Professor Paul Buitelaar

Prof. Paul Buitelaar

Vice Director

Multimodal Data Analysis

Paul Buitelaar is Professor in Data Analytics and Deputy Director of the Data Science Institute at the University of Galway where he leads a team in Natural Language Processing. He is co-Director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in AI and co-PI of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics. His research interests are in the development and use of Natural Language Processing methods for knowledge extraction and semantic-based information access. He has been involved in a large number of national and international funded projects in this area, among which the EU funded projects: Monnet, which developed the lemon model for ontology based lexicons; MixedEmotions, which developed the MixedEmotions toolbox for multilingual, multimodal emotion analysis; and Pret-a-LLOD, which develops the LingHub repository for linguistic data, among other focus areas. He has further been the originator and lead on the development of the Saffron framework for knowledge extraction from text, which has been used in projects with the Irish Times, Fidelity Investments and Huawei.

Research Focus and Applications

  • Professor in Data Analytics, Deputy Director of the Data Science Institute at University Of Galway, Co-PI Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics
  • Leading a team in Natural Language Processing research
  • Co-leading the Insight Multimodal Data Analysis research program, which brings together interdisciplinary research on Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision and Sensor Analysis from across the Insight centre in close collaboration with industry
  • Research interests: development and use of Natural Language Processing methods for knowledge extraction and semantic-based information access
  • Coordinated a large number of national and EU funded projects in these research areas
  • Research contributions in knowledge extraction from text (ontology learning, knowledge graphs), linguistic knowledge representation (ontology-lexicon interface, linguistic linked data) and social media analysis (suggestion mining)
  • 200+ publications, 8000+ citations, H-Index: 41
  • Industry collaborations with Fidelity, Huawei, Semalytix, Irish Times, Kennys Book Shop