Jennifer Foster

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I am an experienced research leader in the field of Natural Language Processing and AI. I am a PI on a Science Foundation Ireland Frontiers for the Future project, and a named supervisor in the SFI-funded CRT, ml-labs. Previously, I was a PI on Enterprise Ireland and Irish Research Council projects and a Funded Investigator in the SFI-funded CNGL and its successor centre, ADAPT. I have supervised eleven PhD students to completion, and am currently supervising four PhD students. I have authored 100+ peer-reviewed publications on Natural Language Processing topics including language parsing and generation, interpretability, sentiment analysis, question answering, grammar checking, language models and Irish language technology. I am a regular programme committee member for the main conferences in my field, and from 2016 to 2019, I served on the executive board of the Association for Computational Linguistics. I teach Natural Language Processing to students on the B.Sc. in Data Science and M.Sc in Computing (NLP) programmes, and introductory python programming to students on the B.Sc. in Computing for Business. I am the Chair of the Computing for Business programme.  

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2023 Callan, D.; Foster, J. (2023) 'How interesting and coherent are the stories generated by a large-scale neural language model? Comparing human and automatic evaluations of machine-generated text'. Expert Systems, 40 . [Link] [DOI]
2017 Kaljahi, Rasoul and Foster, Jennifer (2017) 'Any-gram Kernels for Sentence Classification: A Sentiment Analysis Case Study'. .
2015 Agic, \vZeljko and Aranzabe, Maria Jesus and Atutxa, Aitziber and Bosco, Cristina and Choi, Jinho and de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine and Dozat, Timothy and Farkas, Rich\'ard and Foster, Jennifer and Ginter, Filip and others (2015) 'Universal dependencies 1.1'. 3 .
2009 Seeker, Wolfgang and Bermingham, Adam and Foster, Jennifer and Hogan, Deirdre (2009) 'Exploiting syntax in sentiment polarity classification'. .
2009 Wagner J.; Foster J.; van Genabith J. (2009) 'Judging grammaticality: Experiments in sentence classification'. CALICO JOURNAL, 26 (3):474-490. [DOI]
2008 Dickinson, Markus and Foster, Jennifer (2008) 'Similarity rules! exploring methods for ad-hoc rule detection'. 12 :147-158.
2008 Wagner, Joachim and Foster, Jennifer and van Genabith, Josef (2008) 'Using Decision Trees to Detect and Classify Grammatical Errors'. 8 .
2007 Foster, Jennifer (2007) 'Real bad grammar: Realistic grammatical description with grammaticality'. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 3 (1):73-86.
2004 Foster, Jennifer and Vogel, Carl (2004) 'Parsing ill-formed text using an error grammar'. 21 (3-4):269-291.

Conference Publication

Year Publication
2023 Lyu, C.; Nguyen, M.D.; Ninh, V.T.; Zhou, L.; Gurrin, C.; Foster, J. (2023) Dialogue-to-Video Retrieval [Link] [DOI]
2022 Cassidy, L.; Lynn, T.; Barry, J.; Foster, J. (2022) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics TwittIrish: A Universal Dependencies Treebank of Tweets in Modern Irish [Link]
2022 Barry, J.; Wagner, J.; Cassidy, L.; Cowap, A.; Lynn, T.; Walsh, A.; Meachair, M.J.Ó.; Foster, J. (2022) 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 gaBERT - an Irish Language Model [Link]
2022 Lyu, C.; Foster, J.; Graham, Y. (2022) Insights 2022 - 3rd Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop Extending the Scope of Out-of-Domain: Examining QA models in multiple subdomains [Link]
2021 Dzendzik, D.; Vogel, C.; Foster, J. (2021) EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings English Machine Reading Comprehension Datasets: A Survey [Link]
2021 Lyu, C.; Shang, L.; Graham, Y.; Foster, J.; Jiang, X.; Liu, Q. (2021) EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings Improving Unsupervised Question Answering via Summarization-Informed Question Generation [Link]
2021 Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2021) EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings Revisiting Tri-training of Dependency Parsers [Link]
2021 Callan, D.; Foster, J. (2021) Evaluation of Interest and Coherence in Machine Generated Stories [Link]
2021 Foster, J.; Wagner, J. (2021) Teaching NLP 2021 - Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Teaching Natural Language Processing Naive Bayes versus BERT: Jupyter notebook assignments for an introductory NLP course [Link]
2021 Barry, J.; Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2021) DeepLo@EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 - Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource Natural Language Processing - Proceedings Cross-lingual parsing with polyglot training and multi-treebank learning: A faroese case study [Link]
2021 Barry, James; Mohammadshahi, Alireza; Wagner, Joachim; Foster, Jennifer; Henderson, James (2021) IWPT 2021: THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARSING TECHNOLOGIES: PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE (INCLUDING THE IWPT 2021 SHARED TASK) The DCU-EPFL Enhanced Dependency Parser at the IWPT 2021 Shared Task
2020 Lyu, C.; Foster, J.; Graham, Y. (2020) COLING 2020 - 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference Improving Document-Level Sentiment Analysis with User and Product Context [Link]
2020 Dzendzik, Daria and Vogel, Carl and Foster, Jennifer (2020) Proceedings of the First Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP Q. Can Knowledge Graphs be used to Answer Boolean Questions? A. It’s complicated!
2020 Walsh, Abigail and Lynn, Teresa and Foster, Jennifer (2020) Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons Annotating Verbal MWEs in Irish for the PARSEME Shared Task 1.2
2020 Barry, J; Wagner, J; Foster, J (2020) 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARSING TECHNOLOGIES AND IWPT 2020 SHARED TASK ON PARSING INTO ENHANCED UNIVERSAL DEPENDENCIES The ADAPT Enhanced Dependency Parser at the IWPT 2020 Shared Task
2020 Elder, H.; O'Connor, A.; Foster, J. (2020) EMNLP 2020 - 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference How to make neural natural language generation as reliable as templates in task-oriented dialogue [Link]
2020 Wagner, J.; Barry, J.; Foster, J. (2020) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Treebank embedding vectors for out-of-domain dependency parsing [Link]
2020 Elder, H.; Burke, R.; O'Connor, A.; Foster, J. (2020) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Shape of synth to come: Why we should use synthetic data for English surface realization [Link]
2020 Barry, J.; Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2020) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics The ADAPT Enhanced dependency parser at the IWPT 2020 shared task [Link]
2019 Elder, Henry and Foster, Jennifer and Barry, James and O'Connor, Alexander (2019) Proceedings of the Workshop on Methods for Optimizing and Evaluating Neural Language Generation (NeuralGen) Designing a symbolic intermediate representation for neural surface realization [Link]
2019 Dzendzik, D.; Vogel, C.; Foster, J. (2019) NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop Is it dishwasher safe? Automatically answering yes/No questions using customer reviews [Link]
2019 Kennedy, S.; Walsh, N.; Sloka, K.; McCarren, A.; Foster, J. (2019) ACL 2019 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop Fact or factitious? Contextualized opinion spam detection [Link]
2019 Walsh, A.; Lynn, T.; Foster, J. (2019) ACL 2019 - Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet, MWE-WN 2019 - Proceedings of the Workshop Ilfhocail: A lexicon of irish mwes [Link]
2018 Kaljahi, R.; Foster, J. (2018) WASSA 2018 - 9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, Proceedings of the Workshop Sentiment Expression Boundaries in Sentiment Polarity Classification [Link] [DOI]
2017 Lynn T.; Foster J.; Dras M. (2017) CEUR Workshop Proceedings Morphological features of the Irish Universal Dependency Treebank
2017 Arora P.; Foster J.; Jones G. (2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Query expansion for sentence retrieval using pseudo relevance feedback and word embedding [DOI]
2017 Bogdanova D.; Foster J.; Dzendzik D.; Liu Q. (2017) 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017 - Proceedings of Conference If you can't beat them join them: Handcrafted features complement neural nets for non-factoid answer reranking
2016 Bogdanova D.; Foster J. (2016) 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference This is how we do it: Answer reranking for open-domain how questions with paragraph vectors and minimal feature engineering
2016 Kaljahi, Rasoul and Foster, Jennifer (2016) Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Modeling of People’s Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES) Detecting opinion polarities using kernel methods
2016 Barman, U.; Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2016) EMNLP 2016 - 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching, CS 2016 - Proceedings of the Workshop Part-of-speech Tagging of Code-mixed Social Media Content: Pipeline, Stacking and Joint Modelling [Link]
2016 Lynn, Teresa and Foster, Jennifer (2016) Celtic Language Technology Workshop Universal dependencies for Irish
2015 Kaljahi R.; Foster J.; Roturier J.; Ribeyre C.; Lynn T.; Le Roux J. (2015) Conference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Foreebank: Syntactic analysis of customer support forums
2015 Arora, P.; Hokamp, C.; Foster, J.; Jones, G.J.F. (2015) SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings DCU: Using Distributional Semantics and Domain Adaptation for the Semantic Textual Similarity SemEval-2015 Task 2 [Link]
2015 Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2015) ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - Workshop on Noisy User-Generated Text, WNUT 2015 - Proceedings of the Workshop DCU-ADAPT: Learning Edit Operations for Microblog Normalisation with the Generalised Perceptron [Link]
2014 Wagner, Joachim and Arora, Piyush and Cortes, Santiago and Barman, Utsab and Bogdanova, Dasha and Foster, Jennifer and Tounsi, Lamia (2014) Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014) DCU: Aspect-based Polarity Classification for SemEval Task 4 [Link]
2014 Kaljahi, R.; Foster, J.; Roturier, J. (2014) Proceedings of SSST 2014 - 8th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation Syntax and semantics in quality estimation of machine translation [Link]
2014 Barman, Utsab and Wagner, Joachim and Chrupala, Grzegorz and Foster, Jennifer (2014) Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching DCU-UVT: Word-Level Language Classification with Code-Mixed Data Doha, Qatar, [Link]
2014 Lynn, Teresa and Foster, Jennifer and Dras, Mark and Tounsi, Lamia (2014) Proceedings of the First Celtic Language Technology Workshop Cross-lingual transfer parsing for low-resourced languages: An Irish case study
2014 Kaljahi R.; Foster J.; Rubino R.; Roturier J. (2014) COLING 2014 - 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2014: Technical Papers Quality estimation of english-French machine translation: A detailed study of the role of syntax
2014 Le Roux, Joseph and Rozenknop, Antoine and Foster, Jennifer (2014) ROADEF-15\`eme congr\`es annuel de la Soci\'et\'e fran\ccaise de recherche op\'erationnelle et d'aide \`a la d\'ecision Analyse syntaxique des langues naturelles par combinaison de grammaires alg\'ebriques et d\'ecomposition lagrangienne
2014 Kaljahi, Rasoul and Foster, Jennifer and Roturier, Johann (2014) Proceedings of the Third Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2014) Semantic role labelling with minimal resources: Experiments with french
2014 Kaljahi, Rasoul and Foster, Jennifer and Roturier, Johann (2014) Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation Syntax and Semantics in Quality Estimation of Machine Translation
2014 Barman, U.; Das, A.; Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2014) 1st Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching, Switching 2014 at the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2014 - Proceedings Code Mixing: A Challenge for Language Identification in the Language of Social Media [Link]
2014 Barman, U.; Wagner, J.; Chrupała, G.; Foster, J. (2014) 1st Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching, Switching 2014 at the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2014 - Proceedings DCU-UVT: Word-Level Language Classification with Code-Mixed Data [Link]
2014 Wagner, J.; Arora, P.; Cortes, S.; Barman, U.; Bogdanova, D.; Foster, J.; Tounsi, L. (2014) 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014, Proceedings DCU: Aspect-based Polarity Classification for SemEval Task 4 [Link]
2014 Kaljahi, R.; Foster, J.; Roturier, J. (2014) Proceedings of the 3rd Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, *SEM 2014 Semantic role labelling with minimal resources: Experiments with French [Link] [DOI]
2014 Maritxalar M.; Uí Donnchadha E.; Foster J.; Ward M. (2014) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Quizzes on tap: Exporting a test generation system from one less-resourced language to another [DOI]
2013 Rubino, R.; Wagner, J.; Foster, J.; Roturier, J.; Kaljahi, R.S.Z.; Hollowood, F. (2013) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics DCU-Symantec at the WMT 2013 Quality Estimation Shared Task [Link]
2013 Rubino, R.; Foster, J.; Kaljahi, R.S.Z.; Roturier, J.; Hollowood, F. (2013) 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Proceedings of the Main Conference Estimating the Quality of Translated User-Generated Content [Link]
2013 Le Roux J.; Rozenknop A.; Foster J. (2013) EMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference Combining PCFG-LA models with dual decomposition: A case study with function labels and binarization
2013 Arora P.; Foster J.; Jones G. (2013) ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Applying query formulation and fusion techniques for cross language news story search [DOI]
2013 Kaljahi, R.S.Z.; Foster, J.; Rubino, R.; Roturier, J.; Hollowood, F. (2013) 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Proceedings of the Main Conference Parser Accuracy in Quality Estimation of Machine Translation: A Tree Kernel Approach [Link]
2013 Seddah, D.; Tsarfaty, R.; Kübler, S.; Candito, M.; Choi, J.D.; Farkas, R.; Foster, J.; Goenaga, I.; Gojenola, K.; Goldberg, Y.; Green, S.; Habash, N.; Kuhlmann, M.; Maier, W.; Nivre, J.; Przepiórkowski, A.; Roth, R.; Seeker, W.; Versley, Y.; Vincze, V.; Woliński, M.; Wróblewska, A.; De La Clérgerie, E.V. (2013) SPMRL 2013 - 4th Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages, Proceedings of the Workshop Overview of the SPMRL 2013 shared task: Cross-framework evaluation of parsing morphologically rich languages [Link]
2013 Lynn T.; Foster J.; Dras M.; Van Genabith J. (2013) SPMRL 2013 - 4th Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages, Proceedings of the Workshop Working with a small dataset - Semi-supervised dependency parsing for Irish
2013 Arora, Piyush and Foster, Jennifer and Jones, Gareth JF (2013) Post-Proceedings of the 4th and 5th Workshops of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation Applying Query Formulation and Fusion Techniques For Cross Language News Story Search
2012 Lynn, T.; Cetinoglu, O.; Foster, J.; UiDhonnchadha, E.; Dras, M.; Van Genabith, J. (2012) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012 Irish treebanking and parsing: A preliminary evaluation [Link]
2012 Apidianaki, Marianna and Dagan, Ido and Foster, Jennifer and Marton, Yuval and Seddah, Djam\'e and Tsarfaty, Reut (2012) Proceedings of the ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing of Morphologically Rich Languages Proceedings of the ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing of Morphologically Rich Languages
2012 Le Roux, Joseph and Foster, Jennifer and Wagner, Joachim and Kaljahi, Rasul and Bryl, Anton (2012) NAACL 2012 DCU-Paris13 systems for the SANCL 2012 shared task
2012 Tu Z.; He Y.; Foster J.; Van Genabith J.; Liu Q.; Lin S. (2012) 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference Identifying high-impact sub-structures for convolution kernels in document-level sentiment classification
2012 Lynn, Teresa and Foster, Jennifer and Dras, Mark and Dhonnchadha, Elaine U\i (2012) Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2012 Active Learning and the Irish Treebank
2012 Rubino, R.; Foster, J.; Wagner, J.; Roturier, J.; Kaljahi, R.S.Z.; Hollowood, F. (2012) WMT 2012 - 7th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of the Workshop DCU-Symantec Submission for the WMT 2012 Quality Estimation Task [Link]
2012 Kaljahi, Rasoul Samad Zadeh and Rubino, Raphael and Roturier, Johann and Foster, Jennifer (2012) Proceedings of AMTA A Detailed Analysis of Phrase-based and Syntax-based Machine Translation: The Search for Systematic Differences
2011 Hogan, D.; Foster, J.; Van Genabith, J. (2011) Workshop on Multiword Expressions: From Parsing and Generation to the Real World, MWE 2011 at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings Decreasing lexical data sparsity in statistical syntactic parsing - Experiments with named entities [Link]
2011 Foster, J.; Çetinoǧlu, O.; Wagner, J.; Le Roux, J.; Hogan, S.; Nivre, J.; Hogan, D.; Van Genabith, J. (2011) AAAI Workshop - Technical Report #hardtoparse: POS tagging and parsing the Twitterverse [Link]
2011 Foster, J.; Çetinoğlu, Ö.; Wagner, J.; van Genabith, J. (2011) IWPT 2011 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies Comparing the use of edited and unedited text in parser self-training [Link]
2011 Seddah, Djam\'e and Tsarfaty, Reut and Foster, Jennifer (2011) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages
2011 Foster, J.; Çetinoğlu, Ö.; Wagner, J.; Le Roux, J.; Nivre, J.; Hogan, D.; van Genabith, J. (2011) IJCNLP 2011 - Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing From News to Comment: Resources and Benchmarks for Parsing the Language of Web 2.0 [Link]
2010 Tsarfaty, R.; Seddah, D.; Goldberg, Y.; Kübler, S.; Candito, M.; Foster, J.; Versley, Y.; Rehbein, I.; Tounsi, L. (2010) 1st Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages, SPMRL 2010 - Proceedings Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages (SPMRL) What, How and Whither [Link]
2010 Tetreault J.; Foster J.; Chodorow M. (2010) ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference Using parse features for preposition selection and error detection
2010 Tsarfaty, Reut and Seddah, Djame and Goldberg, Yoav and Kuebler, Sandra and Versley, Yannick and Candito, Marie and Foster, Jennifer and Rehbein, Ines and Tounsi, Lamia (2010) The 1st Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages, NAACL Statistical parsing of morphologically rich languages
2010 Foster, J. (2010) NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference cba to check the spelling investigating parser performance on discussion forum posts [Link]
2010 Attia, M.; Foster, J.; Hogan, D.; Le Roux, J.; Tounsi, L.; van Genabith, J. (2010) 1st Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages, SPMRL 2010 - Proceedings Handling Unknown Words in Statistical Latent-Variable Parsing Models for Arabic, English and French [Link]
2009 Foster, J.; Andersen, Ø.E. (2009) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2009 GenERRate: Generating Errors for Use in Grammatical Error Detection [Link]
2009 Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2009) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies, IWPT 2009 The effect of correcting grammatical errors on parse probabilities [Link]
2008 Foster, J.; Wagner, J.; Van Genabith, J. (2008) ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference Adapting awsj-Trained parser to grammatically noisy text [Link]
2008 Foster J.; Van Genabith J. (2008) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008 Parser evaluation and the BNC: Evaluating 4 constituency parsers with 3 metrics
2008 Bermingham A.; Smeaton A.; Foster J.; Hogan D. (2008) NIST Special Publication DCU at the TREC 2008 blog track
2008 Hogan D.; Foster J.; Wagner J.; Van Genabith J. (2008) INLG 2008 - 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Proceedings of the Conference Parser-based retraining for domain adaptation of probabilistic generators
2008 Foster, J.; Wagner, J.; van Genabith, J. (2008) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Adapting a WSJ-trained parser to grammatically noisy text [Link]
2008 Foster, J; van Genabith, J (2008) SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION, LREC 2008 Parser Evaluation and the BNC: Evaluating 4 constituency parsers with 3 metrics
2007 Foster, J (2007) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION Treebanks gone bad [DOI]
2007 Foster J. (2007) Proceedings of IJCAI 2007 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, AND 2007 Treebanks gone bad: Generating a treebank of ungrammatical english
2007 Wagner, Joachim and Seddah, Djam\'e and Foster, Jennifer and Van Genabith, Josef (2007) Proceedings of the Twelfth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference C-structures and F-structures for the British National Corpus
2007 Wagner J.; Foster J.; Van Genabith J. (2007) EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning A comparative evaluation of deep and shallow approaches to the automatic detection of common grammatical errors
2007 Foster, J.; Wagner, J.; Seddah, D.; van Genabith, J. (2007) IWPT 2007 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parsing Technologies Adapting WSJ-trained parsers to the British national corpus using in-domain self-training [Link]
2007 Foster J. (2007) International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Treebanks gone bad: Parser evaluation and retraining using a treebank of ungrammatical sentences [DOI]
2006 Wagner, Joachim and Foster, Jennifer and van Genabith, Josef (2006) Workshop on Interfaces of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning Detecting grammatical errors using probabilistic parsing
2004 Foster, Jennifer and Vogel, Carl (2004) In Stephan Kepser and Marga Reis, editors, Pre-Proceedings of the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Perspectives Good reasons for noting bad grammar: Constructing a corpus of ungrammatical language
2004 Foster, Jennifer (2004) LREC Parsing Ungrammatical Input: an Evaluation Procedure
2000 Foster, Jennifer (2000) Proceedings of the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session A unification strategy for parsing agreement errors

Other Publication

Year Publication
2015 Bogdanova, Dasha and Ganguly, Debasis and Foster, Jennifer and Vahid, Ali H (2015) ADAPT. DCU at TREC LiveQA: A sentence retrieval based approach to live question answering.
2012 Apidianaki, M.; Daga, I.; Erk, K.; Foster, J.; Marton, Y.; Rehbein, I.; Seddah, D.; Tsarfaty, R.; Turney, P. (2012) Preface to SP-SEM-MRL 2012. [Link]
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Research Projects

Title Role Description Start date End date
Rolling in the deep: unravelling a neural net's capacity for language DCU PI 01/10/2020 30/09/2024
Language oriented retrieval and generation - Language technology for next generation search DCU PI 01/04/2008 16/05/2011
Gaeltech 2 DCU PI 01/10/2021 30/09/2023

Current Postgraduate Students

Student Name Degree Supervision
Cowap ,Alan PhD Supervisor

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2022 Natural Language Technologies CA4023
2020 Programming Fundamentals III CA278
2021 Programming Fundamentals (Project) CA377
2023 CA337