Flat conformal structures and causality in de Sitter manifolds
Kevin Patrick Scannell. Flat conformal structures and causality in de Sitter manifolds. Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996.
CV
Education
- B.S. in Mathematics, MIT, 1991
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, UCLA, 1996
Academic positions
- 2009–2023: Professor, Saint Louis University
- 2020: Fulbright Scholar, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, Carna, Co. Galway, Ireland
- 2003–2009: Associate Professor, Saint Louis University
- 1998–2003: Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University
- 1996–1998: G. C. Evans Instructor, Rice University
- 1991–1996: Teaching Assistant, UCLA
Publications
Flat conformal structures and the classification of de Sitter manifolds
Kevin P. Scannell. Flat conformal structures and the classification of de Sitter manifolds. Communications in Analysis and Geometry, 7(2):325–345, 1999.
Infinitesimal deformations of some SO(3,1) lattices
Kevin P. Scannell. Infinitesimal deformations of some SO(3, 1) lattices. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 194(2):455–464, 2000.
3-manifolds which are spacelike slices of flat spacetimes
Kevin P. Scannell. 3-manifolds which are spacelike slices of flat spacetimes. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 18(9):1691–1701, 2001.
A one-dimensional embedding complex
Kevin P. Scannell and Dev P. Sinha. A one-dimensional embedding complex. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 170(1):93–107, 2002.
The grafting map of Teichmüller space
Kevin P. Scannell and Michael Wolf. The grafting map of Teichmüller space. Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 15(4):893–927, 2002.
Local rigidity of hyperbolic 3-manifolds after Dehn surgery
Kevin P. Scannell. Local rigidity of hyperbolic 3-manifolds after Dehn surgery. Duke Mathematical Journal, 114(1):1–14, 2002.
Hyphenation patterns for minority languages
Kevin P. Scannell. Hyphenation patterns for minority languages. TUGboat – Communications of the TeX Users Group, 24(2):236–239, 2003.
Automatic thesaurus generation for minority languages: an Irish example
Kevin P. Scannell. Automatic thesaurus generation for minority languages: an Irish example. In Actes de la 10e conférence TALN à Batz-sur-Mer, volume 2, pages 203–212, 2003.
Applications of parallel corpora to the development of monolingual language technologies
Kevin P. Scannell. Applications of parallel corpora to the development of monolingual language technologies. Unpublished manuscript. 2005.
New perspectives on self-linking
Ryan Budney, James Conant, Kevin P. Scannell, and Dev Sinha. New perspectives on self-linking. Advances in Mathematics, 191(1):78–113, 2005.
Machine translation for closely related language pairs
Kevin P. Scannell. Machine translation for closely related language pairs. In Proceedings of the Workshop Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages, pages 103–109, 2006.
The generalized cuspidal cohomology problem
Anneke Bart and Kevin P. Scannell. The generalized cuspidal cohomology problem. Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 58(4):673–690, 2006.
A note on stamping
Anneke Bart and Kevin P. Scannell. A note on stamping. Geometriae Dedicata, 126(1):283–291, 2007.
Translations of free software into Irish
Kevin P. Scannell and Séamus Ó Ciardhuáin. Translations of free software into Irish. Translation Ireland, 17(2):19–30, 2006.
Notes on a paper of Mess
Lars Andersson, Thierry Barbot, Riccardo Benedetti, Francesco Bonsante, William M. Goldman, François Labourie, Kevin P. Scannell, and Jean-Marc Schlenker. Notes on a paper of Mess. Geometriae Dedicata, 126(1):47–70, 2007.
The Crúbadán Project: Corpus building for under-resourced languages
Kevin P. Scannell. The Crúbadán Project: Corpus building for under-resourced languages. In Building and Exploring Web Corpora: Proceedings of the 3rd Web as Corpus Workshop, volume 4, pages 5–15, 2007.
Implementing NLP Projects for Non-Central Languages: Instructions for Funding Bodies, Strategies for Developers
Oliver Streiter, Kevin P. Scannell, and Mathias Stuflesser. Implementing NLP Projects for Non-Central Languages: Instructions for Funding Bodies, Strategies for Developers. Machine Translation, 20(4):267–289, 2006.
Free Software for Indigenous Languages
Kevin P. Scannell. Free Software for Indigenous Languages. Unpublished manuscript. 2008.
Application of the Inventory of Biodiversity Information and Social Networking Based Collaboration: An Implementation of Software Framework at Web Application Level
Hsin-Hui Wu, Richard Mayden, and Kevin Scannell. Application of the Inventory of Biodiversity Information and Social Networking Based Collaboration: An Implementation of Software Framework at Web Application Level. In 2010 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering, pages 1–4, 2010.
Statistical Unicodification of African Languages
Kevin P. Scannell. Statistical Unicodification of African Languages. Language Resources and Evaluation, 45(3):375–386, 2011.
Fíor-Ghaeltacht nó Gaeltacht Fhíorúil? Meáin Shóisialta agus Forbairt na Gaeilge i Meiriceá Thuaidh
Kevin P. Scannell. Fíor-Ghaeltacht nó Gaeltacht Fhíorúil? Meáin Shóisialta agus Forbairt na Gaeilge i Meiriceá Thuaidh. Unpublished manuscript. 2011.
Translating Facebook into Endangered Languages
Kevin Scannell. Translating Facebook into Endangered Languages. In Tania Ka’ai, Muiris Ó Laoire, et al., editors, Language Endangerment in the 21st Century: Globalisation, Technology and New Media. Proceedings of the 16th Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference, pages 106–110, 2012.
Corpas na Gaeilge (1882–1926): Integrating Historical and Modern Irish Texts
Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Kevin Scannell, Ruairí Ó hUiginn, Eilís Ní Mhearraí, Máire Nic Mhaoláin, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Gregory Toner, Séamus Mac Mathúna, Déirdre D’Auria, Eithne Ní Ghallchobhair, and Niall O’Leary. Corpas na Gaeilge (1882–1926): Integrating Historical and Modern Irish Texts. In Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Mathew Driscoll, et al., editors, Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives – Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage, pages 12–18, 2014.
Statistical models for text normalization and machine translation
Kevin Scannell. Statistical models for text normalization and machine translation. In Proceedings of the First Celtic Language Technology Workshop, pages 33–40, Dublin, Ireland, 2014. Association for Computational Linguistics and Dublin City University.
Minority Language Twitter: Part-of-Speech Tagging and Analysis of Irish Tweets
Teresa Lynn, Kevin Scannell, and Eimear Maguire. Minority Language Twitter: Part-of-Speech Tagging and Analysis of Irish Tweets. In Proceedings of the ACL 2015 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, pages 1–8, 2015.
Teanga dhomhanda
Kevin Scannell. Teanga dhomhanda. The Irish Times Magazine, 14–15, 10 March 2016.
Teangacha Mionlaigh sa Ré Dhigiteach: Tionchar na Meán Sóisialta
Kevin Scannell. Teangacha Mionlaigh sa Ré Dhigiteach: Tionchar na Meán Sóisialta. In Breandán Mac Cormaic, editor, Is ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine: Éire sa 21ú Aois idir Indibhidiúlacht agus Phobal, pages 112–123. Coiscéim, 2016.
lemonGAWN: WordNet Gaeilge as Linked Data
Jim O’Regan, Kevin Scannell, and Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha. lemonGAWN: WordNet Gaeilge as Linked Data. In John P. McCrae, Christian Chiarcos, et al., editors, LDL 2016–5th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Managing, Building and Using Linked Language Resources, pages 36–40, 2016.
Creating CorCenCC (Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes – The National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh)
Dawn Knight, Tess Fitzpatrick, Steve Morris, Jeremy Evas, Paul Rayson, Irena Spasić, Mark Stonelake, Enlli Môn Thomas, Steven Neale, Jennifer Needs, Scott Piao, Mair Rees, Gareth Watkins, Laurence Anthony, Thomas Michael Cobb, Margaret Deuchar, Kevin Donnelly, Michael McCarthy, and Kevin Scannell. Creating CorCenCC (Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes — The National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh). In Piotr Bański, Marc Kupietz, et al., editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora and Big Data and Natural Language Processing, pages 13–14, 2017.
History and Development of the Irish Language Semantic Network
Kevin P. Scannell and Jim O’Regan. History and Development of the Irish Language Semantic Network. To appear in Linguistic Issues in Language Technology.
Code-switching in Irish tweets: A preliminary analysis
Teresa Lynn and Kevin Scannell. Code-switching in Irish tweets: A preliminary analysis. In Proceedings of the Third Celtic Language Technology Workshop, pages 32–40, Dublin, Ireland, 2019. European Association for Machine Translation.
Improving full-text search results on dúchas.ie using language technology
Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Kevin Scannell, and Meghan Dowling. Improving full-text search results on dúchas.ie using language technology. In Proceedings of the Third Celtic Language Technology Workshop, pages 63–69, Dublin, Ireland, 2019. European Association for Machine Translation.
An Cúinne Gaeilge
Kevin Scannell. An Cúinne Gaeilge. Irish Fulbright Alumni Association Newsletter, 47:7, Spring/Summer 2020.
Claonadh Inscne, Líonraí Néaracha, agus an Ghaeilge
Kevin P. Scannell. Claonadh Inscne, Líonraí Néaracha, agus an Ghaeilge. Léann Teanga: An Reiviú, 8:159–170, 2020.
Neural Models for Predicting Celtic Mutations
Kevin P. Scannell. Neural Models for Predicting Celtic Mutations. In Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU) and Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages (CCURL), pages 1–8, 2020.
Universal Dependencies for Manx Gaelic
Kevin P. Scannell. Universal Dependencies for Manx Gaelic. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies at COLING 2020, pages 152–157, 2020.
Tiomsú Corpais don Taighde Foclóireachta: Corpas Foclóireachta na Gaeilge (CFG2020)
Mícheál J. Ó Meachair, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Úna Bhreathnach, Gearóid Ó Cleircín, and Kevin Scannell. Tiomsú Corpais don Taighde Foclóireachta: Corpas Foclóireachta na Gaeilge (CFG2020). TEANGA, the Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 28:278–305, 2021.
Managing Data from Social Media: The Indigenous Tweets Project
Kevin P. Scannell. Managing Data from Social Media: The Indigenous Tweets Project. In Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, and Lauren Collister, editors, The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management. MIT Press, 2022.
Diachronic Parsing of Pre-Standard Irish
Kevin P. Scannell. Diachronic Parsing of Pre-Standard Irish. In Proceedings of the 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop at LREC 2022, pages 7–13, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
Talks
A proof of the Riemann Hypothesis (for dynamical zeta functions)
Talk at UCLA topology seminar, Los Angeles, California, USA
Flat conformal structures on hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Talk at UT Austin topology seminar, Austin, Texas, USA
Deformation spaces of flat conformal structures
Talk at University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Deformations of flat conformal structures for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Talk at AMS Central Section Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Deformation problems in hyperbolic and Lorentzian geometry
Talk at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Deformation problems in hyperbolic and Lorentzian geometry
Talk at Brown University topology seminar, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Deformation spaces of flat conformal structures
Talk at Georgia Topology Conference, Athens, Georgia, USA
Deformations of projective structures on Riemann surfaces
Talk at Brown University Department of Mathematics colloquium, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Deformation problems in hyperbolic and Lorentzian geometry
Talk at AMS Central Section Meeting, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
The grafting map of Teichmüller space
Talk at Wasatch Topology Conference, Park City, Utah, USA
Flat conformal structures and constant curvature spacetimes
Talk at Wasatch Topology Conference, Park City, Utah, USA
3-manifolds which are spacelike slices of flat spacetimes
Talk at Midwest Relativity Meeting, Urbana, Illinois, USA
What is the topology of the universe?
Talk at Pittsburg State colloquium, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA
Deformations of Riemann Surfaces
Talk at Wash U colloquium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Deformations of representations of 3-manifold groups
Talk at University of Michigan geometry seminar, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Geometry and topology of arithmetic 3-manifolds
Talk at University of Oklahoma Karcher colloquium, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Cohomology of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Talk at University of Chicago topology seminar, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Generalized bending laminations for hyperbolic n-manifolds
Talk at AMS Central Section Meeting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Deformations of flat spacetimes
Talk at University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
Global Software
Talk at Ritter Hall, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Rigid and non-rigid hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Talk at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
3-manifolds which are spacelike slices of flat spacetimes
Talk at Wesleyan University colloquium, Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Automatic thesaurus generation for minority languages: an Irish example
Talk at Workshop “Traitement automatique des langues minoritaires et des petites langues”, at TALN 2003, Batz-sur-Mer, France
Cohomology constructions for hyperbolic knot and link complements
Talk at AMS Central Section Meeting, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Cohomology constructions for hyperbolic knot and link complements
Talk at New Techniques in Lorentz Manifolds workshop at the Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Cohomology computations for Fibonacci groups and manifolds
Talk at UT Austin seminar, Austin, Texas, USA
The Crúbadán Project: Corpus building for under-resourced languages
Talk at 3rd Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC3), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Metadata for Web-Crawling
Talk at 3rd Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC3), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Language technology from scratch
Talk at 41st Festival of the Piedmont Region, Cherasco, Italy
An Gramadóir: A grammar-checking framework for the Celtic languages and its applications
Talk at 14th annual NAACLT conference hosted by the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Ohio, USA
Rigidity and non-rigidity of hyperbolic manifolds
Talk at Clavius Conference, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Open source language technology using statistical methods
Talk at St. Louis Unix Users Group, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Semi-automated construction of semantic networks using web corpora
Talk at “Words, Texts and Dictionaries” conference at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, Wales
Statistical language processing (and Perl)
Talk at St. Louis Perl Mongers, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Standardization of corpus texts for the New English-Irish Dictionary
Talk at 15th annual NAACLT conference, New York Irish Center, Queens, New York, USA
Saving languages with statistics and web crawlers
Talk at St. Louis BarCamp, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Turning the Tide: Terminology Creation and Free Software in Irish
Talk at 1st annual Indigenous Language Institute Symposium Series, Pueblo Isleta, New Mexico
Accentuate Us!
Talk at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Saving Languages with Statistics
Talk at University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Statistical Machine Learning and Machine Translation
Talk at St. Louis Unix Users' Group, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
New computational resources for indigenous and minority languages
Talk at 17th annual NAACLT conference, Douglas, Isle of Man
Fíor-Ghaeltacht nó Gaeltacht Fhíorúil? Meáin Shóisialta agus Forbairt na Gaeilge i Meiriceá Thuaidh
Talk at An 20 Bliain atá romhainn: Taighde agus Teagasc na Gaeilge i Meiriceá Thuaidh, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Language identification of tweets
Talk at Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, California, USA
Facebook in all six Celtic languages (mar dhea)
Talk at 18th annual NAACLT conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Translating Facebook into Endangered Languages
Talk at 16th Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
I dTreo Ríomhaireachta Lán-Ghaeilge
Talk at Engineers Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
An Ríomhlóid Abú!
Talk at Oireachtas na Samhna, Leitir Ceanainn, Dún na nGall, Éire
Social media and revitalization of the Celtic languages
Talk at Symposium for the 20th anniversary of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Mionteangacha ar an Idirlíon: ag sárú na gconstaicí
Talk at Féile Imbolc, Baile Bhúirne, Contae Chorcaí, Éire
Teangacha Mionlaigh sa Ré Dhigiteach: Tionchar na Meán Sóisialta
Talk at Is ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine: Éire sa 21ú Aois idir Indibhidiúlacht agus Phobal, Dublin, Ireland
Indigenous Tweets, Visible Voices, and Technology
Talk at Indigenous Tweets, Visible Voices, and Technology panel at SXSW 2013, Austin, Texas, USA
Regional and Minority Languages in Social Media
Talk at Illinois High School Translation Competition hosted by the University of Illinois EU Center, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing
Talk at St. Louis Machine Learning and Data Science meetup, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Facebook i18n Workshop
Talk at University of Limerick L10N summer school, Limerick, Ireland
Localization in minority language contexts
Talk at University of Limerick L10N summer school, Limerick, Ireland
Localization at Mozilla
Talk at University of Limerick L10N summer school, Limerick, Ireland
Tweet2Learn: Language Learning via Social Media
Talk at 19th annual NAACLT conference, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
How many languages are on the web? The Crúbadán project 10+ years on
Talk at Workshop on Corpus-based Quantitative Typology (CoQuaT 2013), Leipzig, Germany
Unicode for Linguists
Talk at INNET Summer School on Technological Approaches to the Documentation of Lesser-Used Languages, Gniezno, Poland
Endangered languages and social media
Talk at INNET Summer School on Technological Approaches to the Documentation of Lesser-Used Languages, Gniezno, Poland
Linguistic resources from web corpora (a.k.a “The worst archive ever”)
Talk at 2nd INNET conference on digital language archiving, Gniezno, Poland
Seoladh “Fréamh an Eolais”
Talk at Book launch hosted by Science Gallery Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Acmhainní Ríomhaireachta don Ghaeilge
Talk at Offices of the Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland
An Overview of the Crúbadán Project
Talk at CIDLeS Summer School 2014: Coding for Language Communities, Minde, Portugal
Statistical models for text normalization and machine translation
Talk at 1st Celtic Language Technology Workshop at COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland
Celtic language technology and open data (including a survey of Manx Gaelic resources)
Talk at 1st Celtic Language Technology Workshop at COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland
Seoladh Gmail
Talk at Google offices, Dublin, Ireland
Scottish Gaelic language technologies based on web corpora
Talk at 21st annual NAACLT conference, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA
An tIdirlíon mar dhroichead idir foghlaimeoirí i Meiriceá Thuaidh agus an Ghaeltacht
Talk at Comhdháil Cois Locha 2015, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Eadar-Ghaeilg: Scottish and Manx Gaelic resources for Irish speakers
Talk at University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA
Corpus-based language technology for Indigenous and minority languages
Talk at University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA
Minority Languages and Technology: Openness and Cross-Language Collaboration
Talk at British-Irish Council IML Languages Conference, “Promoting Our Languages Through Technology”, Chester Beatty Museum, Dublin, Ireland
Machine learning and technology for endangered languages
Talk at Washington University Machine Learning seminar, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Teicneolaíocht agus Mionteangacha
Talk at Pobal na Gaeilge sa Ré Dhigiteach, Na Forbacha, Co. Galway, Ireland
Language revitalization in the digital age: building bridges, empowering communities
Talk at Walter J. Ong, SJ Digital Humanities Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
New Manx language resources for Irish speakers
Talk at 22nd annual NAACLT conference, Albany, New York, USA
Betting on Language
Talk at SLU Math/CS Club, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Intergaelic: Manx language resources for Irish speakers
Talk at ACIS national meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Caighdeánú na Gaeilge
Talk at ACIS national meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Struchtúr na Gaeilge mar bhuntáiste sa ríomhtheangeolaíocht
Talk at Book launch for “An Ríomhaire Ilteangach” by Michal Boleslav Měchura, Dublin City University All Hallows Campus, Dublin, Ireland
Chasing the Sun
Talk at SLU Math/CS Club, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Scaling up language technology for the next 1000 languages
Talk at Rice University math department colloquium, Houston, Texas, USA
“Is iomaí cor i saol an fhocail”: Linking online dictionaries of Old Irish and Modern Irish
Talk at 23rd annual NAACLT conference, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
The Present and Future of the Irish Language
Talk at University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
New Frontiers in Language Technology for Minority Languages
Talk at Irish Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Recent advances in neural language models
Talk at Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Language Modeling for Endangered Languages
Talk at St. Louis Venture Café, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
AI, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and all that
Talk at GeoSpatial 101 conference at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Scaling up language technology for the next 1000 languages
Talk at Prepare.ai Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Neural language technology in an under-resourced setting
Talk at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Neural language technology in an under-resourced setting
Talk at Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Linguistic imperialism in AI
Talk at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Introductory tutorial on neural networks and machine translation
Talk at , An Caisleán Nua, Contae Longfoirt, Éire
Initial mutations as low-entropy features in neural language modeling
Talk at Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
Initial mutations as low-entropy features in neural language modeling
Talk at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Meaisínfhoghlaim agus Gramadach na Gaeilge
Talk at Rannóg an Aistriúchán, Teach Laighean, Dublin, Ireland
Coding in Irish
Talk at TechFéile 2020, Shannon Airport, County Clare, Ireland
Teicneolaíocht Teanga: Gaeilge agus an chéad mhíle teanga eile
Talk at Áras na Gaeilge, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
Strategies for scaling up the Irish language Wikipedia
Talk at 2020 Celtic Knot conference (online), Clayton, Missouri, USA
Digital Resources for the Medieval Gaelic World
Talk at The Changing Face of Research in the Digital Age, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
Universal Dependencies for Manx Gaelic
Talk at Universal Dependencies Workshop at COLING 2020, Barcelona, Catalonia
Neural models for predicting Celtic mutations
Talk at Indiana University's Computational Linguistics seminar, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Acmhainní teicneolaíochta do phobal na Gaeilge
Talk at Invited talk for Sult na Sollán, Na Solláin, Co. Chill Dara, Éire
Machine learning and language technology in minority language contexts
Talk at University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Machine learning and language technology in minority language contexts
Talk at Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Language from Below: Grassroots efforts to develop language technology for minoritized languages
Talk at Michel De Graff's course “Linguistics and Social Justice” at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Computational models for predicting Celtic mutations
Talk at Foundational Approaches to Celtic Linguistics lecture series (FACL-2), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
AI in minority language contexts: a new digital divide?
Talk at Panel discussion on “Technology and Irish Culture” hosted by the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland
Giorraíonn BERT Bóthar: Benchmark datasets and implementations for Irish NLP
Talk at LT Bridge Summer School, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
Diachronic Parsing of Pre-Standard Irish
Talk at 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW 2022) at LREC 2022, Marseille, France
Meaisínfhoghlaim agus Gramadach na Gaeilge
Talk at “Léacht um Lón” for Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, Galway, Ireland
20 Years a’ Growing: Past, Present, and Future of Irish NLP
Talk at SPELLL 2022 conference, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, India
How does Grammarly work?
Talk at Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Towards explainable AI for Irish grammatical error correction
Talk at University of Notre Dame Department of Computer Science, South Bend, Indiana
Towards explainable AI for Irish grammatical error correction
Talk at University of Galway Cardamom Seminar Series, Galway, Ireland
NLP and AI in languages beyond English
Talk at Saint Louis Generative AI Lab, University City, Missouri
Explainable AI for Irish grammatical error correction
Talk at Celtic Languages in the Digital Age workshop, Lancaster, UK
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Director of Graduate Studies at SLU, 2018–2022
- Director of Computer Science at SLU, 2006–2010