John McCrae

John McCrae is a lecturer at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway, Ireland. He works within the Unit for Natural Language Processing under Paul Buitelaar, focusing on linguistic linked open data and lexical resource modeling via lemon and OntoLex frameworks.

• Research Focus: ontologies, lexicography, knowledge graphs, machine translation, linked data, machine learning, under-resourced languages, digital humanities
• Funding: €1.7m from EU, IRC, SFI
• Collaborations: Fidelity Labs, Standardization with W3C and OASIS

His publications address code-switching datasets, machine translation for Dravidian languages, ontology lexicons, and taxonomy extraction. He organized the Linked Data in Linguistics workshop series and the 2017 Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK) conference.

• Scientific Awards: IRC Consolidator Laureate Awards (2017/2018)