical phonology at the following ACL.
Specifically, my interests in computational historical linguistics are:
* testing language relatedness claims using Bayes' theorem,
* using the same theorem to automate comparative reconstruction,
* simulating with language change and geographical variation with iterated learning models.
Outside of this area, my interests include: ontologies and markup for
machine-readable Buddhist texts, the philosophical problem of
induction, and non-dualistic reasoning.
Publications (from 2000)
2007 T. Mark Ellison. Bayesian Identification of Cognates and
Correspondences. In Computing and Historical Phonology: Proceedings of the
Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational
Morphology and Phonology, pp 15-22, Prague.
2007 John Nerbonne, T. Mark Ellison and Grzegorz Kondrak (eds).
Computing and Historical Phonology: Proceedings of the Ninth Meeting of
the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and
Phonology, Prague.
2006 T. Mark Ellison and Simon Kirby. Measuring Language Divergence by
Intra-Lexical Comparison. Proceedings of CoLing/ACL 2006, pp 273-80,
Sydney.
2001 T. Mark Ellison and Ewan Klein,.The Best of all Possible Words, Journal of Linguistics 37:127-143 (Review Article).
2001
T. Mark Ellison. Induction and inherent similarity. Chapter in Ulrike
Hahn and Martin C. Ramscar (eds), Similarity and Categorization. Oxford
University Press, Oxford.
2000 Richard Shillcock and T. Mark Ellison and Padraig Monaghan.
Eye-fixation behaviour, lexical storage and visual word recognition in
a split processing model. Psychological Review 107:824-851.
2000 T.
Mark Ellison. The Universal Constraint Set: Convention not Fact.
Chapter in Joost Dekkers et al., Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax,
and Acquisition. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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