I am a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, at the University of Hertfordshire.
- Member of the British Computer Society.
- member of the Cognitive Science Society.
- Associate Editor for the International Journal of Mind, Brain and Cognition.
Research Interests
My research is in the area of learning algorithms and their applications.Theory/Principles of Learning: (currently support-vector machines, and the underlying theory of reproducing-kernel Hilbert spaces)
Selected publications:
- P.C.R. Lane and J.B. Henderson, 'Towards effective parsing with neural networks: Inherent generalisations and bounded resource effects', Applied Intelligence, 19:83-100, 2003. Web page.
- P.C.R. Lane, F. Gobet and P.C-H. Cheng, 'Learning-based constraints on schemata', in Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 776-81, 2000. Web page.
Cognitive Architectures: CHREST
Selected publications:
- P.C.R. Lane and F. Gobet, 'Perception in chess and beyond: Commentary on Linhares and Freitas (2010)', New Ideas in Psychology, 29:156-61, 2011. Web page.
- P.C.R. Lane, F. Gobet and R. Ll. Smith, 'Attention mechanisms in the CHREST cognitive architecture', in L. Paletta and J. K. Tsotsos (eds), Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems, (Springer-Verlag) LNCS 5395, pp. 183-196, 2009. Web page.
- F. Gobet, P.C.R. Lane, S. Croker, P.C-H. Cheng, G. Jones, I. Oliver, and J.M. Pine, 'Chunking mechanisms in human learning', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5:236-243, 2001. Web page.
Applications of Learning Algorithms: in, for example, image analysis, model optimisation, software evolution, text analysis.
Selected publications:
- D. Clarke, P.C.R. Lane and P. Hender, 'Developing robust models for favourability analysis', in A. Balahur, E. Boldrini, A. Montoyo and P. Martinez-Barco (Eds.), Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA), pp.44-52, Association for Computational Linguistics, Portland, Oregon, 2011.
- P.D. Green, P.C.R. Lane, A.W. Rainer and S. Scholz, 'Selecting features in origin analysis', in M. Bramer, M. Petridis and A. Hopgood (Eds.) Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVII: Proceedings of AI-2010, The Thirtieth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, (Springer) pages 379-392, 2011.
- J.W. Han, P.C.R. Lane, N. Davey and Y. Sun, 'Attention mechanisms and component-based face detection', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Methods and Models in Computer Science (IEEE Computer Society), pp. 57-62, 2009. Webpage.
- P.C.R. Lane and F. Gobet, 'A methodology for developing computational implementations of scientific theories', Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computer Modelling & Simulation (IEEE Computer Society), pp. 392-7, 2008. Web page.
- P.C.R. Lane and J.B. Henderson, 'Incremental syntactic parsing of natural language corpora with Simple Synchrony Networks', IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 13:219-231, 2001. Web page.