Abigail Walsh

ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University

Email Address: [email protected]

Abigail Walsh is a post-doctoral researcher at the ADAPT Centre at Dublin City University, working on the eSTÓR project developing resources for Irish language technology, with a focus on developing and evaluating LT applications handling challenging linguistic features. She is passionate about promoting linguistic diversity and support for minority and low-resource languages in the field of NLP. Her research topics include multiword expressions, syntactic parsing, machine translation, lexicon development, linguistic analysis, resource development, and machine learning. She is an active member of both the PARSEME community and the UniDive COST Action for universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology.
Research Domains
  • Languages
  • Linguistics
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing

Publications by Abigail Walsh

  • gaBERT - an Irish Language Model
    PUBLICATION:LREC 2022 - 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
    AUTHOR(S):James Barry, Joachim Wagner, Lauren Cassidy, Alan Cowap, Teresa Lynn, Abigail Walsh, Micheal J. O Meachair, Jennifer Foster
    DATE:20 June 2022
    TYPE:Conf papers
  • A BERT's Eye View: Identification of Irish Multiword Expressions Using Pre-trained Language Models
    PUBLICATION:MWE 2022 - 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, colocated with LREC 2022
    AUTHOR(S):Abigail Walsh, Teresa Lynn, Jennifer Foster
    DATE:20 June 2022
    TYPE:Conf papers
  • gaBERT —an Irish Language Model
    PUBLICATION:LREC 2022 - 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
    AUTHOR(S):James Barry, Joachim Wagner, Lauren Cassidy, Alan Cowap, Teresa Lynn, Abigail Walsh, Mícheál J. Ó Meachair, Jennifer Foster
    DATE:20 June 2022
    TYPE:Conf papers
  • Annotating Verbal MWEs in Irish for the PARSEME Shared Task 1.2
    PUBLICATION:MWE-LEX 2020 - Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons
    AUTHOR(S):Abigail Walsh, Teresa Lynn, Jennifer Foster
    DATE:13 December 2020
    TYPE:Conf papers
  • Ilfhocail: A Lexicon of Irish MWEs
    PUBLICATION:MWE-WN 2019 - Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet
    AUTHOR(S):Abigail Walsh, Teresa Lynn, Jennifer Foster
    DATE:02 August 2019
    TYPE:Conf papers
  • Edition 1.1 of the PARSEME Shared Task on Automatic Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions
    PUBLICATION:LAW-MWE-CxG-2018 - Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions , Workshop at COLING 2018
    AUTHOR(S):CarlosRamisch, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze, Mititelu Barbu, Bhatia Verginica , Archna, Maja Buljan, Marie Candito, Polona Gantar, Voula Giouli, Tunga Güngör, Abdelati Hawwari, Uxoa Inurrieta, Jolanta Kovalevskaite, Simon Krek, Timm Lichte, Chaya Liebeskind, Johanna Monti, Carla Parra Escartin, Behrang Qasemi Zadeh, Renata Ramisch, Nathan Schneider, Ivelina Stoyanova, Ashwini Vaidya, and Abigail Walsh,
    DATE:25 August 2018
    TYPE:Conf papers
  • Constructing an Annotated Corpus of Verbal MWEs for English
    PUBLICATION:LAW-MWE-CxG-2018 Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions, and Constructions
    AUTHOR(S):Abigail Walsh, Claire Bonial, Kristina Geeraert, John P McCrae, Nathan Schneider, Clarissa Somers
    DATE:20 August 2018
    TYPE:Conf papers