Alistair Plum
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
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Top SchoolAlistair Plum is a computational linguist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg with 11 years of experience building multilingual information extraction and sentiment analysis systems. He specialises in extracting, processing and compiling textual data for machine and deep learning, combining academic rigor from a PhD with practical language-engineering work at LanguageTool. His research at CuCoLab focuses on cultural data science and multilingual relation extraction using neural methods, while past roles include teaching data mining and developing corpus query interfaces. He has hands-on experience deploying pattern-based error detection and AI models for grammar and style, and has applied sentiment analysis in media monitoring for industry clients. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges humanities and engineering—turning linguistic insight into robust, reproducible ML pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Universität TrierDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Wolverhampton
German, English, French
Github Skills (15)
languagetool10
grammar10
checker10
natural-language-processing10
java10
text-normalization7
leaderboard6
javascript6
documentation4
nlp3
evaluation-framework3
language-model2
llm2
deep-learning2
pytorch1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
plumaj/biographical
Feb 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
plumaj/BERT-Relation-Extraction
Nov 2021 - May 2022
PyTorch implementation for "Matching the Blanks: Distributional Similarity for Relation Learning" paper
Contributions:11 pushes in 5 months
pytorch
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