Prof Timothy Baldwin is a Melbourne Laureate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Director of the ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies, and Associate Dean Research Training in the Melbourne School of Engineering. He was an ARC Future Fellow from 2013 to 2016, and has previously held visiting positions at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Cambridge University, the University of Washington, University of Tokyo, Saarland University, and NTT Communication Science Laboratories.
His research interests include text mining of social media, deep learning, computational lexical semantics, information extraction, and web mining. Tim completed a BSc(CS/Maths) and BA(Linguistics/Japanese) at The University of Melbourne in 1995, and an MEng(CS) and PhD(CS) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Prior to commencing his current position at The University of Melbourne, he was a Senior Research Engineer at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University (2001-2004).
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ARC TRAINING CENTRE IN COGNITIVE COMPUTING FOR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES (ARC - STREAM 1 & 2)
Research Grant
'Deep-speare' crafted Shakespearean verse that few readers could distinguish from the real..
Journal article
ARC TRAINING CENTRE IN COGNITIVE COMPUTING FOR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES (ARC - STREAM 4)
Research Grant
Describing the antimicrobial usage patterns of companion animal veterinary practices; free..
Journal article
ARC TRAINING CENTRE IN COGNITIVE COMPUTING FOR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES (ARC - STREAM 3)
Research Grant
Online tutoring to support programming exercises
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Projects
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Project Types
25
Research Grant
11
Research Contracts
6
Internal Research Grant
Additional Information
2011-2013: ARC Discovery grant, 'Principles, Practice, and Pragmatics of Measurement in Experimental Computer Science', $330K
2011: Go8 European Fellowship grant to invite Dr Gintar Grigonyt (Vytautas Magnus University) to the University of Melbourne, $20K
2010-2013: ARC Linkage grant, 'Talking about Place - Tapping Human Knowledge to Enrich National Spatial Data Sets', $300K
2010-2013: Erasmus Mundus European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT)
2010-2011: Institute for Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) project seed grant, 'Early Detection and Mitigation of Disastrous Events with Broadband-Enabled Social Interaction Technologies', $30K
2010: Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) Resource Allocation Scheme grant, 'Information Extraction over MEDLINE', $20K
2010: Institute for Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) project seed grant, 'Crowd-Sourcing Human Knowledge on Spatial Semantics of Placenames', $48K
2009-2011: Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant, 'Online Linguistic Exploration: Deeper, Faster, Broader language Documentation',
2009-2010: Microsoft Research Asia Research Award, 'Multilingual Unsupervised Parse Selection', CI and joint grant with S. Bird, $30K USD
2009: ARC HCSNet International Visiting Speaker Programme grant to invite Dr Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield, UK) to the University of Melbourne, $4K
2009: University of Melbourne, Faculty of Science, Industry Collaboration Grant, CI and joint grant with L. Sonenberg, I. Zukerman and L. Kulik, 0K
2008-2009: Google Research Award, 'Web-scale language Identification: All Languages Great and Small', $60K USD
2008-2009: Microsoft Research Asia Research Award, 'Web user Forum Text Analysis', 8K USD
2008: Joint Tewkesbury/UOM Visiting Researcher grant to invite Dr Dan P. Flickinger (Standford University) to the University of Melbourne, 0K
2008: ARC HCSNet International Visiting Speaker Programme grant to invite Dr Dan P. Flickinger (Stanford University) to the University of Melbourne, $4K
2007-2011: NICTA project, 'Biological Text and Language Applications (BioTALA)', $3M
2007-2010: ARC Discovery grant, 'Dynamic personalisation for assisted navigation of information rich, physical environments', $325K
2007: University of Melbourne Visiting Researcher grant to invite Dr Dan P. Flickinger (Stanford University) to the University of Melbourne, $6K
2007: Gift from the Association for Natural Language Processing to establish the CSLI Publications Series on Japanese Computational Linguistics, $3K USD
2007: ARC HCSNet International Visiting Speaker grant to invite Dr Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country) to the University of Melbourne, $4K
2006-2009: Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant, 'Information Delivery from Segmented Textual Data Streams', 61K
2006-2008: Communication Science Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.,'Scalable Language Understanding for Japanese', $70K
2005-2009: NICTA project, 'Interactive Information Discovery and Delivery', .5M
2005-2006: ARC e-Research Special Research Initiative (SRI) grant, 'An Intelligent Search Infrastructure for Language Resources on the Web', 00K
2004-2006: Communication Science Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) grant, ' Feature-rich Word Sense Disambiguation and Unknown Word Bootstrapping', $65K
2003: University of Melbourne CSLI grant, 'Learning qualia structure from corpus data', $25K USD
2000: Communication Science Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) grant, 'Japanese Analysis and Dictionary Construction', $8K USD
Scholarly Works
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, ACL 2020
Best Paper Award, ALTW 2019
Best Paper Award Runner-up, AGILE 2019
Best Short Paper Award, ALTW 2018
Best Short Paper Award, ICTIR 2018
Best Paper Award, ALTW 2017
Outstanding Paper Award, ACL 2017
IBM Faculty Award
Best Paper Award - Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2009
Erasmus Mundus Scholar [invited]
Teaching Excellence Award
JSPS Short-term Fellow [invited]
Teaching Award
Best Poster Award
Research Excellence Award
Best Paper Award - 8th Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (Japan)
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Professor
Computing And Information Systems
Member
Australasian Language Technology Association
Member
Association for Computational Linguistics, Special Interest Group on the Lexicon
Member
Association for Computational Linguistics
Education
Education
PhD (Computer Science)
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Master of Engineering (Computer Science)
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Arts (Linguistics and Japanese)
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)
University of Melbourne