Neil Ireson

School of Computer Science

Research Associate

Member of the Pervasive Computing research group

n.ireson@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1966

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Neil Ireson
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

My research interests can broadly be defined as knowledge acquisition from data. This has primarily focused on the use of Machine Learning, initially applied in the field of Natural Language Processing, developing techniques for Text Classification and Information Extraction from large-scale text repositories and Collective Intelligence from social media messages.

More recent work has focused on the understanding of individual and population movements. Modelling  air-travel data, to identify mobility patterns indicative of criminal activity, such as drug and human trafficking; and using mobile device sensor data to understand how contextual factors (e.g., weather, journey purpose) influence mobility, for health and well-being.

Research interests

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Collective Intelligence, Mobility Analysis, Health & Well-being.

Publications

Journal articles

Chapters

  • Ireson NS & Fogarty TC (1995) Evolving decision support models for credit control In Biethahn J & Nissen V (Ed.), Evolutionary Algorithms in Management Applications (pp. 264-276). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fogarty TC, Ireson NS & Bull L (1994) Genetic-based Machine Learning-Applications in Industry and Commerce, Applications of Modern Heuristic Techniques, page (pp. 91-110). RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Ciravegna F, Gao J, Ireson N, Copeland R & Lanfranchi V (2019) Active 10: Brisk Walking to Support Regular Physical Activity. Proceedings of 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 20 May 2019 - 23 May 2019. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ciravegna F, Gao J, Ingram C, Ireson N, Lanfranchi V & Simanjuntak H (2018) Mapping mobility to support crisis management. Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference, Vol. 2018-May (pp 305-316) View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2017) Football Whispers: Transfer rumour detection. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1963 View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bai L, Ireson N, Mazumdar S & Ciravegna F (2017) Lessons learned using wi-fi and Bluetooth as means to monitor public service usage. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mazumdar S, Ciravegna F, Ireson N, Read J, Simpson E & Cudd P (2017) Access Visits Using Video Communication. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 242 (pp 102-110) View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ciravegna F, Mazumdar S, Ireson N & Cudd P (2016) Seeing through the eyes of the citizens during emergencies. Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mazumdar S, Wrigley SN, Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2015) Geo-fence driven crowd-sourcing for Emergencies. ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Vol. 2015-January RIS download Bibtex download
  • Osborne M, Moran S, McCreadie R, Von Lunen A, Sykora M, Cano E, Ireson N, Macdonald C, Ounis I, He Y , Jackson T et al (2014) Real-Time Detection, Tracking, and Monitoring of Automatically Discovered Events in Social Media. Proceedings of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, June 2014 - June 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lanfranchi V, Wrigley SN, Ireson N, Wehn U & Ciravegna F (2014) Citizens' observatories for situation awareness in flooding. ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp 145-154) View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mazumdar S, Lanfranchi V, Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2014) Visual analysis of real-time social media for emergency response. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1329 (pp 67-78) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tucker S, Lanfranchi V, Ireson N, Sosa A, Burel G & Ciravegna F (2012) Straight to the Information I Need”: Assessing Collational Interfaces for Emergency Response. 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2012) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gentile AL, Basave AEC, Dadzie A-S, Lanfranchi V & Ireson N (2011) Does Size Matter? When Small is Good Enough. Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2011) (pp 45-56) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2010) Toponym Resolution in Social Media.. International Semantic Web Conference (1), Vol. 6496 (pp 370-385) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ireson N & Burel G (2010) Knowledge Sharing in E-Collaboration.. EGOV, Vol. 6228 (pp 351-362) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ireson N (2009) Local community situational awareness during an emergency. 2009 3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 1 June 2009 - 3 June 2009. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lanfranchi V & Ireson N (2009) User requirements for a collective intelligence emergency response system.. BCS HCI (pp 198-203) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Scherp A, Schwagereit F, Ireson N, Lanfranchi V, Papadopoulos S, Kritikos A, Kompatsiaris Y & Smrz P (2009) Leveraging Web 2.0 Communities in Professional Organisations. W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking. Barcelona RIS download Bibtex download
  • Clough PD, Ireson N & Marlow J (2009) Extending Domain-Specific Resources to Enable Semantic Access to Cultural Heritage Data.. J. Digit. Inf., Vol. 10 View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ireson N (2009) Local Community Situational Awareness During An Emergency. 2009 3RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (pp 164-169) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Scherp A, Schwagereit F & Ireson N (2009) Web 2.0 and Traditional Knowledge Management Processes.. Wissensmanagement, Vol. P-145 (pp 222-231) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Clough P, Marlow J & Ireson N (2008) Enabling Semantic Access to Cultural Heritage: A Case Study of Tate Online.. Information Access to Cultural Heritage. ECDL 2008 Workshop. Aarhus Denmark RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marlow J, Clough P, Ireson N, Cigarr n Recuero J, Artiles J & Debole F (2008) The MultiMatch Project: Multilingual/Multimedia Access to Cultural Heritage on the Web. Museums on the Web Conference (MW2008). Toronto RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ireson N & Oomen J (2007) Capturing e-Culture: Metadata in MultiMatch. DELOS-MultiMatch workshop, Tirrenia, Italy RIS download Bibtex download
  • Iria J, Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2006) An Experimental Study on Boundary Classification Algorithms for Information Extraction using SVM. Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2005) Pascal Challenge The Evaluation of Machine Learning for Information Extraction. Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar Machine Learning for the Semantic Web(http://www. smi. ucd. ie/Dagstuhl-MLSW/proceedings/) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ireson N, Ciravegna F, Califf ME, Freitag D, Kushmerick N & Lavelli A (2005) Evaluating machine learning for information extraction.. ICML, Vol. 119 (pp 345-352) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hepple M, Ireson N, Allegrini P, Marchi S, Montemagni S, Maria J & Hidalgo G (2004) NLP-enhanced Content Filtering within the POESIA Project. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2004) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cao YJ, Ireson N, Bull L & Miles R (2000) Distributed learning control of traffic signals. REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 1803 (pp 117-126) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ireson N, Cao YJ, Bull L & Miles R (2000) A communication architecture for multi-agent learning systems. REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 1803 (pp 255-266) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fogarty TC, Ireson N & Battle S (1992) Combining attributes and categorising attribute values for a Bayesian classifier for credit control. IMA International Conference on Control: Modelling, Computation, Information RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gammack JG, Fogarty TC, Battle SA, Ireson NS & Cui J (1992) Human-Centred Decision Support: The IDIOMS System.. AI Soc., Vol. 6 (pp 345-366) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Papadopoulos S, Scherp A, Ireson N, Tsampoulatidis I & Kompatsiaris Y () Using Event Representation and Semantic Enrichment for Managing and Reviewing Emergency Incident Logs. EiMM 2010: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Events in multimedia. New York, NY, USA RIS download Bibtex download

Posters

  • Mazumdar S, Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2016) Decision Graphs: Managing Decisions for Emergencies. ISCRAM 2016 Conference. RIS download Bibtex download
Research group

Pervasive Computing 

Grants

Investigating the social and environmental contexts of habitual walking ACTIVities in older adult DYADs: A feasibility study (The ActivDyad study)

Transforming Parkinson's disease clinical management with integrated digital health technologies

TENACITy - Travel Intelligence Against Crime and Terrorism

Mobilise-D - Connecting digital mobility assessment to clinical outcomes for regulatory and clinical endorsement