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I am an associate professor at the Data Science Institute, Insight Centre for Data Analytics and ADAPT centre at the University of Galway and the leader of the Unit for Linguistic Data. I was the coordinator of the Prêt-à-LLOD project and work package leader in the ELEXIS infrastructure. My research interests include the following: Ontologies, lexicography and the lexicon-ontology interface Collaborative development and publishing of language resources Big data and data science Linked data and the Semantic Web Machine translation and multilingualism Machine learning methods for NLP Digital Humanities Under-resourced languages I obtained my PhD from the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo under the supervision of Nigel Collier and until 2015 I was a post-doctoral researcher at Bielefeld University in Bielefeld, Germany in Prof. Philipp Cimianos group, AG Semantic Computing.

Ontologies, lexicography and the lexicon-ontology interface Collaborative development and publishing of language resources Big data and data science Linked data and the Semantic Web Machine translation and multilingualism Machine learning methods for NLP Digital Humanities Under-resourced languages