 I am a Franco-American DPhil student working in the Quantum and Computational Linguistics groups of the University of Oxford Department of Computer Science, funded by an EPSRC Doctoral Training Account. From Michaelmas 2011 onwards, I will be the acting computer science tutor at Hertford College, where I hold a lectureship. I will be helping the college prepare for the first intake of students for Oxford's new computer science and philosophy course. Before coming to Oxford's DCS in 2008 to do the MSc which led to my DPhil, I did graduate work in the philosophy departments at the University of St Andrews in mathematical logic, the foundation of mathematics, and some philosophy of language. Prior to this, I obtained a BSc in Physics & Philosophy from the University of Sheffield. Before that, I grew up in France (Tours and Grenoble) and the US (Pittsburgh, PA). Research My research draws on topics and methods from Computational Linguistics (Natural Language Processing) and Quantum Information Theory (specifically the use of category theoretical frameworks). My main project presently involves developing, implementing and evaluating compositional distributional models of natural language semantics. I am generally interested in theories of–and applications for–mathematical linguistics, natural language semantics, and empirical semantic knowledge discovery. A (mostly) complete list of my publications is available on the papers and talks page of this site, on the Oxford DCS site, as well as on ArXiv. I am currently working with Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Chris Heunen as an editor on the production of a book entitled "Compositional Methods in Physics and Linguistics" (working title) to be published by Oxford University Press (planned for release in 2012). In addition to my research, I am keenly interested in helping with the outreach activities of the department and University, and regularly participate in open days and school events promoting interest in Computer Science and CompPhil, state school accessibility to Oxford, and encouraging young women to consider science at university. People My DPhil research is supervised by:
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