Professor Rob Gaizauskas

About

Rob Gaizauskas studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Toronto from 1972-74, then moved to Carleton University in Ottawa where he received an Honours BA in Philosophy in 1975 and an MA in Philosophy (with distinction) in 1978. Following two years teaching Logic as a temporary lecturer at Carleton he obtained a Diploma in Information Processing from Algonquin College, Ottawa, in 1981.He then worked for several software companies in Ottawa, including Domus Software, Nabu Technologies, and Fulcrum Technologies (now part of Hummingbird), before moving to the U.K. in 1985, thanks to a Canadian SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and British Council ORS award, to study for a DPhil in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (now the Department of Informatics) at the University of Sussex

Selected publications

• (2005) The Language Of Time. Oxford University PressOxford.
• Alabed S, Anderson A, Maiter A, Hughes A, McAnenly N, Salehi M, Sharkey M, Dwivedi K, Hokmabadi A, Alahdab F , Stevenson M et al (2026) Large language models for simplifying radiology reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis of patient, public, and clinician evaluations. The Lancet Digital Health, 8(2). View this article in WRRO
• Tait J, Gaizauskas R & Bontcheva K (2023) Obituary: Yorick Wilks. Computational Linguistics, 49(3), 767-772. View this article in WRRO
• Tang Y, Wang JK, Wang X, Gao B, Dellandréa E, Gaizauskas R & Chen L (2018) Visual and semantic knowledge transfer for large scale semi-supervised object detection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 40(12), 3045-3058. View this article in WRRO
• Gaizauskas R, Paramita ML, Barker E, Pinnis M, Aker A & Pahisa Solé M (2015) Extracting bilingual terms from the Web. Terminology, 21(2), 205-236. View this article in WRRO
• Preiss J, Stevenson M & Gaizauskas R (2015) Exploring Relation Types for Literature-based Discovery. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 22(5), 987-992. View this article in WRRO
• Aker A & Gaizauskas R (2015) Generating descriptive multi‐document summaries of geo‐located entities using entity type models. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(4), 721-738.
• Aker A, Paramita ML, Barker E & Gaizauskas R (2014) Bootstrapping term extractors for multiple languages. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Lrec 2014, 483-489.
• Aker A, Paramita ML, Pinnis M & Gaizauskas R (2014) Bilingual dictionaries for all EU languages. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Lrec 2014, 2839-2845.
• Alhelbawy A & Gaizauskas R (2013) Named entity disambiguation using HMMs. Proceedings 2013 IEEE Wic ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops Wi Iatw 2013, 3, 159-162.