Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha
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Short Bio
I'm a member of the Natural Language and Information Processing Group at the Computer Laboratory in Cambridge. My interests revolve around the application of machine learning techniques to semantic processing tasks, especially tasks at the interface between lexical knowledge (what individual words mean) and relational knowledge (what combinations of words mean). I'm currently working as a postdoc on an EPSRC-funded project "Lexical Acquisition for the Biomedical Domain" with Anna Korhonen, Lin Sun and Tom Lippincott.
In 2003 I graduated with a BA (Mod) in Computer Science, Linguistics and German from Trinity College Dublin. I subsequently spent a year studying Indian linguistic theory at the Faculty of Oriental Studies (now the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) in Cambridge under Dr. Eivind Kahrs. I then moved to the Computer Lab to do my PhD on Learning Noun Compound Semantics, which was supervised by Ann Copestake.
In my spare time I do a lot of running. I also enjoy travelling, and taking photographs of whatever catches my eye. I maintain a Flickr site here.
About my name (by popular request!)
My name is Irish in origin (like me). "Ó Séaghdha" is my surname; it is pronounced the same as "O'Shea", which is its anglicised form. Despite what my email address suggests, there is no apostrophe. A rough IPA transcription (based on the Wikipedia guidelines) of my full name is /dʲiərmˠʊɪdʲ oː ʃeː/. In BibTeX you need to write Diarmuid {\'O S\'eaghdha} or \'O S\'eaghdha, Diarmuid in the author field; otherwise BibTeX will assume incorrectly that the "Ó" is a middle initial and "Séaghdha" is my surname.
Compound noun bibliography
I have compiled a bibliography of computational and linguistic literature relating to compound nouns; maybe someone will find it useful. There's also a Bibsonomy version which may be updated more frequently and has extras like indexible tags and abstracts.
Current and recent activities
- Our paper Learning syntactic verb frames using graphical models (with Tom Lippincott and Anna Korhonen) has been accepted at ACL 2012.
- Our paper Talk of the City: Our Tweets, Our Community Happiness (with Daniele Quercia and John Crowcroft) has been accepted at ICWSM 2012.
- Our CRAB project paper Text mining for literature review and knowledge discovery in cancer risk assessment and research has been accepted to appear in PLoS ONE.
- The CRAB project (to which I contribute) has been in the news and also appears in Wikipedia's year in science.
- My MPhil project proposals for 2011-12 are up. If you're interested in any of them, send me an email and/or come to the NLIP group meeting on Friday 4/11.
- Our paper Auralist: Introducing Serendipity into Music Recommendation (with Yuan Cao Zhang, Daniele Quercia and Tamas Jambor) has been accepted at WSDM 2012.
- I recently taught a course on Distributional approaches to semantic analysis at the HIT-MSRA Summer School on Human Language Technology. Slides and other resources can be found here.
- My paper on Probabilistic models of similarity in syntactic context (with Anna Korhonen) has been accepted at EMNLP 2011.