Abigail Walsh
Postdoctoral Researcher at ADAPT Centre
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolAbigail Walsh is a postdoctoral researcher at the ADAPT Centre with nine years of experience building language technology and lexical resources for low-resourced and minority languages, with a specialist focus on Irish. Her PhD work integrated linguistic analysis of multi-word expressions with computational methods to improve downstream NLP tasks such as machine translation and syntactic parsing. She has a strong interdisciplinary foundation from a first-class degree in Computer Science and Language at Trinity College Dublin and hands-on research internships spanning affective computing, topic modelling, and translation memory optimisation. Abigail combines rigorous academic methods with practical system development—she developed a semantic fuzzy matching algorithm during an ADAPT internship—and she actively promotes linguistic diversity and applied language tech initiatives. Collaborative and communicative by nature, she thrives on team-based research that turns detailed linguistic insight into usable language tools.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.A. (Moderatorship), Computer Science and Language, 1st Class Honours, B.A. (Moderatorship), Computer Science and Language, 1st Class Honours at Trinity College, DublinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Dublin City University
English, French, Irish
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
documentation10
neural-machine-translation7
translation6
deep-learning5
pytorch5
machine-translation5
language-model3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
eihe/Ilfhocail
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
eihe/hello-world
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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