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Dr. Brian Davis

CRT in AI Supervisor

Brian Davis is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, DCU. Previously, he was a Lecturer in Computer Science at Maynooth University and Research Fellow, Adjunct Lecturer and Research Unit Leader at the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway (NUIG) for four years and led the Knowledge Discovery Unit.   He also coordinated a 3-year Horizon 2020 Innovation Action – SSIX – Social Sentiment Financial Indexes (Grant No 645425). His core expertise intersects with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Ontology development. Specific research interests include: offensive language detection, Data2Text NLG,  Knowledge Base population from text.

He has reviewed several conferences and journals in the field of Semantic Web and NLP over the years i.e., EMNLP, COLING. ACL, NAACL, ESWC, ISWC, LREC,NLDB, SEMANTICs and JNLE, LRE, JWS, ACM Surveys.  He has over eight years research experience in Text Analytics, Information Extraction and the intersection with NLP for ontology development and access.  His current research interests include exploring pipelined neural architectures for i) data/knowledge -to-text Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems and ii) relation extraction and/or event extraction

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