Research Timeline

2026

• publication ADAPT–MTU HAI at IWSLT2026: Robust Cascaded Speech Translation for Bhojpuri–Hindi and Irish–English — Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2026)
• publication PTEB: Towards Robust Text Embedding Evaluation via Stochastic Paraphrasing at Evaluation Time with LLMs — Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026), Long Papers
• role Institutional Co-Lead, Rinn Artificial Intelligence at MTU (Deputy Theme Lead; PI)
• leadership Institutional Co-Lead, Rinn Artificial Intelligence at MTU (journey)

2025

• publication Enhancing Dialectal Arabic Intent Detection through Cross-Dialect Multilingual Input Augmentation — Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4)
• publication Rethinking Sign Language Translation: The Impact of Signer Dependence on Model Evaluation — Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
• publication GASE: Generatively Augmented Sentence Encoding — Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
• publication ADAPT–MTU HAI at QIAS2025: Dual-Expert LLM Fine-Tuning and Constrained Decoding for Arabic Islamic Inheritance Reasoning — Proceedings of the Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks
• publication ADAPT–MTU HAI at PalmX 2025: Leveraging Full and Parameter-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning for Arabic Cultural QA — Proceedings of the Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks
• publication From Reads to Reports: A Vision for a GFM-Powered Genomic Diagnostic Platform — IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2025)
• publication Towards Explainable Job Title Matching: Leveraging Semantic Textual Relatedness and Knowledge Graphs — RecSys in HR'25: 5th Workshop on Recommender Systems for Human Resources (ACM RecSys 2025)
• publication Advancing Earth Observation: A Survey on AI-Powered Image Processing in Satellites — European Journal of Remote Sensing, 58(1), 2567921
• media Media coverage — Cork Independent, “Ireland at AI ‘crossroads’” (journey)

2024

• publication Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences @ LREC-COLING 2024 — LREC-COLING 2024
• publication Predicting Country Instability Using Bayesian Deep Learning and Random Forest — arXiv preprint
• publication The Influence of Iconicity in Transfer Learning for Sign Language Recognition — Int. Conf. on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB), Springer
• publication Transformers for Low-Resource Languages: Is Féidir Linn! — arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.01985
• patent Patent WO/2024/227944 — On-Air Split Federated Learning
• patent European patent — On-Air Split Federated Learning (WO/2024/227944) (journey)
• leadership External Expert, European Commission (REA) (journey)
• grant GenDAI (Horizon Europe) — Beneficiary (journey)
• keynote Keynote — “The Language of Life”, Hologenomic Data Analysis Symposium (Brazil) (journey)

2023

• publication Enabling All In-Edge Deep Learning: A Literature Review — IEEE Access, 11, 3431–3460
• publication adaptNMT: An Open-Source, Language-Agnostic Development Environment for Neural Machine Translation — Language Resources and Evaluation, 57(4), 1671–1696
• publication adaptMLLM: Fine-Tuning Multilingual Language Models on Low-Resource Languages with Integrated LLM Playgrounds — Information, 14(12), 638
• publication Design of an Open-Source Architecture for Neural Machine Translation — Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Open Community-Driven Machine Translation
• publication Federated Split Learning with Only Positive Labels for Resource-Constrained IoT Environments — arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.13266
• publication A Decision-Level Approach to Multimodal Sentiment Analysis — Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2018), Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2022

• publication Performance and Information Leakage in Splitfed Learning and Multi-Head Split Learning in Healthcare Data and Beyond — Methods and Protocols, 5(4), 60
• publication Stool and Ruminal Microbiome Components Associated with Methane Emission and Feed Efficiency in Nelore Beef Cattle — Frontiers in Genetics, 13, 812828
• publication TF-IDF or Transformers for Arabic Dialect Identification? ITFLOWS participation in the NADI 2022 Shared Task — Proceedings of the Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)
• publication gaHealth: An English–Irish Bilingual Corpus of Health Data — Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
• publication TransCasm: A Bilingual Corpus of Sarcastic Tweets — Proceedings of the LREC 2022 Workshop on NLP for Political Sciences
• publication BiGAMi: Bi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Fitness Function for Feature Selection on Microbiome Datasets — Methods and Protocols, 5(3), 42
• publication Enabling Deep Learning for All-in Edge Paradigm — CoRR / arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.03326
• publication Human Evaluation of English–Irish Transformer-Based NMT — Information, 13(7), 309
• publication Proceedings of the LREC 2022 Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences — LREC 2022 Workshop on NLP for Political Sciences
• publication D5.3 Manual for Software Prototype of Social Media Analysis Tool to Monitor Public Attitudes towards Migration — ITFLOWS Project Deliverable (H2020)
• publication Towards Continuous Professional Monitoring of Health Status Based on Energetic Balancing — 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Sport, Technology and Research (STAR), pp. 72–77
• leadership Founded and chaired the PoliticalNLP workshop series (journey)

2021

• publication Putative Mobilized Colistin Resistance Genes in the Human Gut Microbiome — BMC Microbiology, 21, 1–10
• publication Machine Translation in the Covid Domain: an English–Irish Case Study for LoResMT 2021 — Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2021)
• publication Nasopharyngeal Microbial Communities of Patients Infected with SARS-CoV-2 That Developed COVID-19 — Frontiers in Microbiology, 12, 637430
• publication Splitfed Learning Without Client-Side Synchronization: Analyzing Client-Side Split Network Portion Size to Overall Performance — arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.09246
• publication Affective Analytics and Visualization for Ensemble Event-Driven Stock Market Forecasting — Advanced Visual Interfaces: Supporting AI and Big Data Applications (AVI 2020 Workshops), Springer, pp. 28–55
• publication D3.3 Details of the Big Data Used in Predicting Country Instability and Model Description — ITFLOWS Project Deliverable (H2020)
• award IEEE Senior Member (journey)
• leadership Principal Investigator & MTU Lead, ADAPT Centre (journey)

2020

• publication Proceedings of the 6th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC 2020) — CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-2815
• publication Understanding the Role of (Advanced) Machine Learning in Metagenomic Workflows — AVI-BDA 2020 / ITAVIS 2020, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12585, Springer
• publication Common Sense Validation and Reasoning Using Natural Language Processing — 6th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC 2020), pp. 141–151
• publication TeleStroke System (TSS) — 6th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC 2020), pp. 325–334
• publication Detecting Sarcasm in News Headlines — 6th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC 2020)
• publication Chatbot-Based Behaviour Analysis for Obesity Support Platform — 6th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC 2020), pp. 112–124
• publication Online News Analysis on Cloud Computing Platform for Market Prediction — 6th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC 2020), pp. 125–140
• publication Automatic Error Detection for Image to Text Tools — 6th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC 2020), pp. 183–190
• publication Dialect-Aware Tokenisation for Translating Arabic User-Generated Content — 30th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 30)
• grant ITFLOWS (H2020) — Beneficiary (journey)

2019

• publication Hierarchical Deep Learning for Arabic Dialect Identification — Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
• publication EPITA-ADAPT at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Detecting Emotions in Textual Conversations Using Deep Learning Models Combination — Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)
• publication Proceedings of the Qualities of Literary Machine Translation — Proceedings of the Qualities of Literary Machine Translation, Dublin
• publication A Metagenomic Content and Knowledge Management Ecosystem Platform — IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2019)
• publication A Comparative Analysis of Classification Techniques for Cervical Cancer Utilising At Risk Factors and Screening Test Results — 27th AIAI Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2019), Galway
• publication A Systematic Comparison Between SMT and NMT on Translating User-Generated Content — 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2019)
• publication Sentiment Preservation in Machine Translation — 29th Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 29)

2018

• publication Word Embedding-Based Semantic Cross-Lingual Document Alignment in Comparable Corpora — 10th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2018), ACM, pp. 28–34
• publication FooTweets: A Bilingual Parallel Corpus of World Cup Tweets — Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)
• publication Balancing Translation Quality and Sentiment Preservation — 13th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2018, Vol. 1: Research Papers), pp. 81–88
• role Lecturer & PI, MTU; founded the Human-Centred AI Research Group
• leadership Lecturer & PI at MTU; founded the Human-Centred AI Research Group (journey)

2017

• publication Proceedings of the First Workshop on Curation and Applications of Parallel and Comparable Corpora — First Workshop on Curation and Applications of Parallel and Comparable Corpora, IJCNLP 2017
• publication Maintaining Sentiment Polarity in Translation of User-Generated Content — The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 108(1), 73–84
• publication Dublin City University Participation in the VTT Track at TRECVid 2017 — Proceedings of TRECVid 2017, NIST
• publication MultiNews: A Web Collection of an Aligned Multimodal and Multilingual Corpus — First Workshop on Curation and Applications of Parallel and Comparable Corpora
• publication ADAPT at IJCNLP-2017 Task 4: A Multinomial Naive Bayes Classification Approach for Customer Feedback Analysis — IJCNLP 2017 Shared Tasks, pp. 161–169
• publication Sentiment Translation for Low-Resourced Languages: Experiments on Irish General Election Tweets — The International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications (IJCLA)
• publication Identifying Effective Translations for Cross-Lingual Arabic-to-English User-Generated Speech Search — WANLP 2017: Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop

2016

• publication Building and Using Multimodal Comparable Corpora for Machine Translation — Natural Language Engineering, 22(4), 603–625
• publication Integrating Optical Character Recognition and Machine Translation of Historical Documents — Workshop on Language Technology Resources and Tools for Digital Humanities (LT4DH)
• publication Dublin City University and Partners' Participation in the INS and VTT Tracks at TRECVid 2016 — 2016 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop (TRECVid 2016), NIST
• publication FaDA: Fast Document Aligner Using Word Embedding — The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 106, 169–179
• publication From Arabic User-Generated Content to Machine Translation: Integrating Automatic Error Correction — CICLing 2016: 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics
• publication Using SMT for OCR Error Correction of Historical Texts — LREC 2016, pp. 962–966
• publication The ADAPT Bilingual Document Alignment System at WMT16 — First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16), Vol. 2: Shared Task Papers, pp. 717–723

2015

• publication OCR Error Correction Using Statistical Machine Translation — 16th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2015)

2014

• publication Multimodal Comparable Corpora for Machine Translation — 7th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC 2014)
• milestone PhD, Le Mans Université — Statistical Machine Translation in a Multimodal Context

2013

• publication Multimodal Comparable Corpora as Resources for Extracting Parallel Data: Parallel Phrases Extraction — International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013)

2012

• publication Parallel Text Extraction from Multimodal Comparable Corpora — 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (JapTAL/NLP 2012), LNAI 7614, Springer, pp. 40–51
• publication Traduction automatique à partir de corpus comparables : Extraction de phrases parallèles à partir de données comparables multimodales — TALN 2012, Grenoble, France

2011

• publication LIUM's SMT Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2011 — Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2011)

2010

• publication LIG Statistical Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2010 — International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010)