Robert Munro

/ Rob Munro

Research

My research interests are in computational linguistics, data-mining, language documentation and probabilities in linguistic theory. Since 2007 I've been a graduate fellow at Stanford. I previously worked on the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at SOAS and as a research assistant at the University of Sydney while I was a student there.

Selected publications, reviews & presentations

2007-2008

I spent most of 2006 and 2007 working in a purely corporate environment, traveling and/or volunteering, so I had a nice break from publishing, other than compiling the Annual Report for the Environmental Foundation for Africa.

2006

Munro, Robert. 2006. Current design issues for digital archives: architectures supporting value-adding access via a user's preferred language(s) and granularity of materials. The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT 2006), Washington DC

Munro, Robert. 2006. Multilingual metadata: between translation and coexistent annotations. Proceedings of the 2006 ELAP Workshop on Meaning and Translation in Language Documentation documentation. SOAS, London. (abstract only)

2005

Munro, Robert. 2005. The digital skills of language documentation. In Peter K. Austin (ed) Language Documentation and Description Volume 3 . London: SOAS
To purchase see: http://www.hrelp.org/publications/papers/volume3/

Munro, Robert and David Nathan. 2005. Introducing the ELAR information system architecture. The Third meeting of the Digital Endangered Languages and Music Archive Network (DELAMAN III), Austin
Presentation

Munro, Robert and David Nathan. 2005. Towards portability and interoperability for linguistic annotation and language-specific ontologies, Proceedings of the E-MELD Workshop on Linguistic Ontologies and Data Categories for Language Resources (E-MELD 2005) Boston.
Presentation

Munro, Robert. 2005. The certainty of chance: Review of Probabilistic Linguistics, Bod, R., Hay, J. and Jannedy, S. (eds). 2003. Linguistics and the Human Sciences Vol 1, 2

Austin, Peter K., Robert Munro and David Nathan. 2005. Archives, linguists, and language speakers. The annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Oakland, California.

Wynne, John and Robert Munro. 2005. Hearing Voices: speakers / languages. The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, SOAS, London. [Interactive multimedia production]
To purchase see: http://www.hrelp.org/publications/multimedia/

2004

Munro, Robert. 2004. Digital skills and obligations: is language documentation a new ICT discipline? Proceedings of the 2004 ELAP Workshop on Multidisciplinary approaches to language documentation. SOAS, London. (abstract only)

Munro, Robert. 2004. Gradational modelling of functional categories. Presentation given as part of the ELAP-ELAR research seminar series. SOAS, London

Munro, Robert. 2004. A Probabilistic Representation of Systemic Functional Grammar. The 31st International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC31). Kyoto.
Presentation

Munro, Robert and Sanjay Chawla. 2004. An Integrated Approach to Mining Data Streams, TR-548, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney.

Munro, Robert and Sanjay Chawla. 2004. Complex Spatial Relationships, TR-539, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney.

Arunasalam, Bavani, Sanjay Chawla, Pei Sun, Robert Munro. 2004. Mining Complex Relationships in the SDSS SkyServer Spatial Database. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC04), IEEE Computer Society, Hong Kong

2003

Munro, Robert, Sanjay Chawla and Pei Sun. 2003. Complex Spatial Relationships, Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM2003) Florida.

Munro, Robert. 2003. Seneschal: classification and analysis in supervised mixture-modelling, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'03) IOS Press, Melbourne

Munro, Robert and Daren Ler. 2003. Meta-Learning Orthographic and Contextual Models for Language Independent Named Entity Recognition. Proceedings of CoNLL-2003, Canada,

Munro, Robert. 2003. A queuing-theory model of word frequency distributions, Proceedings of the First Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW'03), Melbourne

Munro, Robert. 2003. Towards the Computational Inference and Application of a Functional Grammar, (honours thesis). Department of English and School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney

Munro, Robert. 2003. Classification and analysis in supervised mixture-modelling, TR-536, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney