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Chris Mellish

Also known as Christopher Mellish, Chris S. Mellish

Chris Mellish is an emeritus professor at the University of Aberdeen, and his work covers computational linguistics and natural language generation. He completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1981 on noun phrase interpretation. In 1989 he and Gazdar published Natural Language Processing in Prolog, an introduction to computational linguistics. He served as an IJCAI trustee from 1991 to 1995 and chaired the program of IJCAI-95. In 2001 he co-wrote a paper on the ILEX architecture for dynamic hypertext generation.

Timeline

  1. 1981

    A PhD on noun phrases

    He completes a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1981 with a dissertation on noun phrase interpretation and early semantic analysis.

  2. 1989

    Natural language processing in Prolog

    He and Gazdar publish Natural Language Processing in Prolog, an introduction to computational linguistics, in 1989.

  3. 1991–1995

    IJCAI trustee and program chair

    He serves as an IJCAI trustee from 1991 to 1995 and chairs the program of IJCAI-95.

  4. 2001

    The ILEX hypertext architecture

    He co-writes ILEX: an architecture for a dynamic hypertext generation system, which appears in Natural Language Engineering in 2001.

  5. 2003

    A natural language generation group

    In 2003 the group he leads with Ehud Reiter seeks a research fellow in natural language generation.

  6. 2009

    Centering for information ordering

    In 2009 he co-writes 'Evaluating centering for information ordering using corpora' with Karamanis, Poesio and Oberlander, published in Computational Linguistics.

  7. As of October 2026

    Emeritus professor at Aberdeen

    He is an emeritus professor in the School of Natural and Computing Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.

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  1. Christopher Mellish - The Mathematics Genealogy Project mathgenealogy.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Details for: Natural language processing in Prolog : › Indian Statistical Institute Library, Kolkata catalog library.isical.ac.in. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Other Former Officers | IJCAI ijcai.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Report EDI-INF-RR-0610 inf.ed.ac.uk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. 30 October: fyi -- language generation research, Scotland clg.scss.tcd.ie. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Evaluating centering for information ordering using corpora aura.abdn.ac.uk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Professor Christopher Mellish | The University of Aberdeen abdn.ac.uk. Checked 14 October 2026.