Dr. John McCrae

I am a lecturer above-the-bar at the Data Science Institute, Insight Centre for Data Analytics and ADAPT centre at the National University of Ireland Galway and the leader of the Unit for Linguistic Data. I am 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 the University of Bielefeld in Bielefeld, Germany in Prof. Philipp Cimiano’s group, AG Semantic Computing.