Research History David McLean is a Senior lecturer and researcher whose prime academic interests lie in feed forward neural networks for continuous data domains (those described by non discrete attributes) unsupervised data clustering techniques and Conversational Agents. Dr. McLean obtained his PhD in January 1996 from the Manchester Metropolitan University after 39 months of study. His thesis dealt with the limitations of the most popular neural network algorithm Back Propagation and the development of techniques and algorithms which evolve a suitable network architecture during the learning phase and improve the neural network’s generalisation in continuous data domains. Since this time he has worked as a researcher at DERA (Defence Research Agency) and as a developer for Thomson Marconi Sonar both of which centred around the use of Neural Network systems to solve military problems. Dr. McLean then returned to academia continuing his research in to techniques for improving generalisation and taking a central role within the Centre for Conversational Agents Research and the Adaptive Psychological Profiling Research Centre. Some Recent Journal Publications Li Y, Bandar Z, McLean D, An Approach for Measuring Semantic Similarity Using Multiple Information Sources, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 15, No. 4, pp871-882, 2003, Li Y, McLean D, Bandar Z, J.D.OShea, K.Crockett, Sentence
Similarity Based on Semantic Nets and Corpus Statistics, IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 18, No. 8, pp1138-1150, August 2006, ISSN 1041-4347.
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D, Ingram D, McLean D., Mingham D., Bandar Z.,On Global-Local Artificial
Neural Networks for Function Approximation, Transactions on Neural Networks,
July 2006, Vol.17, No.4, pp942-952, ISSN 1045-9227. Crockett, K., Bandar Z., McLean D.,O’Shea, J. On Constructing a Fuzzy Inference Framework using Crisp Decision Trees, Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol.157, issue 21, November 2006, ISSN 0165-0114, pp2809-2832. Rothwell, J. Bandar, Z. O’Shea, J. McLean, D. Silent Talker: An Adaptive Psychological Profiling System Using Artificial Neural Networks. Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology. 20 (6) 2006, pp757-777, ISSN 1099-0720 Wedge D, Ingram D, McLean D., Mingham D., Bandar Z., On Neural Network Architectures and Overtopping Predictions. Journal of Maritime Engineering, vol. 158, September 2005, pp123-133, ISSN 1741-7597. Dancey D., Bandar Z., McLean D., Logistic Model Tree Extraction from Artificial Neural Networks, IEEE Transaction on Systems Man and Cybernetics (part B), vol. 37, August 2007. pp794-802., ISSN 1083-4419. McLean D, Bandar Z. & OShea J, An Empirical Comparison of Back-Propagation and the RDSE Algorithm on Continuously Valued Real World Data, Neural Networks, vol. 11, Iss. 9, pp1685-1694, 1998, ISSN 0893-6080. Li Y, Bandar Z, McLean D, Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words Using Lexical Knowledge and Neural Networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2002, pp 481-486. ISBN 3-540-44025-9. Personal Web Pages
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