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Dr. John McCrae

Principal Investigator

Linked Data

email john.mccrae@insight-centre.org

John McCrae is a lecturer above the bar at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at the University of Galway. He is currently working with Paul Buitelaar in the Unit for Natural Language Processing. Until 2015 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bielefeld in Bielefeld, Germany in Prof. Philipp Cimiano’s group, AG Semantic Computing. His main research has focussed around the development of linguistic linked open data and in particular the development of models for the representation of lexical resources, by means of the lemon and OntoLex models. He has previously been involved in the organization of the Linked Data in Linguistics Workshop Series as well as organizing workshops on the Multilingual Semantic Web, Knowledge Extraction and Knowledge Integration as well as several tutorials at major conferences and is organizing the first conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2017).

Research Focus and Applications

  • Research: ontologies, lexicography, knowledge graphs, machine translation, linked data, machine learning, under-resourced languages and digital humanities
  • Over 100 publications with h-Index 23
  • €1.7m research funding from EU, IRC, SFI
  • Standardization activities with W3C and OASIS
  • Experience in industry-focused projects on knowledge graphs, linked data and ontologies
  • Industry collaborations with Fidelity Labs

Publications

MixedEmotions: An Open-Source Toolbox for Multi-Modal Emotion Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
A Survey of Current Datasets for Code-Switching Research
Challenges for the Representations for Morphology in Ontology Lexicons
Taxonomy Extraction for Customer Service Knowledge Base Construction
Multilingual Multimodal Machine Translation for Dravidian Languages utilizing Phonetic Transcription
WordNet Gloss Translation for Under-resourced Languages using Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Projects

IRC Consolidator Laureate Awards 2017/2018
GOI – IES – Oksana Dereza
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