Brian Davis

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I am an Assistant Professor in Computing and member of the SFI funded ADAPT Centre. Prior to taking up my appointment in 2019,   I was a Lecturer  at the Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University.  From  June 2014- August 2017, I was a Research Fellow, Adjunct Lecturer and Research Unit Leader at the INSIGHT Center for Data Analytics, NUI Galway (NUIG), where I led the Knowledge Discovery Unit , focusing on the specific research areas of: Natural Language Processing, Data Visualization and Knowledge Discovery from heterogeneous data sources (text and graph). I was charged with managing the SW1 work package of the SFI Insight Grant.   In addition, I was Principle Investigator of two SFI co-funded Targeted Projects (Elsevier and DataLive, respectively), Furthermore I was Coordinator of a 3 year Horizon 2020 Innovation Action – SSIX - Social Sentiment Financial Indexes (Grant No 645425).  

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2022 Milosevic, T.;Van Royen, K.;Davis, B. (2022) 'Artificial Intelligence to Address Cyberbullying, Harassment and Abuse: New Directions in the Midst of Complexity'. International journal of bullying prevention : an official publication of the International Bullying Prevention Association, 4 . [Link] [DOI]
2021 Vasiliu, L.;Cortis, K.;McDermott, R.;Kerr, A.;Peters, A.;Hesse, M.;Hagemeyer, J.;Belpaeme, T.;McDonald, J.;Villing, R.;Mileo, A.;Capulto, A.;Scriney, M.;Griffiths, S.;Koumpis, A.;Davis, B. (2021) 'CASIE - Computing affect and social intelligence for healthcare in an ethical and trustworthy manner'. Paladyn, 12 . [Link] [DOI]
2021 Cortis, K.;Davis, B. (2021) 'Over a decade of social opinion mining: a systematic review'. Artificial Intelligence Review, 54 . [Link] [DOI]
2018 Barzegar, S.;Davis, B.;Handschuh, S.;Freitas, A.; (2018) 'Classification of composite semantic relations by a distributional-relational model'. Data and Knowledge Engineering, . [DOI]
2017 Timilsina, M.;Khawaja, W.;Davis, B.;Taylor, M.;Hayes, C.; (2017) 'Social impact assessment of scientist from mainstream news and weblogs'. Social Network Analysis and Mining, . [DOI]
2017 Safwat, H.;Davis, B.; (2017) 'CNLs for the semantic web: a state of the art'. Language Resources and Evaluation, . [DOI]
2017 Brian Davis;Tobias Kuhn;Kaarel Kaljurand; (2017) 'LRE journal CNL introduction'. Language Resources and Evaluation, . [DOI]
2017 Timilsina, Mohan and Khawaja, Waqas and Davis, Brian and Taylor, Mike and Hayes, Conor (2017) 'Social impact assessment of scientist from mainstream news and weblogs'. 7 (1).
2016 (2016) 'Dublin City University and Partners’ Participation in the INS and VTT Tracks at TRECVid 2016'. .
2016 (2016) 'Social sentiment indices powered by X-scores'. Semantic Knowledge Management: Integrating Ontology Management; Knowledge Discovery And Human Language Technology, .
2016 (2016) 'In or out? Real-time monitoring of BREXIT sentiment on Twitter'. Semantics 2016, .
2016 (2016) 'Dublin City University and Partners' participation in the INS and VTT Tracks at TRECVid 2016'. Trecvid 2016, .
2016 (2016) 'Challenges and opportunities for detecting and measuring diffusion of scientific impact across heterogeneous altmetric sources'. .
2016 (2016) 'Semantic relation classification: task formalisation and refinement'. Cogalex-V@ Coling 2016, .
2013 Liston, Vanessa and Davis, Brian and Harris, Clodagh and O?Toole, Mark and Lee, Deirdre (2013) 'Enabling discourse representation and meta-consensus in online deliberation using Internet technologies'. 5 (4):462-485.
2013 Liston, Vanessa and Davis, Brian and Harris, Clodagh and O’Toole, Mark and Lee, Deirdre (2013) 'Enabling discourse representation and meta-consensus in online deliberation using Internet technologies'. 5 (4):462-485.
2013 (2013) 'On applying controlled natural languages for ontology authoring and semantic annotation'. .
2010 Davis, Brian and Dantuluri, Pradeep and Handschuh, Siegfried and Cunningham, Hamish (2010) 'Towards Controlled Natural Language for Semantic Annotation'. 6 (4):64-91. [Link]
2008 Vít Novácek, Loredana Laera, Siegfried Handschuh, Brian Davis (2008) 'Infrastructure for dynamic knowledge integration?Automated biomedical ontology extension using textual resources'. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 41 (5):816-828. [Link] [DOI]
2005 Gregg, David and Beatty, Andrew and Casey, Kevin and Davis, Brian and Nisbet, Andy (2005) 'The case for virtual register machines'. 57 (3):319-338.
2013 (2013) 'Enabling discourse representation and meta-consensus in online deliberation using Internet technologies'. Policy and Internet, .
2016 Vasiliu, Laurentiu and Freitas, Andr\'e and Caroli, Frederico and McDermott, Ross and Zarrouk, Manel and H\"urlimann, Manuela and Davis, Brian and Daudert, Tobias and Khaled, Malek Ben and Byrne, David and others (2016) 'In or out? Real-time monitoring of BREXIT sentiment on Twitter'. .

Conference Publication

Year Publication
2019 Cortis, Keith and Davis, Brian (2019) Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019) A Social Opinion Gold Standard for the Malta Government Budget 2018
2018 Handschuh, Siegfried and Freitas, Andr\'e and Zarrouk, Manel and Davis, Brian and Barzegar, Siamak (2018) Language Resources and Evaluation Conference SemR-11: a multi-lingual gold-standard for semantic similarity and relatedness for eleven languages
2018 Sales, Juliano Efson and Barzegar, Siamak and Franco, Wellington and Bermeitinger, Bernhard and Cunha, Tiago and Davis, Brian and Freitas, Andr\'e and Handschuh, Siegfried (2018) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2018)
2018 Barzegar, Siamak and Davis, Brian and Zarrouk, Manel and Handschuh, Siegfried and Freitas, Andr\'e (2018) Language Resources and Evaluation Conference SemR-11: a multi-lingual gold-standard for semantic similarity and relatedness for eleven languages
2018 Safwat, Hazem and Davis, Brian and Zarrouk, Manel (2018) 2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)
2018 Gaillat, Thomas and Zarrouk, Manel and Freitas, Andr\'e and Davis, Brian (2018) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2018)
2018 Vornhagen, Heike and Davis, Brian and Zarrouk, Manel (2018) Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age Sensemaking of complex sociotechnical systems: the case of governance dashboards
2018 Sales, Juliano Efson and Souza, Leonardo and Barzegar, Siamak and Davis, Brian and Freitas, Andr\'e and Handschuh, Siegfried (2018) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) Indra: A word embedding and semantic relatedness server
2018 Freitas, Andr\'e and Gaillat, Thomas and Zarrouk, Manel and Davis, Brian (2018) The Language Resources and Evaluation Conference The SSIX corpora: three gold standard corpora for sentiment analysis in English, Spanish and German financial microblogs
2018 Handschuh, Siegfried and McDermott, Ross and Freitas, Andr\'e and Zarrouk, Manel and Balahur, Alexandra and Davis, Brian and Maia, Macedo (2018) The Web Conference 2018 WWW'18 open challenge: financial opinion mining and question answering
2018 Timoney, Joseph and Davis, Brian and Raj, Adarsh (2018) AICS Nostalgic Sentiment Analysis of YouTube Comments for Chart Hits of the 20th Century
2018 Stearns, Bernardo and McDermott, Ross and Sridhar, Gopal and Gaillat, Thomas and Zarrouk, Manel and Davis, Brian (2018) Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) Implicit and explicit aspect extraction in financial microblogs
2018 Gaillat, Thomas and Stearns, Bernardo and McDermott, Ross and Sridhar, Gopal and Zarrouk, Manel and Davis, Brian (2018) Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) Implicit and explicit aspect extraction in financial microblogs
2018 Gaillat, Thomas and Stearns, Bernardo and Sridhar, Gopal and McDermott, Ross and Zarrouk, Manel and Davis, Brian (2018) Proceedings of the First Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing
2018 Safwat, Hazem and Zarrouk, Manel and Davis, Brian (2018) Sixth International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2018) Rewriting simplified text into a controlled natural language
2018 Gaillat, Thomas and Zarrouk, Manel and Freitas, Andr\'e and Davis, Brian (2018) The Language Resources and Evaluation Conference The SSIX corpora: three gold standard corpora for sentiment analysis in English, Spanish and German financial microblogs
2018 Maia, Macedo and Handschuh, Siegfried and Freitas, Andr\'e and Davis, Brian and McDermott, Ross and Zarrouk, Manel and Balahur, Alexandra (2018) Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference 2018 WWW'18 Open Challenge: Financial Opinion Mining and Question Answering
2018 Sales, Juliano Efson and Barzegar, Siamak and Franco, Wellington and Bermeitinger, Bernhard and Cunha, Tiago and Davis, Brian and Freitas, Andr\'e and Handschuh, Siegfried (2018) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) A Multilingual Test Collection for the Semantic Search of Entity Categories
2018 Sales, Juliano Efson and Souza, Leonardo and Barzegar, Siamak and Davis, Brian and Freitas, Andr\'e and Handschuh, Siegfried (2018) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2018)
2018 Barzegar, Siamak and Davis, Brian and Zarrouk, Manel and Handschuh, Siegfried and Freitas, Andr\'e (2018) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2018)
2018 Barzegar, Siamak and Davis, Brian and Handschuh, Siegfried and Freitas, Andre (2018) 2018 IEEE 12th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) Multilingual semantic relatedness using lightweight machine translation
2017 Timilsina, Mohan and Davis, Brian and Taylor, Mike and Hayes, Conor (2017) Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence
2017 Barzegar, Siamak and Freitas, Andre and Handschuh, Siegfried and Davis, Brian (2017) International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
2017 Safwat, Hazem and Zarrouk, Manel and Davis, Brian (2017) International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics From simplified text to knowledge representation using controlled natural language
2017 Hayes, Conor and Taylor, Mike and Timilsina, Mohan and Davis, Brian (2017) IEEE/ACM International Conference of Web Intelligence
2017 Cortis, Keith and Freitas, Andr\'e and Daudert, Tobias and Huerlimann, Manuela and Zarrouk, Manel and Handschuh, Siegfried and Davis, Brian (2017) Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
2016 H\"urlimann, Manuela and Davis, Brian and Cortis, Keith and Freitas, Andr\'e and Handschuh, Siegfried and Fern\'andez, Sergio (2016) Proceedings of the 12th international conference on semantic systems A twitter sentiment gold standard for the brexit referendum
2016 O'Connor, Noel E and Zhou, Jiang and Mohedano, Eva and Smeaton, Alan F and Du, Jinhua and Afli, Haithem and H\"urlimann, Manuela and Ganguly, Debasis and Giro-i-Nieto, Xavier and Li, Wei and others (2016) TRECVIDin Dublin city university and partners' participation in the ins and vtt tracks at trecvid 2016
2016 Davis, Brian and Cortis, Keith and Vasiliu, Laurentiu and Koumpis, Adamantios and McDermott, Ross and Handschuh, Siegfried (2016) ALLDATA
2016 Santos, Vivian and\ Huerliman, Manuela and\ Davis, Brian and\ Handschuh, Siegfried and\ Freitas, Andr\\'e\ (2016) Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (C\ogAL\ex - V) Semantic Relation Classification: Task Formalisation and Refinement Osaka, Japan, [Link]
2016 Safwat, Hazem and Gruzitis, Normunds and Davis, Brian and Enache, Ramona (2016) 2016 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) Extracting semantic knowledge from unstructured text using embedded controlled language
2016 Smeaton A.;McGuinness K.;Gurrin C.;Zhou J.;O'Connor N.;Wang P.;Davis B.;Azevedo L.;Freitas A.;Signal L.;Smith M.;Stanley J.;Barr M.;Chambers T.;Mhurchu C. (2016) Iv and L-MM 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Workshop on Vision and Language Integration Meets Multimedia Fusion, co-located with ACM Multimedia 2016 Semantic indexing of wearable camera images: Kids'Cam concepts [DOI]
2016 O'Connor, Noel E and Zhou, Jiang and Mohedano, Eva and Smeaton, Alan F and Du, Jinhua and Afli, Haithem and H\"urlimann, Manuela and Ganguly, Debasis and Giro-i-Nieto, Xavier and Li, Wei and others (2016) TRECVid 2016
2016 Byrne, David and Cavallini, Angelo and McDermott, Ross and H\"urlimann, Manuela and Caroli, Frederico and Khaled, Malek Ben and Freitas, Andr\'e and Zarrouk, Manel and Vasiliu, Laurentiu and Davis, Brian and others (2016) Semantics
2016 Marsden M.;Mohedano E.;McGuinness K.;Calafell A.;Giró-I-Nieto X.;O’Connor N.E.;Zhou J.;Azevedo L.;Daudert T.;Davis B.;Hürlimann M.;Afli H.;Du J.;Ganguly D.;Li W.;Way A.;Smeaton A.F. (2016) 2016 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, TRECVID 2016 Dublin city university and partners’ participation in the INS and VTT tracks at TRECVID 2016
2016 Freitas, Andr\'e and Barzegar, Siamak and Sales, Juliano Efson and Handschuh, Siegfried and Davis, Brian (2016) European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop
2016 Timilsina, Mohan and Davis, Brian and Taylor, Mike and Hayes, Conor (2016) Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
2016 Smeaton, Alan F and McGuinness, Kevin and Gurrin, Cathal and Zhou, Jiang and O'Connor, Noel E and Wang, Peng and Davis, Brian and Azevedo, Lucas and Freitas, Andre and Signal, Louise and others (2016) Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Workshop on Vision and Language Integration Meets Multimedia Fusion Semantic indexing of wearable camera images: Kids' Cam concepts
2016 Santos, Vivian and H\"urliman, Manuela and Davis, Brian and Handschuh, Siegfried and Freitas, Andr\'e (2016) Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-V) Semantic relation classification: task formalisation and refinement
2016 H\"urlimann, Manuela and Davis, Brian and Cortis, Keith and Freitas, Andr\'e and Handschuh, Siegfried and Fern\'andez, Sergio (2016) SEMANTICS A Twitter Sentiment Gold Standard for the Brexit Referendum
2016 Handschuh, Siegfried and Davis, Brian (2016) Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: 20th International Conference, EKAW 2016, Bologna, Italy, November 19-23, 2016, Proceedings
2016 Davis, Brian and Cortis, Keith and Vasiliu, Laurentiu and Koumpis, Adamantios and McDermott, Ross and Handschuh, Siegfried (2016) ALLDATA Social sentiment indices powered by X-scores
2016 H\"urlimann, Manuela and Davis, Brian and Cortis, Keith and Freitas, Andr\'e and Handschuh, Siegfried and Fern\'andez, Sergio (2016) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems
2016 Davis, Brian and Cortis, Keith and Vasiliu, Laurentiu and Koumpis, Adamantios and McDermott, Ross and Handschuh, Siegfried (2016) 2nd International Conference on Big Data, Small Data, Linked Data and Open Data, ALLDATA 2016 Social sentiment indices powered by X-scores
2016 Davis, Brian and Hulpu\cs (2016) Altmetrics Challenges and opportunities for detecting and measuring diffusion of scientific impact across heterogeneous altmetric sources
2016 Byrne, David and Cavallini, Angelo and McDermott, Ross and H\"urlimann, Manuela and Caroli, Frederico and Khaled, Malek Ben and Freitas, Andr\'e and Zarrouk, Manel and Vasiliu, Laurentiu and Davis, Brian and others (2016) SEMANTICS In or out? Real-time monitoring of BREXIT sentiment on Twitter
2016 Safwat, Hazem and Gruzitis, Normunds and Davis, Brian and Enache, Ramona (2016) Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2016 IEEE Tenth International Conference on
2016 Timilsina, Mohan and Davis, Brian and Taylor, Mike and Hayes, Conor (2016) 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) Towards predicting academic impact from mainstream news and weblogs: A heterogeneous graph based approach
2016 Sales, Juliano Efson and Freitas, Andr\'e and Davis, Brian and Handschuh, Siegfried (2016) Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
2015 Khawaja, Waqas and Taylor, Michael and Davis, Brian (2015) International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
2015 Sales, Juliano Efson and Freitas, Andr\'e and Handschuh, Siegfried and Davis, Brian (2015) Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
2015 Safwat, Hazem and Gruzitis, Normunds and Enache, Ramona and Davis, Brian (2015) Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications \& Services
2015 Safwat, Hazem and Gruzitis, Normunds and Enache, Ramona and Davis, Brian (2015) Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications \& Services Embedded controlled language to facilitate information extraction from eGov policies
2015 Leggieri, Myriam and Davis, Brian and Breslin, John G (2015) Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2015 International
2015 Barzegar, Siamak and Sales, Juliano Efson and Freitas, Andre and Handschuh, Siegfried and Davis, Brian (2015) Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
2015 Leggieri, Myriam and Davis, Brian and Breslin, John G (2015) 2015 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) Distributional semantics and unsupervised clustering for sensor relevancy prediction
2014 Maynard, Diana and van Erp, Marieke and Davis, Brian (2014) Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Semantic Web and Information Extraction
2014 Safwat, Hazem and Davis, Brian (2014) International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language
2013 Maynard, Diana and van Erp, Marieke and Davis, Brian and Osenova, Petya and Simov, Kiril and Georgiev, Georgi and Nakov, Preslav (2013) Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on NLP\&LOD and SWAIE: Semantic Web, Linked Open Data and Information Extraction
2013 Maynard, Diana and van Erp, Marieke and Davis, Brian and Osenova, Petya and Simov, Kiril and Georgiev, Georgi and Nakov, Preslav (2013) Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on NLP\&LOD and SWAIE: Semantic Web, Linked Open Data and Information Extraction Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on NLP\&LOD and SWAIE: Semantic Web, Linked Open Data and Information Extraction
2012 Kaljurand, Kaarel and Espa\~na-Bonet, Cristina and Nyrkk\"o (2012) Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics/OpenMath Workshop WP11: Multilingual Semantic Wiki
2012 Davis, Brian and Enache, Ramona and Van Grondelle, Jeroen and Pretorius, Laurette (2012) International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language
2011 Davis, Brian and Badra, Fadi and Buitelaar, Paul and Wunner, Tobias and Handschuh, Siegfried (2011) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Multilingual Semantic Web-Volume 775
2010 Dantuluri, Pradeep and Davis, Brian and Ludwick, Pierre and Handschuh, Siegfried (2010) International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language
2010 Scerri, Simon and Gossen, Gerhard and Davis, Brian and Handschuh, Siegfried (2010) LREC
2009 Scerri, Simon and Davis, Brian and Handschuh, Siegfried (2009) 2009 IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing Semanta Supporting E-mail Workflows in Business Processes
2009 Wyner, Adam and Angelov, Krasimir and Barzdins, Guntis and Damljanovic, Danica and Davis, Brian and Fuchs, Norbert and Hoefler, Stefan and Jones, Ken and Kaljurand, Kaarel and Kuhn, Tobias and others (2009) International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language
2009 Scerri, Simon and Davis, Brian and Handschuh, Siegfried and Hauswirth, Manfred (2009) European Semantic Web Conference
2008 Troussov, Alexander and Judge, John and Sogrin, Mikhail and Akrout, Amine and Davis, Brian and Handschuh, Siegfried (2008) Computer Science and Information Technology, 2008. IMCSIT 2008. International Multiconference on
2008 Troussov, Alexander and Judge, John and Sogrin, Mikhail and Akrout, Amine and Davis, Brian and Handschuh, Siegfried (2008) 2008 International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology A linguistic light approach to multilingualism in lexical layers for ontologies
2008 Davis, Brian and Iqbal, Ahmad Ali and Funk, Adam and Tablan, Valentin and Bontcheva, Kalina and Cunningham, Hamish and Handschuh, Siegfried (2008) International Semantic Web Conference
2007 Scerri, Simon and Davis, Brian and Handschuh, Siegfried (2007) Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2007. DEXA'07. 18th International Workshop on
2007 Funk, Adam and Tablan, Valentin and Bontcheva, Kalina and Cunningham, Hamish and Davis, Brian and Handschuh, Siegfried (2007) ISWC 2007 Clone: Controlled language for ontology editing
2007 Scerri, Simon and Davis, Brian and Handschuh, Siegfried (2007) 18th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2007) Improving email conversation efficiency through semantically enhanced email
2007 Funk, Adam and Tablan, Valentin and Bontcheva, Kalina and Cunningham, Hamish and Davis, Brian and Handschuh, Siegfried (2007) ISWC Clone: Controlled language for ontology editing
2006 Kruk, Sebastian Ryszard and Samp, Krystian and O’Nuallain, Caoimhin and Davis, Brian and McDaniel, Bill and Grzonkowski, S\lawomir (2006) Proceedings of IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet Search interface based on natural language query templates
2006 Kruk, Sebastian Ryszard and Samp, Krystian and O?Nuallain, Caoimhin and Davis, Brian and McDaniel, Bill and Grzonkowski, S\lawomir (2006) Proceedings of IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet Search interface based on natural language query templates
2019 Daudert, Tobias and Zarrouk, Manel and Davis, Brian (2019) Proceedings of the First Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing CoSACT: A Collaborative Tool for Fine-Grained Sentiment Annotation and Consolidation of Text
2018 Maia, Macedo and Handschuh, Siegfried and Freitas, Andr\'e and Davis, Brian and McDermott, Ross and Zarrouk, Manel and Balahur, Alexandra (2018) Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018
2018 Hazem Safwat and Manel Zarrouk and Brian Davis (2018) Controlled Natural Language - Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop, CNL 2018, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, August 27-28, 2018 [Link]

Book

Year Publication
2017 Barzegar, S.;Freitas, A.;Handschuh, S.;Davis, B.; (2017) Composite semantic relation classification. [DOI]
2016 Freitas, A.;Barzegar, S.;Sales, J.E.;Handschuh, S.;Davis, B.; (2016) Semantic relatedness for all (Languages): A comparative analysis of multilingual semantic relatedness using machine translation. [DOI]
2015 Khawaja, W.;Taylor, M.;Davis, B.; (2015) On developing extraction rules for mining informal scientific references from altmetric data sources. [DOI]
2014 Safwat, H.;Davis, B.; (2014) A brief state of the art of CNLs for ontology authoring. [DOI]
2012 Davis, B.;Enache, R.;Van Grondelle, J.;Pretorius, L.; (2012) Multilingual verbalisation of modular ontologies using GF and lemon. [DOI]
2018 Safwat, H.;Zarrouk, M.;Davis, B.; (2018) Rewriting simplified text into a controlled natural language. [DOI]
2010 Davis, B.;Dantuluri, P.;Dragan, L.;Handschuh, S.;Cunningham, H.; (2010) On designing controlled natural languages for semantic annotation. [DOI]
2009 Davis, B.;Varma, P.;Handschuh, S.;Dragan, L.;Cunningham, H.; (2009) Controlled natural language for semantic annotation. [DOI]
2010 Wyner, A.;Angelov, K.;Barzdins, G.;Damljanovic, D.;Davis, B.;Fuchs, N.;Hoefler, S.;Jones, K.;Kaljurand, K.;Kuhn, T.;Luts, M.;Pool, J.;Rosner, M.;Schwitter, R.;Sowa, J.; (2010) On controlled natural languages: Properties and prospects. [DOI]
2012 Dantuluri, P.;Davis, B.;Ludwick, P.;Handschuh, S.; (2012) Engineering a controlled natural language into semantic MediaWiki. [DOI]

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2012 Davis, Brian and Dantuluri, Pradeep and Handschuh, Siegfried and Cunningham, Hamish (2012) 'Towards controlled natural language for semantic annotation' In: : IGI Global.
2009 Bontcheva, Kalina and Davis, Brian (2009) 'Natural language generation from ontologies' In: Semantic Knowledge Management. Heidelberg : Springer, Berlin.
2009 Bontcheva, Kalina and Davis, Brian and Funk, Adam and Li, Yaoyong and Wang, Ting (2009) 'Human language technologies' In: : Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
2008 Kruk, Sebastian Ryszard and Choi, Hee-Chul and Grzonkowski, S and Breslin, John G and Stankiewicz, Katarzyna and Grzonkowski, Slawomir and Davis, Brian and others (2008) 'Trust models for community aware identity management' In: : IUP Publications.
2009 Bontcheva, K.;Davis, B.;Funk, A.;Li, Y.;Wang, T.; (2009) 'Human language technologies' In: Semantic Knowledge Management: Integrating Ontology Management, Knowledge Discovery, and Human Language Technologies. [DOI]
2009 Bontcheva, K.;Davis, B.; (2009) 'Natural language generation from ontologies' In: Semantic Knowledge Management: Integrating Ontology Management, Knowledge Discovery, and Human Language Technologies. [DOI]

Published Report

Year Publication
2007 (2007) D2. 2.2 Report: Controlled Language IE Components version 2. .
2018 Keet, C Maria and Press, IOS and Davis, Brian and Wyner, Adam (2018) Controlled Natural Language: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop, CNL 2018, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, August 27-28, 2018. .

Abstract

Year Publication
2013 Herko ter Horst, Fra and van Haandel, Emiel and Gulpers, Menno and van Aart, Joris and Daanen, Jeroen and Fledderman, Jouri and van Grondelle, Jeroen and Kaljurand, Kaarel and Unger, Christina and Davis, Brian and others (2013) D12. 2 User studies for BI's explanation engine. ABST
2007 Funk, Adam and Davis, Brian and Tablan, Valentin and Bontcheva, Kalina and Cunningham, Hamish (2007) D2. 2.2 Report: Controlled Language IE Components version 2. ABST

Reports

Year Publication
2008 Volkel, M and Haller, H and Bolinder, W and Davis, B and Edlund, H and Groth, K and Gudjonsdottir, R and Kotelnikov, M and Lanner\"o (2008) Conceptual data structure tools. REPORT

Thesis

Year Publication
2013 Brian Patrick Davis (2013) On Applying Controlled Natural Languages for Ontology Authoring and Semantic Annotation. NUI Galway: THES [Link]

Other Publication

Year Publication
2017 Davis, Brian and Kuhn, Tobias and Kaljurand, Kaarel (2017) LRE journal CNL introduction.
2016 Davis, Brian and Hulpu\cs (2016) Challenges and opportunities for detecting and measuring diffusion of scientific impact across heterogeneous altmetric sources.
2016 Davis, Brian and Pace, Gordon J and Wyner, Adam (2016) Controlled Natural Language: 5th International Workshop, CNL 2016, Aberdeen, UK, July 25-27, 2016, Proceedings.
2014 Kaljurand, Kaarel and Davis, Brian and Kuhn, Tobias (2014) Controlled Natural Language.
2007 Kotelnikov, M and Polonsky, A and Kiesel, M and V\"olkel, M and Haller, H and Sogrin, M and Lanner\"o (2007) Interactive semantic wikis. Deliverable D1. 1, NEPOMUK Consortium, Kaiserslautern.
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Professional Associations

Association Function From / To
Association for Computational Linguistics Member 01/09/2017 -
ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation Member 01/09/2017 -
Association for Computing Machinary Professional Member 01/09/2017 -

Committees

Committee Function From / To
Ethics Committee - School of Computing 01/09/2019 -

Education

Start date Institution Qualification Subject
Trinity College Dublin M.Sc in Computer Science by Research (Full-time)
NUI Galway Diploma in Arts (Online) (Part-time)
Dublin City University B.Sc. Applied Computational Linguistics
NUI Galway (CELT) Postgraduate Diploma (Part-time)
NUI Galway (CELT) Postgraduate Certificate (Part-time)
NUI Galway(DERI) Ph.D. in Engineering by Research (Full-time)
NUI Galway Diploma in Arts (Online) (Part-time)
01/09/2019 Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching - NUI Galway MA in Academic Practic Academic Practice, Research Supervision and Development, Research in Higher Education

Languages

Language Reading Writing Speaking
French Basic Basic Basic
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Irish Functional Functional Functional
German Functional Functional Functional
Italian Functional Functional Functional

Reviews

Journal Role
Language Resources and Evaluation Reviewer
ACM Computing Surveys Reviewer
International Journal of Bullying Prevention Series Editor
Journal of Applied Linguistics Reviewer
JOURNAL OF WEB SEMANTICS Reviewer
Natural Language Engineering Reviewer
Neural Computing and Applications Reviewer

Enterprise Engagement

Year Engagement Type Client Description
2017 Consultancy Allsorter.com Scientific Advisor

Outreach Activities

Year Engagement Type Organisation Description
Other www.ocdireland.org Director and Acting CEO

Research Interests

Although my original core expertise intersects with Natural Language Processing(NLP) and Ontology Development, I have expanded and diversified my research capacity over the years to opinion mining, and multilingual opinion mining of social media (application in finance, politics and online safety). Philosophically, I am orientated to the practice of language engineering which aims to bridge the gap between computational linguistics/language processing research and the implementation of practical applications with potential real-world use. Hence in the context of modern neural NLP, I often focus on the construction of practical/real world language processing systems whose costs and outputs are not only measurable and predictable but reusable, controllable and explainable. Since arriving in DCU, I have grown my own NLP research team, which focuses on the following language processing applications  i) pipelined neural architectures for building Data2Text Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems ii) bias detection and removal with the context of resume text analysis in the hiring and recruitment domains iii) applications of NLP to cyberbullying detection in short noisy texts domains in collaboration with the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre (ABC) located in DCU’s Institute of Education.

Research Projects

Title Role Description Start date End date
Project Title: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Bias-free Recruiting (LAIBRE) - Applicant - akolawole@allsorter.com - Adebayo Kolawole John. DCU PI 01/07/2021 01/07/2024
Designing innovative approaches to automated detection of bullying and harassment while ensuring children’s rights DCU Co-PI 01/02/2020 31/01/2021
Anti Bullying App for Short Message Content - Kanishk Verma - EPS IRC Google DCU PI 01/09/2021 31/08/2025

Contract Researchers

Researcher Name Project Funding Body
John Roberto GOIPD/2019/463

Current Postgraduate Students

Student Name Degree Supervision
Cortis ,Keith PhD Supervisor
Verma ,Kanishk PhD-track Supervisor

Internal Collaborators

Type Name Company Role
Internal Tijana Milosevic National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre Academic

Teaching Interests

I have over eight years of formal lecturing experience. My current role involves module design, planning, delivery and assessment as well as feedback and course evaluation. I engage in large and small group teaching at undergraduate level, delivering two modules: i) CA167 to 1st year data science and mathematics students and ii) CA341 to 3rd year computer science students. I also teach introductory programming to non-computing postgraduate students; modules CA598 and CA5980 respectively. Student groups range from full-time, part-time to adult learners. Delivery modes for these modules have ranged from campus-based, to online delivery and most recently a blended learning approach. I have also co-developed an asynchronous online learning module on machine translation, CA681I, which is offered by Skillnet Ireland via FutureLearn. Furthermore, I regularly engage in taught undergraduate and postgraduate student supervision and examination. I currently supervise one full time PhD student, funded by the Irish Research Council and Google and one part-time final year doctoral student, funded by the ADAPT Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre. I have graduated four PhD students (two as primary supervisor and 2 as co-supervisor) as well as one research masters (primary supervisor). Furthermore, I have supervised up to 14 master dissertations and 5 final year undergraduate projects to completion. I am highly engaged in continuous professional development, having recently completed a professional teaching and learning qualification to the Masters level (90 ECTs) at the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning(CELT), National University of Ireland, Galway. My final MA dissertation specialised in remote research supervision.

  I am highly engaged in continuous professional development, having recently completed a professional teaching and learning qualification to the Masters level (90 ECTs) at the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning(CELT), National University of Ireland, Galway. My final MA dissertation specialised in remote research supervision.

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2022 Introduction to Programming CA5980
2022 Introduction to Programming CA598
2022 Programming for Mathematics CA167
2022 Comparative Programming Languages CA341