Dr. Yalemisew Abgaz, Postdoctoral researcher, Affiliated Project., DCU
Dr. Yalemisew Abgaz carried out his PhD on Change Impact Analysis for Evolving Ontology-based Content Management under the supervisor Dr Claus Pahl at CNGL DCU. Yalemisew has an MSc. in Information Science from Addis Ababa University (2005).
E-mail: yabgaz (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: (353) 01 700 6912, room: L208
Mr. Mohamed Abou-Zleikha, PhD, UCD
Mohamed is a PhD student in UCD. He has an advanced master (master after master) in Artificial Intelligence (Engineering and Computer Science Option).
E-mail: mohamed.abou-zleikha (AT) ucdconnect.ie, room: B2.18
Prof. Khurshid Ahmad, Academic staff, TCD
Khurshid has managed and collaborated on 21 peer-reviewed EU, Irish and UK government projects in advanced IT, and led 6 technology transfer projects. His collaborators range from small start-ups to large multi-nationals (e.g. Siemens, Mercedes-Benz and France Telecom, AXA Insurance), UK Police Forces and Research Associations. He has supervised 34 successful PhD theses, 2 Engineering Doctorates, and 2 MPhil theses. He has published over 200 papers and reports, and five books. He has been an invited speaker at three international conferences.
Mr. Zeeshan Ahmed, PhD Student, UCD
Zeeshan Ahmed is a PhD student in CNGL UCD within the MUSTER research group in the UCD school of computer science and informatics. He received his BS in Computer Science from Department of Computer Science,University of Karachi, Pakistan. In 2007, he was awarded with European Union Erasmus Mundus scholarship for studying in Language and Technology program. He completed his first year of Master in Charles University of Prague,Czech Republic. During his first year, his studies focused on statistical methods in Speech and Language Processing. For 2nd year, he attended University of Nancy,France. Where his focus was on Knowledge based approaches to language processing. In 2009, he was awarded with SFI/CNGL scholarship to further enhance his skills in Speech Processing.
E-mail: Zeeshan.Ahmed (AT) ucdconnect.ie, phone: 017162911, room: B2.18
Dr. Hala Almaghout, Postdoctoral researcher, Affiliated project, DCU
Hala is a postdoctoral researcher on a CNGL affiliated project, QT LaunchPad.
E-mail: halmaghout (AT) computing.dcu.ie, room: L2.08
Mr. Ruwan Asanka Wasala, PhD Student, UL
Mr. Asanka Wasala is a PhD student in CNGL based in the Localisation Research Centre, University of Limerick (UL). Asanka, graduated from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka with a first class in the General Degree in Physical Science in 2004, received the best student award from the faculty for batch 2001/2002. From 2004 to 2008, he was employed at Language Technology Research Laboratory, University of Colombo School of Computing, as a Senior Research Assistant, where he worked in PAN Localization project, a regional initiative to develop local language computing capacity in Asia. He is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. His research interests are on localisation, natural language processing, speech processing and online hand-written character recognition.
E-mail: asanka.wasala (AT) ul.ie, phone: +353-61-202881, room: CS1-036
Mr. Eoin Bailey, Phd student, Affiliated Project, TCD
Dr. Pratyush Banerjee, Posdoctoral researcher, DCU
Pratyush Banerjee is a PhD student at CNGL, School of Computing, DCU partly funded by CNGL and Symantec Limited, Dublin. Pratyush hails from India and holds a bachelors and a masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to joining CNGL, he was working as a Research and Development Engineer at AOL, India Pvt. Ltd. Pratyush’s core area of research is in statistical machine translation, focussing on domain adaptation. He has been actively involved in the translation of user-generated forum content translation in association with Symantec. He is currently working as an Research Assistant with CNGL and Symantec working on auxiliary data selection for domain adaptation techniques.
E-mail: pbanerjee (AT) computing.dcu.ie, room: L2:01
Jonathan Barr, Graphics Designer, DCU
Jonathan is the CNGL Graphics Designer.
Ms. Hanna Béchara, PhD Research Student, DCU
E-mail: hbechara (AT) computing.dcu.ie, room: L2.08
Urvesh Bhowan, Research Assistant, TCD
Dr. Ergun Bicici, Postdoctoral Researcher, Affiliated Project, DCU
E-mail: Ergun.Bicici (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: 1-700-6718, room: CNGL
Dr. Rob Brennan, Postdoctoral researcher, TCD
Dr. Jim Buckley, Academic member, UL
Dr. João Cabral, Postdoctoral Researcher, TCD
Dr. João Cabral is Postdoctoral Researcher with the CNGL at Trinity College Dublin. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science and Informatics from The University of Edinburgh, in 2010. He has a BSc and MSc from Instituto Superior Técnico (I.S.T.)/Technical University of Lisbon in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has more than ten years of research experience in text-to-speech synthesis and speech signal processing. His research interests also include machine learning, automatic speech recognition, glottal source modeling and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL).
E-mail: joao.cabral (AT) ucd.ie, phone: +353 1 7162911, room: B2.15
Prof. Nick Campbell, Theme Leader "Delivery and Interaction", TCD
Nick Campbell is Stokes Professor at the Centre for Language and Communication Studies at TCD. He is also visiting professor at NAIST in Japan. He runs the TCD Speech Communication Lab at 7-9 South Leinster Street where he leads the FastNet Project researching nonverbal aspects of social and conversational interaction. He took over as track leader for Integrated Language Techgnologies after the departure of Prof Andy Way from CNGL in 2010, and was originally an external collaborator of CNGL while he was with ATR and NiCT in Japan. His interests include multimodal, multimedia techologies and the rendering of content according to context of delivery.
Oscar Cassetti, Phd student, Affiated project, TCD
Yi Chen, PhD student, affiliated member., DCU
Dr. JJ Collins, Academic staff, UL
Prof. Owen Conlan, Assistant Professor, Theme Leader "Personalisation and Adaptivity", TCD
Owen Conlan is an Assistant Professor in the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group (KDEG) at Trinity College Dublin. Owen coordinates the FP7 CULTURA project, is Principal Investigator on the SFI-funded AMAS project and leads the Personalisation and Adaptivity theme in the Centre for Next Generation Localisation. There are several internationally recognised contributions of his work including the multi-model, metadata driven approach to personalisation, manifest in the Adaptive Engine; the non-invasive approach to personalisation; and the semantically informed encoding of expert perspectives towards visualisation. Owen has contributed to over 90 high impact publications (78 Conference Paper, 12 Journal), 2 Books and 4 Book Chapters. He is the recipient of two best paper awards at international conferences. Owen is also a passionate educator; he teaches Knowledge Engineering at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has successfully supervised 18 Ph.D. and M.Sc. students to completion.
Dr. Sandipan Dandapat, Postdoctoral research, Affiliated project, DCU
Dr. Sandipan Dandapat obtained his B.Tech (Hons) from the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering of Haldia Institute of Technology Vidyasagar University in 2002 and his Post Graduate Diploma in Computational Linguistics (PGDCL) in 2004 from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He then completed a M.Sc. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2008. Sandipan joined CNGL as a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Andy Way and Dr. Sara Morrissey. Sandipan’s research involved mitigating some of the problems of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) using Example-based Machine Translation (EBMT) by strategically combining both. Sandipan is now a postdoctoral researcher working on a TIDA project “Machine Translation and Translation Memory Integration in a Localisation Workflow”.
Room: L2.01
Dr. Aswarth Dara, Postdoctoral researcher, Affiliated project, DCU
Dr. Kenneth Dawson-Howe, Academic staff, TCD
Kenneth Dawson-Howe is a lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, specialising in Computer Vision. He supervises researchers mainly in the Graphics, Vision and Visualisation (GV2) group. He has worked on a wide range of computer vision areas including medical imaging, industrial inspection, robot vision, infrared image interpretation for buried landmine detection, and is currently working in the areas of visual surveillance and video understanding. As part of the CNGL II project Kenneth will be co-supervising a student in the area of video adaption (in order to extract useful information from video which will aid in the personalisation of content to create rich, interlinked and interactive presentations.
Domenico De Feo, Research Assistant, TCD
Dr. Gavin Doherty, Academic staff, TCD
Prof. Gavin Doherty was appointed Lecturer (permanent) in November 2001. He received a BA (Mod) in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin in 1995 where he was also awarded a Foundation Scholarship. He received a scholarship from the University of York, UK, to undertake doctoral work in the Human-Computer Interaction Group. He received a doctoral degree in 1998 for his research on interactive systems supervised by Prof. Michael Harrison. He was then appointed as a Research Fellow on the TMR project TACIT on continuous interaction techniques, and was based in CNR Istituto CNUCE Pisa, and later the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
E-mail: Gavin.Doherty (AT) tcd.ie, phone: +353 1 8963858, room: ORI LG.19
Dr. Stephen Doherty, Postdoctoral researcher, Affiliated project, DCU
Stephen Doherty completed his PhD with Drs. Sharon O’Brien and Dorothy Kenny of CNGL/School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies in. His PhD examined the reading and comprehension of machine-translated content using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including eye tracking, retrospection, and recall. During this time, he taught modules in Translation Technology on the European Master’s in Translation, and languages/communications to adults returning to education as part of the DCU in the Community outreach project. Stephen is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on an FP7 project: QTLaunchPad – a collaborative European research initiative dedicated to overcoming barriers in machine translation and language technologies. In 2012, Stephen also founded the Under Thirty project, a non-profit social enterprise that nurtures young writers.
E-mail: stephen.doherty2 (AT) mail.dcu.ie, phone: +35317005385, room: Henry Gratten Building, CG102
Amelie Dorn, PhD student, TCD
E-mail: dorna (AT) tcd.ie, room: Phonetics & Speech Laboratory
Mr. Mourad El Moueddeb, PhD student, UCD
Room: A007
Dr. Martin Emms, Academic staff, TCD
Maria Eskevich, PhD student, affiliated project, DCU
Maria is a PhD-student in the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), previously affiliated with the Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP), member of the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) in Dublin City University. Maria’s research interests lie on the intersection of the Information retrieval and Speech Processing. The project she was working on at CDVP was called "Improving Indexing for Search of Spontaneous Conversational Speech".
Dr. Chris Exton, Academic staff, UL
E-mail: chris.exton (AT) ul.ie, room:
Dr. David Filip, Challenge Leader, UL
David Filip is the Liaison Officer, Secretary and Editor of OASIS XLIFF TC, Co-Chair of W3C MultilingualWeb-LT (ITS 2.0), XLIFF TC Liaison at Unicode Localization Interoperability (ULI) TC, TAUS Standards Advisory Board Member etc. His specialties include open standards and process metadata, workflow and meta-workflow automation. David works as a Research Fellow at the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) in Limerick, Ireland in the capacity of a CNGL Challenge Leader in the area of Open Standards for Global Intelligent Content (GIC) Interoperability. The brief of this challenge is to ensure wide industry adoption of GIC and to make it future proof by making use of and influencing development of state of the art interoperability standards at W3C, OASIS, Unicode etc.
Leroy Finn, Programmer, TCD
E-mail: finnle (AT) tcd.ie, room:
Dr. Jennifer Foster, Challenge Leader, DCU
Jennifer Foster is a lecturer in the School of Computing in Dublin City University (DCU) and a researcher in the National Centre for Language Technology in DCU. Her research interests include robust statistical parsing, parser evaluation, applications of parsing (grammatical error detection, sentiment analysis, quality estimation for machine translation) as well as natural language processing for the Irish language. Jennifer’s role in CNGL is to lead research on robust parsing, domain adaptation and data normalisation for use in parsing the language of social media.
Mr. Hector Franco, PhD, TCD
E-mail: francoph (AT) cs.tcd.ie, phone: 018962017, room: 2.7 westland row
Mr. Brian Gallagher, Web Developer, TCD
E-mail: brian.gallagher (AT) cs.tcd.ie, room:
Mr. Debasis Ganguly, PhD, DCU
Debasis has an M.Tech in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute, 2008 and a B.Tech in Computer Science from University of Kalyani, 2004. Debasis worked in Synopsys, India as an R&D Engineer for a year and a half on Logic Synthesis tool Synplify Pro/Premier targeted to Xilinx and Silicon Blue FPGAs. He also worked in Alumnus Software Ltd. for two years as a Senior Engineer on developement of protocol performance test suites, enhancing RTSP to support 3GPP streaming and developement of a spam filter application for SMS.
E-mail: dganguly (AT) computing.dcu.ie, room: L102
Ms. Manisha Ganguly, DCU
E-mail: mganguly (AT) computing.dcu.ie, room: L208
Dr. Federico Gaspari, Postdoctoral Researcher, affiliated project, DCU
E-mail: fgaspari (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 (0)1 7006724, room: Based in Italy
Dr. Anton Gerdelan, Postdoctoral researcher, DCU
Anton is a post-doctoral researcher working with the KDEG group at Trinity College Dublin. Anton is working on visualisation research using HTML5 technology, in particular, WebGL 3d rendering. Anton was previously lecturing at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola in Karlskrona, Sweden, where he was part of the Computer Graphics group. Anton’s research interests are computer graphics, computational simulations, video games, artificial intelligence and evolutionary algorithms, physics, and vehicle mechanical systems.
Mr. M. Rami Ghorab, PhD, TCD
M. Rami Ghorab is a post-doctoral researcher in the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group (KDEG) at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Rami’s research interests are: Personalisation, User Modelling, Multilingual Information Retrieval, and Social Search. His research within CNGL focuses on building user models based on the search history and social interactions of users on the Web, and using these models to personalise search results on a monolingual/multilingual level. Rami has a BSc in Computer Science from the Modern Academy, Egypt, and a Diploma in Software Engineering from the Information Technology Institute, Egypt. He received an MSc in IT from the University of Nottingham, UK, and is a PhD candidate at TCD.
E-mail: ghorabm (AT) tcd.ie, phone: (01) 8961335, room: G.31
Mr. Solomon Gizaw, PhD, UL
E-mail: solomon.gizaw (AT) ul.ie, phone: +353-61-202734, room:
Mr. Steve Gotz, Design & Innovation Lab Coordinator, DCU
Steve Gotz has worked at the perplexing, but often rewarding front-end of research and new product development throughout his entire career. Steve has over 15 years of experience commercialising software and service offerings in large corporate intrapreneurial environments (AT&T Labs), academic laboratories as well as small entrepreneurial ventures.
E-mail: steve.gotz (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 1 700 6710, room:
Dr. Cara Nicole Greene, E&O Manager, DCU
Dr. Cara Greene is the CNGL Education and Outreach Manager. Cara has a PhD in ICT Integration at secondary school to cater to needs of diverse students.
E-mail: cgreene (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: 01-700 6704, room: L2.06
Ms. Laura Grehan, Marketing and Communications Officer, DCU
Laura Grehan is Marketing and Communications Officer in the CNGL. Laura holds a BA in International Marketing and Languages and an MSc in Electronic Commerce (Business), both from Dublin City University. Laura is responsible for promotion, public and media relations, advertising and production of publications for the CNGL She also supports the Centre’s on-going Education & Outreach programmes and activities, providing event support for key centre events and promotions.
E-mail: laura.grehan (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 1 7006705, room: L205
Dr. Declan Groves, Research Integration Officer, Affiliated Project, DCU
E-mail: dgroves (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 (0)1 700 6906, room: L215
Ms. Geraldine Harrahill, LRC Administrator, UL
E-mail: geraldine.harrahill (AT) ul.ie, phone: +353 60 202 881, room:
Mr. Eamonn Hynes, Postgraduate Research Student, TCD
E-mail: hynese (AT) cs.tcd.ie, phone: 01 896 1335, room: G31
Mr. Dominic Jones, Research Fellow, TCD
Dominic Jones is a post-doctoral researcher in the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group (KDEG) at Trinity College Dublin. Dominic currently works for the W3C Multilingual Web Working Group and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation. As part of his work in MLW-LT project Dominic coordinates delivery of the Test Suite deliverable which shows conformance of the standard across a number of implementations required for the standard to pass through the W3C process. As part of the CNGL project Dominic has works on modelling cross-centre meta-data, as chair of the meta-data group and has assisted in organising numerous scientific showcases held as part of the centres continuing research program.
E-mail: Dominic.Jones (AT) cs.tcd.ie, phone: +353 1 896 0331, room: G29 O’Reilly Inst. Trinity College Dublin
Gareth Jones, Co-Principal Investigator, Theme Leader "Search and Discovery", DCU
Gareth Jones holds B.Eng and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bristol, U.K. He has previously been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, U.K., and was a Toshiba Fellow at the Toshiba Corporation Research and Development Center in Kawasaki, Japan. Prior to joining DCU he was a Lecturer at the University of Exeter, U.K. He has previously held positions as a Visiting Scientist to the Informedia project at Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. and a JSPS Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. He joined DCU as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at Dublin City University in 2003. His research focuses on information retrieval and access technologies including multilingual, multimedia and mobile applications. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed international research papers, including receiving Best Paper Awards from ACM SIGIR and ACM Multimedia. Within CNGL he coordinates research activities in information retrieval within the Digital Content Management (DCM) research track. He has been active member in IR benchmarking activities for a number of years principally at the EU Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) since its foundation in 2000, and in 2010 is co-organiser of the MediaEval 2010 multimedia benchmarking workshop. He has served on the PC on all the major major conferences in information retrieval, and is IR track for ACM CIKM, will be co-PC chair for ECIR 2011 and co-chair of ACM SIGIR 2013, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Information Retrieval.
E-mail: Gareth.Jones (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: 01 700 5559, room: L2.01D
Mr. John Kane, PhD, TCD
E-mail: kanejo (AT) tcd.ie, phone: (+353) 1 896 1348, room: Phonetics Lab, 4074
Mr. Mark Kane, PhD, UCD
Mark Kane is a PhD student in the MUSTER research group located in the UCD School of Computer Science & Informatics. He received a BEng (1st) in Electronic Product Design from Dundalk Institute of Technology in 2004. In 2007, he received a MEng (1st) in Telecommunicaitons from Dublin City University. Mark’s undergraduate and postgraduate primary projects were focused on Speech Technologies and in 2008 was awarded an SFI scholarship for PhD research in the area of Speech Recognition and is supervised by Prof. Julie Carson-Berndsen.
E-mail: mark.kane (AT) ucdconnect.ie, room: B2.18
Dr. John Kelleher, Academic staff, TCD
Dr. John Kelleher graduated with a Ph.D. from Dublin City University in 2003. He then worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher at Media Lab Europe in Dublin (2003-2004). In 2004 he joined DFKI in Saarbruecken as a Senior Researcher of the FP6 project CoSy. In 2005 he returned to Ireland to take up a Lecturing position at the School of Computing in the Dublin Institute of Technology. In 2011 John co-founded LingleOnline.com a company working in the online language Education space. In 2012 John was appointed as an adjunct lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin.
Mr. Karl Kelly, Affiliated Administrative, UL
Karl Kelly is the LRC Manager. Karl has a B.A in European Studies, majoring in Spanish and French, and a Graduate Diploma in Software Localisation, both from the University of Limerick. He also has NCVA and RSA qualifications in Information Technology and Business Administration.
E-mail: karl.kelly (AT) ul.ie, phone: +353-61-202748, room: CS1-036
Dr. Liadh Kelly, Postdoctoral Researcher, DCU
E-mail: liadh.kelly (AT) computing.dcu.ie, room: L2.01
Alex Killen, Dec Team Developer, DCU
Mr. Kevin Koidl, PhD, TCD
Kevin is a PhD student in TCD. Kevin has a Dual Masters in Computer Science and Business Studies (Dipl. Wirtschaftsinformatik) from the Technical University of Darmstadt (TUD), Germany. His Master thesis title was "Modeling of Learning Strategies in Adaptive Hypermedia e-Learning Systems".
E-mail: kevin.koidl (AT) cs.tcd.ie, phone: +353 – (0) 1 – 896-1335, room: G.35
Prof. Séamus Lawless, Assistant Professor, Challlenge Leader, TCD
Séamus Lawless is an Assistant Professor in the discipline of Intelligent Systems in the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin. His research interests are in the areas of information retrieval, information management and digital humanities with a particular focus on adaptivity and personalisation. The common focus of this research is Digital Content Management and the Application of Technology to Support Enhanced, Personalised Access to Knowledge. In addition to his work in the Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Séamus is also a senior researcher in the EU FP7 CULTURA project. He has published more than 40 refereed scientific papers and has been a PC member and reviewer for numerous journals and conferences.
E-mail: seamus.lawless (AT) scss.tcd.ie, phone: +353-1-8961335, room: G.31 O’Reilly Institute
Mr. Killian Levacher, PhD, TCD
E-mail: killian.levacher (AT) cs.tcd.ie, room: F31, O’Reilly Institute, TCD
Dr. Johannes Leveling, Research Fellow, DCU
Johannes achieved his Diploma (Dipl. Inform.) on "Evaluation of multi-threading in architecture with different memory models" at the Carl-von-Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany. Since 1999, Johannes was working at the University of Hagen, Germany on different research projects, where we was awarded Dr. rer. nat. (PhD equivalent) on "Formal interpretation of user queries for natural language interfaces targetting information services on the internet" in 2006. He joined the DCM group at DCU in 2008 and work as a post-doctoral researcher on information retrieval, in particular on relevance feedback and query expansion. His other research interests include natural language interfaces, question answering and geographic information retrieval.
E-mail: johannes.leveling (AT) computing.dcu.ie, room: L2.201
Dr. David Lewis, Head of the KDEG Group, Theme Leader "Interoperability and Analytics", TCD
David Lewis gained his BSc in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton in 1989 and then worked as an Electornic Design Engineer at Thorn EMI Electronic for two years. He gain an MSc in Computer Science from University College London in 1990, and from 1990 t0 2002 he worked as a research fellow in the Computer Science Department of UCL, where he also completed his PhD in ‘A Service Management Development Framework for the Open Service Market’ in 2000. He also worked part time for UH Communications, a Danish start-up producing telecom management software. In 2002 he join the Computer Science Department at Trinity College Dublin. He is currently a Research Lecturer with the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group (KDEG) in the School of Computer Science and Statistics of Trinity College, Dublin. Overall, he has 19 years R&D experience in academia and industry, with over 110 publications and has received €3.2M in competitive research funding.
E-mail: dave.lewis (AT) cs.tcd.ie, phone: 01 896 8429, room: F.35, O’Reilly Institute, TCD
Dr. Baoli Li, Postdoctoral Researcher, TCD
Baoli obtained his PhD in computer science from Peking University, China. Before he joined CNGL, he worked at Baidu.Com, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Emory University.
E-mail: baoli.li (AT) cs.tcd.ie, phone: +353-1-896-1885, room: WR13.Westland R 2.2 @ TCD
Mr. Guofu Li, PhD student, UCD
Ms. Wei Li, PhD, DCU
E-mail: wli (AT) computing.dcu.ie, room:
Prof. Qun Liu, Theme Leader "Translation and Localisation", DCU
Professor Qun Liu is the Research Leader and Principle Investigate of the Machine Translation Group at Dublin City University. He is the leader of Intelligent Machine Translation Challenge of CNGL II. His research interest focuses on machine translation and natural language processing. Before joining CNGL, Prof. Liu was Professor and Director of the Natural Language Processing Research Group at the Institute of Computing Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the author or co-author of more than 150 research publications in the related areas, including a large number of publications at the top international journals and conferences.
Ms. Alejandra Lopez Fernandez, PhD, UCD
E-mail: alejandra.lopez-fernandez (AT) ucd.ie, room: A.007
Dr. Saturnino Luz, Challenge Leader, TCD
Prof. Saturnino Luz is a lecturer in computer science at Trinity College, Dublin. He graduated in computer science (Brasilia) and holds a PhD degree in Informatics (Edinburgh). Over the past years, Prof. Luz has worked on the development of novel technologies for human-computer interfaces in the areas of computer-supported cooperative work, natural language processing, dialogue management and design support tools for multi-modal systems. Prof. Luz has participated in a number of Irish- and EU-funded research projects, working on intelligent information interfaces (i3net), human language technology (DISC), acting as principal investigator of a research frontiers project aimed at enhancing support for medical team meetings, and as track coordinator in the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL). Prof. Luz has served in the program committee of several international conferences, the editorial board of Information and as reviewer for several journals in the area of human-computer interaction. He has been a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1994 and contributes regularly to the ACM Computing Reviews.
E-mail: luzs (AT) cs.tcd.ie, room: ORI. LG.17
Ms. Fiona Maguire, Financial Administrator, DCU
E-mail: Fiona.Maguire (AT) dcu.ie, room: L2.03
Mr. Alfredo Maldonado Guerra, PhD Student, TCD
E-mail: maldonaa (AT) tcd.ie, room: TCD, Westland Row 13, 2.1
Ms. Liliana Paola Mamani-Sanchez, PhD research student, TCD
E-mail: mamanisl (AT) scss.tcd.ie, room: 2.7 Westland Row, TCD
Ms. Sophie Matabaro, Centre Administrator, DCU
Sophie is the CNGL centre administrator.
E-mail: smatabaro (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 1 700 6707, room: L202
Mr. John McAuley, PhD, TCD
John is a PhD researcher in the Knowledge and Data Engineering group at Trinity College Dublin. His research interests include semantics, semiotics, social media, social networking, social visualisations and collaboration in mediated environments. Over the last several years he worked as a research programmer at the Digital Media Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology. Whist there, he collaborated on several research projects at both National and European level. He also completed an MPhil thesis on the relation between community knowledge and collective knowledge representation. It was through discussions on the semantic web and the corresponding progression of web2.0 that sparked my interest in the social side of information. His PhD research builds on this work, exploring how groups manage to effectively self-govern when collaborating in a mediated environment.
E-mail: john.mcauley (AT) cs.tcd.ie, room: G.31
Ms. Eithne McCann, Personal Assistant to Director, DCU
Phone: +353 (0)1 700 6700, room: L2.17
Ms. Hilary McDonald, Research Programme Co-ordinator, TCD
Hilary McDonald leads CNGL’s Project Management team which provides planning, progress monitoring and collaboration support for the Showcase Scenario Programme. Hilary is part of the Operations Team and is based in Trinity College. Prior to CNGL, Hilary held the post of Software Engineering Manager for Microsoft’s Developer Division (EMEA & East Asia). Hilary holds an MSC in Technology Management and is a PMI-certified Project Manager.
E-mail: mcdonah (AT) scss.tcd.ie, phone: +353-1-8964244, room: ORI.G27
Mr. Jinming Min, PhD, DCU
E-mail: jmin (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 1 700 6913, room: L2.08
Dr. Joss Moorkens, Postdoctoral researcher, DCU
Joss completed his PhD within the LOC2.2 track, provisionally entitled ‘Technology Evaluation – The User Perspective’. This evolved into a mixed-methods study of consistency in translation memories for his PhD thesis, supervised by Drs. Dorothy Kenny and Sharon O’Brien in DCU, and Reinhard Schäler in UL. His research involved some cooperation with other members of the LOC team in UL, use of Symantec data for a pilot study, and interviews with translators and others in the localisation industry who use TM (many of whom work for CNGL industry partners). Joss is currently working in DCU as a CNGL postdoctoral researcher, collaborating with Drs. Stephen Doherty, Dorothy Kenny, and Sharon O’Brien on research to improve TM consistency by using elements from SMT. He also lectures Japanese in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at DCU.
E-mail: joss.moorkens2 (AT) mail.dcu.ie, phone: 01-7005385, room: C144
Mr. John Moran, PhD student, TCD
E-mail: moranj3 (AT) cs.tcd.ie, room: F35
Dr. Erwan Moreau, Postdoctoral Researcher, TCD
Erwan Moreau is a post-doctoral researcher in the Computational Linguistics Group (CLG) at Trinity College Dublin. Erwan has been working in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) since his PhD, defended in 2006. He has studied various topics, from grammatical inference to named entities matching, with a focus on the applications of machine learning techniques to NLP problems. He currently works on quality estimation for machine translation, extracting stylistic features from texts and various related applications. He is also interested in the challenging problems of dealing with large amounts of textual data and building robust complex NLP systems.
E-mail: moreaue (AT) cs.tcd.ie, room:
Mr. Aram Morera Mesa, PhD, UL
Room: CS2037
Ms. Catherine Mulwa, PhD Student, TCD
E-mail: mulwac (AT) scss.tcd.ie, phone: +353-1-8961335, room: G31 O’Reilly Institute
Dr. Liam Murray, UL
Mr. Naoto Nishio, PhD, UL
E-mail: naoto.nishio (AT) ul.ie, phone: +353(0)61202881, room: CS2-037
Neasa NÍ Chiaráin, PhD Student, TCD
E-mail: nichiarn (AT) tcd.ie, room:
Prof. Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, Associate Professor in Phonetics, TCD
E-mail: anichsid (AT) tcd.ie, room:
Dr. Sharon O’Brien, Challenge Leader, DCU
Sharon O’Brien is a lecturer in translation and language technology in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University. She is interested in many aspects of translating and interpreting, but her research to date has focussed on the interaction between translators and technology (including Translation Memory and Machine Translation), cognitive aspects of translation, research methods, including eye tracking and keyboard logging, localisation and content authoring. She teaches specialised translation modules (French/German to English), Research Methods, Translation Theory, Interpreting and Localisation at post-graduate and undergraduate level. She is affiliated with the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (www.ctts.dcu.ie) and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (www.cngl.ie) and she previously worked as a language technology consultant in the localisation industry. She is series editor for the ‘Translation Practices Explained’ series, published by St. Jerome and track editor for the new John Benjamins’ journal Translation Spaces. She acts as a reviewer for multiple conferences (e.g. European Association for Machine Translation, Translating and the Computer etc.) and journals.
Dr. Alexander O’Connor, Challenge Leader, TCD
Aexander O’Connor is a Post-doctoral Researcher in Digital Content Management for the Centre for Next Generation Localisation at Trinity College, Dublin. Alex’s main areas of research are in the future of the Semantic Web, Personalisation and Global Intelligent Content. Alex holds a PhD in Computer Science, which focused on creating richer, more effective links between structured knowledge representations. He has co-authored approximately 20 papers, and has participated in the proposal and operation of several EU and Irish-government-funded projects. In addition to his research work, Alex is a co-founder of Emizar, a CNGL spin-out company which creates high-quality tailored, personalised customer support solutions that draw from enterprise, social and community support content.
E-mail: Alex.OConnor (AT) scss.tcd.ie, phone: +353 1 896 1335, room: G.31, O’Reilly Institute, TCD
Mr. Udochukwu Kalu Ogbureke, PhD student, UCD
Room: Computer Science and Informatics Building (CSI)B2.18
Dr. Ian O’Keeffe, Postdoctoral Researcher, TCD
Dr. Ian O’Keeffe completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. He then progressed to complete his PhD in Computer Science at the same university. Ian joined the Digital Content Management group in CNGL as a postdoctoral researcher in 2008. Ian is continuing his work on the adaptation and personalisation of content. He is currently a researcher at Trinity College Dublin working on the AMAS project and with the Centre for Learning Innovation.
E-mail: Ian.OKeeffe (AT) scss.tcd.ie, room: G.29, O’Reilly Institute, Trinity College, Dublin 2
Dr. Tsuyoshi Okita, Postdoctoral Researcher, DCU
Dr. Tsuyoshi Okita obtained a BSc in Computer Science at the University of Tokyo. He completed his PhD at CNGL in October 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Andy Way. Tsuyoshi worked on the MAP-based word alignment and the hierarchical Pitman-Yor process-based smoothing methods at Dublin City University. In August 2011 Tsuyoshi joined the EuroMatrixPlus project as a postdoctoral researcher. He subsequently moved to the T4ME project in April 2012.
E-mail: tokita (AT) computing.dcu.ie, room: L208
Prof. Declan O’Sullivan, Challenge Leader, TCD
Prof. Declan O’Sullivan lectures at TCD’s School of Computer Science and Statistics and.is Head of Discipline of Intelligent Systems. Prof. O’Sullivan is a leading researcher with an international reputation for high quality and high impact research in the area of interoperability for the management of services The approach being pursued by Professor O’Sullivan and his team is to establish the theoretical, conceptual and algorithmic techniques that will enable the achievement of sustainable and manageable semantic mapping between diverse models by people other than integration specialists. As part of CNGL, Prof. O’Sullivan is primarily researching in the Interoperability & Analytics theme and coordinates the team focusing on the challenge of Global Intelligent Content Management.
E-mail: declan.osullivan (AT) tcd.ie, phone: +353 1 896 3754, room:
Dr. Claus Pahl, Senior Lecturer, DCU
Claus Pahl is a graduate from the University of Technology in Braunschweig and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Dortmund. He is a Senior Lecturer and is the leader of the Software and Systems Engineering research group at Dublin City University, which focuses on software architecture and service and process engineering in particular. He is also involved in various cloud computing initiatives. As part of the CNGL project, Claus works on modelling and managing the integrated and interoperable processes in the context of the Intelligent Content Management activities. Specifically, the rule-based configuration of the content process chain is his focus.
E-mail: Claus.Pahl (AT) dcu.ie, phone: 01 700 5620, room: L2.27
Mr. Neil Peirce, PhD, TCD
E-mail: peircen (AT) cs.tcd.ie, phone: 01-8961335, room: G.31
Ms. Ilana Rozanes, PhD, TCD
E-mail: rozanei (AT) scss.tcd.ie, phone: +353 1 896 1718, room: 2.3
Dr. Melike Sah, Post-doctoral researcher, TCD
Dr Melike Sah is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Next Generation Localization, where she works on automatic metadata generation approaches from enterprise content. She is interested in Semantic Web, Linked Data, Ontology Engineering, Semantic Annotation, Adaptive Hypermedia, User Modeling and Fuzzy Logic. She received a Ph.D degree in Computer Science from University of Southampton in June 2009. In her Ph.D research, she investigated dynamic linking and personalization techniques within semantic portals and semantic web browsers. She also have MSs (in June 2005) and BSc (in June 2003) degrees in Computer Engineering from Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus, both with high honours. In her MSc research, she investigated fuzzy time series for forecasting problems.
E-mail: Melike.Sah (AT) scss.tcd.ie, phone: +353 1 896 1335, room: G.31, O’Reilly Institute, TCD
Mr. Reinhard Schäler, Challenge Leader, UL
Reinhard Schäler has been involved in the localisation industry in a variety of roles since 1987. He is the founder and founding editor of a number of specialised Journals, industry groups and the Localisation Research Centre at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is Programme Director of the MSc in Multilingual Computing and Localisation at the University of Limerick and principal investigator of the Irish Government co-funded Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL). In 2009, he established The Rosetta Foundation (Your Language – Your Right) which over a very short period attracted the support of 1,300 volunteers and launched the €100,000 Social Localisation Initiative in 2011. He also founded the Dynamic Coalition for a Global Localization Platform: Localization4all under the umbrella of the UN’s Internet Governance Forum. He has collaborated with localisation initiatives in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. His aim is to build the infrastructure for non-market-driven localisation and translation.
E-mail: Reinhard.Schaler (AT) ul.ie, room:
Mr. Stephan Schlögl, PhD, TCD
Stephan Schlögl holds an undergraduate degree in Management and Applied Informatics from Management Center Innsbruck and an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction with Ergonomics from University College London. He worked as a PhD student in CNGL where he was interested in the Wizard of Oz prototyping technique and how it can be used as a design and evaluation instrument for language technologies. His research, which was supervised by Dr. Gavin Doherty and Dr. Saturnino Luz at Trinity College Dublin, led to the development of the WebWOZ Wizard of Oz prototyping platform and to several publications in national and international conferences. Stephan now works as a post-doctoral research fellow at Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom ParisTech. There he joined the vAssist project team whose goal is to provide multilingual voice controlled home care and communication services for seniors who suffer from chronic diseases and/or (fine-) motor skills restrictions. His tasks include the investigation of people interacting with voice-based natural language user interfaces as well as the early stage prototyping of these interfaces using the Wizard of Oz prototyping method.
E-mail: schlogls (AT) scss.tcd.ie, phone: +353 1 896 1718, room: 2.3
Ms. Anne Schneider, PhD, TCD
E-mail: schneia (AT) cs.tcd.ie, phone: +353 1 896 1718, room: 2.3
Shanahan, Dev Team Developer, TCD
Dr. Páraic Sheridan, Associate Director, DCU
Dr. Páraic Sheridan is currently Associate Director at CNGL with overall responsibility for commercial and industry partnerships and leadership of the centre’s operations team. He brings to this role a unique combination of over ten years of experience in the management of research and the commercialisation of research outcomes built upon a foundational academic career in language and content technologies. Páraic received his B.Sc. degree (1st class honours) in Computer Applications from Dublin City University (DCU) in 1989. He then completed an M.Sc. degree in Computer Applications at DCU by research in 1991, studying the use of Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval. This was followed in 1994 by an M.S. degree in Computational Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, PA. His study at CMU was funded by Claris Corporation (Dublin) for whom he researched the use of Translation Memories in the software localisation process. He completed his doctoral work in 1998 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich with a dissertation on the topic of Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
E-mail: psheridan (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 (0)1 700 6706, room: L2.01G
Prof. Harold Somers, AILO Contributor, DCU
E-mail: hsomers (AT) computing.dcu.ie, room: L2.05
Dr. Ankit K. Srivastava, Postdoctoral researcher, Affiliated Project, DCU
Ankit recently successfully defended his PhD thesis on alignment and decoding of syntax-aware models for machine translation in DCU. Prior to CNGL, Ankit studied Computational Linguistics (M.A., 2008) in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington Seattle, and Computer Sciences (B.S., 2006) in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
E-mail: asrivastava (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 (0)1 700 6914, room: L 2.08
Ms. Yanli Sun, PhD, DCU
Ms. Éva Székely, PhD student, UCD
Éva Székely is a PhD candidate with the CNGL at University College Dublin. Her main research interests lie in developing methods to exploit the naturally occurring expressive space in speech data, applying machine learning techniques on acoustic features of speech, including voice quality. Furthermore, Éva’s research involves optimizing the application of expressive synthetic voices for human interaction such as assistive technologies and speech-to-speech translation. In particular she is working on the development of gesture-based intelligent interfaces for automatically choosing the right tone of voice for a given message. Éva is a member of the Special Interest Group on Speech & Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SIG-SLPAT). She holds a MA degree in Speech and Language Technology from the University of Utrecht.
E-mail: Eva.Szekely (AT) ucdconnect.ie, room: B2.15
Dr. John Tinsley, Coordinator, PLUTO, affiliated project, DCU
John is the project co-ordinator for the PLuTO (Patent Lanugage Translations Online) project at the Centre for Next Generation Localisation in DCU. He was previously a Ph.D. student at the National Centre for Language Technology where he completed my thesis, entitled "Resourcing Machine Translation with Parallel Treebanks", in 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Andy Way. Following this, he spent some time as a postdoc working on commercialisation activities in DCU. His research was in the area of Machine Translation (MT), more specifically syntax-motivated SMT, phrase-based MT, tree alignment, parallel treebanking, patent translation and the incorporation of MT into localisation workflows amongst other things. His thesis topic focused on the feasibility of using syntactically motivated data – phrase pairs, grammar rules etc. – within various frameworks of MT and under what conditions usability is optimal. Prior to this, he received my BSc. in Applied Computational Linguistics from DCU in 2006.
E-mail: jtinsley (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 1 700 6916, room: L2.08 Pluto Lab
Dr. Antonio Toral, Postdoctoral Researcher, Affiliated Project, DCU
Prof. Josef van Genabith, Deputy Director, Theme Leader "Creation and Curation", DCU
Josef van Genabith is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at Dublin City University. He is the founder and was the first Director of CNGL 2007-2013. He was the director of the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) 2001-2009. He has been engaging strongly in national and international research projects, leading SFI and Enterprise Ireland funded projects and working the local DCU lead PI for many EU-funded projects, including EuroMatrixPlus, META-NET, EXPERT and QTLaunchPad. To date, he has (jointly) graduated 19 PhD students and co-authored >160 research publications. His research focuses on Machine Translation, Parsing, Generation and Localisation.
E-mail: josef (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 1 700 5074, room: L2.17
Dr. Tony Veale, Academic staff, UCD
Dr. Tony Veale has been a researcher in the areas of Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence since 1988, both in industry and in academia. He obtained a B.Sc (hons) in Computer Science from University College Cork (UCC) in 1988, and an M.Sc in Computer Science in 1990, before joining Hitachi Dublin Laboratory in 1990. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science, on the subject of Figurative Language Processing, from Trinity College, Dublin in 1996. He has divided his career between academia and industry.
E-mail: tony.veale (AT) ucd.ie, phone: +353 1 716 2912, room:
Dr. Carl Vogel, FTCD (2002), Creation and Curation, Translation and Localisation, Delivery and Interaction, TCD
Carl Vogel studies linguistic anomaly. The primary task of understanding regularities in thought, text and linguistic interaction, is enhanced by understanding irregularities. From a background assumption that two main kinds of irregularities exist, creative and unintended linguistic norm violation, hypotheses about systematicity in divergence from conventional language use are explored. Anomalies conventionalize, apparently subject to constraints that range from the cognitive computational to the sociolinguistic. This research involves a broad base of constituent issues and methods, quantitative and qualitative, in seeking to advance theoretical knowledge and determine empirical fact.
E-mail: Carl.Vogel (AT) cs.tcd.ie, phone: +353-1-896-1765, room:
Joris Vreeke, Web Developer, DCU
Prof. Vincent P. Wade BSc (hons), MSc, MA., PhD, FTCD, Director, TCD
Vincent is Professor of Intelligent Systems in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) University. He is Director of CNGL, a world leading multi-institutional research centre focusing on multilingual, multi modal globalisation of digital content. Vincent holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, an MSc (by research) and PhD from Trinity College Dublin. In 2002 Vincent was awarded Fellowship of Trinity College (FTCD) for his contribution to research in the areas of knowledge management, web based personalisation and adaptive content technologies. Vincent was a visiting scientist at IBM (2006-9) and holds multiple patents in the area of personalisation and adaptive digital content. He has authored almost three hundred scientific papers in peer reviewed research journals and international conferences and he has received seven ‘best paper’ awards for IEEE, ACM, and IFIP conferences. He has a H index of 23 (Google scholar). In 2010 he received the European Award of Language Technology. In 2010 he founded the Learnovate Centre which is an industry-academic led centre focusing on developing innovations across learning in schools, corporate learning and further education.
E-mail: vincent.wade (AT) scss.tcd.ie, phone: +353 1 896 2091, room:
Dr. Joachim Wagner, Postdoctoral Researcher, DCU
Joachim studied Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence at the Universität Osnabrück (Germany) where he graduated in 2003. During the last 3 years in Osnabrück, he worked part time as Assistant Developer for the LogoTax project which included the implementation of a web-based lexicographic corpus tool for computer-assisted language learning (CALL). Joachim was awarded an IRCSET scholarship in 2003 to pursue a Ph.D. in the area of computer-assisted language learning at Dublin City University. He completed his Ph.D. research on detecting grammatical errors with probabilistic parsing in January 2012. From 2007 to February 2013, Joachim was full-time Systems Administrator for the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) at Dublin City University.
E-mail: jwagner (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 1 700 6915, room: L204
Dr. Xiaofeng Wu, Postdoctoral Researcher, DCU
E-mail: xiaofengwu (AT) computing.dcu.ie, phone: +353 1 700 6700, room: L201 postdoc lab #1
Dr. Irena Yanushevskaya, Postdoctoral Researcher, TCD
Irena has an MA and a PhD from St.Petersburg State University, Russia, where she taught phonetics for a number of years. She came to Ireland as a visiting researcher and stayed in TCD to do another PhD in voice quality and affect which she finished in 2010. Apart from conducting research into voice quality, she teaches phonetics and phonology courses both in TCD and NUI Galway.
E-mail: yanushei (AT) tcd.ie, phone: +353 1 8961348, room: Room 4074 Phonetics and Speech Laboratory
Ms. Amalia Zahra, PhD, UCD
Amalia Zahra comes from Indonesia. She obtained her undergraduate degree (BSc) from Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia in 2008. Then still in the same university, she did a research on Indonesian Speech Recognition System for a year (September 2008 to August 2009). Currently, she is a PhD student in UCD, just started in September 2009. She is working on speech recognition in the MUSTER Group, supervised by Prof. Julie Carson-Berndsen. Her research interests cover speech recognition, language identification of the speech, computational linguistics, machine learning, and information retrieval.
E-mail: Amalia.Zahra (AT) ucdconnect.ie, phone: +353 1 7162911, room: B2.18
Mr. Jian Zhang, Programmer, PluTO Affiliated Project, DCU
E-mail: zhangj (AT) computing.dcu.ie, room: L208 PLuTO office
