Dr. Derek Greene is an assistant professor at the School of Computer Science, UCD. He is also a funded investigator at the SFI Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the SFI VistaMilk Research Centre. He has over 15 years of experience in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin.

He has over 50 research papers presented at international conferences and published in journals. He currently leads a research group, which focuses on developing algorithms for social network analysis and text mining. He is also involved in a range of interdisciplinary projects, which involve applying machine learning methods in areas such as digital humanities, smart agriculture, and political science.

 

Recent publications:

Cunningham, E., & Greene, D. (2022). Assessing Network Representations for Identifying Interdisciplinarity. 2nd International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge, Companion Proc. the Web Conference (TheWebConf 2022).

Datta, S., Ganguly, D., Mitra, M., Greene, D. (2022). A Relative Information Gain-Based Query Performance Prediction Framework with Generated Query Variants. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. pp. 1–31

Datta, S., Ganguly, D., Greene, D., Mitra, M., Deep-qpp. (2022). A pairwise interaction-based deep learning model for supervised query performance prediction. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual, 21–25 February 2022; pp. 201–209

Donncha Kavanagh joined the MIS Subject Area as Professor of Information & Organisation, in April 2013. His research interests include the sociology of knowledge and technology, the history and philosophy of management thought, pre-modern and postmodern modes of organizing, play and creativity, and (digital) money. Donncha is a first class honours civil engineering graduate of UCD. He has an MSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri and a PhD from Lancaster University Management School. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of San Diego in 2003.

Donncha has published widely in the fields of information and organisation, management, marketing, organisation studies, and engineering in leading international peer-reviewed journals such as Organization, Organization Studies and the Journal of Business Research. Prior to his academic career, Donncha worked in a number of project management and project controller roles.

Recent publications:

Dylan-Ennis, P., Kavanagh, D., & Araujo, L. (2022). The dynamic imaginaries of the Ethereum project. Economy and Society, 52(1), 87–109

Kavanagh, D., Lightfoot, G., Lilley, S. (2021). Are we living in a time of particularly rapid social change? And how might we know?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 169, 120856

Ennis, P. J., Kavanagh, D., & Araujo, L. (2021). Blockocracies and Token economies: The Ethereum imaginary. ECIS 2021 Research-in-Progress Papers, 48

I am an assistant professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin, a Jean Monnet Chair, and co-founder of the Connected_Politics Lab at UCD. Broadly speaking, my research agenda addresses various aspects of international and comparative politics, with a specific focus on policymaking in the European Union.

My research applies methods adapted from natural language processing to analyse a large corpus of legislative texts in the EU. These new methods and data provide insight into patterns of conflict and cooperation between the Council, the Commission, and the Parliament in the EU policy-making process. These questions lie at the heart of the European integration project and investigating the manner in which patterns of conflict and cooperation between these institutional actors have changed as the EU has evolved over time is central to understanding this EU policy-making process. The methods developed when studying the legislative process in the EU also have the potential to be adapted to other legislative bodies, and further effort in this direction is envisaged as part of the broader research project, starting with the replication of important existing studies in comparative politics.

Previous research pertains to the role of transparency and censorship in the EU policy-making process, specifically looking at how different levels of transparency affect negotiator position taking during negotiations. I have also considered the determinants of legislative transparency within the Council of Ministers, as this is a central concern for those concerned with the democratic legitimacy of EU decision making.

 

Recent publications:

Bearg, N., Cross, J.P. (2022). Central banking in the 21st century- A crisis of accountability. European Journal of Political Economy,  102294 

Cross, J. P., Eising, R., Hermansson, H., & Spohr, F. (2021). Business interests, public interests, and experts in parliamentary committees. Their impact on legislative amendments in the German Bundestag. West European Politics 44(2), 354-377

Cross, J.P., Greene, D. (2020). Talk is not cheap: Policy agendas, information processing, and the unusally proprotional nature of European Central Bank communications policy responses. Governance, 33, 425-444

 

Bettina Migge is professor of Linguistics in the UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and has been its head of School since 2016. She previously served as Interim Director of the UCD Applied Language Centre (2012-1013) and was head of Linguistics at UCD. Since 2004, she has been employed in Linguistics at University College Dublin. She holds an MA and a PhD in Linguistics form the Ohio State University. For her PhD research, which investigated the role of African languages in creole genesis, she carried out more than one year of field research primarily among the Pamaka Maroons in Suriname, South America, and spent a total of six months in Bénin, West Africa. Following her PhD, she worked for six years at the Institut für England und Amerikastudien, Abteilung Linguistik, at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main.

While her initial research was primarily concerned with diachronic language contact and creole genesis, she has since specialized in researching synchronic language contact. She investigates language change in multilingual contexts experiencing rapid social changes, such as urbanisation and migration. Her research has focused on exploring both structural and socio-pragmatic aspects of language in French Guiana, Suriname and Ireland. Her work has focused on promoting the role of sociolinguistic methods and approaches in synchronic language contact research and more recently also in language documentation. Empirically, she has focused on lesser-used languages, specifically the Creoles of Suriname and French Guiana (Pamaka, Ndyuka ((Busi)nenge(e) Tongo or Eastern Maroon Creoles) and Matawai), Irish English and the Gbe languages of Bénin. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (USA), various projects based at the French research unit SeDyL, UCD Seed Funding, IRCHSS, IRC, Ulysses grants and a tender from Immigrant Council Ireland. Since 2013 she has been involved in a participatory trilingual dictionary project in French Guiana for Businenge(e) Tongo / Eastern Maroon Creoles (preliminary access: https://corporan.huma-num.fr/Lexiques/dicoNengee.html) which has also led her to reflect on the significance of language technologies. She supervises students in the sociolinguistics of Irish English, linguistic landscaping, computer-mediated language use and World Englishes research.

Since October 2020, she is member of the COST action LITHME (Language in the Human Machine Era: www.lithme.eu), where she explores together with people from all over the world how technologies and our interaction and perceptions with them affect language practices and language change. She is also a member of the Committee of the Study of Language, Literature, Culture and Communication of the Royal Irish Academy and President elect of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Since 2021 she is Associate Editor of the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages.

Recent publications:

Hoehn, S., Migge, B., Schneider, B., & Dippold, D. (2022). Attitudes, Preconceptions and Practices in Conversational AI Design. Luxembourg National Research Fund, INTER-SLANT 13320890

Migge, B. (2022). Language ideologies in Late Modern Capitalitst Tech Culture. Sociolinguistics Symposium 24

Sayers, D., Sousa-Silva, R., Höhn, S., Ahmedi, L., Allkivi-Metsoja, K., Anastasiou, D.,  Benuš,  Š.,  Bowker, L., Bytyçi, E., Catala, A., Çepani, A., Chacón-Beltrán, R., Dadi, S., Dalipi, F., Despotovic, V., Agnieszka Doczekalska, A., Sebastian Drude, S., Karën Fort, K., Robert Fuchs, R., Galinski, C., Gobbo, F., Gungor, T., Guo, S., Höckner, K., Láncos, P., Libal, T., Jantunen, T., Jones, D., Klimova, B., EminErkan Korkmaz, E., Sepesy Maucec Mirjam, S., Miguel Melo, M., Meunier, F., Migge, B., Mititelu Verginica, B., Névéol, A., Rossi, A., Pareja-Lora, A., Sanchez-Stockhammer, C., ¸Sahin, A., Soltan, A., Soria, C., Shaikh, S., Turchi, M., & Yildirim Yayilgan, S., (2022). The Dawn of the Human-Machine Era: A Forecast of New and Emerging Language Technologies. Report for EU COST Action CA19102 ‘Language In The Human-Machine Era’