| Data Analysis |
Databases, database management, data mining |
Digital systems, representation |
Information systems development |
| Information technology in education |
Information technology, Science |
Internet technologies |
Knowledge Management |
| Knowledge Representation |
Knowledge and data engineering |
Machine Translation |
Natural Language Programming |
| Word/Text Processing |
| Project title |
Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) |
| Summary |
Language barriers constitute a formidable obstacle to the free flow of information, products and services in an increasingly globalised economy and information society. “Localisation” refers to the process of adapting digital content to culture, locale and linguistic environments at high quality and speed. Localisation is a key enabling, value-adding, multiplier component of the global software and content distribution industry. Localisation seeks to overcome language barriers. The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) is a Academia-Industry partnership with over 100 researchers developing novel technologies addressing the key localisation challenges of volume, access and personalisation. Its objective is to produce substantial advances in the basic and applied research underpinning the design, implementation and evaluation of the blueprints for the Next Generation Localisation Factory. Our mission is to revolutionise localisation via breakthroughs in automation, composition and integration, focusing on: (i)Integrated machine translation technology, (ii) Speech-based interfaces and more personalised speech output, (iii) Multilingual digital content management for personalised multilingual content access and delivery, (iv) Localisation workflows and system integration. Dr Lewis' team focusses on the latter, systems integration, including the models and methods for the rapid integration of workflows, service oriented architectures and service management. |
| Funding Agency |
Science Foundation Ireland |
| Programme |
Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology |
| Type of Project |
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| Date from |
1st December 2007 |
| Date to |
30th November 2012 |
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| Project title |
CULTURA - Cultivating Research and Understanding through Adaptivity |
| Summary |
A key challenge facing curators and providers of digital cultural heritage across Europe and Worldwide is to instigate, increase and enhance engagement with digital humanities collections. To achieve this, a fundamental change in the way cultural artefacts are experienced and contributed to by communities is required. CULTURA will pioneer the development of next generation adaptive systems which will provide new forms of multi-dimensional adaptivity:
- personalised information retrieval and presentation which respond to models of user and contextual intent
- community-aware adaptivity which responds to wider community activity, interest, contribution and experience
- content-aware adaptivity which responds to the entities and relationships automatically identified within the artefacts and across collections
- personalised dynamic storylines which are generated across individual as well as entire collections of artefacts
CULTURA advances and integrates the following key technologies:
- Cutting edge natural language processing, which normalises ambiguities in noisy historical texts
Entity and relationship extraction, which highlights the key individuals, events, dates and other entities and relationships within unstructured text
- Social network analysis of the entities and relationships within the content, and also of the individuals and broader community of users engaging with the content
- Multi-model adaptivity to support dynamic reconciliation of multiple dimensions of personalization.
CULTURA will deliver innovative adaptive services and an interactive user environment which dynamically tailors the investigation, comprehension and enrichment of digital humanities artefacts and collections. Through the provision of such functionality, CULTURA can empower all users to investigate, comprehend and contribute to digital cultural collections. CULTURA will provide rigorous evaluation and validation of its adaptive services using high impact, contrasting, multicultural digital cultural heritage collections and diverse user communities and individuals. The CULTURA use cases, defined in collaboration with real users, will clearly illustrate how the adaptive environment will offer genuine user empowerment and unprecedented levels of engagement with these collections and communities.
The CULTURA consortium has a strong emphasis on meeting real end-user needs, maximising societal impact and laying a foundation for successful commercialisation. Thus, the project has a strong scientific foundation, informed by two significant digital cultural resources and associated communities, and supported by experienced and effective project management. |
| Funding Agency |
European Commission |
| Programme |
ICT-2009.4.1 |
| Type of Project |
Strategic Targeted Research Project (STREP) |
| Date from |
Feb 2011 |
| Date to |
Feb 2014 |
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| Project title |
1641 Depositions |
| Summary |
The project aims to transcribe, digitise and analyse the 1641 Depositions, which comprise 3,400 depositions, examinations and associated materials, located in the Library of Trinity College Dublin, in which Protestant men and women of all classes told of their experiences following the outbreak of the rebellion by the Catholic Irish in October, 1641. Collected by government-appointed commissioners, the witness testimony runs to approximately 19,000 pages, and constitutes the chief evidence for the sharply contested allegation that the rebellion began with a general massacre of protestant settlers. As a result, this material has been central to a protracted and bitter historical dispute. Propagandists, politicians and historians have all exploited the depositions at different times, and the controversy surrounding them has never been satisfactorily resolved. In fact, the 1641 ‘massacres’, like King William’s victory at the Boyne (1690), and the battle of the Somme (1916), have played a key role in creating and sustaining a collective Protestant/British identity in the province of Ulster. |
| Funding Agency |
IRCHSS, AHRC |
| Programme |
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| Type of Project |
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| Date from |
2007 |
| Date to |
2011 |
| Person Months |
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| Project title |
The Down Survey of Ireland |
| Summary |
This project will create a consolidated digital atlas of the 1650s Down Survey of Ireland by overlaying all extant Down Survey maps and related cartographic material onto an Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 base. A catalogue of the surviving manuscripts will accompany the atlas. The project will create a geo-referenced Townland Index and an historical Geographic Information System (GIS). When combined, these can be used to consolidate a wide range of 17th-century source material. By applying spatial analysis tools to digitised historical text-based documents, such as the 1641 Depositions, this project will also support location-based analysis of people and events using contemporary geographic models. In September 2011 the project received €117,000 funding from the IRCHSS, which will fund the employment of a Research Assistant for 15 months and a Computer Science Post-doctoral fellow for 6 months. |
| Funding Agency |
IRCHSS |
| Programme |
Government of Ireland Research and Senior Research Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Type of Project |
Digital Humanities and GIS |
| Date from |
October 2011 |
| Date to |
December 2012 |
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Séamus Lawless, Alex O'Connor, Catherine Mulwa, A Proposal for the Evaluation of Adaptive Personalised Information Retrieval, CIRSE 2010 - Workshop on Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation held in conjunction with ECIR-2010 - European Conference on Information Retrieval, Milton Keynes, UK, 28th March 2010, edited by Bich-Liên Doan; Joemon Jose; Massimo Melucci; Lynda Tamine-Lechani; , 2010
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| Ben Steichen, Séamus Lawless, Vincent Wade, Dynamic Hypertext Generation for Reusing Open Corpus Content, 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Torino, Italy, 29th June - 1st July, 2009 |
Séamus Lawless, Lucy Hederman, Vincent Wade, OCCS: Enabling the Dynamic Discovery, Harvesting and Delivery of Educational Content from Open Corpus Sources, The 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, July 1-5, 2008, pp676 - 678 TARA - Full Text
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Séamus Lawless, Lucy Hederman, Vincent Wade, Enhancing Access to Open Corpus Educational Content: Learning in the Wild, 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia , Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A., June 19-21, 2008, pp167 - 174
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Dagger, D., O'Connor, A., Lawless, S., Walsh, E., Wade, V., Service Oriented eLearning Platforms: From Monolithic Systems to Flexible Services, IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Distance Learning, 2007 TARA - Full Text
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