The Unit for Natural Language Processing (UNLP) at the Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway has a focus on applied research in information extraction, text mining, and semantic search. In our research projects we develop methods for the efficient application of natural language processing tools in combination with domain semantics (Linked Data, ontologies, thesauri, other knowledge organisation systems) for real-life use cases in knowledge-based information access and semantic search. Our research topics are concerned with the extraction, representation, integration and exploitation of meaning from unstructured and semi-structured text data, using a combination of methods from natural language processing, information retrieval and machine learning. Our demonstrator systems provide readily available tools for applications in expert finding and taxonomy construction (Saffron), semantic search (EnRG) and ontology translation (OTTO), among others.
Areas of work:
Knowledge extraction from text, Machine translation, Social media analysis,
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Publications:
2020
Computational Phraseology
2019
Masoud, Torregrosa, Buitelaar, Arcan
27th AIAI Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
2019
Moussallem, Ngonga Ngomo, AC, Buitelaar, Arcan
International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP)
2019
Omnia Zayed and John P. McCrae and Paul Buitelaar
2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019)
2019
Proceedings of Sixth Biennial Conference on Electronic Lexicography, eLex 2019
2019
Masoud, Torregrosa, Buitelaar, Arcan
27th AIAI Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
2019
Moussallem, Ngonga Ngomo, AC, Buitelaar, Arcan
International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP)
2019
2019
Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop
2019
Literary Machine Translation Workshop, co-located with MT-Summit 2019
2019
Arcan, Torregrosa, Ahmadi, McCrae, JP
Proceedings of the Translation Inference Across Dictionaries Workshop (TIAD 2019)
2019
Chakravarthi, BR, Priyadharshini, Stearns, Jayapal, Srivedy, Arcan, Zarrouk, McCrae, JP
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019)
2019
Chakravarthi, BR, Arcan, McCrae, JP
2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019)
2019
Omnia Zayed, John McCrae and Paul Buitelaar
The 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019)
2019
Joana Barros, Ruth Melia, Kady Francis, John Bogue, Mary O’Sullivan, Karen Young, Rebecca A. Bernert, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Jim Duggan
International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health
2019
27th AIAI Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
2018
Tobias Daudert and Paul Buitelaar
9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA) at EMNLP 2018
2018
Tobias Daudert, Paul Buitelaar, Sapna Negi
First Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing (ECONLP) at ACL 2018
2018
Buitelaar, P. and Wood, I. D. and Negi, S. and Arcan, M. and McCrae, J. P. and Abele, A. and Robin, C. and Andryushechkin, V. and Ziad, H. and Sagha, H. and Schmitt, M. and Schuller, B. W. and Sanchez, J. F. and Iglesias, C. A. and Navarro, C. and Giefer, A. and Heise, N. and Masucci, V. and Danza, F. A. and Caterino, C. and Smrz, P. and Hradis, M. and Povolny, F. and Klimes, M. and Matejka, P. and Tummarello, G.
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2018
Rajdeep Sarkar and John P. McCrae and Paul Buitelaar
Proceedings of the 11th Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
2018
Ian Wood and John P. McCrae and Vladimir Andryushechkin and Paul Buitelaar
Proceedings of the 11th Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
2018
Housam Ziad and John P. McCrae and Paul Buitelaar
Proceedings of the 11th Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
2018
Mihael Arcan and Elena Montiel-Ponsoda and John P. McCrae and Paul Buitelaar
Proceedings of the 11th Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
2018
Omnia Zayed and John P. McCrae and Paul Buitelaar
Proceedings of the Workshop on Figurative Language Processing
2018
32nd AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2018
Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
2018
Language Technologies and Digital Humanities 2018
2018
Chakravarthi, BR, Arcan, McCrae, JP
Proceedings of the 9th Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2018)
2018
2018
Hooper, Clare and Peters, Isabella and Robin, C\'ecile
The Journal of Web Science
2017
Cécile Robin, James O'Neill, Paul Buitelaar
8th Language & Technology Conference 2017
2017
3rd International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media: User Engagement and Interaction
2017
James O’Neill, Paul Buitelaar, Cécile Robin, Leona O’Brien
Internation Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
2017
Silvello, Bordea, Ferro, Buitelaar, Bogers
International Journal On Digital Libraries
2017
Workshop on Multi-Language Processing in a Globalising World (MLP2017)
2017
Andrejs Abele and John P. McCrae and Paul Buitelaar
Proceedings of the First Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2017)
2017
Arcan, Turchi, Tonelli, Buitelaar
Natural Language Engineering
2017
Workshop on Multi-Language Processing in a Globalising World (MLP2017)
2017
Arcan, Turchi, Tonelli, Buitelaar
Natural Language Engineering
2017
International Conference on Digital Health
2017
Cécile Robin, James O'Neill, Paul Buitelaar
8th Language & Technology Conference 2017
2017
James O’Neill, Paul Buitelaar, Cécile Robin, Leona O’Brien
Internation Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
2016
2016
Asooja, Bordea, Buitelaar, Metais, Meziane, Saraee, Sugumaran V, Vadera
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, NLDB 2016
2016
Sentiment Analysis in Social Networks
2016
Sapna Negi, Kartik Asooja, Shubham Mehrotra, Paul Buitelaar
Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
2016
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2016)
2016
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC16), Poster&Demo Section
2016
Arcan, Lane, O Droighneain, Buitelaar
Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
2016
Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September
2016
International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
2016
International Semantic Web Conference
2016
McCrae, JP, Arcan, Asooja, Gracia, Buitelaar, Cimiano
Journal Of Web Semantics
2016
John P. McCrae and Philipp Cimiano and Paul Buitelaar and Georgeta Bordea
PARSEME/ENeL workshop on MWE e-lexicons
2016
John P. McCrae and Georgeta Bordea and Paul Buitelaar
1st Workshop on Cross-Platform Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Interoperability
2016
Iglesias, CA, Sanchez-Rada, JF, Vulcu, Buitelaar
Sentiment Analysis in Social Networks
2016
Arcan, Lane, O Droighneain, Buitelaar
Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
2016
Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
2016
Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September
2016
International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
2016
International Semantic Web Conference
2016
Chatterjee, Arcan, Negri, Turchi
The Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2016)
2016
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2016)
2016
European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT-2016)
2016
Third Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial-3)
2016
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC16), Poster&Demo Section
2016
McCrae, JP, Arcan, Asooja, Gracia, Buitelaar, Cimiano
Journal Of Web Semantics
2016
Luca Dini, André Bittar, Cécile Robin, Frédéric Segond, Miquel Montaner
Sentiment Analysis in Social Networks
2016
Filip Povolny, Pavel Matejka, Michal Hradis, Anna Popková , Lubomir Otrusina, Pavel Smrz, Ian Wood, Cécile Robin, Lori Lamel
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge
2015
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
2015
Arcan, Turchi, Buitelaar, Zong, Strube
Knowledge Portability with Semantic Expansion of Ontology Labels
2015
International Conference on Computational Semantics
2015
Arcan, Asooja, Ziad, Buitelaar
International Semantic Web Conference (Posters \& Demos)
2015
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics
2015
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
2015
Aggarwal, Asooja, Ziad, Buitelaar
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW 2015)
2015
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 53RD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOL 1
2015
18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT-15)
2015
Arcan, Asooja, Ziad, Buitelaar
International Semantic Web Conference (Posters \& Demos)
2015
Popovic, Arcan, Avramidis, Burchardt, Lommel
European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT-2015)
2015
Second Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2015)
2015
PARSEME 5th General Meeting (Poster)
2015
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
2015
Lopez, Cédric and Ponomareva, Aleksandra and Robin, Cécile and Bittar, André and Larrucea, Xabier and Segond, Frédérique and Metzger, Marie-Hélène
Actes de la 22e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
2015
Cédric Lopez , Aleksandra Ponomareva, Cécile Robin, André Bittar, Paolo Curtoni, Xabier Larrucea, Frédérique Segond, Marie-Hélène Metzger
22ème édition Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
2014
Arcan, Giuliano, Turchi, Buitelaar
4th International Workshop on Computational Terminology (Computerm), co-located with COLING 2014
2014
Arcan, Turchi, Tonelli, Buitelaar
Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2014)
2014
Vulcu, Buitelaar, Negi, Pereira, Arcan, Coughland, Sanchez Rada, JF, Iglesias Fernandez, CA
9th Edition of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2014)
2014
LREC 2014 - NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
2014
Vulcu, Monje, RL, Munoz, Buitelaar, Iglesias, CA
LREC 2014 - NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
2014
LREC 2014 - NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
2014
Arcan, Giuliano, Turchi, Buitelaar
4th International Workshop on Computational Terminology (Computerm), co-located with COLING 2014
2014
Arcan, Turchi, Tonelli, Buitelaar
Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2014)
2014
Vulcu, Buitelaar, Negi, Pereira, Arcan, Coughland, Sanchez Rada, JF, Iglesias Fernandez, CA
9th Edition of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2014)
2013
Buitelaar, Arcan, Iglesias Fernandez, CA, Sanchez Rada, JF, Strapparava
2nd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2013): Representing and linking lexicons, terminologies and other language data
2013
Arcan, Thomas, SM, De Brandt, Buitelaar
Machine Translation Summit XIV
2013
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2013 Student Research Workshop
2013
O'Riain, Coughlan, Buitelaar, Declerk, Krieger, Marie-Thomas
SEMANTIC WEB: ESWC 2013 SATELLITE EVENTS
2013
Proceedings of the XIV Machine Translation Summit - European projects presentation
2013
Philipp Cimiano and John McCrae and Paul Buitelaar and Elena Montiel-Ponsoda
New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources
2013
Georgeta Bordea, Paul Buitelaar and Tamara Polajnar
10th International Conference on Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA 2013), Paris, France
2013
Georgeta Bordea, Toine Bogers and Paul Buitelaar
Proceedings of the workshop on Computational Scientometrics: Theory and Applications, at the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013)
2013
Buitelaar, Arcan, Iglesias Fernandez, CA, Sanchez Rada, JF, Strapparava
2nd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2013): Representing and linking lexicons, terminologies and other language data
2013
Arcan, Thomas, SM, De Brandt, Buitelaar
Machine Translation Summit XIV
2013
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2013 Student Research Workshop
2013
Proceedings of the XIV Machine Translation Summit - European projects presentation
2012
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation
2012
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
2012
Bordea, Kirrane, Buitelaar, Pereira
LREC 2012 - EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
2012
QasemiZadeh, Buitelaar, Chen, TQ, Bordea
LREC 2012 - EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
2012
2012
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation
2012
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
2011
Hayashi, Declerck, Calzolari, Monachini, Soria, Buitelaar, Ishida
The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Language Resource Interoperability
2011
Journal Of Biomedical Informatics
2011
Paul Buitelaar and Philipp Cimiano and John McCrae and Elena Montiel-Ponsoda and Thierry Declerck
Proc. of 9th International Conference on Terminology and Articial Intelligence
2011
Aggarwal, Wunner, Arcan, Buitelaar, O'Riain
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ontology Matching
2011
Meddisciplinarnost v slovenistiki (Obdobja 30)
2011
Aggarwal, Wunner, Arcan, Buitelaar, O'Riain
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ontology Matching
2010
Monaghan, F., Bordea, G., Samp, K., Buitelaar, P.
Semantic Web Challenge at the International Semantic Web Conference
2010
Qasemizadeh, Behrang, Buitelaar, Paul, Monaghan, Fergal
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
2010
Georgeta Bordea, Paul Buitelaar
Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
2010
Ontology and the Lexicon: A Natural Language Processing Perspective
2010
Internal Financial Control Assessment Applying Multilingual Ontology Framework
2010
2010
Philipp Cimiano, Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Paul Buitelaar, Mauricio Espinoza, Asunción Gómez-Pérez
Journal Of Applied Ontology
2009
Daniel Sonntag, Pinar Wennerberg, Paul Buitelaar, Sonja Zillner
Cases on Semantic Interoperability for Information Systems Integration: Practices and Applications
2009
K-CAP'09: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE CAPTURE
2009
Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano, Peter Haase, Michael Sintek
Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference
2009
Pinar Wennerberg, Manuel Moeller, Paul Buitelaar, Sonja Zillner
Proceedings of the AMIA 2009 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics
2009
Nils Reiter and Paul Buitelaar
Information Retrieval in Biomedicine: Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Integration
2009
Pinar Wennerberg, Sonja Zillner, Paul Buitelaar
Proceedings of the AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on Technosocial Predictive Analytics
2009
Anita de Waard, Paul Buitelaar, Thomas Eigner
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Semantics
2006