Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha

Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics

Elaine

Research Interests

My main areas of interest are Corpus Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. I am interested all aspects of corpus creation and the linguistic annotation of corpora, and in developing language processing tools for Irish for the automatic annotation of texts, e.g. morphological analysers and generators, part-of-speech taggers, chunkers and parsers. Tools such as these are used by many language technology applications including search engines, spelling and grammar checkers, computer-aided translation systems, speech synthesis and recognition, and others.

Selected Publications

Judge, J., Ní Chasaide, A., Ní Dhubhda, R., Scannell, K., Uí Dhonnchadha, E. 2012. The Irish Language in the Digital Age. link
Lynn, Teresa , Ozlem Cetinoglu, Jennifer Foster, Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Mark Dras and Josef van Genabith, Irish Treebanking and Parsing: A Preliminary Evaluation, LREC 2012, Istanbul, May 2012
Uí Dhonnchadha, E., Frenda, A., Vaughan, B. Issues in Designing a Corpus of Spoken Irish, LREC-2012: SALTMIL-AfLaT Workshop on “Language technology for normalisation of less-resourced languages, Istanbul, May 2012.
Maritxalar, M; Uí Donnchadha, E; Foster, J; Ward, M., Quizzes on Tap: Exporting a Test Generation System from one Less-Resourced Language to Another, The 5th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2011), Poznan, Poland , November 25-27, 2011, edited by Zygmunt Vetulani , 2011, pp75-79
Frenda, A; Uí Dhonnchadha, E; Welby, P., Not missing the bád: a spoken language corpus for Irish, Tionól 2011, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, Dublin, November 18-19, 2011
Welby, P., Frenda, A., Uí Dhonnchadha, E., Talkin' 'bout a revolution: Irish spontaneous speech corpora and phonetic analysis, 14th International Congress of Celtic Studies, NUI Maynooth, Ireland, 1-5 August 2011
Uí Dhonnchadha, Elaine. Natural Language Processing Tools: Developing a Part-of-Speech Tagger and Partial Dependency Parser for Irish, Saarbrücken, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010, 1 - 368pp link
Uí Dhonnchadha, E., Part-of-Speech Tagging and Partial Parsing for Irish using Finite-State Transducers and Constraint Grammar, DCU, 2009 link
Uí Dhonnchadha, E., van Genabith, J. Scaling an Irish FST morphology engine for use on unrestricted text in, editor(s)A. Yli-Jyrä, L. Karttunen, J. Karhumäki , Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI): Proceedings of the FSMNLP 2005 Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp247 - 258
Kilgarriff, A., Rundell, M., Uí Dhonnchadha, E., Efficient corpus creation for lexicography, Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, 40, (2), 2006

Teaching/Supervision

I teach Computational Morphology, Introduction to Syntax, Introduction to Language Transcription & CHILDES at undergraduate level, and Corpus Linguistics at post graduate level.
I supervise theses relating to various aspects of Corpus Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.