Education:

Ph.D. Computer Science
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

SCOTBEC Diploma in Systems Analysis and Design,
Glasgow College of Technology, Glasgow, Scotland

B.Sc. (Honors) Physics,
Edinburgh University, Scotland

Work Experience:

November 2002 - present:
Director, Computing Research Laboratory

November 2002 - present:
Professor, Department of Psychology

1993 - October 2002:
Deputy Director, Computing Research Laboratory

1991 - present:
Principle Investigator, Computing Research Laboratory

1986 - 1991:
Lecturer, Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Scotland

1984 - 1986:
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

1979 - 1984:
Computing Officer, Computer Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

1977 - 1978:
Operations and system programming, POLAROID (UK) Ltd. Dumbarton, Scotland

Research Interests & Background:
Information Extraction from Text
Information Retrieval
Construction of Applied NLP Systems
Rapid-Ramp-Up Machine Translation
Digital Archives

Selected Publications:

Mónica Mosquera-Caro, Jeffrey Potter, Shawn Martin, Jim Cowie, Valeriy Sibirtsev, Kevin Boyack, Sergei Nirenburg, Cheryl Willman & George Davidson “Gene Literature Exploration Environment: From Gene Lists to Pathways for Cancer Cure” in Proceedings of American Association for Cancer Research – ONCOGENOMICS 2003 Meeting, January 29 – February 2, Phoenix, Arizona

Abdelali, Jim Cowie, David Farwell, and Bill Ogden. “UCLIR: a Multilingual Information Retrieval Tool” in Proceedings of VIII Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seville (Spain), November 2002

Jim Cowie, Sergei Nirenburg, and Hugo Molina-Salgado. “Generating Personal Profiles” in Proceedings of The International Conference On MT And Multilingual NLP (MT 2000). Exeter, United Kingdom, November 2000.

Jim Cowie, Evgeny Ludovik, Hugo Molina-Salgado, and Sergei Nirenburg, and Svetlana Scheremetyeva. “The week at a Glance – Cross-language Cross-document Information Extraction and Translation” in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguisitics (COLING 2000), Saarbrucken, Germany, August 2000.

Jim Cowie and Sergei Nirenburg. 2000. “Task-Oriented Dialogues” in Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Human Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy, July 2000.

Jim Cowie, Evgeny Ludovik, Hugo Molina-Salgado, Sergei Nirenburg, and Svetlana Scheremetyeva. “Automatic Question Answering” in Proceedings of RIAO’2000, Paris, France. April 2000.

Jim Cowie, and Yorick Wilks. 2000. “Information Extraction”, A Handbook of Natural Language Processing: Techniques and Applications for the Processing of Language as Text, Editors: Robert Dale, Hermann Moisl, and Harold Somers, Marcel Dekker Inc.

Jim Cowie 1999 “COLLAGE - An NLP Toolset to Support Boolean Retrieval”, Natural Language Information Retrieval, Editor: Tomek Strzalkowski, Kluwer Academic Publisher.

Evgeny Ludovik, Ron Zacharski, and Jim Cowie. 1999. "Language recognition for mono- and multi-lingual documents". VEXTAL (Venezia per il Trattamento Automatico dell Lingue), Venice, 22 - 24 November

Jim Cowie, Kavi Mahesh, Sergei Nirenburg, Remi Zajac, "MINDS - Multi-lingual INteractive Document Summarization", AAAI1998 Spring Symposium Series, March , 1998 Stanford University, California

Cowie, J., E. Ludovik and H. Molina-Salgado. 1998. "Improving Robust Domain Independent Summarization". In Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications, Moncton, Canada.

Cowie, J., E. Ludovik and R. Zacharski. 1998. "An Autonomous, Web-based, Multilingual Corpus Collection Tool". In Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications, Moncton, Canada.Nirenburg, S.,

J. Cowie and R. Zajac. 1998. "Natural Language Processing Technology for the Support of Aviation Communication". Aviation Conference, Prescott, AZ.

Sheremetyeva S., J. Cowie, S. Nirenburg and R. Zajac. "Multilingual Onomasticon as a Multipurpose NLP Resource". 1998. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Granada, Spain.

Cowie, J. , Davis, M. and Zajac, R. 1997. "Les 'Text Retrieval Evaluation Conferences TREC': Un point de vue multilingue". Actes des 1-ieres Journees Techniques et Scientifiques FRANCIL. Avignon, 15-16 April 1997. pp1-4.(Invited)

Cowie, J. 1996. "CRL's approach to MET (Multilingual Named Entity Recognition)", Proceedings of the Tipster Text II 24 Month Workshop, Morgan Kaufman, May.

Cowie, J. and W. Lehnert. 1996. "Information Extraction", Communications of the ACM special issue on Natural Language Processing, January.

Current Projects:
Dr.Cowie manages the ARDA AQUAINT question answering project and the CRL's part of the UNM, SANDIA, NMSU collaboration on exploring the medical literature.