Dr Paul Bennett
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Address: My office is room N1.1, Samuel Alexander Building
Phone: +44-(0)161 275 3152
Email: paul.bennett@manchester.ac.uk
For more information please visit Dr Paul Bennett's personal web page.
Research specialisation:
computational linguistics, syntax, morphology, contrastive linguistics
Selected Publications:
Authored book:
- Semantics: an Introduction to Non-Lexical Aspects of Meaning, Lincom Europa 2002. Linguist List review
Journal articles:
- English adjective-noun compounds and related constructions. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies 2 (2002). Reprinted in GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies Selected Papers 2001-2003, Universiti Kebangsaan Malysia, 2003, pp. 126-134.
- Verb alternations and semantic classes in English and German (with J. Frense), Language Sciences 18 (1996), 305-317.
- A multilingual translation-oriented typology of compound nouns, Traitement Automatique des Langues 34.2 (1993), 43-58.
Articles in collections:
- The relevance of linguistics to machine translation. In H. Somers ed: Computers and Translation, Benjamins, 2003, 143-160.
- The interaction of syntax and morphology in machine translation. In F. van Eynde ed: Linguistic Issues in Machine Translation, Pinter, 1993, 72-104.
Professional biography:
I studied Chinese and then linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and also studied Chinese in Beijing for a year. I received a PhD from SOAS in 1978 for a thesis on Word Order in Chinese. After that I worked as a Research Fellow and Temporary Lecturer at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where my main research was in historical syntax. In 1981 I went to UMIST as a Lecturer in Linguistics, and there I began work in computational linguistics, primarily machine translation. I joined the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures in the unified University of Manchester in 2004.
In 2001 I taught a course on machine translation at the LOT Summer School in Utrecht, and in 2004 a class on computational linguistics and machine translation at the Durham Postgraduate Linguistics Conference.