I am a Doctoral Student in Computer Science at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 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.

Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Wolfson Building, Parks Road
Oxford, OX1 3QD, UK
+44 (0)1865 273870
brian.harrington@comlab.ox.ac.uk

Short Bio
DPhil. Computer Science, Oxford, UK. 2005-Present
MSc. Computer Science, Oxford, UK. 2004-2005
BSc. Computer Science, Toronto, Canada. 2000-2004

Publications
ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks
Brian Harrington and Stephen Clark
Proceedings of the second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Santa Clara, CA, 2008
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ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network
Brian Harrington and Stephen Clark
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, 2007
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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.

Curriculum Vitae
My CV is available in both HTML and PDF Format.

Academic Activities
Organiser - Computational Linguistics UK 2008 (CLUK 08)
MSc. Dissertation Supervisor - Jason Choi: "Integrating Database & Information Retrieval: Towards a Generic Platform". (Sept 2007).

Teaching
Advanced Topics in Language Processing
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Intelligent Systems I
Intelligent Systems II

Personal
I am the captain of the St. Cross College Squash League as well as the St. Cross/Wolfson Cricket Team. I am an active member of the Wolfson College Boat Club, and have held various positions on the St. Cross College Common Room Committee, as well as the Student Representitive Committee.

Before Facebook took over my job, I maintained a photo journal on this site to allow me and my fellow St. Cross students to our pictures with the world. It still exists here.