2013
May 1 Sapna Negim, Master student at the University of Malta, joins UNLP for a six month internship
April 23 The 4th bi-annual UNLP PhD day was held
April 1 Friedel Wolff, PhD student at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, joins UNLP as research associate
March 29 Workshop paper accepted: "Ontology Label Translation" by Mihael Arcan and Paul Buitelaar at NAACL 2013 Student Research Workshop
March 26 Georgeta Bordea, Paul Buitelaar, Barry Coughlan and Krystian Samp attend the kick-off meeting of the REFINE project
March 23 Conference poster paper accepted: "AELA: An Adaptive Entity Linking Approach" by Bianca Pereira, Nitish Aggarwal, Paul Buitelaar at WWW, 2013
March 18 Conference paper accepted: "Cross-Lingual Natural Language Querying over the Web of Data" by Nitish Aggarwal, Tamara Polajnar, Paul Buitelaar at NLDB, 2013
March 18 Georgeta Bordea attends the PROMISE Semesterly Meeting in Sheffield
March 13 Conference paper accepted: "Web Science and the Two (Hundred) Cultures: Representation of Disciplines Publishing in Web Science" by Clare Hooper, Georgeta Bordea, Paul Buitelaar at Web Science, 2013
February 21 Saffron is added as search interface with the ACL Anthology - the largest digital archive of Computational Linguistics research literature
February 3-8 Nitish Aggarwal attended the PROMISE winter school on Bridging between Information Retrieval and Databases, at Bressanone, Italy
January 24 Enterprise Ireland funded project with the Irish Times is accepted
January 21 Bianca Pereira joins UNLP as a PhD student
January 10 Mihael Arcan gives a talk about the Monnet Project and Experiments with Term Translation at the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich
Januar 7 - 18 Mihael Arcan visits the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich
2012
December 14 Krystian Samp gets his paper accepted at CHI 2013. The title: Designing Graphical Menus for Novices and Experts: Connecting Design Characteristics with Design Goals
December 10 Tamara Polajnar left UNLP as PostDoc to take up her new job at University of Cambridge, UK
December 14 Thierry Declerck from the Language Technology Lab at DFKI, Germany gave a talk on the TrendMiner project: NLP and Semantic Technologies for Mining and Summarizing Trends from Streaming Media
November 30 Conference paper accepted: "Improving ESA with Document Similarity" by Tamara Polajnar, Nitish Aggarwal, Kartik Asooja, Paul Buitelaar at ECIR, 2012
November 21 "Cross-Lingual Linking of News Stories using ESA" by Nitish Aggarwal, Kartik Asooja, Paul Buitelaar, Tamara Polajanar, Jorge Gracia stood second at CL!NSS, FIRE, 2012
November 19 Georgeta Bordea visits the University of Padua, as part of a research exchange in the PROMISE project.
November 7 Workshop paper accepted: "Using Cross-Lingual Explicit Semantic Analysis for Improving Ontology Translation" by Kartik Asooja, Jorge Gracia, Nitish Aggarwal, Asuncion Gomez Perez at ML4HMT
November 2 Program for the Monnet sponsored 3rd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web is now available from: http://msw3.deri.ie/?q=program
November 1 Fabrizio Lo Scudo, PhD student at ISIMR Doctorate School, University of Calabria, Italy, joins UNLP as a visitor until May 2013
November 1 Barry Coughlan joins UNLP as a research assistant
November 1 UNLP joins EUROSENTIMENT, an FP7 EU funded project on Language Resources for Sentiment Analysis in European Languages
October 18 Conference paper accepted: Mihael Arcan, Christian Federmann, Paul Buitelaar "Experiments with Term Translation" at the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Mumbai, India
October 15 Georgeta Bordea visits the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen, as part of a research exchange in the PROMISE project.
October 11 The 3rd bi-annual UNLP PhD day was held
September 20 Nitish Aggarwal, Georgeta Bordea and Krystian Samp attend the PROMISE Annual Meeting in Rome.
September 12 Nitish Aggarwal gives an invited talk on "Cross-Lingual Semantic Search" at the Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
May 23 Friedel Wolff, PhD student at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, joins UNLP as a visitor until Dec 2012
September 12 Mihael Arcan gives a talk at University of Saarbrücken/DFKI on "Term Translation".
September 3-7 Paul Buitelaar co-organizes Dagstuhl workshop on The Multilingual Semantic Web
August 3 Query Expansion using Wikipedia and DBpedia by Nitish Aggarwal and Paul Buitelaar stood first position in Semantic Enrichment task at The Cultural Heritage in CLEF (CHiC), Rome, Italy.
August 1 Behrang Qasemizadeh left UNLP to take up a new position as Research Assistant in the DERI Semantic Collaborative Software Unit - he will remain associated member of UNLP
July 26 Conference paper accepted: Nitish Aggarwal "Cross Lingual Semantic Search by Improving Semantic Similarity and Relatedness Measures" at PhD symposium of the International Semantic Web Conference 2012, Boston, USA
July 26 Ravindra Harige, MSc student in Computer Science, Univ. of Amsterdam, joins UNLP as an intern
July 17 Tamara Polajnar joins UNLP as a PostDoc
July 2 Noemi Aepli, BSc student in Computational Linguistics, Univ. of Zuerich, joins UNLP as an intern
June 1 UNLP joins PROMISE, an FP7 EU funded project on Information Retrieval Evaluation and organizer of the CLEF campaigns on Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
May 25 Georgeta Bordea presents two papers at LREC 2012 in Istanbul, "Expertise Mining for Enterprise Content Management" and "Semi-Supervised Technical Term Tagging With Minimal User Feedback".
May 18 Workshop paper accepted at SSST-6: Mihael Arcan, Christian Federmann, Paul Buitelaar "Using Domain-specific and Collaborative Resources for Term Translation"
April 2 A System Description of Natural Language Query over DBpedia by Nitish Aggarwal and Paul Buitelaar stood second position in open challenge "Question Answering over Linked Data" at Interacting with Linked Data in ESWC-2012
April 1 DERI&UPM: Pushing Corpus Based Relatedness to Similarity: Shared Task System Description by Nitish Aggarwal, Kartik Asooja and Paul Buitelaar stood 17th position out of 88 submissions at Sentence Textual Similarity task in SemEval-2012, Montreal, Canada.
March 1 Cédric BEUZIT-LABOZ, MSc student, Science Cognitive & Technologies du Langage, Nancy, France, joins UNLP as intern
February 23 The 2nd bi-annual UNLP PhD day was held
February 8 Behrang Qasemizadeh gives an invited talk at the Language and Linguistics Department of Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
February 6 Hugues Lerebours, BSc Student at EPITA (École Pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées), France, joins UNLP as a research intern for six months
February 1 Hasti Ziamatin, PhD Student at the University of Queensland, Australia, joins UNLP as a research intern for three months to compare her work on expert finding with Saffron
February 1 Two conference papers accepted at LREC 2012: Behrang QasemiZadeh, Paul Buitelaar, Tianqi Chen, Georgeta Bordea "Semi-Supervised Technical Term Tagging With Minimal User Feedback" & Georgeta Bordea, Sabrina Kirrane, Paul Buitelaar and Bianca Pereira "Expertise Mining for Enterprise Content Management"
January 13 UNLP receives Enterprise Ireland grant for marketing study of expert finder system http://saffron.deri.ie/
2011
November 28 Tutorial on "Enriching the Web with Ontology-Lexica" is accepted at LREC2012 (Istanbul, 21-27 May 2012)
November 21 DERI-UNLP leads with University of Bielefeld in setting up W3C Community Group on the Ontology-Lexicon interface - kickoff telco Dec 2nd
November 15 "Cross lingual text reuse" by Nitish Aggarwal, Kartik Asooja and Paul Buitelaar stood second position at "Cross-Language Indian Text Reuse" workshop
October 3 The 1st bi-annual UNLP PhD day was held
September 13 Conference paper accepted: Špela Arhar Holdt, Mihael Arcan: Avtomatsko pridobivanje besednih zvez iz besedilnega korpusa (en. Automatic extraction of phrases from textual corpus), Interdisciplinarity in Slovene studies, Ljubljana, 2011
September 8 Workshop paper accepted: " A similarity measure based on semantic, terminological and linguistic information", by Nitish Aggarwal, Tobias Wunner, Mihael Arcan, Paul Buitelaar and Seán O'Riain at the 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Matching at ISWC 2011
September 6 Workshop paper accepted: Brian Davis, Fadi Badra, Paul Buitelaar, Tobias Wunner, Siegfried Handschuh Squeezing Lemon with GATE at the 2nd International Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web (MSW2) at ISWC 2011
September 1 Journal paper accepted: Jorge Graciaa, Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Philipp Cimiano, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Paul Buitelaar, John McCrae "Challenges for the
Multilingual Web of Data" Journal of Web Semantics
September 5-10 Mihael Arcan attended the Machine Translation Marathon at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy
August 1-12 Mihael Arcan attended ESSLLI Summer School 2011 in Ljubljana, Slovenia as member of the organizing committee
July 18-29 Monnet Project Exchange, at CIT-EC, Bielefeld
July 15 Nitish Aggarwal won 3rd prize of the Semantic Web Quiz in the 8TH Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW-2011) at Cercedilla, Spain.
July 1 Ana Rios Alvarado, PhD student at the Information Technology Laboratory of Research and Advanced Studies Center of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico (Cinvestav - IPN) at Tamaulipas Campus, Mexico, joins UNLP as a visitor until February 2012
May 29 Tutorial on Enriching the Semantic Web with Linguistic Information at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011) presented by John McCrae (CITEC), Elena Montiel-Ponsoda (UPM) and Tobias Wunner (DERI UNLP) in the context of the Monnet Project
May 23 - July 1 Friedel Wolff from University of South Africa (UNISA) and translate.org.za visits Unit for Natural Language Processing at DERI as part of the research exchange program in the Net2 Project
May 15 Workshop accepted: 2nd International Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web (MSW) at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011) organized by Elena Montiel-Ponsoda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), John McCrae (CITEC, Univ. of Bielefeld), Paul Buitelaar(DERI-UNLP) and Philipp Cimiano (CITEC, Univ. of Bielefeld)
May 4 Georgeta Bordea attends the VIVO Hackathon in Gainesville, Florida. VIVO is an open source, open development, semantic web application for representing information about science and scientists.
April 27 Behrang QasemiZadeh gives talks titled "Overiview of the research programs at UNLP DERI" and "EEYORETTT, a technology related term tagger" at APEX Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
April 22 Bianca Pereira, MSc Student at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, joins UNLP as a research intern to contribute to further development of Saffron
April 20 - June 27 Behrang QasemiZadeh visits APEX Lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) as part of the research exchange program in Net2 project
April 1 Mihael Arcan joins UNLP as PhD student
March 17 Behrang Qasemizadeh gives invited talk "Towards Technology Structure Mining From Scientific Literatures" at the Department of Computational Linguistics of the University of Heidelberg, Germany
March 1 Knud Möller joins UNLP as PostDoc (joint with USCS)
February 8 Net2 Workshop at University of South Africa (UNISA) on NLP and Linked Open Data in the Business Information Domain (Paul Buitelaar, Tobias Wunner, Sean O'Riain), Workshop Program; Introduction; Ontology Lexicalisation & Cross-lingual Ontology-based Information Extraction, Linked Open Data for Business Information
February 1-28 Tobias Wunner visits University of South Africa (UNISA) as part of the research exchange program in Net2 project
January 31 Georgeta Bordea gives invited talk "Expertise Mining: Extraction of Expertise Topics for Expert Finding" at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in the context of an exchange visit in the Information and Language Processing Systems group
January 23 Tutorial accepted at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference: John McCrae (Uni Bielefeld), Elena Montiel-Ponsoda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) and Tobias Wunner (DERI Galway) (organizers),Enriching the Semantic Web with Linguistic Information, more information available at http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/events/eswli2011
2010
December 13-17 The 2nd Monnet Hackerfest was held at the Center of Excellence (CITEC) at University of Bielefeld
November 10 Expert finding application Saffron (http://saffron.deri.ie/) enters the finals of the ISWC 2010 Semantic Web Challenge http://www.cs.vu.nl/~pmika/swc/challenge.html
November 9 Nitish Aggarwal joins UNLP as PhD student in the Monnet project (joint with DERI eBusiness unit)
November 1 Fergal Monaghan left UNLP as PostDoc to take up his new job at SAP Research, Belfast, UK
October 8 EU project Monnet (coordinated by DERI-UNLP) is now on Twitter: http://twitter.com/monnetproject
September 1 Website of EU funded research exchange network Net2 (coordinated by DERI) is now online at http://net2.deri.ie
August 16 Conference paper accepted: Behrang Qasemizadeh "Towards Technology Structure Mining from Scientific Literature" - PhD symposium of the International Semantic Web Conference 2010, Shanghai, China
July 30 Workshop paper accepted: Tobias Wunner, Paul Buitelaar, Sean O'Riain "Semantic, Terminological and Linguistic Interpretation of XBRL" - Workshop on Reuse and Adaptation of Ontologies and Terminologies at the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW), Lisbon, Portugal
July 21 Conference paper accepted: Georgeta Bordea, Paul Buitelaar "Expertise Mining" - 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Galway, Ireland
July 12 Prof. Asuncion Gomez-Perez from the Polytechnical University Madrid joins UNLP as a visitor from July 12 to August 4 2010
July 8 Srdjan Prodanovic, MSc student at the University of Malta, joins UNLP as a research intern from July to September 2010 in the context of the Monnet project (joint position with the eBusiness unit)
July 1 The Net2 project starts: a research exchange network on networked knowledge - funded by the European Union under the Marie Curie program
June 28 Conference paper accepted: Behrang Qasemizadeh, Paul Buitelaar "Developing a Dataset for Technology Structure Mining" - IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing 2010, Pittsburgh, USA
June 15-18 1st Monnet Hackerfest in Galway with Monnet project partners and invited talks by CNGL members David Lewis & Rob Brennan (Trinity College Dublin) and Jinhua Du (Dublin City University)
June 1 Tobias Wunner joins UNLP as PhD student in the Monnet project (joint with DERI eBusiness unit)
May 31 Georgeta Bordea presents "Concept Extraction Applied to the Task of Expert Finding" at the ESWC PhD symposium, Crete
May 19-21 Monnet Dissemination at the EC Project Village at LREC 2010
May 14 MULTEXT-East Ver 4, a multilingual dataset for language engineering research and development, has been published; Behrang QasemiZadeh, PhD student at UNLP, has contributed the Persian part of MULTEXT-East resources.
April 27 1st International Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web takes place at the World Wide Web Conference 2010 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA - organized in the context of the Monnet project by Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano, Elena Montiel Ponsoda:
April 9 The Saffron demo on expertise mining, expert finding and research collaboration goes live in a first version: http://saffron.deri.ie/
March 9 Christophe Onambélé, PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Paris 8, joins UNLP as a research intern from March to August 2010 (joint position with the DERI eBusiness unit)
March 7 Journal paper accepted: Philipp Cimiano, Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Paul Buitelaar, Mauricio Espinoza, Asunción Gómez-Pérez "A Note on Ontology Localization" - Journal of Applied Ontology
March 1 Tobias Wunner joins UNLP as a Research Assistant in the Monnet project
March 1 The Monnet project starts: Multilingual Ontologies for Networked Knowledge - funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT call 4, see also http://www.monnet-project.eu
February 25 Conference paper accepted: Georgeta Bordea "Concept Extraction Applied to the Task of Expert Finding" - PhD symposium of the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2010, Crete, Greece
February 8 José Alejandro Reyes Ortiz, PhD student at the National Centre for Research and Technological Development (CENIDET) Mexico - Web Engineering Research Group of the Department of Computer Science, joins UNLP as a visitor from February to August 2010
February 4 Conference paper accepted: Hammad Afzal, Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano "Generating Lexical Information for Terminology in a Bioinformatics Ontology" - Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Conference, Dublin, Ireland
January 1 Brian Davis, PhD student in the DERI USCS unit, joins UNLP as associate member
2009
December 6 Workshop accepted at the World Wide Web Conference 2010: Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano, Elena Montiel Ponsoda (organizing committee) "1st International Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web"
December 1 Fergal Monaghan joins UNLP as PostDoc in Semantic Information Mining (joint position with the DERI UIMR unit)
December 1 Krystian Samp joins UNLP as PhD student
September 7 Tobias Wunner, MSc student with Dr. Thorsten Liebig at the semantic web group of the University of Ulm, Germany, joins UNLP as a research intern from September to February 2010
July 15 Hammad Afzal, PhD student with Goran Nenadic, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester UK, joins UNLP as a research intern from July to October 2009
April 21 Georgeta Bordea joins UNLP as PhD student
April 20 Behrang Qasemizadeh joins UNLP as PhD student
