Richard Evans

Hello, I'm a natural language processing (NLP) specialist with more than 25-years of experience in acedemia and industry. Since March 2023, I've been providing expertise in coding, machine learning, and STEM subjects in projects using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). In 1998-2022, I was a lecturer at the now disbanded Computational Linguistics Research Group in the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing (RIILP) at the University of Wolverhampton. I represented RIILP at meetings of the unversity's Ethics Sub-Committee.

In 2022, my research focused on automatic sentence simplification to reduce the propositional density of input text. I was motivated by the idea that progress in this area can improve text accessibility for humans and improve the reliability of text processing by machines. In this context, text processing by machines included things like machine translation, information extraction, summarisation, and syntactic parsing. Automatic sentence simplification for text processing was my PhD topic. I applied it to information extraction from clinical texts and to improve the accessibility of texts for people with autism.

Prior to this, I worked on numerous topics in natural language processing, including anaphora resolution, pronoun classification, named entity recognition, and information extraction.