Diana Maynard

Dr. Diana Maynard
Senior Research Fellow
Natural Language Processing Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield

Room G36a, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
Phone: +44 (0)114 222 1938
email: d.maynard [at] sheffield.ac.uk
Personal blog: http://expandyourlimits.wordpress.com/
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Current Key Activities

Lead computational linguist in the GATE research team of 15 full-time research staff, responsible also for managing related consultancy and training.
PI for the EU H2020 KNOWMAK project. Leading WP3: developing tools for ontology creation and term extraction.
Co-PI for the EU H2020 RISIS2 Project (Jan 2019 - Dec 2022)
Co-PI for the EU H2020 COMRADES project. Leading WP2: developing tools for multilingual social media analysis, content informativeness and information validity.
Co-PI for the British Academy funded project: "Social Understandings of Scale: The role of Print and Social Media in the EU Referendum Debate"
Co-PI for the FPU-funded project: "Improving the monitoring of violence against journalists".

Chair of the annual GATE training course

Member of the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM)

Advisory Board Membership

TVSocialite company
OECD/EU project Digital Science and Innovation Policy and Governance (DSIP)
OECD/EU project STI Policy Monitoring and Analysis (REITER)

Research Supervision

Current PhD students

Ye Jiang (2016- ) Ye is a Grantham Scholar working on "Evaluating the influence of the reporting of natural disasters on public understanding of their causes and possible prevention solutions"

Adeosun Temitope (2017- ) Thesis title: "Opinion detection in Nigerian online code-switching conversations"

Visiting PhD/MSc Students

Past PhD students

Isabelle Augenstein (2014-2016)

Past Visiting PhD Students

Laura Pollacci (April-August 2018), University of Pisa, Italy.

Benedetta Iavarone (February-August 2018), University of Pisa, Italy. Benedetta is visiting for 6 months under the Erasmus Trainee Scheme.

Luiz Mesquita (June-December 2018),Information Science Dept, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil.

Giuliano Resce (May-June 2017), School of Economics, Rome. Giuliano is visiting as part of the SoBigData Research Mobility Scheme, researching an Evaluation of Citizens about WellBeing in Democracy.

Upcoming talks and tutorials

Tutorials on "Practical Sentiment Analysis" and "Introduction to NLP" at Essex University Summer School on Big Data and Analytics, August 2019
Keynote talk at Data Science for Society workshop, ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage 2019, 18 September, Rome.
Keynote talk at Text Mining in Science Studies Workshop, 21 November, Berlin.
Tutorial at Search Solutions 2019, London, 25 November 2019: "Text analysis with GATE".

Recent invited talks and tutorials

Keynote talk "Adding value to NLP: a little semantics goes a long way" at 16th ESWC Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2-6 June 2019.
Keynote talk at CIPR annual conference, London, 29 November 2018
Keynote talk at National Housing Association conference, Manchester, 6 March 2019
Invited talk on "Semantic technologies for mapping European research" at the Centre for Communication and Computing (CCC) at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 28 Sept 2018.
Invited talk on Information extraction tools for social media and medical data analysis at GESIS, Cologne, August 2018.
Keynote talk and practical tutorial at the WSTNet Web Science Summer School in August 2018, Hannover.
Tutorials on "Practical Sentiment Analysis" and "Introduction to NLP" at Essex University Summer School on Big Data and Analytics, July 2018
Speaker and session organiser at THATcamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp), June 2018, Valence.
Keynote speaker at the AISB 2018 Symposium Workshop on Emotion Modeling and Detection in Social Media and Online Interaction, April 2018, Liverpool, UK.
Course on Social Media Content Analysis at the AI Seminar on Social Media Content Analysis, UPC Barcelona, May 2017
Tutorials on "Practical Sentiment Analysis" and "Introduction to NLP" at Essex University Summer School on Big Data and Analytics, June 2017
Course on Social Media Content Analysis at the AI Seminar on Social Media Content Analysis, UPC Barcelona, 9-13 May 2016
Tutorials on "Practical Sentiment Analysis" and "Introduction to NLP" at Essex University Summer School on Big Data and Analytics, September 2016
Tutorial at Search Solutions 2016, London, November 2016: "Text analysis with GATE".
Keynote Speech "What you Tweet is What You Get: challenges and opportunities for social media analysis in industry" at 5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS), July 13-15, 2015, Cyprus

Tutorial at Search Solutions 2015, London, November 2015: "Text analysis with GATE".
Tutorial on "Practical Sentiment Analysis" at Essex University Summer School on Big Data and Analytics, 24-28 August 2015
Invited Tutorial on "Text Analysis with GATE" at the Reading University Workshop on Big Social Data, 24 April 2015
Tutorial on "Text Analysis with GATE" at the Reading University Workshop on Big Social Data, 24 April 2015
Invited talk at LT-Accelerate, 5 December 2014, Brussels: "Social Media Analytics as a Service".
Tutorial at Search Solutions 2014, London, 11 November 2014: "Text analysis with GATE".
Invited talk at Corpus Linguistics in the South #8: Voices from Below. Corpus Linguistics and Social Media, University of Reading, 15 November 2014. "Are we really interested in climate change?"
Invited talk at Lancaster University, UK, 20 October 2014."Social media analysis with GATE." slides
Invited talk at BCS SIG AI "Real AI" conference, London, 10th October 2014. "Can Social Media Analysis Improve Collective Awareness of Climate Change?" slides
Tutorial given at ISWC 2014: Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva and Marta Sabou. "Semantic Annotation of Social Media: A Hands-on Tutorial"
Invited talk at London Text Analytics Group, London, 23 July 2014. "Do we really know what people mean when they tweet?" slides
Invited talk on "Disability in Adventure Travel: The Double-Edged Sword" at the Adventure Tourism Research Association (ATRA) Adventure Research Seminar, June 6, 2014, Sheffield, UK. slides
Tutorial given at LREC 2014: Diana Maynard and Leon Derczynski "Practical Social Media Analysis." LREC 2014 Tutorial Slides in gate-extras/gate-twitter/docs/lrec2014-tutorial.
Invited talk at the European Research Infrastructure Conference “Facing the Future”, Berlin, December 2013. Diana Maynard: "Challenges in Analysing Social Media."
Keynote speaker at BRACIS 2013, October 2013, Brazil.
Tutorial on "Practical Opinion Mining" at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, Oct 29 2012, San Francisco
Invited talk on "Using NLP for social media analytics" at DERI Galway, September 2012
Invited talk on "Opinion Mining for Social Media", Charles University, Prague, September 2012
Tutorial on "Opinion Mining: Exploiting the Sentiment of the Crowd" at LREC, May 2012

Previous Key Activities

Programme Chair of ESWC 2017
Co-PI for the EU DecarboNet project. Leading WP2: developing multilingual tools for social media analysis, term extraction and opinion mining.
Leading work on the Nesta-funded Political Futures Tracker project developing NLP tools for topic detection and sentiment detection of political tweets
WP4 leader for the ARCOMEM project.
Sheffield Technical Project Manager for the Semantic Knowledge Base project for The National Archives
Proposal Reviewer for Austrian Science Fund and French Research Council
Researcher on the EU NEON project together with Wim Peters, leading development of the GATE resources, and on the EU MUSING project together with Horacio Saggion and Adam Funk .

Technical Project Manager for Sheffield for Knowledge Web Network of Excellence (EC funded 6.5m project, 2004-2007) and the AHRB-funded project ETCSL (Electronic Text Corpus for Sumerian Literature) 2004-2007.
Senior Programme Committee Member for ISWC 2014
NLP Track Chair for ESWC 2014
Co-chair Semantic Web Challenge 2010-2013
Senior Programme Committee Member for ISWC 2010-14
Co-Organiser of SWAIE 2014 workshop at COLING 2014
Co-Organiser of SWAIE 2013 workshop at RANLP 2013
Co-Organiser of SWAIE 2012 workshop at EKAW 2012
Co-Organiser of KECSM 2012 workshop at ISWC 2012
NLP Track Chair for ESWC 2012
Doctoral Consortium Chair for ISWC 2007-9
Workshops Chair for ESWC 2007
Keynote Speaker at Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA) 2009 conference

PhD Examinations

External examiner for:

Alicja Piotrokowicz, University of Leeds, UK, March 2018
Aminu Mohammed, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, March 2016
Areej Alasiry, Birkbeck College London, UK, June 2015
Naimdjon Takhirov, University of Trondheim, Norway, 7 November 2013
Kateryna Tymoshenko, University of Trento, Italy, December 2012
Jan Dedek, Charles University, Prague, September 2012

Internal examiner for:

Amparo Elizabeth Cano, University of Sheffield, UK, January 2013