Dr Adam Funk
BSc (Virginia), MSc (UMIST), PhD (Manchester)
Information School
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Data Analytics

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Information School
Regent Court (IS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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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
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My interests include practical NLP applications, information extraction for specialist domains such as law and journalism, and digital humanities.
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Books
Journal articles
- Analysing and Enriching Focused Semantic Web Archives for Parliament Applications. Future Internet, 6(3), 433-456.
- Automatic detection of political opinions in tweets. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7117 LNCS, 88-99.
- Human language technologies, 37-49.
- Should I Care about Your Opinion? Detection of Opinion Interestingness and Dynamics in Social Media. Future Internet, 6(3), 457-481.
Conference proceedings papers
- 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
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- The SENSEI Overview of Newspaper Readers’ Comments (pp 758-761) View this article in WRRO
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- Automatic label generation for news comment clusters. Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference, 2016 - 2016.
- RoundTrip Ontology Authoring (pp 50-65)
Reports
- Analysing and Enriching Focused Semantic Web Archives for Parliament Applications. Future Internet, 6(3), 433-456.