Adrian Doyle is a postdoctoral researcher in the Classics department at the University of Galway. As a member of the GLOSSAM project team his research focuses on the application of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to Greek and Latin glosses in the Irish manuscript tradition. In his previous role, at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, he worked on computational techniques and resources to support under-resourced and minority languages.

His research interests are in the areas of NLP, as well as the Celtic languages, in particular, Old Irish. He is the creator of the Würzburg Irish Glosses website (wurzburg.ie) and two Universal Dependencies treebanks of Old Irish glosses.

He received his BA from University College Cork in 2012, after which he went on to receive an MA in Medieval Celtic Languages and Literature (Early Irish and Medieval Welsh) from University College Dublin in 2013. He studied Information Systems for Business Performance in University College Cork, and was awarded an MSc in 2016. He also received a Diploma in Irish (TEG Level C1) from the University of Galway in 2020.

He completed his PhD research in 2024 under the supervision of Dr. John McCrae and Dr. Clodagh Downey. This interdisciplinary research addressed the application of natural language processing techniques to diplomatically edited Old Irish text.

Old Irish and Celtic languages more broadly.

Natural language processing for minority, historicaland under-resourced languages.

Computational techniques to tokenise text in languages with non-standard word separation.

Old Irish language and literature, and linguistic data processing for Early Irish.