Trevor Cohn is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He was previously employed at the University of Sheffield and the University of Edinburgh, and has held visiting positions at the University of Melbourne and Johns Hopkins University.
His research interests focus on development of probabilistic and statistical machine learning methods for modelling natural language text, with particular interests in machine translation, parsing and grammar induction. Current projects include text analytics and rumour diffusion over social media, translating diverse and noisy text sources and speech translation. He has served on the editorial boards for Computational Linguistics and Computer Speech and Language, as area chair and reviews for major conferences including ACL, EMNLP, COLING and NIPS, as well as reviewing for several grant authorities. Trevor completed a BEng(Software) and BComm(Finance) in 2000, followed by a PhD(Engineering) in 2007, all at The University of Melbourne. Prior to commencing his position at The University of Melbourne, he was a Senior Lecturer at The University of Sheffield (2009-2014).
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FEATURED Journal article
'Deep-speare' crafted Shakespearean verse that few readers could distinguish from the real thing
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ARC TRAINING CENTRE IN COGNITIVE COMPUTING FOR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES (ARC - STREAM 1 & 2)
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ChEMU: Named entity recognition and event extraction of chemical reactions from patents
Conference Proceedings
ARC TRAINING CENTRE IN COGNITIVE COMPUTING FOR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES (ARC - STREAM 4)
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Overview of ChEMU 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reaction..
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ARC TRAINING CENTRE IN COGNITIVE COMPUTING FOR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES (ARC - STREAM 3)
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Evaluating the utility of hand-crafted features in sequence labelling
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Projects
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Project Types
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Research Contracts
Additional Information
- Efficient storage and access to text count data -- An application to unlimited order language modelling. 2016 – 2017. Google Research Award, $US85k.
- Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI). 2015 – 2017. DARPA subcontract, $294k.
- IBM Research Award. 2016. IBM Research Award, $20k.
- Learning Deep Semantics for Automatic Translation between Human Languages. 2016 – 2019. ARC Discovery, $450k.
- Adaptive Context-Dependent Machine Translation for Heterogeneous Text. 2014 – 2018. ARC Future Fellowship, $730k.
- WFST-based integration of ASR and MT in Spoken Language Translation. 2014 – 2015. Google Research Award, $US97k.
- Pheme: Computing Veracity Across Media, Languages, and Social Networks. 2014 – 2017. EU FP7, £494k.
- TrendMiner: Large-scale, Cross-lingual Trend Mining and Summarisation of Real-time Media Streams. 2011 – 2014. EU FP7, £529k.
- QuEsT: An open source tool for machine translation quality estimation. 2012. PASCAL Harvest, €20k.
- SLaTr: A Joint Model of Spoken Language Translation. 2011. Google Research Award, $US60k.
- Barista: Non-Parametric Models of Phrase-based Machine Translation. 2011 – 2012. EPSRC first grant, £127k.
- Grammar induction challenge. 2011. PASCAL Challenge, €10k.
- Discriminative Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. 2007 – 2010. EPSRC with Miles Osborne. £300k.
Scholarly Works
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Best Short Paper Award for paper "Learning a Lexicon and Translation Model from Phoneme Lattices"
Ted Nelson Award for paper "Where's @Wally: A classification approach to geolocating users based on their social ties"
Best Paper Award, 2nd place
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Professor
Computing And Information Systems
Education
Education
Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching
University of Sheffield
PhD in Engineering
University of Melbourne
Backelor of Engineering (Hons)
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Commerce
University of Melbourne