Mícheál Ó Meachair
Dr.
Contact Details
Ollamh Cúnta & Léachtóir
Campas na Naomh Uile
Droim Conrach
Baile Átha Cliath 9
D09 N920
T:Ext. 6033
E:micheal.omeachair@dcu.ie
W:www.corpas.ie
AHC S237
T:Ext. 6033
E:micheal.omeachair@dcu.ie
Tá bunchéim aige sa Nua-Ghaeilge agus i Stair na hEalaíne, agus M.A. i Scríobh agus Cumarsáid na Gaeilge ón gColáiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath. Fuair sé céim dochtúireachta i réimse na teangeolaíochta corpais i gColáiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath. Dhírigh an taighde dochtúireachta seo ar chorpas acmhainní oideachais a thiomsú (EduGA) agus ar anailís a dhéanamh ar an gcastacht teanga sa chorpas sin. Is ríomhchláraitheoir agus logánaitheoir bogearraí é, agus is comhbhunaitheoir de chuid an Ríomhacadaimh é. Tá teastais aige ó ghearrchúrsaí agus ó chúrsaí ar líne sa ríomhchlárú agus san anailísíocht ó institiúid aitheanta, dála MIT, Google, agus eile. I measc na spéiseanna taighde atá aige tá an teangeolaíocht chorpais agus teicneolaíochtaí teanga, agus is ball de Ghrúpa Taighde NLP cuid DCU é.
Is PI Mícheál ar thionscadal Chorpas Náisiúnta na Gaeilge don tréimhse 2025-2029. Tuilleadh eolais ag: https://www.corpas.ie/ga/eolas/
He has a degree in Modern Irish and History of Art, and an M.A. in Scríobh agus Cumarsáid na Gaeilge from University College Dublin. He received his doctoral degree in the field of corpus linguistics from Trinity College, Dublin. This doctoral research focussed on compiling a corpus of educational materials (EduGA) and analysing the complexity of the language therein. He is a programmer and localizer, and he is one of the co-founders of an Ríomhacadamh. He has certificates from short-courses and online courses from recognised institutions such as MIT, Google, and others. His primary research interests are corpus linguistics and language technologies, and he is a member of the DCU NLP Research Group.
Mícheal is the PI for the Corpas Náisiúnta na Gaeilge project for the period 2025-2029. More information from: https://www.corpas.ie/en/eolas/
Conference Contribution
Conference Publication
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Mícheál J. Ó Meachair; Úna Bhreathnach; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Brian Ó Raghallaigh; Michal B. Měchura; Kevin Scannell (2026) Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (workshop co-located with LREC 2026; Mallorca, Spain) Corpas Náisiúnta na Gaeilge 2022-2029: A Project Overview Mallorca, Spain, [Link] | |
| 2022 | James Barry; Joachim Wagner; Lauren Cassidy; Alan Cowap; Teresa Lynn; Abigail Walsh; Mícheál J. Ó Meachair; Jennifer Foster (2022) LREC (Language Resources Evaluation Conference) gaBERT - an Irish-language Model Marseille, [Link] | |
| 2026 | Peter Devine; Will Lamb; Beatrice Alex; Ignatius Ezeani; Dawn Knight; Mícheál J. Ó Meachair; Paul Rayson; Martin Wynne (2026) LLMs4SSH (workshop co-located with LREC 2026; Mallorca, Spain; May 2026) GaelEval: Benchmarking LLM Performance for Scottish Gaelic [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2026 | Andrew Moore; Paul Rayson; Dawn Archer; Tim Czerniak; Dawn Knight; Daisy Lal; Gearóid Ó Donnchadha; Mícheál J. Ó Meachair; Scott Piao; Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha; Joanna Vuorinen; Yan Yabo; Xiabin Yang (2026) LREC 2026 Creating a Hybrid Rule and Neural Network Based Semantic Tagger using Silver Standard Data: the PyMUSAS framework for Multilingual Semantic Annotation [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Mícheál J. Ó Meachair; Andrea Palandri; Gearóid Ó Cleircín (2024) The 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference A Synthetic Brown Corpus: Compilation, analysis, and pitfalls 16/07/2024- 17/07/2024 | |
| 2023 | Mícheál J. Ó Meachair; Úna Bhreathnach; Brian Ó Raghallaigh; Gearóid Ó Cleircín (2023) Corpus Linguistics 2023 Balance and Representativeness in the Compilation of the National Corpus of Irish (CNG) 03/07/2023- 06/07/2023 [Link] | |
| 2022 | Ó Meachair, M.J.; Bhreathnach, Ú.; Ó Cleircín, G. (2022) Proceedings of the 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop Cltw 2022 at Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Lrec 2022 Introducing the National Corpus of Irish Project [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Katie Ní Loinsigh, Mícheál Ó Meachair, Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Úna Bhreathnach, Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2022) 'Anailís Dhiacronach Chorpasbhunaithe ar Cheantair Theangeolaíocha na hÉireann [A Diachronic Corpus-based Analysis of Ireland’s Linguistic Regions]'. TEANGA, 29 . [Link] | |
| 2021 | Mícheál J. Ó Meachair, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Úna Bhreathnach, Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Kevin Scannell (2021) 'Tiomsú Corpais don Taighde Foclóireachta: Corpas Foclóireachta na Gaeilge (CFG2020)'. TEANGA, 28 . [Link] |
Reports
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Mícheál J. Ó Meachair; Kevin Scannell (2016) A style-guide for Irish-language localization. REPORT [Link] |
Thesis
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Mícheál J. Ó Meachair (2020) The Creation and Complexity Analysis of a Corpus of Irish-language Educational Materials. Dublin: THES [Link] |
Other Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Úna Bhreathnach; Mícheál J. Ó Meachair; Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2025) '150 milliún focal Gaeilge ' Comhar, :17-18. [Link] |
Other Activities
Outreach Activities
Media
Research Interests
Teangeolaíocht chorpais, teicneolaíochtaí teanga, logánú, múineadh agus sealbhú teanga.
Corpus linguistics, language technologies, localization, language teaching and acquisition.