John Mccrae
Research Lecturer at University of Galway
Galway, Ireland
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Top SchoolJohn Mccrae is a research lecturer and PI at the Data Science Institute, University of Galway, with 14 years of experience leading a 15‑person research group focused on NLP, data science and under‑resourced languages. He has secured over €3M in research funding—including an IRC laureate award and coordination of an EU Horizon 2020 project—and published 100+ papers (h‑index 38) in venues such as EMNLP, COLING and LREC. Founder of the LDK conference series and a dedicated educator with a postgraduate teaching certificate, he designs and delivers postgraduate NLP courses (notably online) and runs a summer school on linguistic linked data. A committed advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion, he led successful Athena SWAN bronze applications for both the Data Science Institute and the School of Computer Science. His background blends rigorous PhD‑level NLP research with practical community building, making him as comfortable coordinating international projects as mentoring early‑career researchers.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSci, Mathematics and Computer Science, MSci, Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College LondonDiploma of Education, Diploma of Education at University of GalwayPhD, NLP, PhD, NLP at Graduate University of Advanced StudiesJudd School
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Github Skills (61)
docker10
taxonomy10
lemon10
nltk10
text-analysis10
wordnet10
python9
drawing9
ontology9
rest-services9
natural-language-processing9
angularjs9
php9
lexicon9
owl9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ontolex/lexinfo
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
LexInfo - Data Category Ontology for OntoLex-Lemon
Contributions:55 commits, 24 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 8 months
jmccrae/naisc
Mar 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:121 pushes, 4 branches, 2 tags in 2 years 7 months
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