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63
Citations
13500
World Ranking
2792
National Ranking
1380

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - ACM Fellow For research on meaning-based understanding of natural language by computers.
  • 1991 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Overview

Yorick Wilks is affiliated with the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including psychology, arts and humanities, and social sciences. Within these fields, their work covers subfields such as philosophy, health, social psychology, safety research, and applied psychology.

Their publications address a range of interdisciplinary topics related to media, religion, digital communication, and the intersections of religion, spirituality, and psychology. Additionally, they explore areas involving death anxiety and social exclusion, ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence, digital mental health interventions, sexuality, behavior, and technology, as well as media influence and health.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Yorick Wilks include:

  • Spiritual Conversation with a Companion Machine, 2024, published in Zygon®
  • SPLAIN: Augmenting Cybersecurity Warnings with Reasons and Data, 2023, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • A moral companion: A new approach to AI and ethics, 2020, published in Journal of Future Robot Life

Wilks has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including Fraser Watts, Vera A. Kazakova, Jena D. Hwang, Bonnie J. Dorr, and J. Blake Gage. Their work has appeared across various academic venues, with contributions to Zygon®, arXiv (Cornell University), and the Journal of Future Robot Life.

Their research has garnered recognition in the field of artificial intelligence and natural language processing. Notable awards include being named an ACM Fellow in 2009 for research on meaning-based understanding of natural language by computers, and a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1991.

Best Publications

  • GATE - a General Architecture for Text Engineering

    Hamish Cunningham;Kevin Humphreys;Robert Gaizauskas;Yorick Wilks

  • Data Driven Ontology Evaluation

    Christopher Brewster;Harith Alani;Srinandan Dasmahapatra;Yorick Wilks

  • A Preferential, Pattern-Seeking, Semantics for Natural Language Inference

    Yorick Wilks

  • A Closer Look at Skip-gram Modelling

    David Guthrie;Ben Allison;Wei Liu;Louise Guthrie

  • MAKING PREFERENCES MORE ACTIVE

    Yorick Wilks

  • Information extraction: beyond document retrieval

    Robert J. Gaizauskas;Yorick Wilks

  • An intelligent analyzer and understander of English

    Yorick Wilks

  • Providing machine tractable dictionary tools

    Yorick Wilks;Dan Fass;Cheng-ming Guo;James E. McDonald

  • Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers, and Meanings

    Yorick A. Wilks;Brian M. Slator;Louise M. Guthrie

  • An artificial intelligence approach to machine translation.

    Yorick A. Wilks

  • The interaction of knowledge sources in word sense disambiguation

    Mark Stevenson;Yorick Wilks

  • University of Sheffield: description of the LaSIE system as used for MUC-6

    R. Gaizauskas;K. Humphreys;H. Cunningham;Y. Wilks

  • Measuring Text Reuse

    Paul Clough;Robert Gaizauskas;Scott S.L. Piao;Yorick Wilks

  • Named Entity Recognition from Diverse Text Types

    Diana Maynard;Valentin Tablan;Cristian Ursu;Yorick Wilks

  • Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing

    Yorick Wilks

  • User-System Cooperation in Document Annotation Based on Information Extraction

    Fabio Ciravegna;Alexiei Dingli;Daniela Petrelli;Yorick Wilks

  • Learning to harvest information for the semantic web

    Fabio Ciravegna;Sam Chapman;Alexiei Dingli;Yorick Wilks

  • SUBJECT-DEPENDENT CO-OCCURRENCE AND WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION

    Joe A. Guthriee;Louise Guthrie;Homa Aidinejad;Yorick Wilks

  • The grammar of sense: Using part-of-speech tags as a first step in semantic disambiguation

    Yorick Wilks;Mark Stevenson

  • Beliefs, Points of View, and Multiple Environments*

    Yorick Wilks;Janusz S. Bien

  • Natural language inference.

    Yorick A. Wilks

  • A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation

    Sergei Nirenburg;Harold L. Somers;Yorick A. Wilks

Frequent Co-Authors

Hamish Cunningham
Hamish Cunningham University of Sheffield
Fabio Ciravegna
Fabio Ciravegna University of Turin
Robert Gaizauskas
Robert Gaizauskas University of Sheffield
Kalina Bontcheva
Kalina Bontcheva University of Sheffield
Horacio Saggion
Horacio Saggion Pompeu Fabra University
Mark Stevenson
Mark Stevenson University of Melbourne
Diana Maynard
Diana Maynard University of Sheffield
James Pustejovsky
James Pustejovsky Brandeis University
Bonnie J. Dorr
Bonnie J. Dorr University of Florida
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt University of Oxford

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