Dr Adam Funk

BSc (Virginia Tech), BA (Virginia Tech), MSc (UMIST), PhD (Manchester)

Information School

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Adam Funk
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a.funk@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Adam Funk
Information School
Room C600
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
Profile

I obtained my MSc in natural language processing from UMIST in 2001 and then my PhD in the same field from the University of Manchester in 2005 (using formal semantics for dialogue modelling in the DUMAS project).

I worked for the National Centre for Text Mining in Manchester and then the NLP research group in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, carrying out research and software development in various areas, including semantic web NLP, information extraction, social media analysis related to journalism, and practical NLP applications for knowledge management and semi-automated contract review.

I am now working in the Information School on an Innovate-UK project to provide data analysis for e-commerce.

Research interests

My interests include practical NLP applications, information extraction for specialist domains such as law and journalism, and digital humanities.

Publications

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Books

  • Cunningham H, Maynard D, Bontcheva K, Tablan V, Aswani N, Roberts I, Gorrell G, Funk A, Roberts A & Damljanovic D (2011) Text Processing with Gate (Version 6). GATE. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

Conference proceedings papers

  • Maynard D & Funk J (2020) Combining expert knowledge with NLP for specialised applications.. Text, Speech, and Dialogue: 23rd International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2020), Vol. 12284 (pp 3-10). Brno, Czech Republic, 8 September 2020 - 11 September 2020. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maynard DG, Funk J & Lepori B (2017) Towards an Infrastructure for Understanding and Interlinking Knowledge Co-Creation in European research. Proceedings of ESWC 2017 Workshop on Scientometrics. Portoroz, 28 May 2017 - 1 June 2017. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Funk A, Aker A, Barker E, Paramita ML, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2017) The SENSEI Overview of Newspaper Readers’ Comments (pp 758-761) View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker E, Paramita M, Funk A, Kurtic E, Aker A, Foster J, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2016) What's the issue here?: Task-based evaluation of reader comment summarization systems. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp 3094-3101) View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aker A, Paramita M, Kurtic E, Funk A, Barker E, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2016) Automatic label generation for news comment clusters. Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference, 2016 - 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Funk A, Gaizauskas R & Favre B (2016) A document repository for social media and speech conversations. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp 436-440) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aker A, Celli F, Funk JA, Kurtic E, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2015) Sheffield-Trento System for Sentiment and Argument Structure Enhanced Comment-to-Article Linking in the Online News Domain (Ahmet Aker, Fabio Celli, Adam Funk, Emina Kurtic, Mark Hepple and Rob Gaizauskas). MultiLing 2015 in SIGDIAL. Prague, 2 September 2015 - 4 September 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bontcheva K, Derczynski L, Funk A, Greenwood MA, Maynard D & Aswani N (2013) TwitIE: An open-source information extraction pipeline for microblog text. International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP (pp 83-90) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Funk A & Bontcheva K (2010) Ontology-based categorization of web services with machine learning. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010 (pp 482-488) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Saggion H & Funk A (2010) Interpreting SentiWordNet for opinion classification. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010 (pp 1129-1133) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Funk A, Li Y, Saggion H, Bontcheva K & Leibold C (2008) Opinion analysis for business intelligence applications. Proceedings of the first international workshop on Ontology-supported business intelligence - OBI '08, 27 October 2008 - 27 October 2008. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Davis B, Iqbal AA, Funk A, Tablan V, Bontcheva K, Cunningham H & Handschuh S (2008) RoundTrip Ontology Authoring (pp 50-65) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Funk A, Tablan V, Bontcheva K, Cunningham H, Davis B & Handschuh S (2007) CLOnE: Controlled Language for Ontology Editing. Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007). Busan, Korea RIS download Bibtex download
  • Saggion H, Funk A, Maynard D & Bontcheva K (2007) Ontology-Based Information Extraction for Business Intelligence (pp 843-856) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Salonen EP, Hartikainen M, Turunen M, Hakulinen J & Funk JA (2004) Flexible dialogue management using distributed and dynamic dialogue control. 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004 (pp 197-200) RIS download Bibtex download

Reports

  • Peters W & Funk JA (2015) Extension of the Talk of Europe data set with terminological and semantic information RIS download Bibtex download

All publications

Books

  • Cunningham H, Maynard D, Bontcheva K, Tablan V, Aswani N, Roberts I, Gorrell G, Funk A, Roberts A & Damljanovic D (2011) Text Processing with Gate (Version 6). GATE. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

Conference proceedings papers

  • Maynard D & Funk J (2020) Combining expert knowledge with NLP for specialised applications.. Text, Speech, and Dialogue: 23rd International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2020), Vol. 12284 (pp 3-10). Brno, Czech Republic, 8 September 2020 - 11 September 2020. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Maynard DG, Funk J & Lepori B (2017) Towards an Infrastructure for Understanding and Interlinking Knowledge Co-Creation in European research. Proceedings of ESWC 2017 Workshop on Scientometrics. Portoroz, 28 May 2017 - 1 June 2017. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Funk A, Aker A, Barker E, Paramita ML, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2017) The SENSEI Overview of Newspaper Readers’ Comments (pp 758-761) View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker E, Paramita M, Funk A, Kurtic E, Aker A, Foster J, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2016) What's the issue here?: Task-based evaluation of reader comment summarization systems. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp 3094-3101) View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aker A, Paramita M, Kurtic E, Funk A, Barker E, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2016) Automatic label generation for news comment clusters. Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference, 2016 - 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Funk A, Gaizauskas R & Favre B (2016) A document repository for social media and speech conversations. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp 436-440) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aker A, Celli F, Funk JA, Kurtic E, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2015) Sheffield-Trento System for Sentiment and Argument Structure Enhanced Comment-to-Article Linking in the Online News Domain (Ahmet Aker, Fabio Celli, Adam Funk, Emina Kurtic, Mark Hepple and Rob Gaizauskas). MultiLing 2015 in SIGDIAL. Prague, 2 September 2015 - 4 September 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bontcheva K, Derczynski L, Funk A, Greenwood MA, Maynard D & Aswani N (2013) TwitIE: An open-source information extraction pipeline for microblog text. International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP (pp 83-90) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Funk A & Bontcheva K (2010) Ontology-based categorization of web services with machine learning. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010 (pp 482-488) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Saggion H & Funk A (2010) Interpreting SentiWordNet for opinion classification. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010 (pp 1129-1133) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Funk A, Li Y, Saggion H, Bontcheva K & Leibold C (2008) Opinion analysis for business intelligence applications. Proceedings of the first international workshop on Ontology-supported business intelligence - OBI '08, 27 October 2008 - 27 October 2008. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Davis B, Iqbal AA, Funk A, Tablan V, Bontcheva K, Cunningham H & Handschuh S (2008) RoundTrip Ontology Authoring (pp 50-65) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Funk A, Tablan V, Bontcheva K, Cunningham H, Davis B & Handschuh S (2007) CLOnE: Controlled Language for Ontology Editing. Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007). Busan, Korea RIS download Bibtex download
  • Saggion H, Funk A, Maynard D & Bontcheva K (2007) Ontology-Based Information Extraction for Business Intelligence (pp 843-856) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Salonen EP, Hartikainen M, Turunen M, Hakulinen J & Funk JA (2004) Flexible dialogue management using distributed and dynamic dialogue control. 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004 (pp 197-200) RIS download Bibtex download

Reports

  • Peters W & Funk JA (2015) Extension of the Talk of Europe data set with terminological and semantic information RIS download Bibtex download
Teaching interests
  • Data analytics
  • Data mining (especially text mining)
  • Databases