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2017

M. Fernandez, L. Piccolo, D. Maynard, M. Wippoo, C. Meili, H. Alani. Pro-Environmental Campaigns via Social Media: Analysing Awareness and Behaviour Patterns. To appear in Journal of Web Science 2017.
D. Maynard, I. Roberts, M. A. Greenwood, D. Rout and K. Bontcheva. A Framework for Real-time Semantic Social Media Analysis. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 2017 (in press). DOI, pre-print )
D. Maynard and B. Lepori. Ontologies as bridges between data sources and user queries: the KNOWMAK project experience. Proceedings of STI 2017, Paris, France, September 2017 PDF
Y. Jiang, X. Song, J. Harrison, S. Quegan and D. Maynard. Comparing Attitudes to Climate Change in the Media using sentiment analysis based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Proc. of EMNLP workshop Natural Language Meets Journalism, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2017 PDF
D. Maynard, A. Funk and B. Lepori. Towards an Infrastructure for Understanding and Interlinking Knowledge Co-Creation in European research. ESWC 2017 Workshop on Scientometrics, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2017. PDF
2016
D. Maynard, K. Bontcheva, I. Augenstein. Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web. Morgan and Claypool, December 2016. ISBN: 9781627059091 Morgan and Claypool link
D. Maynard and K. Bontcheva. Challenges of Evaluating Sentiment Analysis Tools on Social Media. In Proc. of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), May 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia. PDF
Miriam Fernandez, Harith Alani, Lara Piccolo, Christoph Meili, Diana Maynard and Meia Wippoo. Talking Climate Change via Social Media: Communication, Engagement and Behaviour. Proc. of WebSci, May 22-25 2016, Hannover, Germany. PDF
Siti Salwa Hasbullah and Diana Maynard. Automated Content Analysis: A Sentiment Analysis on Malaysian Government Social Media In Proc. of ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM), January 2016, Danang, Vietnam. PDF
L. Derczynski, J. Strötgen, D. Maynard, M. A. Greenwood, M. Jung. GATE-Time: Extraction of Temporal Expressions and Events. In Proceedings of the 10th Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation. 2016. PDF

2015

Diana Maynard and Jonathon Hare. Entity-based Opinion Mining from Text and Multimedia. In "Advances in Social Media Analysis", Mohamed Gaber, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Ayse Goker, and Mihaela Cocea (eds.) 2015, Springer. Springer link
B. Pereira Nunes, R. Kawase, B. Fetahu, S. Dietze, M. Casanova, D. Maynard. Interlinking documents based on semantic graphs with an application. In "Knowledge-Based Information Systems in Practice: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies" Volume 30, 2015, Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-13544-1, pp 139-155. Springer link
L. Derczynski, D. Maynard, G. Rizzo, M. van Erp, G. Gorrell, R. Troncy, J. Petrak, K. Bontcheva. Analysis of Named Entity Recognition and Linking for Tweets. In Information Processing and Management, 51(2) 32-49, 2015. PDF
D. Maynard and K. Bontcheva. Understanding climate change tweets: an open source toolkit for social media analysis. In Proc. of EnviroInfo 2015, Copenhagen, Sep. 2015. PDF
D. Maynard, M. A. Greenwood, I. Roberts, G. Windsor, K. Bontcheva. Real-time Social Media Analytics through Semantic Annotation and Linked Open Data. Proceedings of WebSci 2015, Oxford, UK. PDF
A. Dietzel and D. Maynard. Climate Change: A Chance for Political Re-Engagement? In Proc. of the Political Studies Association 65th Annual International Conference, April 2015, Sheffield, UK. PDF

2014

Diana Maynard and Jonathon Hare. Entity-based Opinion Mining from Text and Multimedia. In "Advances in Social Media Analysis", Mohamed Gaber, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Ayse Goker, and Mihaela Cocea (eds.)
Isabelle Augenstein, Diana Maynard, Fabio Ciravegna (2014). Relation Extraction from the Web using Distant Supervision. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2014), November 2014.
Diana Maynard. Challenges in Analysing Social Media. In Adrian Duşa, Dietrich Nelle, Günter Stock and Gert G. Wagner (eds.) (2014): Facing the Future: European Research Infrastructures for the Humanities and Social Sciences. SCIVERO Verlag, Berlin, 2014. Download book
L. Derczynski, D. Maynard, G. Rizzo, M. van Erp, G. Gorrell, R. Troncy, J. Petrak, K. Bontcheva. Analysis of Named Entity Recognition and Linking for Tweets. In Information Processing and Management. PDF
Diana Maynard and Mark A. Greenwood. Who cares about sarcastic tweets? Investigating the impact of sarcasm on sentiment analysis. Proc. of LREC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014.
Elena Demidova, Nicola Barbieri, Stefan Dietze, Adam Funk, Helge Holzmann, Diana Maynard, Nikos Papailiou, Wim Peters, Thomas Risse, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos. Analysing and Enriching Focused Semantic Web Archives for Parliament Applications. In Journal of Future Internet, Special Issue on Archiving Community Memories, 2014.
T. Risse, W. Peters, P. Senellart, D. Maynard. Documenting Contemporary Society by Preserving Relevant Information from Twitter. In 'Twitter and Society', edited by K. Weller, A. Bruns, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt and C. Puschmann
Diana Maynard and Kalina Bontcheva. Natural Language Processing. In J. Lehmann and J. Voelker editors, Perspectives of Ontology Learning. IOS Press.

2013

Diana Maynard, David Dupplaw, Jonathon Hare. Multimodal Sentiment Analysis of Social Media. Proc. of BCS SGAI Workshop on Social Media Analysis, 10 December 2013.
K. Bontcheva, L. Derczynski, A. Funk, M.A. Greenwood, D. Maynard, N. Aswani. TwitIE: An Open-Source Information Extraction Pipeline for Microblog Text. Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2013). PDF, Download TwitIE
L. Derczynski, D. Maynard, N. Aswani, K. Bontcheva. Microblog-Genre Noise and Impact on Semantic Annotation Accuracy. 24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 1–3 May, Paris, France. 2013
B. Pereira Nunes, R. Kawase, B. Fetahu, S. Dietze, M. Casanova, D. Maynard. Interlinking documents based on semantic graphs. 17th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES-2013), 9-12 September 2013, Kitakyushu, Japan.

2012

S. Dietze, D. Maynard, E. Demidova, T. Risse, W. Peters, K. Doka, Y. Stavrakas. Preservation of Social Web Content based on Entity Extraction and Consolidation. International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives (SDA 2012), Paphos, Cyprus, September 2012, Vol. 912 CEUR-WS.org (2012) , p. 18-29.

D. Maynard, K. Bontcheva, D. Rout. Challenges in developing opinion mining tools for social media. In Proceedings of @NLP can u tag #usergeneratedcontent?! Workshop at LREC 2012, May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey. PDF

D. Maynard and M. Greenwood. Large Scale Semantic Annotation, Indexing and Search at The National Archives. In Proceedings of LREC 2012, May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey. PDF

2011

T. Risse, S. Dietze, D. Maynard and N. Tahmasebi. Using Events for Content Appraisal and Selection in Web Archives. In Proceedings of DeRiVE 2011: Workshop in conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference 2011, October 2011, Bonn, Germany. PDF

D. Maynard and A. Funk. Automatic detection of political opinions in tweets. In Raúl García-Castro, Dieter Fensel and Grigoris Antoniou (eds.) The Semantic Web: ESWC 2011 Selected Workshop Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2011. PDF (longer version of MSM paper).

D. Maynard and A. Funk. Automatic detection of political opinions in tweets. In Proceedings of MSM 2011: Making Sense of Microposts. Workshop at 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011). Heraklion, Greece. June 2011. PDF

2009

M. Laclavik and D. Maynard. Motivating intelligent email in business: an investigation into current trends for email processing and communication research. Proceedings of Workshop on Emails in e-Commerce and Enterprise Context, 11th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing, Vienna, Austria, 2009. PDF

D. Maynard and A. Funk and W. Peters. Using Lexico-Syntactic Ontology Design Patterns for ontology creation and population. In Proceedings of ISWC Workshop on Ontology Patterns (WOP 2009), Washington, 2009. PDF

D. Maynard and A. Funk and W. Peters. NLP-based support for ontology lifecycle development. Proceedings of ISWC Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Ontologies (CK 2009), Washington, 2009. PDF

D. Maynard and A. Funk and W. Peters. SPRAT: a tool for automatic semantic pattern-based ontology population. Proceedings of the International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web, Trento, Italy, 2009. PDF

2008

D. Maynard. Benchmarking Textual Annotation Tools for the Semantic Web. In Proc. of 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco, 2008. PDF

D. Maynard, Y. Li and W. Peters. NLP Techniques for Term Extraction and Ontology Population. Bridging the Gap between Text and Knowledge - Selected Contributions to Ontology Learning and Population from Text, P. Buitelaar and P. Cimiano (editors). IOS Press, 2007. PDF

D. Maynard, W. Peters and Y. Li. Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Ontology-Based Applications: Infinite Reflection. In Proc. of 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco, 2008. PDF

2007

H. Saggion, A. Funk, D. Maynard, K. Bontcheva. Ontology-based Information Extraction for Business Applications. In Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Busan, Korea, November, 2007. PDF

A. Funk, D. Maynard, H. Saggion and K. Bontcheva. Ontological Integration of Information Extracted from Multiple Sources. In the Multi-source Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization (MMIES) workshop at Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP07), Borovets, Bulgaria, September, 2007. PDF

D. Maynard, H. Saggion, M. Yankova, K. Bontcheva and W. Peters. Natural Language Technology for Information Integration in Business Intelligence. 10th International Conference on Business Information Systems, Poland, 25-27 April, 2007. PDF

D. Maynard, W. Peters, M. d'Aquin and M. Sabou. Change Management for Metadata Evolution. In Proceedings of ESWC International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD), Innsbruck, Austria, June, 2007. PDF

2006

D. Maynard, W. Peters, Y. Li. Metrics for Evaluation of Ontology-based Information Extraction. In Proc of WWW 2006 Workshop on "Evaluation of Ontologies for the Web" (EON 2006), Edinburgh, Scotland. PDF

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, 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. PDF

2004

D. Maynard, K. Bontcheva, H. Cunningham. Automatic Language-Independent Induction of Gazetteer Lists. Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2004). Lisbon, Portugal. 2004. PS

D. Maynard, M. Yankova, N. Aswani, H. Cunningham. Automatic Creation and Monitoring of Semantic Metadata in a Dynamic Knowledge Portal. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2004), Varna, Bulgaria, 2004. PDF

M.M. Wood, S.J. Lydon, V. Tablan, D. Maynard, H. Cunningham. Populating a Database from Parallel Texts using Ontology-based Information Extraction. NLDB 2004, 2004. PDF

2003

D. Maynard, V. Tablan, K. Bontcheva, H. Cunningham and Y. Wilks. MUSE: a MUlti-Source Entity recognition system. Submitted to Computers and the Humanities, 2003. PDF

D. Maynard and V. Tablan and K. Bontcheva and H. Cunningham and Y. Wilks. Rapid customisation of an Information Extraction system for surprise languages. Special issue of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing: Rapid Development of Language Capabilities: The Surprise Languages, 2003.PDF

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. Multi-Source and Multilingual Information Extraction. Expert Update, 2003. PDF

D.Maynard, V. Tablan and H. Cunningham. NE recognition without training data on a language you don't speak. ACL Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition: Combining Statistical and Symbolic Models, Sapporo, Japan, 2003. PDF

H. Saggion, H. Cunningham, K. Bontcheva, D. Maynard, O. Hamza, Y. Wilks. Multimedia Indexing through Multisource and Multilingual Information Extraction; the MUMIS project. Data and Knowledge Engineering, 2003.

V. Tablan, K. Bontcheva, D. Maynard, H. Cunningham. OLLIE: On-Line Learning for Information Extraction. HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop: Software Engineering and Architecture of Language Technology Systems (SEALTS). Edmonton, Canada, 2003.

D. Manov and A. Kiryakov and B. Popov and K. Bontcheva and D. Maynard. Experiments with geographic knowledge for information extraction. Workshop on Analysis of Geographic References, HLT/NAACL'03, Edmonton, Canada, 2003.

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

H. Cunningham, K. Bontcheva, D. Maynard, V. Tablan. GATE -- A New Release. ELSNews, 11(1), 2002. PDF

D. Maynard and V. Tablan and K. Bontcheva and H. Cunningham and Y, Wilks. MUlti-Source Entity recognition -- an Information Extraction System for Diverse Text Types. Technical report CS--02--03, University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science, 2003. PostScript.

2002

D. Maynard, V. Tablan, H. Cunningham, C. Ursu, H. Saggion, K. Bontcheva and Y. Wilks, 2002. Architectural Elements of Language Engineering Robustness. Journal of Natural Language Engineering -- Special Issue on Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data. PDF

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. Cha�nes de r�f�rences et r�solveurs 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, forthcoming.

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.

2001

Diana Maynard and Sophia Ananiadou. Term Extraction using a Similarity-based Approach In "Recent Advances in Computational Terminology", John Benjamins, 2001.

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.

2000 and earlier

D. Maynard and H. Cunningham and K. Bontcheva and R. Catizone and G. Demetriou and R. Gaizauskas and O. Hamza and M. Hepple and P. Herring and B. Mitchell and M. Oakes and W. Peters and A. Setzer and M. Stevenson and V. Tablan and C. Ursu and Y. Wilks. A Survey of Uses of GATE. Technical report CS--00--06, University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science, 2000.

Diana Maynard and Sophia Ananiadou. TRUCKS: a model for automatic term recognition, Journal of Natural Language Processing, December 2000.

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 Ananiadou. 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.

Diana Maynard & Sophia Ananiadou. Term Extraction Using the UMLS Medical Thesaurus. In Proc. of 1st Computational Linguistics UK Research Colloquium (CLUK), University of Sunderland, UK, 1998.

H, Cunningham, D. Maynard and V. Tablan. 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. "Term Recognition using Combined Knowledge Sources". PhD thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 2000.

Diana Maynard. "With". MSc thesis, University of Manchester, UK, 1996.