Brink van der Merwe
Contact Information
Dept of Mathematical Sciences,Computer Science Division,
University of Stellenbosch,
Private Bag X1, 7602 Matieland, SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: +27 21 808 4232
E-mail: abvdm -at- cs.sun.ac.za OR brinkvdm -at- gmail.com
Academic Qualifications
- 1995: PhD, Texas A&M University, Advisor: Prof CJ Maxson
Research
Research interest: Automata Theory
For a list of publications see Google Scholar and DBLP.
- 2012 Conference papers on Automata Theory:
DCFS 2012: Minimal DFA for Symmetric Difference NFA - jointly with Lynette van Zijl and Hellis Tamm - 2013 Conference papers on Automata Theory:
LATA 2013:Counting Minimal Symmetric Difference NFAs - jointly with Mark Farag and Jaco Geldenhuys
Editorial boards and Programme Committees
Editorial Board member of Journal of Universal Computer Science
Programme Committee member of the EACL 2012 Workshop on Applications of Tree Automata Techniques in Natural Language Processing
Previous M.Sc. Students
- Mohamed Taha, M.Sc. (graduated March 2008) Regulated rewriting in formal language theory
- Carl Crous, M.Sc. (graduated - March 2009) Autonomous robot path planning
- Gerrit Greeff, M.Sc. (graduated - March 2009) Interactive voxel terrain design using procedural techniques
- Walter Schulze, M.Sc. (graduated - March 2010) A formal language theory approach to music generation
Current M.Sc. Students
- Jan Buys. Applications of weighted tree automata in natural language processing.
PRASA 2012 paper with Jan Buys on Chorale Harmonization with Weighted Finite-state Transducers - Heila van der Merwe. Analyzing Android code with Java Path Finder.
Current PhD Students
- Peter Hayward. Unsupervised semantic parsing.
- Christine du Toit. Regulated rewriting.