- Jul 2020: Joined the Editorial Board of Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (MAKE).
- Jun 2020: Examined a PhD viva at the British University in Dubai.
- May 2020: Gave a talk at the University of Leeds.
- May 2020: New project funded by the Welsh Government to study crosslingual Welsh-English word embeddings.
- Apr 2020: Elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
- Mar 2020: New paper published: Clinical text data in machine learning: Systematic review.
- Mar 2020: Examined a PhD viva at Goldsmiths, University of London.
- Nov 2019: Gave a talk at Aberystwyth University.
- Nov 2019: Gave a talk at the University of Lancaster.
- Nov 2019: New special issue published: Emerging clinical applications of text analytics.
- Oct 2019: New paper published: Sentiment analysis in health and wellbeing: A systematic review.
- Oct 2019: New paper published: Cohort selection from longitudinal patient records: Text mining approach.
- Aug 2019: New project funded by the Welsh Government to study Welsh word embeddings.
- Jul 2019: New project funded by the Wellcome Trust to model burns first-aid conversations on social media.
- Jul 2019: New paper accepted at the 7th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing.
- Jun 2019: New paper accepted at the Celtic Language Technology Workshop at the Machine Translation Summit.
- May 2019: New paper published: Comparing the utility of different classification schemes for emotive language analysis.
- Apr 2019: Organised the second Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC).
- Mar 2019: Gave a talk at Goldsmiths, University of London.
- Jan 2019: New project funded by the Intellectual Property Office to explore the feasibility of AI for prior art search.
- Dec 2018: New project funded by the Welsh Government to develop a Welsh stemmer.
- Dec 2018: Paul Harper and I have been appointed as the joint directors of the Data Innovation Research Institute.
- Dec 2018: Visited Brunel University.
- Nov 2018: Visited NUI Galway.
- Nov 2018: Gave a talk at the Intellectual Property Office.
- Nov 2018: Visited Goldsmiths, University of London.
- Nov 2018: Gave a talk at a workshop on Statistics of Big Data and Machine Learning.
- Nov 2018: Call for papers released: HealTAC 2019.
- Oct 2018: Visited the University of Manchester.
- Oct 2018: Gave a talk at the Office for National Statistics.
- Sep 2018: New paper published: A genetic programming approach to development of clinical prediction models.
- Aug 2018: Submission deadline for a special issue on
Emerging Clinical Applications of Text Analytics
extended to September 17, 2018.
- Jul 2018: Visited the University of Belgrade.
- Jul 2018: Polona Štefanič has been awarded a studentship to undertake a PhD under my supervision.
- Jul 2018: Daphné Chopard has been awarded a studentship to undertake a PhD under my supervision.
- Jun 2018: New paper published: A computational model of pedestrian road safety.
- Jun 2018: Visited the University of Belgrade.
- Jun 2018: Attended the first ICEDIG all-hands meeting in Leiden.
- May 2018: Participated in an n2c2 challenge in natural language processing of clinical data.
- May 2018: Project funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund to study the outbreak of measles in Serbia.
- May 2018: Project funded by the Data Innovation Research Institute to scale up FlexiTerm in a quest to mine big text data.
- May 2018: Gave a public lecture: Are computers able to understand the human language?
- Apr 2018: Presented at HealTAC in Manchester: Closing in on open-ended patient questionnaires with text mining.
- Apr 2018: Guest editing a special issue on
Emerging Clinical Applications of Text Analytics.
- Apr 2018: New paper published: Head to head: Semantic similarity of multi-word terms.
- Mar 2018: Paper accepted at HealTAC: Closing in on open-ended patient questionnaires with text mining.
- Mar 2018: Paper accepted at GISRUK: Modelling pedestrian safety with respect to road traffic crashes.
- Mar 2018: My public lecture postponed due to the snowmageddon: Are computers able to understand the human language?
- Feb 2018: New paper published: Acronyms as an integral part of multi-word term recognition - A token of appreciation.
- Jan 2018: Daphné Chopard from ETH Zurich obtained a Swiss-European Mobility award to complete her Masters project under my supervision in collaboration with Fabio Rinaldi.
- Jan 2018: ICEDIG launched at kick-off meeting in Montpellier.
- Dec 2017: New paper published: Idiom-based features in sentiment analysis: Cutting the Gordian knot.
- Dec 2017: Examined a PhD viva at NUI Galway.
- Nov 2017: New paper published: Acceptability of a digital health intervention alongside physiotherapy...
- Nov 2017: New project funded by the Welsh Government to develop Welsh WordNet.
- Nov 2017: New paper published: Integrating self-management support for knee injuries into routine clinical practice....
- Oct 2017: New project funded by the Multiple Sclerosis Society to develop a web-based lifestyle programme.
- Oct 2017: New paper published: Sentinel: A co-designed platform for semantic enrichment of social media streams.
- Oct 2017: Lowri Williams passed her PhD viva.
- Oct 2017: Brian Reddy is helping us recruit participants for our knee rehab study via his very popular blog.
- Oct 2017: Returned from my research leave.
- Sep 2017: Visited the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- Sep 2017: Visited the University of Sydney.
- Sep 2017: Visited the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Aug 2017: Horizon 2020 award to ICEDIG/DiSSCo to build infrastructure for large-scale digitisation of natural heritage.
- Jul 2017: Anastazia Žunić has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor's international scholarship for research excellence to undertake a PhD under my supervision.
- Apr 2017: New paper published: A framework for automated rating of online reviews against the underlying topics.
- Feb 2017: We officially launched the CorCenCC project, which has been funded by the ESRC and AHRC.
- Jan 2017: Vigneshwaran Muralidaran, co-supervised with Dr Dawn Knight, has started his PhD studies as part of the CorCenCC project.
- Dec 2016: Visited the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway as an external interview panel member.
- Dec 2016: Additional funding awarded by the Health Foundation to spread impact of the TRAK intervention.
- Nov 2016: We officially launched the Healthcare Text Analytics Research Network (Healtex), which has been funded by the EPSRC.
- Nov 2016: EPSRC PhD studentship available for the following project: A deep learning approach to extraction of spatial relations from imaging reports. Deadline: Wednesday, February 01, 2017
- Oct 2016: Started my research leave.
- Aug 2016: Promoted to a Personal Chair.
