Dominick Ng has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to spend eight months studying at UC Berkeley.
Research into how computers can better understand human language has won University of Sydney PhD candidate Dominick Ng a Fulbright Scholarship to spend eight months studying at UC Berkeley in the US. "The world is undergoing an information explosion, and many people struggle to find what they need among the noise," says Dominick, who is currently working on his PhD in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies under the supervision of James Curran. "We need smarter tools to manage, search, and manipulate information - tools that can comprehend language as humans speak it." Fulbright scholarships are awarded for a combination of academic merit and leadership potential. The Fulbright Program is part of one of the largest and most prestigious educational exchange programs in the world. Dominick received his scholarship at a function last night attended by Senator Chris Evans, Federal Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, and Gabrielle Upton, State Member for Vaucluse. Dominick's research is investigating ways to improve parsers, software tools that automatically identify syntactic structure. "Accurately identifying the syntactic structure of language is vital: syntax tells us that 'Alice loves Bob' is different to 'Bob loves Alice'.
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