Colin Bannard


2020

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Identifying robust markers of Parkinson’s disease in typing behaviour using a CNN-LSTM network
Neil Dhir | Mathias Edman | Álvaro Sanchez Ferro | Tom Stafford | Colin Bannard
Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

There is urgent need for non-intrusive tests that can detect early signs of Parkinson’s disease (PD), a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that affects motor control. Recent promising research has focused on disease markers evident in the fine-motor behaviour of typing. Most work to date has focused solely on the timing of keypresses without reference to the linguistic content. In this paper we argue that the identity of the key combinations being produced should impact how they are handled by people with PD, and provide evidence that natural language processing methods can thus be of help in identifying signs of disease. We test the performance of a bi-directional LSTM with convolutional features in distinguishing people with PD from age-matched controls typing in English and Spanish, both in clinics and online.

2007

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A Measure of Syntactic Flexibility for Automatically Identifying Multiword Expressions in Corpora
Colin Bannard
Proceedings of the Workshop on A Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions

2005

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Scaling Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation to Larger Corpora and Longer Phrases
Chris Callison-Burch | Colin Bannard | Josh Schroeder
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’05)

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Paraphrasing with Bilingual Parallel Corpora
Colin Bannard | Chris Callison-Burch
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’05)

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A compact data structure for searchable translation memories
Chris Callison-Burch | Colin Bannard | Josh Schroeder
Proceedings of the 10th EAMT Conference: Practical applications of machine translation

2004

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Improving statistical translation through editing
Chris Callison-Burch | Colin Bannard | Josh Schroeder
Proceedings of the 9th EAMT Workshop: Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications

2003

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A Statistical Approach to the Semantics of Verb-Particles
Colin Bannard | Timothy Baldwin | Alex Lascarides
Proceedings of the ACL 2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment

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An Empirical Model of Multiword Expression Decomposability
Timothy Baldwin | Colin Bannard | Takaaki Tanaka | Dominic Widdows
Proceedings of the ACL 2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment