I am a computational linguist, which means that I work on software that tries to understand text at some level. My interests are primarily in the interaction of linguistic processing with world knowledge (usually represented in some sort of hierarchical, ontological structure), and the implications of this for the representation of linguistic knowledge, specifically at the lexical level.

My current research is focused on building tools to support biological discovery. I work specifically on analysis and interpretation of the biomedical literature. My projects include enabling semantic concept extraction from biomedical text and construction of linguistic resources to support biomedical text mining. I also have a particular interest in doing protein function prediction from text and developed methods for this in the context of the 2003/2004 BioCreAtIvE evaluation.