Dr. Diana Maynard Senior Researcher Natural Language Processing Group Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Room G36a, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK Phone: +44 (0)114 222 1938 email: diana@dcs.shef.ac.uk Personal blog: http://expandyourlimits.wordpress.com/

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Current Key Activities

• Lead computational linguist in the GATE research team of 15 full-time research staff, responsible also for managing related consultancy and training.
• Chair of the annual GATE training course
• WP4 leader for the ARCOMEM project.
• Advisory Board Member for the TSB-funded project COMMA
• Keynote speaker at BRACIS 2013, October 2013, Brazil.
• Senior Programme Committee Member for ISWC 2013
• Co-Organiser of SWAIE 2013 workshop at RANLP 2013
• Proposal Reviewer for Austrian Science Fund and French Research Council

Recent talks

• Tutorial on "Practical Opinion Mining" at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, Oct 29 2012, San Francisco
• Invited talk on "Using NLP for social media analytics" at DERI Galway, September 2012
• Invited talk on "Opinion Mining for Social Media", Charles University, Prague, September 2012
• Tutorial on "Opinion Mining: Exploiting the Sentiment of the Crowd" at LREC, May 2012

Previous Key Activities

• Sheffield Technical Project Manager for the Semantic Knowledge Base project for The National Archives
• Researcher on the EU NEON project together with Wim Peters, leading development of the GATE resources, and on the EU MUSING project together with Horacio Saggion and Adam Funk.
• Technical Project Manager for Sheffield for Knowledge Web Network of Excellence (EC funded 6.5m project, 2004-2007) and the AHRB-funded project ETCSL (Electronic Text Corpus for Sumerian Literature) 2004-2007.
• Co-chair Semantic Web Challenge 2010-2013
• Senior Programme Committee Member for ISWC 2010-13
• Co-Organiser of SWAIE 2012 workshop at EKAW 2012
• Co-Organiser of KECSM 2012 workshop at ISWC 2012
• NLP Track Chair for ESWC 2012
• Doctoral Consortium Chair for ISWC 2007-9
• Workshops Chair for ESWC 2007
• Keynote Speaker at Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA) 2009 conference
• Internal PhD thesis examiner for Amparo Elizabeth Cano, University of Sheffield, UK, January 2013
• External PhD thesis examiner for Kateryna Tymoshenko, University of Trento, Italy, December 2012
• External PhD thesis examiner for Jan Dedek, Charles University, Prague, September 2012