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My main field of research is Computational
Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, that is
making computers understand and process human languages. Over the past few years, I have moved
between academic and industry research, with projects ranging from dialogue
systems with virtual advisors to machine translation tools, and formal grammars
development.
I am currently at the
In 2008, I started the
organisation of the Australian Computational
and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO)
and since then I have chaired its Steering Committee, expanding it across
In 2008-2009, I taught the
“Syntax” and “Syntax of English” subjects at the University of Sydney, where I am an Honorary Associate in the Department
of Linguistics.
Aside from Natural Language
Processing, my other interest is flying.
I am now a flight instructor and for the past two years I have been combining
linguistics and aviation with a research project investigating communication problems
in the aviation environment and looking at language technologies as
possible solutions (see publications).
Most recently, as an invited speaker at the Free Linguistics Conference in
On this site, you can find
information on:
Email: dominique at dominique – estival . net
or dominique
. estival at sydney . edu . au