John Philip McCrae
Recent and Current Activities
- Tutor at ESSLLI 2018 on “Introduction to Linked Open Data in Linguistics”
- Chair of 1st Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK-2017), Galway, Ireland.
- Chair of 1st Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Knowledge Integration (KĒKI) at ISWC 2016, Kobe, Japan.
- Chair of 5th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2016) at LREC 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia.
- Organizer of 1st Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data
- Co-chair of 4th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics collocated with the ACL-IJCNLP 2015.
- Organizer of tutorials on Building the Multilingual Web of Data at ISWC 2014, and Language Resources and Linked Data at EKAW 2014.
- Co-chair of 3rd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics collocated with the 9th Language Resource and Evaluation Conference.
- Co-chair of 2nd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics collocated with the 6th International Conference on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon.
- Co-chair of 2nd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web at ISWC-2011
- Organizer of tutorials on Enriching the Semantic Web with Linguistic Information at ESWC-2011 and Enriching the Web with Ontology-lexica at LREC-2012
- Lead developer of Lemon (Lexicon Model for Ontologies)
- Active member of W3C OntoLex community group and OKFN working group in linguistics.
Invited Talks
Saffron: Topic extraction, expert finding and trend analysis from scientific literature, Invited talk at the Scientometrics Workshop 2017, Portoroz, Slovenia
Putting ontologies to work in NLP: The lemon model and its applications, invited talk at Joint Second Workshop on Language and Ontology & Terminology and Knowledge Structures (LangOnto2 + TermiKS), at the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 23rd May 2016, Portorož (Slovenia).
Linghub: Reconciling Heterogeneous Metadata about Language Resources, Invited talk at the Ontology Engineering Group, Polytechnic University of Madrid
Keynote speaker at 5th Meeting of MUMIA project, June 2013
Modelling the ontology-lexicon interface with lemon Invited talk at CLT Seminar, Språkbanken, University of Gothenburg. 28/01/2013
Keynote speaker at workshop on "Standardized Data Categories in ISOcat" at TKE-2010, August 2010.