Newcastle University

Qualifications

BA (McGill) MPhil (Dublin) DPhil (Oxford) MSc (Newcastle)

Research Interests

Computational linguistics, natural language processing, formal language and automata theory, artificial neural networks, multivariate analysis of text, nonlinear dynamics.

Other Expertise

Old / Middle English and Old Irish / Middle Irish language and literature.

Current Work

My current work is described on my personal page: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/hermann.moisl/

Postgraduate Supervision

Natural language modelling and text processing. My specific areas of interest are natural language understanding systems and multivariate analysis of text corpora.

Funding 

• (1999-2001) The Newcastle /Poitiers Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English, British Academy (co-applicants with J. Beal)
  
• (2001-2005) Arts and Humanities Research Board: ‘A Linguistic Time-Capsule: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’ (co-applicant with J. Beal & K. Corrigan)
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  (2002-3) Catherine Cookson Foundation: Conservation of Tyneside dialect recordings (Principal Investigator)
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  (2002) Topographic mapping as a tool for analysis and results visualization of dialectal data (Principal Investigator)
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  (2003-4) British Academy: Transcription of Tyneside dialect recordings (Principal Investigator)
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  (2003) Wellcome Foundation: Symposium on Human Language: cognitive, neuroscientific, and dynamical systems perspectives (Principal Investigator)
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  (2007) Exploratory multivariate analysis of the Qur'an: the problem of variation in sura length, British Academy SG-46172 (Principal Investigator)
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  (2010-11) A Linguistic 'Time Capsule' for the Google Generation (DEDEFI Scheme), Arts and Humanities Research Council (co-applicant with K. Corrigan & I. Buchstaller)

Projects

• A Linguistic Time-Capsule: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE), AHRB project code RE11776
  Project Leader(s): K. Corrigan, J. Beal, H. Moisl

Undergraduate Teaching

SEL2092 Computational Linguistics

SEL3053 Analyzing Geordie

• Moisl H. Cluster Analysis for Corpus Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013. In Preparation.
• Moisl H. Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of Nonlinear Linguistic Data. Intended submission to: Computational Linguistics 2013, 39. In Preparation.
• Moisl H. Finding the minimum document length for reliable clustering of multi-document natural language corpora. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 2011, 18(1), 23-52.
• Moisl HL. Hypothesis Generation. In: McMahon, A; Maguire, W, ed. Analysing Variation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp.72-92.
• Beal JC, Corrigan KP, Moisl HL. The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: Annotation Practices and Dissemination Strategies . In:Durand, J., Gut, U., Kristofferson, G., ed. Handbook of Corpus Phonology.Oxford:Oxford University Press,2011. In Press.
• Moisl H. Statistical Corpus Eploitation. In:Durand, J., Gut, U., Kristofferson, G., ed. Handbook of Corpus Phonology.Oxford:Oxford University Press,2010. In Press.
• Moisl H. Variable scaling in cluster analysis of linguistic data. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2010, 6(1), 75-103.
• Moisl HL. Exploratory Multivariate Analysis. In: Lüdeling, A; Kytö, M, ed. Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009, pp. 874-898.
• Moisl HL. Sura length and lexical probability estimation in cluster analysis of the Qur'an. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing 2009, 8(4), no. 19.
• Moisl HL. Using electronic corpora in historical dialectology research: the problem of document length variation. In: Dossena, M; Lass, R, ed. Studies in English and European Historical Dialectology. Bern: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 67-90.
• Moisl HL. Using electronic corpora to study language variation: the problem of data sparsity. In: Language Variation: European Perspectives v. 2: Selected Papers Form the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLlaVE 4). 2009, Nicosia: John Benjamins.
• Moisl HL, Maguire W. Identifying the Main Determinants of Phonetic Variation in the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 2008, 15(1), 46-69.
• Moisl HL. Normalization for Variation in Document Length in Exploratory Multivariate Analysis of Text Corpora. In: INFOS2008: 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems. 2008, Cairo University.
• Allen W, Beal JC, Corrigan KP, Maguire W, Moisl HL. A linguistic 'time-capsule': The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. In:Beal, JC; Corrigan, KP; Moisl, HL, ed. Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Diachronic Databases.Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan,2007, pp. 16-48.
• Beal JC, Corrigan KP, Moisl HL, ed. Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, Volume 1: Synchronic Databases. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire:Palgrave Macmillan,2007.
• Beal JC, Corrigan KP, Moisl HL, ed. Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, Volume 2: Diachronic Databases. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Moisl HL. Data nonlinearity in exploratory multivariate analysis of language corpora. In: Computing and Historical Phonology : Proceedings of the Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology. 2007, Prague, Czech Republic: Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Beal JC, Corrigan KP, Moisl HL. Taming Digital Voices and Texts: models and methods for handling unconventional diachronic corpora.. In:Beal, JC; Corrigan, KP; Moisl, HL, ed. Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Diachronic Databases.Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan,2007, pp. 1-15.
• Moisl HL. Language, literacy, and cultural development in early medieval England and Ireland. In: Bremer, E; Jarnut, J; Richter, M; Wasserstein, D, ed. Language of Religion - Language of the People: Medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006.
• Moisl HL, Maguire W, Allen W. Phonetic variation in Tyneside : Exploratory multivariate analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. In: Language Variation European Perspectives: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3). 2006, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
• Moisl HL, Jones VM. Cluster analysis of the Newcastle electronic corpus of Tyneside English: a comparison of methods. University of Twente: Centre for Telematics and Information Technology [CTIT], 2005. TR 2005/65) {A-53328}.
• Moisl HL, Jones VM. Cluster analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: A comparison of methods. Literary and Linguistics Computing 2005, 20(1), 125-146.
• Moisl HL, Corrigan KP, Beal JC. The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. :Arts and Humanities Research Council,2005. Available at :http://www.ncl.ac.uk/necte/.
• Moisl HL. Artificial networks and natural language processing. In: Drake, M, ed. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. New York: Dekker, 2003, pp. 148-162.
• Hamann S, Moisl HL. A Frankish aristocrat at the battle of Mag Rath. In: Picard, J-M; Richter, M, ed. Ogma: Essays in Celtic Studies in honour of Proinsias Ni Chathain. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002, pp.36-47.
• Moisl HL. Celtic Religion. In: Simpson, JMY; Sawyer, JFA, ed. Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion. Amsterdam; Oxford: Elsevier, 2001.
• Moisl HL. Corpus analysis and results visualization using self-organizing maps. In: Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2001 Conference. 2001, Lancaster University: UCREL.
• Moisl HL. Linguistic Computation with State Space Trajectories. In: Wermter, S; Austin, J; Willshaw, D, ed. Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience: Towards Neuroscience-Inspired Computing. Berlin; London: Springer, 2001, pp. 442-460.
• Moisl HL, Dale R, Somers H, ed. Handbook of Natural Language Processing. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc, 2000.
• Moisl HL. NLP Based on Artificial Neural Networks: Introduction. In: Dale, R; Moisl, HL; Somers, H, ed. Handbook of Natural Language Processing. New York: Marcel Dekker Inc., 2000, pp. 655-713.
• Moisl HL. Lordship and Tradition in Barbarian Europe. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.
• Moisl HL. Implementation of natural language semantics in an ANN-based natural language processing system. Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 1997, 4, 36-49.
• Moisl HL. Recurrent neural networks and natural language processing. In: Jones, DB; Somers, HL, ed. New Methods in Language Processing. London: UCL Press, 1997, pp. 69-82.
• Moisl HL. Artificial Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing. In: Kent, A, ed. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1994, pp. 1-41.
• Moisl HL. Recurrent artificial neural networks and finite state natural language processing. Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 1994, 2, 9-16.
• Moisl HL. Celtic Religion. In: Asher, RE; Simpson, JMY, ed. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1993, pp. 494-495.
• Moisl HL. Implementation of Natural Language Processing Automata in Artificial Neural Networks. Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 1993, 1, 206-229.
• Moisl HL. Connectionist finite state natural language processing. Connection Science 1992, 4(2), 67-91.
• Moisl HL. Early Irish Grammarians. In: Tieken-Boon, I; Frankis, J, ed. Language: Usage and Description. Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V.Editions, 1991, pp. 27-36.
• Moisl HL. The Church and the native tradition of learning in early medieval Ireland. In: Richter, M; Ni Chathain, P, ed. Irland und die Christenheit. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1987, pp. 258-271.
• Moisl HL. Kingship and law in early Ireland. In: Proceedings of the Seventh international Congress of Celtic Studies. 1986, Oxford: D.E. Evans.
• Moisl HL. Das Kloster Iona und seine Verbindungen mit dem Kontinent im siebenten und achten Jahrhundert. In: Virgil von Salzburg: Missionar und Gelehrter: Beiträge des Internationales Symposiums. 1985, Salzburger Residenz: Amt der Salzburger Landesregierung.
• Moisl HL. Kingship and orally transmitted Stammestradition among the Lombards and Franks. In: Wolfram, H; Schwarcz, A, ed. Die Bayern und ihre Nachbarn. Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1985, pp. 111-120.
• Moisl HL. The Bernician royal dynasty and the Irish in the seventh century. Peritia 1983, 2, 103-126.
• MOISL H. A 6TH-CENTURY REFERENCE TO THE BRITISH BARDD. BULLETIN OF THE BOARD OF CELTIC STUDIES-BWLETIN Y BWRDD GWYBODAU CELTAIDD 1981, 29(MAY), 269-273.
• Moisl HL. A sixth-century reference to the British bardd. The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 1981, 29, 269-273.
• Moisl HL. Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies and germanic oral tradition. Journal of Medieval History 1981, 7(3), 215-248.
• Moisl HL. Celto-Germanic *watu- / *wotu- and early Germanic poetry. Notes and Queries 1980, 27, 98-99.