Ted Briscoe

Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Briscoe was Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Cambridge where he was a member of faculty for 33 years. He led the Natural Language and Information Processing (NLIP) research group in the Department of Computer Science and Technology for more than 20 years, and was co-founder and inaugural director of the university's interdisciplinary Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA) Institute.

In 2003, he co-founded iLexIR Ltd, a NLP consultancy and technology provider, and was its CEO until 2022. In 2013, he co-founded English Language iTutoring and was its chief scientist until 2019, and from 2020 until 2022 he was chief scientist for RegGenome Ltd. He has been an area chair for five conferences of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) and served on the programme committees of many more ACL conferences and workshops, as well as of EMNLP, COLING, CoNLL, LREC and EVOLANG.

Professor Briscoe has been principal investigator on 16 externally funded UK and European research grants, taught at four European Summer Schools, and been a technical advisor or consultant to more than a dozen companies. He currently advises Cambridge Innovation Capital on investment in the AI/ML/NLP space. He has presented his research in invited talks at conferences and workshops at more than 30 events including two Dagstuhl Seminars, the Royal Statistical Society, the American Association for Advancement of Science, the Beckman Frontiers of Science Symposium, National Academy of Sciences, and the ESPRIT, eLex, CLIN, CLUK, STIL and Iberamia annual conferences.

Professor Briscoe has been on the editorial boards of the journals: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Engineering, and Lingua and was a senior editor of Computer Speech and Language from 2001 to 2015. He is a member of the NCCR Evolving Language Review Board and of the Sheffield EPSRC CDT for Speech and Language Technology Advisory Board.

• Ph.D. in computational linguistics from University of Cambridge, England
• Master’s in linguistics from University of Cambridge, England
• Bachelor of linguistics/philosophy/English from University of Lancaster, England

Briscoe is the (co-)author of more than 150 internationally peer-reviewed research papers and three books on topics in natural language processing and computational linguistics, and of one patent on automated assessment of exam scripts.

• Language learning, power laws, and sexual selection, T Briscoe, Mind & Society 7 (1), 65-76, 2008
• The second release of the RASP system, T Briscoe, J Carroll, R Watson, Proc. of the COLING/ACL, 2006
• Grammatical Error Correction: A Survey of the State of the Art, C Bryant, Z Yuan, MR Qorib, H Cao, HT Ng, T Briscoe, Computational Linguistics, submitted, 2022
• Neural automated essay scoring and coherence modeling for adversarially crafted input, Y Farag, H Yannakoudakis, T Briscoe, Proc. of Nth Am. ACL, 2018
• Developing an automated writing placement system for ESL learners, H Yannakoudakis, ØE Andersen, A Geranpayeh, T Briscoe, D Nicholls, Applied Measurement in Education 31 (3), 251-267, 2018
• Grammatical error correction using neural machine translation, Z Yuan, T Briscoe, Proc. of Nth Am. ACL, 2016