Dr Andrew Salway
Lecturer, Information Extraction and Multimedia Group
**I will be
leaving
Department of Computing
phone: (+44) (0)1483
683133
Research
My research is
concerned with developing ways to analyse and access visual and verbal
information. Three themes of my research
are:
Collateral Media – for example, the analysis
and extraction of information in texts associated with still and moving images,
in order to generate knowledge-rich representations of the image and video data
in digital libraries.
Image-Text
Combinations
– this involves investigating the correspondence between the semantic content
of an image and text when they are used in combination.
Narrative – here the focus is on
exploring representations of media content based on ideas to do with narrative;
this is motivated by the idea that some aspects of narratives exist independently
of media-specific realisations.
A theoretical
backdrop to my work is “computational semiotics”, conceived by analogy with
computational linguistics.
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My publications and invited lectures, talks and seminars.
· TIWO : Television in Words, EPSRC project (2002-5) exploring narrative in multimedia systems dealing with film / television and audio description.
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Since 2002 I have
been collaborating with researchers at the Banff New Media Institute, in
particular: the Code Zebra project for
online chat visualisation, and the New Media Collaboration
Studies Network, both led by Sara Diamond.
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Image-text
Combinations research, with Radan Martinec (University of the Arts,
Andrew Salway - research at bbrel
Teaching
I have developed and teach
modules CS257 Modelling Multimedia Information, CS322 Multimedia Information
Systems and CSM06 Information Retrieval.
I previously developed and taught Systems Analysis and Design to first years
and MSc students, and CSM16 Digital Libraries to MSc students.