Dr Richard Sutcliffe

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Email
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Location
4B.527, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Academic Support Hour: Tuesday 11:00-12:00
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Natural Language Processing
Information Retrieval
Question Answering
Computer Musicology
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Information Retrieval (CE306)
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Information Retrieval (CE706)
Previous supervision

Degree subject: Computer Science
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 16/9/2022
Publications
Publications (2)
Retta, EA., Sutcliffe, R., Mahmood, J., Berwo, MA., Almekhlafi, E., Khan, SA., Chaudhry, SA., Mhamed, M. and Feng, J., (2023). Cross-Corpus Multilingual Speech Emotion Recognition: Amharic vs. Other Languages
Sutcliffe, R., (2023). A Survey of Personality, Persona, and Profile in Conversational Agents and Chatbots
Journal articles (27)
Mhamed, M., Sutcliffe, R. and Feng, J., (2025). Benchmark Arabic news posts and analyzes Arabic sentiment through RMuBERT and SSL with AMCFFL technique. Egyptian Informatics Journal. 29, 100601-100601
Xia, T., Sun, X., Yang, Y., Long, Y. and Sutcliffe, R., (2024). . Neurocomputing. 597, 128064-128064
Sutcliffe, RFE., (2024). A Survey of Personality, Persona, and Profile in Conversational Agents and Chatbots.. CoRR. abs/2401.00609
Sun, X., Li, B., Sutcliffe, R., Gao, Z., Kang, W. and Feng, J., (2023). . Pattern Recognition. 138, 109285-109285
Mhamed, M., Sutcliffe, R., Sun, X., Feng, J. and Retta, EA., (2023). . Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal. 43, 101433-101433
Retta, EA., Sutcliffe, R., Almekhlafi, E., Enku, YK., Alemu, E., Gemechu, TD., Berwo, MA., Mhamed, M. and Feng, J., (2023). . PLoS One. 18 (4), e0284560-e0284560
Retta, EA., Sutcliffe, R., Mahmood, J., Berwo, MA., Almekhlafi, E., Khan, SA., Chaudhry, SA., Mhamed, M. and Feng, J., (2023). . Applied Sciences. 13 (23), 12587-12587
Mhamed, M., Sutcliffe, R., Quteineh, H., Sun, X., Almekhlafi, E., Retta, EA. and Feng, J., (2023). . Journal of Information Science. abs/2201.12664
Retta, EA., Almekhlafi, E., Sutcliffe, R., Mhamed, M., Ali, H. and Feng, J., (2023). A New Amharic Speech Emotion Dataset and Classification Benchmark. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing. 22 (1), 1-22
Lu, X., Deng, Y., Sun, T., Gao, Y., Feng, J., Sun, X. and Sutcliffe, R., (2022). . Applied Intelligence. 52 (2), 1878-1892
Sun, X., Zhao, X., Li, B., Ma, Y., Sutcliffe, R. and Feng, J., (2022). Dynamic Key-Value Memory Networks With Rich Features for Knowledge Tracing. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 52 (8), 8239-8245
Lu, Q., Sun, X., Sutcliffe, R., Xing, Y. and Zhang, H., (2022). Sentiment interaction and multi-graph perception with graph convolutional networks for aspect-based sentiment analysis. Knowledge-Based Systems. 256, 109840-109840
Chen, J., Sun, X., Jin, X. and Sutcliffe, R., (2022). . Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 135, 104192-104192
Hu, J., Zhang, H., Liu, Y., Sutcliffe, R. and Feng, J., (2022). . Applied Intelligence. 52 (6), 6723-6738
Sun, X., Gao, Y., Sutcliffe, R., Guo, S-X., Wang, X. and Feng, J., (2021). . IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 51 (7), 4532-4542
Hu, J., Wang, C., Jia, Q., Bu, Q., Sutcliffe, R. and Feng, J., (2021). . Neurocomputing. 463, 177-184
Mhamed, M., Sutcliffe, R., Sun, X., Feng, J., Almekhlafi, E. and Retta, EA., (2021). . Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. 2021 (1), 5538791-5538791:1
Sun, X., Dong, K., Ma, L., Sutcliffe, R., He, F., Chen, S. and Feng, J., (2019). . Entropy. 21 (1), 37-37
Feng, J., Liu, Z., Feng, H., Sutcliffe, R., Liu, J. and Han, J., (2019). . Entropy. 21 (3), 313-313
Sutcliffe, R., Hovy, E., Collins, T., Wan, S., Crawford, T. and Root, DL., (2019). . Language Resources and Evaluation. 53 (1), 87-140
Nishio, N. and Sutcliffe, RFE., (2017). Opera goer or Scrabble player: what makes a good translator?. Machine Translation. 30 (1-2), 63-109
Pe帽as, A., Magnini, B., Forner, P., Sutcliffe, R., Rodrigo, 脕. and Giampiccolo, D., (2012). Question answering at the cross-language evaluation forum 2003鈥2010. Language Resources and Evaluation. 46 (2), 177-217
White, K. and Sutcliffe, RFE., (2011). Butcher, baker, or candlestick maker? Predicting occupations using predicate-argument relations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62 (7), 1325-1344
White, KJ. and Sutcliffe, RFE., (2006). Applying incremental tree induction to retrieval from manuals and medical texts. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 57 (5), 588-600
Sutcliffe, RFE., O'Sullivan, D., McElligott, A. and Sheahan, L., (1995). Creation of a semantic lexicon by Traversal of a machine tractable concept taxonomy*. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. 2 (1), 33-42
Sutcliffe, RFE. and Slater, BEA., (1995). Disambiguation by association as a practical method: Experiments and findings*. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. 2 (1), 43-52
(1988). Natural language understanding, propositional representations and the parrot system. Neural Networks. 1 (1 SUPPL), 318-318
Books (1)
Sutcliffe, RFE., (2002). Preface
Book chapters (3)
Pe帽as, A., Rodrigo, 脕., Magnini, B., Forner, P., Hovy, E., Sutcliffe, R. and Giampiccolo, D., (2019). Results and Lessons of the Question Answering Track at CLEF. In: The Information Retrieval Series. Editors: . Springer International Publishing. 441- 460. 9783030229474
(2016). Connectionist Approaches to Natural Language Processing. In: Connectionist Approaches to Natural Language Processing. Editors: Reilly, RG. and Sharkey, N., . Routledge. 49- 73
Kruschwitz, U., Webb, N. and Sutcliffe, R., (2009). Query Log Analysis for Adaptive Dialogue-Driven Search. In: Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis. IGI Global. 389- 414
Conferences (45)
Yang, Y., Sun, X., Lu, Q., Sutcliffe, R. and Feng, J., (2023). A Sentiment and Syntactic-Aware Graph Convolutional Network for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification
Jin, X., Sun, X., Chen, J. and Sutcliffe, R., (2022). Extracting Drug-drug Interactions from Biomedical Texts using Knowledge Graph Embeddings and Multi-focal Loss
Quteineh, H., Samothrakis, S. and Sutcliffe, R., (2022).
Quteineh, H., Samothrakis, S. and Sutcliffe, R., (2020).
Kai, Z., Feng, J., Sutcliffe, R., Xiaoyu, W. and Qirong, B., (2019). Multi-depth Dilated Network for Fashion Landmark Detection
Pe帽as, A., Hovy, E., Forner, P., Rodrigo, 脕., Sutcliffe, R. and Morante, R., (2013). QA4MRE 2011-2013: Overview of Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation
Sutcliffe, R., Pe帽as, A., Hovy, E., Forner, P., Rodrigo, 脕., Forascu, C., Benajiba, Y. and Osenova, P., (2013). Overview of QA4MRE main task at CLEF 2013
Pe帽as, A., Hovy, E., Forner, P., Rodrigo, 脕., Sutcliffe, R., Sporleder, C., Forascu, C., Benajiba, Y. and Osenova, P., (2012). Overview of QA4MRE at CLEF 2012: Question Answering for Machine Reading evaluation
Pens, A., Hovy, E., Forner, P., Rodrigo, A., Sutcliffe, R., Forascu, C. and Sporleder, C., (2012). Evaluating machine reading systems through comprehension tests
Slattery, DM. and Sutcliffe, RFE., (2012). Automatic analysis of financial event phrases and keywords in form 8-K disclosures
Pe帽as, A., Hovy, E., Forner, P., Rodrigo, 脕., Sutcliffe, R., Forascu, C. and Sporleder, C., (2011). Overview of QA4MRE at CLEF 2011: Question answering for machine reading evaluation
Sutcliffe, RFE., Kruschwitz, U. and Mandl, T., (2010). Web Logs and Question Answering
Pe帽as, A., Forner, P., Rodrigo, 脕., Sutcliffe, R., Forascu, C. and Mota, C., (2010). Overview of ResPubliQA 2010: Question answering evaluation over European legislation
Pe帽as, A., Forner, P., Sutcliffe, R., Rodrigo, 脕., For膬scu, C., Alegria, I., Giampiccolo, D., Moreau, N. and Osenova, P., (2010). Overview of ResPubliQA 2009: Question Answering Evaluation over European Legislation
Forner, P., Giampiccolo, D., Magnini, B., Pe帽as, A., Rodrigo, 脕. and Sutcliffe, R., (2010). Evaluating multilingual question answering systems at CLEF
Pe帽as, A., Forner, P., Sutcliffe, R., Rodrigo, 脕., Forascu, C., Alegria, I., Giampiccolo, D., Moreau, N. and Osenova, P., (2009). Overview of ResPubliQA 2009: Question answering evaluation over European legislation
Forner, P., Pe帽as, A., Agirre, E., Alegria, I., For膬scu, C., Moreau, N., Osenova, P., Prokopidis, P., Rocha, P., Sacaleanu, B., Sutcliffe, R. and Tjong Kim Sang, E., (2009). Overview of the Clef 2008 Multilingual Question Answering Track
Forner, P., Pe帽as, A., Agirre, E., Alegria, I., For蓹scu, C., Moreau, N., Osenova, P., Prokopidis, P., Ro-Cha, P., Sacaleanu, B., Sutcliffe, R. and Sang, ETK., (2008). Overview of the CLEF 2008 multilingual Question Answering track
Giampiccolo, D., Forner, P., Herrera, J., Pe帽as, A., Ayache, C., Forascu, C., Jijkoun, V., Osenova, P., Rocha, P., Sacaleanu, B. and Sutcliffe, R., (2008). Overview of the CLEF 2007 Multilingual Question Answering Track
Sutcliffe, RFE., Steinberger, J., Kruschwitz, U., Alexandrov-Kabadjov, M. and Poesio, M., (2007). Identifying Novel Information Using Latent Semantic Analysis in the WiQA Task at CLEF 2006
Magnini, B., Giampiccolo, D., Forner, P., Ayache, C., Jijkoun, V., Osenova, P., Pe帽as, A., Rocha, P., Sacaleanu, B. and Sutcliffe, R., (2007). Overview of the CLEF 2006 Multilingual Question Answering Track
Sutcliffe, RFE., Steinberger, J., Kruschwitz, U., Alexandrov-Kabadjov, M. and Poesio, M., (2006). Identifying novel information using Latent Semantic Analysis in the WiQA task at CLEF 2006
Sutcliffe, RFE., White, K., Slattery, D., Gabbay, I. and Mulcahy, M., (2006). Cross-language French-English question answering using the DLT system at CLEF 2006
Sutcliffe, RFE., Mulcahy, M., Gabbay, I., O鈥橤orman, A. and Slattery, D., (2006). Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2005
Vallin, A., Magnini, B., Giampiccolo, D., Aunimo, L., Ayache, C., Osenova, P., Pe帽as, A., de Rijke, M., Sacaleanu, B., Santos, D. and Sutcliffe, R., (2006). Overview of the CLEF 2005 Multilingual Question Answering Track
Magnini, B., Giampiccolo, D., Forner, P., Ayache, C., Jijkoun, V., Osenova, P., Pe帽as, A., Rocha, P., Sacaleanu, B. and Sutcliffe, RFE., (2006). Overview of the CLEF 2006 Multilingual Question Answering Track.
Magnini, B., Giampiccolo, D., Aunimo, L., Ayache, C., Osenova, P., Pe帽as, A., De Rijke, M., Sacaleanu, B., Santos, D. and Sutcliffe, R., (2006). The multilingual question answering track at CLEF
Pe帽as, A. and Sutcliffe, R., (2006). Preface
Sutcliffe, RFE., Mulcahy, M., White, K., Gabbay, I. and O'Gorman, A., (2005). Question answering using the DLT system at TREC 2005
Mulcahy, M., White, K., Gabbay, I., O'Gorman, A. and Sutcliffe, RFE., (2005). Question Answering Using the DLT System at TREC 2005.
Sutcliffe, RFE., Mulcahy, M., Gabbay, I., O'Gorman, A., White, K. and Slattery, D., (2005). Cross-language french-english question answering using the DLT System at CLEF 2005
Sutcliffe, RFE., Gabbay, I., Mulcahy, M. and O鈥橤orman, A., (2005). Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2004
Sutcliffe, RFE., Mulcahy, M., Gabbay, I., O'Gorman, A. and Slattery, D., (2005). Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2005.
Vallin, A., Magnini, B., Giampiccolo, D., Aunimo, L., Ayache, C., Osenova, P., Pe帽as, A., Rijke, MD., Sacaleanu, B., Santos, D. and Sutcliffe, RFE., (2005). Overview of the CLEF 2005 Multilingual Question Answering Track.
Magnini, B., Vallin, A., Ayache, C., Erbach, G., Pe帽as, A., de Rijke, M., Rocha, P., Simov, K. and Sutcliffe, R., (2005). Overview of the CLEF 2004 Multilingual Question Answering Track
Sutcliffe, RFE., Gabbay, I., Mulcahy, M. and O'Gorman, A., (2004). Cross-language French-English question answering using the DLT system at CLEF 2004
Magnini, B., Vallin, A., Ayache, C., Erbach, G., Pe帽as, A., De Rijke, M., Rocha, P., Simov, K. and Sutcliffe, R., (2004). Overview of the CLEF 2004 multilingual question answering track
Sutcliffe, RFE., Gabbay, I. and O鈥橤orman, A., (2004). Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2003
Sutcliffe, RFE., Gabbay, I. and O'Gorman, A., (2003). Cross-language french-english question answering using the DLT system at CLEF 2003
Sutcliffe, RFE. and Kurohashit, S., (2000). A parallel English-Japanese query collection for the evaluation of on-line help systems
Sutcliffe, RFE., O'Sullivan, D. and Meharg, F., (1994). A Lexicon Of Distributed Noun Representations Constructed By Taxonomic Traversal.
Sutcliffe, RFE., McElligott, A. and O鈥橬eill, G., (1993). Translation between Irish and English by mapping between monolingual machine readable dictionaries using distributed representations
Sutcliffe, RFE., McElligott, A. and N醛ill, G., (1993). Using Distributed Patterns as Language Independent Lexical Representations
Sutcliffe, RFE., (1991). Distributed representations in a text based information retrieval system
Sharkey, NE., Sutcliffe, RFE. and Wobcke, WR., (1986). Mixing Binary and Continuous Connection Schemes for Knowledge Access
Reports and Papers (3)
Mhamed, M., Sutcliffe, R., Sun, X., Feng, J., Almekhlafi, E. and Retta, EA., (2022). A Deep CNN Architecture with Novel Pooling Layer Applied to Two Sudanese Arabic Sentiment Datasets
Retta, EA., Sutcliffe, R., Almekhlafi, E., Enku, YK., Alemu, E., Gemechu, TD., Berwo, MA., Mhamed, M. and Feng, J., (2022). Kinit Classification in Ethiopian Chants, Azmaris and Modern Music: A New Dataset and CNN Benchmark
Retta, EA., Almekhlafi, E., Sutcliffe, R., Mhamed, M., Ali, H. and Feng, J., (2022). A New Amharic Speech Emotion Dataset and Classification Benchmark
Grants and funding
2018
IAA ECC Challenge Lab project - Self service
糖心Vlog
IAA ECC Challenge Lab project - Self service
糖心Vlog
2017
To embed a NLP capability in Objective IT
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
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Academic Support Hour: Tuesday 11:00-12:00