Contact Details
Postal Address: School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland.
Email Address: My first initial followed by my last name AT computing.dcu.ie
Phone: +353 1 700 6729
Current Work
I am computational linguist and a Research Fellow at the School of Computing working as part of the CNGL (Centre for Global Intelligent Content). I am also the Erasmus student coordinator for the School of Computing. My interests are in various areas of Language Technology, LT resources and related applications and solutions. I am a member of the European Association for Machine Translation. I am involved in various Language Technology projects including:
Recent Talks and Presentations
- "The TraMOOC project" Presented at National MOOC Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, May 2015
- "Irish Language MT in the Public Sector" Presented at Multilingual Digital Single Market Summit, Riga, Latvia April 2015
- "Celtic Languages in the Digital Age" Presented at Through Technological Means (Trwy Ddulliau Technoleg), Bangor, Wales, March 2015
- "META-NET White Paper Series: Irish and Welsh in the Digital Age" Presented at NPLD ICT Seminar - Using the Potential of Technology to Promote CRSS Language Usage, Cardiff, Wales, January 2014
- "The META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020" Invited Talk at the KITES Symposium - Future of Language Services Industry, Helsinki Finland, October 2013
- "Multilingual Europe - Recent Developments, Services and Solutions" Keynote address at DigiEduET Seminar, Kouvola, Finland, October 2013
- "LT in the Classroom of the Future" Invited Talk at the NPLD expert committee seminar on language learning, October 2013
Academic Activities
Ph.D. Research
Topic: Adapting and Developing Linguistic Resources for Question Answering
Supervisor: Prof. Josef van Genabith and Dr. Aoife Cahill
Research Groups: National Centre for Language Technology,
Language & Intelligence Group
Resources
QuestionBank beta release
Publications
- 2016
- Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit, Sophia Ananiadou, Núria Bel, Audrone Bieleviciene, Lars Borin, António Branco, Gerhard Budin, Nicoletta Calzolari, Walter Daelemans, Radovan Garabík, Marko Grobelnik, Carmen García-Mateo, Josef van Genabith, Jan Hajic, Inma Hernáez, John Judge, Svetla Koeva, Simon Krek, Cvetana Krstev, Krister Lindén, Bernardo Magnini, Joseph Mariani, John McNaught, Maite Melero, Monica Monachini, Asunción Moreno, Jan Odijk, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Piotr Pezik, Stelios Piperidis, Adam Przepiórkowski, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Mike Rosner, Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Inguna Skadina, Koenraad De Smedt, Marko Tadic, Paul Thompson, Dan Tufis, Tamás Váradi, Andrejs Vasiljevs, Kadri Vider, Jolanta Zabarskaite; The strategic impact of META-NET on the regional, national and international level; Language Resources and Evaluation, 50(2), 351-374; DOI: 10.1007/s10579-015-9333-4
- 2014
- Aswarth Dara, Josef van Genabith, Qun Liu, John Judge, Antonio Toral
Active Learning for Post-Editing Based Incrementally Retrained MT
EACL Short Papers, 2014
- 2012
- META Technology Council
Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020
Springer, 2013.
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- John Judge, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, R. Ní Dhubhda, Kevin P. Scannell and Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha.
The Irish Language in the Digital Age.
In META-NET Language White Paper Series Europe's Languages in the Digital Age, Springer, 2012.
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- 2010
- Alexander Troussov, John Judge, Mikhail Alexandrov, and Eugene Levner.
Social Context as Machine-Processable Knowledge.
In MITACS FP-Nets Workshop on Social Networks, Vancouver, Canada, August 9-13 2010.
- 2009
- Alexander Troussov, John Judge, Mikhail Sogrin, Amine Akrout, Brian Davis, and Siegfried Handschuh.
A Linguistic Light Approach to Multilingualism in Lexical Layers for Ontologies.
In SLT, vol 12, Polish Phonetics Association 2009, eds. G. Demanko, K. Jassem, S. Szpakowicz
- 2008
- Alexander Troussov, John Judge, Mikhail Sogrin, Amine Akrout, Brian Davis, and Siegfried Handschuh.
A Linguistic Light Approach to Multilingualism in Lexical Layers for Ontologies"
In Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Wisla, Poland, October 2008, pp. 375-379
- Alexander Troussov, John Judge, Mikhail Sogrin, Christian Bogdan, Par Lannero, Henric Edlund, and Yngve Sundblad.
Navigation of Networked Data using Polycentric Fuzzy Queries and the Pile UI Metaphor.
In Proceedings of the International SoNet Workshop (2008), pp. 5-12.
- Alexander Troussov, Mikhail Sogrin, John Judge, and Dimitri Botvich.
Mining Socio-Semantic Networks Using Spreading Activation Technique.
In Proceedings of I-KNOW 08 and I-MEDIA '08, Graz, Austria, September 3-5, 2008
- Brian Davis, Siegfried Handschuh, Alexander Troussov, John Judge, and Mikhail Sogrin.
Linguistically Light Lexical Extensions for Ontologies.
In Proceedings of the 6th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco 26th May - 1st June 2008.
- 2007
- John Judge, Mikhail Sogrin, and Alexander Troussov.
Galaxy: IBM Ontological Network Miner.
In Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Social Semantic Web (CSSW), September 26-28, 2007, Leipzig, Germany
- Sheila Kinsella, Andreas Harth, Alexander Troussov, Mikhail Sogrin, John Judge, Conor Hayes and John G. Breslin.
Navigating and Annotating Semantically-Enabled Networks of People and Associated Objects.
In Proceedings of Applications of Social Network Analysis 2007, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2007.
- 2006
- John Judge, Aoife Cahill and Josef van Genabith
QuestionBank: Creating a Corpus of Parse Annotated Questions
Proceedings of ACL/CoLing, Sydney, Australia
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- 2005
- John Judge, Yuqing Guo, Gareth J.F. Jones and Bin Wang
An Analysis of Question Processing of English and Chinese for the NTCIR 5 Cross-Language Question Answering Task
Proceedings of the Fifth NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Access Technologies - Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-Lingual Information Access (Open Session), Tokyo, Japan, pages 545-551
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- John Judge, Michael Burke, Aoife Cahill, Ruth O'Donovan, Josef van Genabith, and Andy Way
Strong Domain Variation and Treebank-Induced LFG Resources
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on LFG, Bergen, Norway, pages 186-204
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- Gareth J.F. Jones, Michael Burke, John Judge, Anna Khasin, Adenike Lam-Adesina, and Joachim Wagner
Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2004), C.Peters, P.Clough, J.Gonzalo, G.Jones, M.Kluck and B.Magnini (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany (in print)
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Book Chapters
- Alexander Troussov, Eugene Levner, Christian Bogdan, John Judge, and Dimitri Botvich.
Spread of Activation Methods.
In Dynamic and Advanced Data Mining for Progressing Technological Development, Y. Xiang and S. Ali (eds) IGI Global, 2009.
- Sheila Kinsella, Andreas Harth, Alexander Troussov, Mikhail Sogrin, John Judge, Conor Hayes, and John Breslin.
Navigating and Annotating Semantically-Enabled Networks of People and Associated Objects.
In Why Context Matters: Applications of Social Network Analysis, (T. Friemel, ed.), VS Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3531163280, pp. 79-96.
Patents and Disclosures
- Alexander Troussov, Mikhail Sogrin, Akihiro Nakayama, John Judge.
Procédé et Systeme Améliorés Pour Trouver Le Centre D'intéret D'un Document"
WIPO Patent Application WO/2008/125495.
- Alexander Troussov, Mikhail Sogrin, John Judge, Dimitri Botvich.
System and Method for Ontology-based Personalized Semantic Search,
Disclosed by IBM. Loaded into the IP.com Prior Art Database on 2009-04-21 UTC, IPCOM000181971D.
- John Judge, Akihiro Nakayama, Mikhail Sogrin, Alexander Troussov.
Method and System for Finding a Focus of a Document. United States Patent 7870141.