Seamus Lawless
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Prof. Séamus Lawless is an Assistant Professor in the discipline of Intelligent Systems in the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin. Séamus' research interests are in the areas of information retrieval, information management and digital humanities with a particular focus on adaptivity and personalisation. The common focus of this research is Digital Content Management and the Application of Technology to Support Enhanced, Personalised Access to Knowledge. This research has a strong user focus and all of his work aims to improve the experiences of users when interacting with content and information systems. He has built significant momentum in the publication of papers in peer-reviewed journals and major worldwide conferences. Séamus is also passionate about education and has developed strong teaching experience. He has supervised M.Sc., MPhil and Ph.D. students. Séamus collaborated on the design and planning of two modules for the new MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture being offered by TCD. He is an active member of the international research community and the College community. Séamus has coordinated and collaborated with researchers in the disciplines of Linguistics, English, History, Pedagogy, Speech and Language Technologies and Localisation. Through these collaborative research projects in such a variety of disciplines he has developed insight and skills in communication and in conducting multi-disciplinary research. Séamus has significant industry experience having worked in the both the IT and Retail Industries. This has provided him with a wealth of commercial experience which he incorporates in his research and teaching.
Research Interest
Data Analysis; Databases, database management, data mining; Digital systems, representation; Information systems development; Information technology in education; Information technology, Science; Internet technologies; Knowledge and data engineering; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Representation; Machine Translation; Natural Language Programming; Word/Text Processing
Publications
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C. Hampson, E. Bailey, G. Munnelly, S. Lawless and O. Conlan, Dynamic Personalisation for Digital Cultural Heritage Collections, UMAP 2013 Extended Proceedings, 6th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage, Rome, Italy, July 2013, 997, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2013, pp1-12
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Ghorab, M.R., Lawless, S., O Connor, A. and Wade, V., Does Personalization Benefit Everyone in the Same Way? Multilingual Search Personalization for English vs. Non-English Users., 1st International Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA 2014) held in conjunction with the 22nd Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation, and Personalization, UMAP 2014, Aalborg, Denmark, July 7th, 2014
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Cormac Hampson, Séamus Lawless, Eoin Bailey, Christina M. Steiner, Eva Hillemann, Owen Conlan, Metadata-Enhanced Exploration of Digital Cultural Collections, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2014
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Ben Steichen, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Maristella Agosti, Giulio Jacucci, Séamus Lawless, Peter Brusilovsky, Vincent Wade, Samuel Kaski and Oswald Barral.(ed.), Joint Workshop on Personalised Information Access, PIA 2014, held in conjunction with the 22nd conference on User Modelling, Adaptation, and Personalization, UMAP 2014, Aalborg, Denmark, July 7th, 2014
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Steichen, B., Ghorab, M.R., O Connor, A., Lawless, S. and Wade, V, Towards Personalized Multilingual Information Access - Exploring the Browsing and Search Behavior of Multilingual Users., 22nd conference on User Modelling, Adaptation, and Personalization, UMAP 2014, Aalborg, Denmark, 2014
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Tomás Ó Murchú and Séamus Lawless, The Problem of Time and Space: The Difficulties in Visualising Spatiotemporal Change in Historical Data, 26th Digital Humanities Conference, DH 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, 8th-12th July, 2014
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Dong Zhou, Séamus Lawless, Jianxun Liu, Sanrong Zhang and Yu Xu, Query Expansion for Personalized Cross-Language Information Retrieval, The 10th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization, SMAP 2015, Trento, Italy, November 5th-6th, 2015 Conference Paper, 2015
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Mostafa Bayomi, Killian Levacher, M.Rami Ghorab, and Séamus Lawless, OntoSeg: a Novel Approach to Text Segmentation using Ontological Similarity, The 5th ICDM Workshop on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction, ICDM SENTIRE. Held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2015, Atlantic City, NJ, USA, Nov 14th, 2015
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Eileen O Donnell, Mary Sharp, Séamus Lawless, Vincent Wade, A Review of Personalised E-Learning: Towards Supporting Learner Diversity, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 13, (1), 2015, p22 - 47 Journal Article, 2015 DOI
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Séamus Lawless, Peter Lavin, Mostafa Bayomi, João P. Cabral and M. Rami Ghorab, Text Summarization and Speech Synthesis for the Automated Generation of Personalized Audio Presentations, 20th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB), Passau, germany, June 17-19, edited by Springer , Springer, 2015, pp307 - 320
