I work as a Research Engineer for the Biomedical Text Processing group at NICTA on biomedical text mining. I also have broad interests in artificial intelligence, first and second language acquisition, information retrieval and agile web development.
My PhD research has focused on software support for Japanese vocabulary acquisition. I maintain and extend the current form of the FOKS dictionary system for Japanese, originally created by Slaven Bilac, and have investigated many models for the orthographic similarity of Japanese and Chinese characters. By modelling plausible misrecognition of characters, we allow users to look up an unknown character using a known visual neighbour. Similarly, we use such models to generate randomised but authentic tests for learners studying the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.