Dr Diana Maynard
Department of Computer Science
Senior Research Fellow
Member of the Natural Language Processing research group
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Dr Diana Maynard
Department of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Department of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Research interests
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- Information extraction
- GATE
- Social media analysis
- Sentiment analysis
- Online abuse and misinformation detection
- Term recognition
- Ontologies and semantic web
- Freedom of the media
- NLP for scientometrics
- Publications
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Books
- Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web. Springer International Publishing.
- Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web. Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
Journal articles
- Similarity-Aware Multimodal Prompt Learning for fake news detection. Information Sciences, 647, 119446-119446.
- Using natural language processing and artificial intelligence to explore the nutrition and sustainability of recipes and food. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3. View this article in WRRO
- Classification aware neural topic model for COVID-19 disinformation categorisation. PLoS ONE, 16(2). View this article in WRRO
- Using ontologies to map between research data and policymakers’ presumptions: the experience of the KNOWMAK project. Scientometrics. View this article in WRRO
- Strengthening the Monitoring of Violations against Journalists through an Events-Based Methodology. Media and Communication, 8(1), 89-100. View this article in WRRO
- What matters most to people around the world? Retrieving Better Life Index priorities on Twitter. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. View this article in WRRO
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- A framework for real-time semantic social media analysis. Journal of Web Semantics, 44, 75-88. View this article in WRRO
- Distantly supervised Web relation extraction for knowledge base population. Semantic Web, 7(4), 335-349. View this article in WRRO
- Interlinking Documents Based on Semantic Graphs with an Application, 139-155.
- Entity-Based Opinion Mining from Text and Multimedia, 65-86.
- Analysis of named entity recognition and linking for tweets. Information Processing & Management, 51(2), 32-49. View this article in WRRO
- The semantic web challenge 2012. Journal of Web Semantics, 24, 1-2.
- Analysing and Enriching Focused Semantic Web Archives for Parliament Applications. Future Internet, 6(3), 433-456.
- Automatic detection of political opinions in tweets. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7117 LNCS, 88-99.
- The Semantic Web Challenge, 2011. Journal of Web Semantics.
- The semantic web challenge, 2010. Journal of Web Semantics, 9(3), 315.
- REASE - The repository for learning units about the Semantic Web. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 13(2), 211-237.
- Evolving GATE to meet new challenges in language engineering. Natural Language Engineering, 10(3-4), 349-373.
- Corpus Linguistics and South Asian Languages: Corpus Creation and Tool Development. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 19(4), 509-524.
- Architectural Elements of Language Engineering Robustness. Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 8(2-3), 257-274.
- TRUCKS: A Model for Automatic Multi-Word Term Recognition.. Journal of Natural Language Processing, 8(1), 101-125.
- Similarity-Aware Multimodal Prompt Learning for Fake News Detection. SSRN Electronic Journal.
- Should I Care about Your Opinion? Detection of Opinion Interestingness and Dynamics in Social Media. Future Internet, 6(3), 457-481.
Chapters
- Language Report English, European Language Equality (pp. 127-130). Springer International Publishing
- Documenting Contemporary Society by Preserving Relevant Information from Twitter In Weller K, Bruns A, Burgess J, Mahrt M & Puschmann C (Ed.), Twitter and Society USA: Peter Lang.
Conference proceedings papers
- Dimensions of Online Conflict: Towards Modeling Agonism. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, December 2023 - December 2023.
- Team Bertha von Suttner at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection using ELMo Sentence Representation Convolutional Network. Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, June 2019 - June 2019.
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- Adapted TextRank for Term Extraction: A generic method of improving automatic term extraction algorithms. Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 137 (pp 102-108), 10 September 2018 - 13 September 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Cross-Lingual Classification of Crisis Data. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2018, Vol. 11136 (pp 617-633). Monterey, CA, USA,, 8 October 2018 - 12 October 2018. View this article in WRRO
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- Comparing Attitudes to Climate Change in the Media using sentiment
analysis based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Proceedings of the 2017 EMNLP Workshop: Natural Language Processing
meets Journalism, September 2017 - September 2017.
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- The Semantic Web View this article in WRRO
- Talking climate change via social media. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science - WebSci '16, 22 May 2016 - 25 May 2016.
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- Automated Content Analysis. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication - IMCOM '16, 4 January 2016 - 6 January 2016.
- Extracting Relations between Non-Standard Entities using Distant Supervision and Imitation Learning. Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, September 2015 - September 2015. View this article in WRRO
- Real-time Social Media Analytics through Semantic Annotation and Linked Open Data. Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference on ZZZ - WebSci '15, 28 June 2015 - 1 July 2015.
- Understanding climate change tweets: an open source toolkit for social media analysis. Proceedings of EnviroInfo and ICT for Sustainability 2015, 7 September 2015 - 9 September 2015.
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- Relation Extraction from the Web Using Distant Supervision (pp 26-41)
- Microblog-genre noise and impact on semantic annotation accuracy. HT 2013 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (pp 21-30)
- Interlinking documents based on semantic graphs. Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 22 (pp 231-240)
- Motivating intelligent email in business: An investigation into current trends for email processing and communication research. 2009 IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing, CEC 2009 (pp 476-482)
- Multimedia indexing through multi-source and multi-language information extraction: the MUMIS project. DATA & KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING, Vol. 48(2) (pp 247-264)
- Experiments with geographic knowledge for information extraction. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of geographic references -, 31 May 2003.
- Multilingual adaptations of ANNIE, a reusable information extraction tool. Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - EACL '03, 12 April 2003 - 17 April 2003.
- OLLIE. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Software engineering and architecture of language technology systems - SEALTS '03, 31 May 2003 - 31 May 2003.
- Using a text engineering framework to build an extendable and portable IE-based summarisation system. Proceedings of the ACL-02 Workshop on Automatic Summarization -, 11 July 2002 - 12 July 2002.
- Using Human Language Technology for Automatic Annotation and Indexing of Digital Library Content (pp 613-625)
- Using GATE as an environment for teaching NLP. Proceedings of the ACL-02 Workshop on Effective tools and methodologies for teaching natural language processing and computational linguistics -, 7 July 2002 - 7 July 2002.
- GATE. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL '02, 7 July 2002 - 12 July 2002.
- Identifying terms by their family and friends. Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics -, 31 July 2000 - 4 August 2000.
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Datasets
Preprints
- Examining Temporal Bias in Abusive Language Detection.
- Classification Aware Neural Topic Model and its Application on a New COVID-19 Disinformation Corpus, arXiv. View this article in WRRO
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- A Framework for Real-Time Semantic Social Media Analysis.
- Editorial - Semantic Web Challange, 2010.
- Research group
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Member of the Natural Language Processing research group.
- Grants
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Current grants
- Visualising the environmental impacts of plant-based recipes in Europe, Research England, 12/2021 - 05/2022, £18,407, as PI
Previous grants
- RISIS2: European Research Infrastructure for Science, technology and Innovation policy Studies 2, EC H2020, 01/2019 - 12/2022, £476,741, as co-PI
- Alpro, Industrial, 01/2021 - 12/2021, £2,500, as PI
- Pilot project on developing and trialling a toolkit for strengthening national context monitoring of violations against journalists, Free Press, 06/2020 - 12/2020, £29,094, as Co-PI
- Pilot project on developing a database for the improved collection and systematisation of information on incidents of violations against journalists, Free Press, 04/2019 - 11/2019, £29,030, as Co-I
- The Intelligent Automation of Contract Analysis of Collateral Warranties, Innovate UK, 03/2019 - 08/2020, £114,552, as PI
- Social Understandings of Scale: The role of Print and Social Media in the EU Referendum Debate, British Academy, 01/2018 - 06/2019, £49,716, as Co-PI
- Improving the monitoring of violence against journalists, Free Press, 12/2017 - 10/2018, £26,589, as Co-I
- KNOWMAK: Knowledge in the making in the European society, EC H2020, 01/2017 - 12/2019, £196,654, as PI
- COMRADES: Collective Platform for Community Resilience and Social Innovation during Crises, EC H2020, 01/2016 - 12/2018, £257,000, as PI