John P. McCrae - Associate Professor at Data Science Institute, University of Galway

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I was the coordinator of the <a href="http://pret-a-llod.eu">Prêt-à-LLOD</a> project and work package leader in the <a href="http://elex.is">ELEXIS</a> infrastructure. My research interests include the following: </p> <ul> <li> Ontologies, lexicography and the lexicon-ontology interface </li> <li> Collaborative development and publishing of language resources </li> <li> Big data and data science </li> <li> Linked data and the Semantic Web </li> <li> Machine translation and multilingualism </li> <li> Machine learning methods for NLP </li> <li> Digital Humanities </li> <li> Under-resourced languages </li> </ul> <p>I obtained my PhD from the <a href="https://www.nii.ac.jp/en/">National Institute of Informatics</a> in Tokyo under the supervision of <a href="https://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/nhc30" property="foaf:knows">Nigel Collier</a> and until 2015 I was a post-doctoral researcher at the <a href="http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/">University of Bielefeld</a> in Bielefeld, Germany in <a href="http://cimiano.de/doku.php" property="foaf:knows">Prof. Philipp Cimiano's</a> group, <a href="http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/">AG Semantic Computing</a>.  <p> <p>You can contact me at <a href="mailto:john@mccr.ae" property="foaf:mbox">john@mccr.ae</a>.</p> <p>ORCID: <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7227-1331">0000-0002-7227-1331</a><br> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/johnmccrae">@johnmccrae</a><br> <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6naYN28AAAAJ">Google Scholar</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>

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