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    • Dr Diana Maynard

    Address: Computer Science Department,University of Sheffield,211 Portobello St.,Sheffield, UK S1 4DP
    Tel: +44 (0)114 222 1938
    email: diana@dcs.shef.ac.uk
    web: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~diana
    DOB: 05 February 1972
    Education
    PhD Natural Language Processing 1997 - 2000 Manchester Metropolitan University
    MSc Cognitive Science 1995 - 1996 University of Manchester
    BSc Computational Linguistics & French (2:1) 1991 - 1995 UMIST, Manchester
    Academic Posts
     
    2010 - present Research Fellow, Computer Science Department, University of Sheffield
    Natural Language Processing
    2000 - 2010 Research Associate, Computer Science Department, University of Sheffield
    Natural Language Processing
    1997 - 2000 Demonstrator, Computer Science Department, Manchester Metropolitan University
    Taught Introduction to IT to undergraduate students
    1996 - 1997 Student Loans Officer, University of Manchester
    July - Sept 1995 Research Assistant, Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST
    Computational Lexicography
    1993 - 1994 Research Assistant, INIST, Nancy, France
    Automatic Term Recognition/Indexing

    Research Activities

    Technical Project Manager for Sheffield for KnowledgeWeb Network of Excellence (EC funded 6.5m project, 2004-2007) and AHRB-funded project ETCSL (Electronic Text Corpus for Sumerian Literature) 2004-2007.
    Doctoral Consortium Chair for ISWC (2007)
    Workshops Chair for ESWC (2007)
    Programme Committee Member for ACL (2007)
    Programme Committee Member for FLAIRS, Artificial Intelligence and Social Semantic Collaboration track (2007)
    Programme Committee Member for Text Data Mining and Management Workshop at ICDL (2007)
    Programme Committee Member for AI and Social Semantic Collaboration Workshop at FLAIRS (2007)
    Board Member of French Research Project Evaluation (ANR Technologies Logicielles) (2006)
    Programme Committee Member for Ontology Learning and Population (OLP) (2006)
    Member of PhD Mentor Panel and Reviewer for ISWC'06 Doctoral Symposium (2006)
    Member of Scientific Board for ESWC KnowledgeWeb PhD Symposium (2006)
    Member of Poster/Demo Programme Committee for ESWC (2006)
    Programme Committee Member for International Semantic Web Conference (2005)
    Member of PhD Mentor Panel for ISWC'06 Doctoral Symposium
    Invited Lecturer at ACAI-05 SEKT Summer School on the Semantic Web (2005)
    Reviewer for Journal of Information Systems (2005)
    Reviewer for the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA (2005)
    Progamme Committee Member for International Semantic Web Conference Workshop on "Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services" (2005)
    Reviewer for Journal of Information Systems (2004)
    Technical Project Manager for Sheffield for H-TechSight project (EU 5th Framework) (2001-2004).
    Progamme Committee Member for International Semantic Web Conference Workshop on "Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services" (2004)
    Programme Committee Member for International Semantic Web Conference Workshop on "Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services" (2003)
    Reviewer for Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Processing on Rapid Development of Language Capabilities: The Surprise Languages (2003)
    Programme Committee Member for Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Conference (2003)
    Programme Committee for Software Engineering and Architecture of Language Technology Systems Workshop (2003)
    Reviewer for Journal of Natural Language Engineering (2003)
    External Examination Committee Member for PhD candidate at the Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya (2001)
    Organiser of Computational Linguistics UK (CLUK) 4th Annual Colloquium (2001)
    Co-chair of NLP 2000 Workshop on Computational Terminology for Medical and Biological Applications (2000)
    Book reviewer for Journal of Natural Language Engineering (2000- present)
    Program Committee Member of Association for Computational Linguistics Student Conference (2000)
    Reviewer for Annual CLUK colloquium (1998-present)
    Committee Member of Computational Linguistics UK (1998-present)

    My current primary research is in ontology-based information extraction (IE) for the Semantic Web, focusing on problems such as adaptive and robust IE, recognition of events and relations, developing evaluation metrics for ontology-based IE, and of adapting existing resources to new domains, languages and applications. I am currently leading the KnowledgeWeb and ETCSL projects within Sheffield, and have been responsible for the EU 5th framework h-TechSight project, the MUSE project since 2000, and for Sheffield's entry in the DARPA/NIST ACE program and TIDES Surprise Language Exercise. I have led the development of linguistic resources for the GATE project and other related projects. I have further interests in terminology, especially in the fields of medicine and biology, and in the development of annotated corpora and sense disambiguation.

    LANGUAGES

    French: fluent
    German: good (post A level)
    Spanish: working knowledge (GCSE)

    COMPUTER LANGUAGES

    HTML, XML, Prolog, Lisp, awk, perl, Java, C

    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    D. Maynard, M. Yankova, A. Kourakis and A. Kokossis. Ontology-based information extraction for market monitoring and technology watch, ESWC Workshop "End User Apects of the Semantic Web", Heraklion, Crete, 2005.

    D. Maynard. Benchmarking ontology-based annotation tools for the Semantic Web. UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting (AHM2005) Workshop "Text Mining, e-Research and Grid-enabled Language Technology", Nottingham, UK, 2005.

    D.Maynard, K. Bontcheva and H. Cunningham. Towards a semantic extraction of named entities. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Bulgaria, 2003. PDF

    M. M. Wood and S. J. Lydon and V. Tablan and D. Maynard and H. Cunningham. Using parallel texts to improve recall in IE. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Bulgaria, 2003.

    D. Maynard, H. Cunningham. Multilingual adaptations of a reusable information extraction tool. Proceedings of EACL 2003, Budapest.

    K. Bontcheva, D. Maynard, H. Cunningham, H. Saggion. Using Human Language Technology for Automatic Annotation and Indexing of Digital Library Content. Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'2002), Rome, September 2002.

    D. Maynard, H. Cunningham, K. Bontcheva, M. Dimitrov. Adapting A Robust Multi-Genre NE System for Automatic Content Extraction. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2002), 2002.

    D.Maynard, K. Bontcheva, H. Saggion, H. Cunningham, O. Hamza. Using a Text Engineering Framework to Build an Extendable and Portable IE-based Summarisation System. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Text Summarisation , Philadelphia, July 2002.

    H. Cunningham, D. Maynard, K. Bontcheva, V. Tablan. A framework and graphical development environment for robust NLP tools and applications. Proceedings of the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2002.

    K. Bontcheva, M. Dimitrov, D. Maynard, V. Tablan, H. Cunningham. Shallow Methods for Named Entity Coreference Resolution. Chaines de references et resolveurs d'anaphores, workshop TALN 2002, Nancy, France, 2002.

    M. Dimitrov, K. Bontcheva, H. Cunningham, D. Maynard. A Light-weight Approach to Coreference Resolution for Named Entities in Text. Proceedings of the Fourth Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC) , Lisbon, September 2002.

    K. Bontcheva, H. Cunningham, V. Tablan, D. Maynard, H. Saggion. Developing Reusable and Robust Language Processing Components for Information Systems using GATE. 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems (NLIS'2002), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002.

    K. Bontcheva, H. Cunningham, V. Tablan, D.Maynard, O.Hamza. Using GATE as an Environment for Teaching NLP. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies in Teaching NLP, 2002.

    H. Saggion, H. Cunningham, K. Bontcheva, D. Maynard, C. Ursu, O. Hamza, Y. Wilks. Access to Multimedia Information through Multisource and Multilanguage Information Extraction. 7th Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2002), Stockholm, Sweden, 2002.

    Diana Maynard, Hamish Cunningham, Rob Gaizauskas. Named Entity Recognition at Sheffield University. Nordic Language Technology -- Arbog for Nordisk > Sprogtechnologisk Forskningsprogram 2002-2004, 141-145, Museum Tusculanums Forlag.

    K. Bontcheva, H. Cunningham, V. Tablan, D. Maynard, H. Saggion. Developing Reusable and Robust Language Processing Components for Information Systems using GATE. 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems (NLIS'2002), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002.

    H. Saggion, H. Cunningham, K. Bontcheva, D. Maynard, C. Ursu, O. Hamza, Y. Wilks. Access to Multimedia Information through Multisource and Multilanguage Information Extraction. 7th Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2002), Stockholm, Sweden, 2002.

    V. Tablan, C. Ursu, K. Bontcheva, H. Cunningham, D. Maynard, O. Hamza, T. McEnery, P. Baker, M. Leisher. A Unicode-based Environment for Creation and Use of Language Resources. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'2002), 2002.

    H. Saggion, H. Cunningham, D. Maynard, K. Bontcheva, O. Hamza, C. Ursu, Y. Wilks. Extracting Information for Information Indexing of Multimedia Material. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'2002), 2002.

    K. Pastra, D. Maynard, H. Cunningham, O. Hamza, Y. Wilks. How feasible is the reuse of grammars for Named Entity Recognition? Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'2002), 2002.

    Diana Maynard and Valentin Tablan and Cristian Ursu and Hamish Cunningham and Yorick Wilks. Named Entity Recognition from Diverse Text Types, 2001. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2001 Conference, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria.

    Diana Maynard and Sophia Ananiadou. TRUCKS: a model for automatic term recognition, Journal of Natural Language Processing, 2001, Vol.8, No.1, pp.101-125

    Diana Maynard. JAPE: A Java Annotations Pattern Engine. Technical Report CS-00-10, University of Sheffield, UK, 2000.

    D. Maynard, H. Cunningham, et al. A Survey of Uses of GATE. Technical REport CS-00-06, University of Sheffield, UK, 2000.

    Diana Maynard and Sophia Ananiadou. Term Extraction using a Similarity-based Approach "Recent Advances in Computational Terminology", John Benjamins, 1999.

    Diana Maynard and Sophia Ananiadou. Identifying Terms by their Family and Friends. Proc. of COLING 2000, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2000, pp. 530-536.

    H. Cunningham, D. Maynard, K. Bontcheva, V. Tablan, Y. Wilks. Experience of using GATE for NLP R & D. In Proc. of COLING Workshop on Using Toolsets and Architectures to build NLP Systems. Luxembourg, 2000.

    Diana Maynard and Sophia Ananiadou. Terminological Acquaintance: the importance of contextual information in terminology. Proc. of NLP2000 Workshop on Computational Terminology for Medical and Biological Applications", Patras, Greece, 2000, pp. 19-28.

    Diana Maynard and Sophia Ananiadou. Creating and Using Domain-Specific Ontologies for Terminological Applications. Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Athens, Greece, 2000, pp. 869-877.

    Diana Maynard and Sophia Ananiadou. A Linguistic Approach to Context Clustering. Proc. of Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS), Beijing, China, 1999, pp. 346-351.

    Diana Maynard & Sophia Ananiadou. Identifying Contextual Information for Multi-Word Term Extraction. Proc. of Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Conference (TKE-99), Innsbruck, Austria, 1999, pp. 212-221.

    Diana Maynard & Sophia Ananiadou. Incorporating Linguistic Information for Multi-Word Term Extraction. In Proc. of 2nd Computational Linguistics UK Research Colloquium (CLUK-2), University of Essex, UK, 1999.

    Diana Maynard & Sophia Benchmarking ontology-based annotation tools for the Semantic WebAnaniadou. Acquiring Contextual Information for Term Disambiguation . Proc. of Computerm '98 Workshop on Computational Terminology (COLING/ACL '98), Montreal, Canada, 1998, pp.86-91.

    Diana Maynard & Sophia Ananiadou. Term Sense Disambiguation using a Domain-Specific Thesaurus. In Proc. of 1st Internationa Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Granada, Spain, 1998.