Publications

2012

Zhou, D., Lawless, S. and Wade, V. "Improving Search via Personalized Query Expansion using Social Media". In the Journal of Information Retrieval. In Press. 2012.

Lewis, D., O'Connor, A., Molines, S., Finn, L., Jones, D., Curran, S. & Lawless, S. "Linking Localisation and Language Resources". In the Proceedings of the workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics, LDL 2012, held in conjunction with the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS). Frankfurt, Germany. 7-9 March, 2012.

2011

Agosti, M., De Luca, E., Lawless, S. & Leveling, J. "PMHR 2011 The First Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Hypertext Retrieval". In the SIGIR Forum, December 2011, Volume 45 Number 2, pages 94-98.

Mulwa, C., Longo, L., Lawless, S., Sharp, M. & Wade, V. "An Online Framework for Supporting the Evaluation of Personalised Information Retrieval Systems". In the 6th International Workshop on Ubiquitous and Collaborative Computing, Northumbria University, 4th July, 2011. British Computer Society Journal, BCS Journal, pages 75-85.

O'Neill, E., Sweetnam, M., Conlan, O., Lawless, S., O'Connor, A., Ó'Siochrú, M., Ohlmeyer, J. & Wade, V. "Towards Multi-Dimensional Adaptation of Digitised Historical Content". In the Proceedings of the second Internation Conference on Supporting Digital Humanities, SDH 2011, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 17–18 November, 2011.

Mulwa, C., Lawless, S., O'Keeffe, I., Sharp, M. & Wade, V. "A Recommender Framework for the Evaluation of End User Experience in Adaptive Technology Enhanced Learning Systems". In the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, IJELLO, 2011, 1-8.

Mulwa, C., Lawless, S., Sharp, M. & Wade, V. "A Web-based Framework for the Evaluation of End-User Experience in Adaptive and Personalised e-Learning Systems". In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Web Personalization, Reputation and Recommender Systems, WPRRS 2011, at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Campus Scientifique de la Doua, Lyon, France. 22–27 August, 2011.

Ghorab, M.R., Leveling, J., Lawless, S., O'Connor, A., Zhou, D., Jones, G. & Wade, V. "Multilingual Adaptive Search for Digital Libraries". In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2011, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 26-28 September, 2011.

Levacher, K., Lawless, S. & Wade, V. "A Proposal for the Evaluation of Adaptive Content Retrieval, Modification and Delivery". In the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Hypertext Retrieval, PMHR 2011, held in conjunction with the 22nd International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 6-9 June, 2011.

Agosti, M. & Lawless, S. "The CULTURA Project: CULTivating Understanding and Research through Adaptivity". In the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Hypertext Retrieval, PMHR 2011, held in conjunction with the 22nd International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 6-9 June, 2011.

Mulwa, C., Lawless, S., Ghorab, M.R., O'Donnell, E., Sharp, M. & Wade, V. "A Framework for the Evaluation of Adaptive Information Retrieval Systems through Implicit Recommendation". In the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Task Specific Information Retrieval, TSIR 2011, at the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge, University of Derby, England. 25-29 July, 2011.

Mulwa, C., Lawless, S., Sharp, M. & Wade, V. "An Evaluation Framework for End-user Experience in Adaptive Systems". Demonstration paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2011, at Girona, Spain. 11th - 15th July, 2011.

Mulwa, C., Lawless, S., Sharp, M. & Wade, V. "The Evaluation of Adaptive and User-Adaptive Systems: A Review". In the International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence, IJKWI, 2011 - Vol. 2, No.2/3 pages 138-156.

Mulwa, C., Lawless, S., O'Keeffe, I., Sharp, M. & Wade, V. "A Recommender Framework for the Evaluation of End User Experience in Adaptive Technology Enhanced Learning Systems". In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Data sets for Technology Enhanced Learning, DataTEL 2011, at the 2nd STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous in La Clusaz, France. 27-31 March, 2011.

2010

Mulwa, C., Lawless, S., Sharp, M. & Wade, V. "User-Centred Evaluations of Adaptive Systems". In the Proceedings of Doctorial Consortium at the 24th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, HCI 2010, University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee, Scotland. September 6th–10th, 2010.

Zhou, D., Lawless, S., Min, J. & Wade, V. "A Late Fusion Approach to Cross-Lingual Document Re-ranking". In the Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Toronto, Canada. October 26th - 30th, 2010.

Mulwa, C., Lawless, S., Sharp, M., Wade, V. & Sanchez, I.A. "Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems in Technology Enhanced Learning: A Literature Review". In the Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education Conference 2010, SIGITE 2010, Central Michigan University, Midland, MI, USA. October 7th–9th, 2010.

Mulwa, C., Li, W., Lawless, S. & Jones, G. "A Proposal for the Evaluation of Adaptive Information Retrieval Systems using Simulated Interaction". In the Workshop on the Simulation of Interaction in Automated Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval, SimInt 2010, at the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, SIGIR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland. 19th-23rd July, 2010.

Zhou, D., Lawless, S., Min, J. & Wade, V. "A Dual-Space Re-ranking Model for Document Retrieval". In the Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2010, Beijing, China. August 23rd - 27th, 2010.

Mulwa, C., Lawless, S., Sharp, M. & Wade, V. "OSSES: An Online System for Studies on Evaluation of Systems". In the Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, ED-MEDIA 2010, Toronto, Canada. June 29th - July 2nd, 2010.

Lawless, S., O'Connor, A. & Mulwa, C. "A Proposal for the Evaluation of Adaptive Personalised Information Retrieval", In the Proceedings of the CIRSE 2010 Workshop on Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation held in conjunction with ECIR-2010 - European Conference on Information Retrieval, (eds. Bich-Liên Doan; Joemon Jose; Massimo Melucci; Lynda Tamine-Lechani), Milton Keynes, England. 28th March, 2010.

O'Connor, A., Lawless, S., Zhou, D., Jones, G. & Wade, V. "Applying Digital Content Management to Support Localisation". In the International Journal of Localisation, Special CNGL Issue, vol.8(1), R. Schaler (ed.), pp. 39-52. 2010.

2009

Lawless, S. "Leveraging Content from Open Corpus Sources for Technology Enhanced Learning". Ph.D. Thesis, Submitted to the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2009.

Steichen, B., Lawless, S., O'Connor, A. & Wade, V. "Dynamic Hypertext Generation for Reusing Open Corpus Content" In the proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Hypertext 2009, in Torino, Italy.

Levacher, K., Hynes, E., Lawless, S. & O'Connor, A. "A Framework for Content Preparation to Support Open-Corpus Adaptive Hypermedia" In the proceedings of the International Workshop on Dynamic and Adaptive Hypertext at the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Hypertext 2009, in Torino, Italy.

2008

Lawless, S., Hederman, L. & Wade, V. "Enhancing Access to Open Corpus Educational Content: Learning in the Wild" In the proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Hypertext 2008, in Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America.

Lawless, S., Hederman, L. & Wade, V. "OCCS: Enabling the Dynamic Discovery, Harvesting and Delivery of Educational Content from Open Corpus Sources" In the proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, I-CALT 2008, in Santander, Cantabria, Spain.

2007

Dagger, D., O'Connor, A., Lawless, S., Walsh, E. & Wade, V. "Service Oriented eLearning Platforms: From Monolithic Systems to Flexible Services" published in the IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Distance Learning, 2007.

Lawless, S. "Open Corpus Learning Content; Harvesting Knowledge to provide Equitable Access to Education for All" presented at the Education Without Borders conference, EWB2007, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

2006

Lawless, S., Dagger, D. & Wade, V. "Towards Requirements for the Dynamic Sourcing of Open Corpus Learning Content" In the proceedings of the AACE eLearn 2006 conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Lawless, S. & Wade, V. "Dynamic Content Discovery, Harvesting and Delivery, from Open Corpus Sources, for Adaptive Systems" In the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH2006, Dublin, Ireland.

2005

Lawless, S., Conlan, O. & Wade, V. "Dynamic Contextual eLearning - Dynamic Content Discovery, Capture and Learning Object Generation from Open Corpus Sources" In the proceedings of the AACE eLearn 2005 conference in Vancouver, Canada.

Invited Talks

“Cultivating Understanding and Research through Adaptivity” – Language and Linguistic Evidence in the 1641 Depositions Dissemination Conference, University of Aberdeen. 18th February 2011.

“The 1641 Depositions Project - Digitisation to CULTURA” – Early Modern Corpus Linguistics Seminar, Uppsala University, Sweden. 9th February 2011.

“Digital Humanities – A Computer Science Perspective” – M.Phil. in Early Modern History, Trinity College Dublin. 8th December 2010.

“The 1641 Depositions – A Technical Perspective” – The Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative Conference, University of Aberdeen. 30th Oct – 1st Nov 2009.

“The Text Encoding Initiative in the 1641 Depositions Project” – 1641 Depositions Workshop. Provost’s House Stables, TRIARC, Trinity College Dublin. 12th December 2008.

Posters

"An Evaluation Framework for End-user Experience in Adaptive Systems". Poster and Demo presented at the 3rd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2011, at Girona, Spain. 11th - 15th July, 2011.

CLRLE - A collaborative research environment for the socio-historical linguistic exploration of a unique seventeenth-century resource of Irish national importance and international significance. At the Digital Humanities Conference 2011 in Stanford, California.

Research into the Personalised Presentation of Movies using Adaptive Hypermedia and Linked Data Approaches. Poster presented at the CNGL Scientific Committee Meeting in October 2009.

Personalised Movie Presentation

Introduction to the Digital Content Management strand of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation. Poster presented at the Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, SSMS08 in MAICH, Chania, Crete in September 2008.

SSMS08

PhD Research summary poster presented at the Centre for Next Generation Localisation Launch in May 2008.

CNGL Launch

Lawless, S., Wade, V., Ó Siochrú, M. "Towards a research platform for the 1641 Depositions: new technologies and the humanities". Glucksman Memorial Symposium, Long Room Hub, 2008. This symposium marked the launch of the TRIARC space TCD.