Elena Akhmatova [Ph.D Student, MSc Computational Linguistics, 2001, St. Petersburg, Russia] Question answering systems.

Ilya Anisimoff [Honours Student; BSc Linguistics & Computing, 2005, Macquarie U] Negotiation over referring expressions.

Steve Cassidy [Faculty Member; PhD Computer Science, 1993, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ] Linguistic annotation, speech technology systems, acoustic phonetics.

Stephen Choularton [PhD Student; BSc Hons Computer Science, 2002, Macquarie U] Spoken language dialogue systems looking particularly at dialogue management.

Robert Dale [Centre Director; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1988, U Edinburgh, UK] Natural language generation, reference and anaphora, intelligent text processing, information extraction, automated grammar and style checking, the semantics of typography, spoken language dialogue systems.

Mark Dras [Faculty Member; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1999, Macquarie U] Theory and applications of language transformations, including machine translation and paraphrasing, mathematical properties of pairings of languages, and computational simulations of language evolution.

Frederic Ehrler [PhD student, MSc Computer Science, 2003, University of Geneva, Switzerland] Text categorization, Information Retrieval

Dominique Estival Honorary Associate, Appen; PhD Linguistics, 1986, U of Pennsylvania, USA] Grammar formalisms for language processing, linguistic engineering development environments - including evaluation -, machine translation, spoken language dialogue systems, formalisation of linguistic information for language processing.

Tanja Gaustad van Zaanen [Visiting Researcher; PhD Computational Linguistics, 2004, Groningen U, The Netherlands] Word sense disambiguation, lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, text classification, machine learning, statistical methods in computational linguistics.

Andrew Lampert [PhD Student; BSc (Maths) and BEng Hons (Software), 2001, University of Melbourne; MSc (Speech and Language Processing), 2006, Macquarie U] Patterns of conversation in textual discourse, email summarisation, speech act classification, context-aware information delivery.

Mark Lauer [Honorary Associate; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1996, Macquarie U] Statistical language learning, probabilistic models of language, semantic expectations, noun compounds.

Vanessa Long [PhD Student; BSc Honours With Distinction, 1999, University of Victoria, Canada] Natural language processing, dialogue systems based on tables, design and development of speech technology systems.

Pawel Mazur [PhD Student; MSc in Computer Science, 2004, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland] Named entity recognition, machine learning, temporal information recognition and normalisation, event recognition.

Maria Milosavljevic [Senior Research Fellow; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1999, Macquarie U] Information extraction, text generation, user modeling, forensic computing, integration, learning.

Diego Mollá [Faculty Member; PhD Linguistics, 1996, U Edinburgh, UK] Logical forms for practical natural language processsing systems, question answering systems, especially those that use answer extraction techniques.

Scott Nowson [Research Fellow; PhD Cognitive Science, 2006, University of Edinburgh, UK] Linguistic projection of personality in weblogs and CMC more generally; classification of text by author personality; data acquisition, information extraction and summarisation; question answering.

Cécile Paris [Honorary Associate, CSIRO ICT Ctre; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1988, Columbia U, USA] Natural language generation, user modeling, human-computer interaction, documentation, authoring tools, internationalisation of software, controlled languages and sublanguages, usability evaluation of user interfaces, task models and contextual design, multimedia interaction, learning.

Luiz Augusto Pizzato [PhD Student in conjunction with CSIRO; BSc; MSc in Computer Science, 2003, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil] WWW question answering, information retrieval.

Brett Powley [PhD student; BMath(CompSci) 1990, University of Wollongong; BA(French) 2000, University of Wollongong] Natural language processing; information extraction applied to scholarly literature; remote sensing image processing

Jean-Philippe Prost [PhD Student; DEA Computer Science, 1997, Université de la Méditerranée (Marseille II), France] Software engineering, intelligent text processing, language understanding, robustness.

Sven Puhlmann [Research Programmer, MSc Computer Science, 2005, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany] Web Application Development, Information Extraction.

Alexandre Rafalovitch [PhD Student; BSc Hons Computer Science, 1998, UTS] Named entity recognition, cross-document coreference resolution, information extraction, summarisation.

Debbie Richards [Faculty Member; PhD Knowledge Based Systems, 1999, UNSW] Knowledge acquisition and reuse, machine learning and knowledge mining, qualitative and cognitive modelling, human computer interaction and natural language interfaces, visualisation and navigation of large lattices.

Rolf Schwitter [Faculty Member; PhD Computational Linguistics, 1998, U Zurich, Switzerland] Controlled languages, question answering systems, logic programming.

Marc Tilbrook [Research Programmer; BSc Computing, 2001, Macquarie U] Information extraction, intelligent text processing, text annotation.

Jette Viethen [PhD student; BSc in Computer Science, 2002, Universität Hamburg, Germany; MA in Cognitive Science, 2003, University of New South Wales] Natural Language Generation, Referring Expression Generation

Hugo de Vries [Research Programmer; MSc Speech and Language Processing, 2000, Macquarie U] Information extraction, spoken dialog systems, machine learning.

Stephen Wan [PhD Student; BSc Hons Computing, 2001, Macquarie U] Automatic text summarisation, natural language generation.

Rainer Wasinger [Research Fellow; PhD Computer Science, 2006, Saarland U, Germany] Mobile computing, multimodal interaction, modality fusion, natural language understanding and generation, embodied conversational agents.

Paul Watters [Faculty Member; PhD Computer Science, Macquarie U] Internet content filtering, word sense disambiguation, information retrieval.

Mohammed J. Yagi [PhD student, MSc Computer Science, 2003, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand] Arabic Morphology root extraction and stem generation, natural language interface to logic teaching.

Menno van Zaanen [Postdoc Researcher; PhD Computer Science, 2001, U Leeds, UK] Question answering systems, grammar induction, error correction.

Simon Zwarts [PhD Student; MSc in Computer Science, 2003, University of Twente] Learning structural characteristics in Machine Translation.