  My current research interests in artificial intelligence are primarily in the area of machine learning.  Specifically, I am interested in Natural Language Acquisition.   Learning to produce a deep semantic representation from an input sentence would be useful in many tasks. My Ph.D. proposal is on corpus-based lexical acquisition. I wrote my Master's Thesis  on a system which learned rules suitable for use in a diagnostic expert  system.  I am also interested in mobile robots, and had an exhibit at Robofest 5 in 1994.  In the spring semester of 1995, I was the TA for  <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kuipers/agents.html">"Building Intelligent Agents"</a>. Here's my <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/bin/finger/cthomp">finger information</a>,  <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cthomp/cat.jpg">a picture of me</a>, my <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cthomp/vita.ps">vita</a>,   and a list of my <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cthomp/pubs.html">publications</a>. Also, see  <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ml/">the Machine Learning page</a>  for more information on our group. <p>
