Welcome to Brian Harrington's Personal and Academic Homepage.

I am an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough.

Prior to coming to the University of Toronto, I was a research scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee working with Professor Hong Yu on the application of semantic computing and large scale information extraction to medical informatics.

Until 2011, I held a Research and Tutorial Fellowship in Computer Science at Keble College, Oxford and lecture in the Oxford University Department of Computer Science.

In 2009, I completed my Doctorate in Computer Science at the Oxford University Department of Computer Science (then named the Computing Laboratory) under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Clark. I am also a member of St. Cross College, and a member of the Oxford Computational Linguistics Group. My research interests are in Knowledge Extraction and Representation in Semantic Networks. In particular my research focuses on the development of the ASKNet system.

Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Toronto Scarborough
Instructional Centre (IC 342)
1095 Military Trail
Scarborough, ON
416-287-7457
brian@brianharrington.net

Short Bio
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. 2016 - Present
Lecturer, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. 2012 - 2016
Research Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. 2011 - 2012
Research and Tutorial Fellow, Keble College, Oxford, UK. 2009 - 2011
Lecturer, University of Oxford Department of Computer Science, UK. 2010 - 2011
DPhil. Computer Science, Oxford, UK. 2005-2009
MSc. Computer Science, Oxford, UK. 2004-2005
BSc. Computer Science, Toronto, Canada. 2000-2004

Selected Publications
Complete Publication List

ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network
The ASKNet system automatically creates semantic knowledge networks from natural language text. It was developed as part of my doctoral research at Oxford University. It is still under heavy development. For further details, please visit The ASKNet Homepage.

Academic Activities
I am proud to have supervised the following MSc students at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory:

• Yiannos Stathopoulos - "A Framework for Mathematical Information Retrieval"
• Jason Choi: "Integrating Database & Information Retrieval: Towards a Generic Platform"

Teaching
I am currently Teaching CSCA08 - Introduction to Computer Programming and CSCA48 - Introduction to Computer Science

At the Oxford University, I have lectured courses in Information Retrieval and Computers in Society.