Dr Adam Funk
BSc (Virginia Tech), BA (Virginia Tech), MSc (UMIST), PhD (Manchester)
Information School
Post-Doctoral Researcher
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Information School
Room C600
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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I obtained my MSc in natural language processing from UMIST in 2001 and then my PhD in the same field from the University of Manchester in 2005 (using formal semantics for dialogue modelling in the DUMAS project).
I worked for the National Centre for Text Mining in Manchester and then the NLP research group in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, carrying out research and software development in various areas, including semantic web NLP, information extraction, social media analysis related to journalism, and practical NLP applications for knowledge management and semi-automated contract review.
I am now working in the Information School on an Innovate-UK project to provide data analysis for e-commerce.
- Research interests
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My interests include practical NLP applications, information extraction for specialist domains such as law and journalism, and digital humanities.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Books
Journal articles
- Automatic Detection of Political Opinions in Tweets, 88-99.
- Analysing and Enriching Focused Semantic Web Archives for Parliament Applications. Future Internet, 6(3), 433-456.
- Should I Care about Your Opinion? Detection of Opinion Interestingness and Dynamics in Social Media. Future Internet, 6(3), 457-481.
- Human Language Technologies, 37-49.
Conference proceedings papers
- Combining expert knowledge with NLP for specialised applications.. Text, Speech, and Dialogue: 23rd International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2020), Vol. 12284 (pp 3-10). Brno, Czech Republic, 8 September 2020 - 11 September 2020. View this article in WRRO
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- The SENSEI Overview of Newspaper Readers’ Comments (pp 758-761) View this article in WRRO
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- Automatic label generation for news comment clusters. Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference, 2016 - 2016.
- Opinion analysis for business intelligence applications. Proceedings of the first international workshop on Ontology-supported business intelligence - OBI '08, 27 October 2008 - 27 October 2008.
- RoundTrip Ontology Authoring (pp 50-65)
- Ontology-Based Information Extraction for Business Intelligence (pp 843-856)
Reports
All publications
Books
Journal articles
- Automatic Detection of Political Opinions in Tweets, 88-99.
- Analysing and Enriching Focused Semantic Web Archives for Parliament Applications. Future Internet, 6(3), 433-456.
- Should I Care about Your Opinion? Detection of Opinion Interestingness and Dynamics in Social Media. Future Internet, 6(3), 457-481.
- Human Language Technologies, 37-49.
Conference proceedings papers
- Combining expert knowledge with NLP for specialised applications.. Text, Speech, and Dialogue: 23rd International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2020), Vol. 12284 (pp 3-10). Brno, Czech Republic, 8 September 2020 - 11 September 2020. View this article in WRRO
- View this article in WRRO
- The SENSEI Overview of Newspaper Readers’ Comments (pp 758-761) View this article in WRRO
- View this article in WRRO
- Automatic label generation for news comment clusters. Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference, 2016 - 2016.
- Opinion analysis for business intelligence applications. Proceedings of the first international workshop on Ontology-supported business intelligence - OBI '08, 27 October 2008 - 27 October 2008.
- RoundTrip Ontology Authoring (pp 50-65)
- Ontology-Based Information Extraction for Business Intelligence (pp 843-856)
Reports
- Teaching interests
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- Data analytics
- Data mining (especially text mining)
- Databases