Ian Roberts

School of Computer Science

Research Software Engineer

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i.roberts@sheffield.ac.uk
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Ian Roberts
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
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.

Journal articles

  • Gorrell G, Bakir ME, Roberts I, Greenwood MA & Bontcheva K (2020) . EPJ Data Science, 9.
  • Rehm G, Galanis D, Labropoulou P, Piperidis S, Welß M, Usbeck R, Köhler J, Deligiannis M, Gkirtzou K, Fischer J , Chiarcos C et al (2020) Towards an interoperable ecosystem of AI and LT platforms : a roadmap for the implementation of different levels of interoperability. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Language Technology Platforms, 96-107.
  • Maynard DG, Roberts I, Greenwood MA, Rout D & Bontcheva K (2017) . Journal of Web Semantics, 44, 75-88.
  • Tablan V, Bontcheva K, Roberts I & Cunningham H (2015) . Journal of Web Semantics, 30, 52-68.
  • Roberts I (2014) Text analytics for news and social media: The development of a cloud-based marketplace for text analytics. Journal of Digital Media Management, 3, 158-170.
  • Bontcheva KL, Cunningham H, Aswani N, Roberts I, Roberts A, Tablan V & Gorrell G (2013) . Language Resources and Evaluation, 47(4), 1007-1029.
  • Tablan V, Roberts I, Cunningham H & Bontcheva K (2012) GATECloud.net: a Platform for Large-Scale, Open-Source Text Processing on the Cloud. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.
  • Roberts A, Gaizauskas R, Hepple M, Davis N, Demetriou G, Guo Y, Kola J, Roberts I, Setzer A, Tapuria A & Wheeldin B (2007) The CLEF corpus: semantic annotation of clinical text.. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2007, 625-629.
  • Harkema H, Roberts I, Gaizauskas R & Hepple M (2005) . Comp Funct Genomics, 6(1-2), 86-93.
  • Gaizauskas R, Davis N, Demetriou G, Guo Y & Roberts I (2004) . Proceedings 2004 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing Scc 2004, 145-152.

Book chapters

  • Roberts I, Labropoulou P, Galanis D, Calizzano R, Kolovou A, Gkoumas D, Lagzdiņš A & Piperidis S (2022) In Rehm G (Ed.), European Language Grid: A Language Technology Platform for Multilingual Europe (pp. 37-66). Cham: Springer Cham.
  • Galanis D, Labropoulou P, Roberts I, Deligiannis M, Voukoutis L, Gkirtzou K, Calizzano R, Kolovou A, Gkoumas D & Piperidis S (2022) In Rehm G (Ed.), European Language Grid: A Language Technology Platform for Multilingual Europe (pp. 67-93). Cham: Springer Cham.
  • Roberts I, Silva AG, Aroca CB, Gómez-Pérez JM, Jánoší M, Galanis D, Calizzano R, LagzdicnÅ¡ A, Straka M & Germann U (2022) In Rehm G (Ed.), European Language Grid: A Language Technology Platform for Multilingual Europe (pp. 131-149). Cham: Springer Cham.
  • Bontcheva K, Derczynski L & Roberts I (2014) Crowdsourcing Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking Corpora, The Handbook of Linguistic Annotation (Nancy Ide and James Pustejovsky, eds) Berlin: Springer
  • Cunningham H, Tablan V, Roberts I, Greenwood MA & Aswani N (2011) , The Information Retrieval Series (pp. 307-327). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
  • Davis N (2009) , Handbook of Research on Text and Web Mining Technologies (pp. 822-839). IGI Global
  • Davis N, Demetriou G, Gaizauskas R, Guo Y & Roberts I (2008) , Handbook of Research on Text and Web Mining Technologies Volume I II (pp. 822-839).

Conference proceedings

  • Wilby D, Karmakharm T, Roberts I, Song X & Bontcheva K (2023) . Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations (pp 145-151), May 2023 - May 2023.
  • Moreno-Schneide J, Calizzano R, Kintzel F, Rehm G, Galanis D & Roberts I (2022) Towards Practical Semantic Interoperability in NLP Platforms. Proceedings of the 18th Joint Acl Iso Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation ISA 2022 at Lrec 2022 Workshop Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (pp 118-126)
  • Rehm G, Piperidis S, Bontcheva K, Hajic J, Arranz V, Vasiļjevs A, Backfried G, Gomez-Perez JM, Germann U, Calizzano R , Feldhus N et al (2021) . Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations (pp 221-230), April 2021 - April 2021.
  • Gorrell G, Roberts I, Greenwood MA, Bakir ME, Iavarone B & Bontcheva K (2018) . Social Informatics, Vol. 11185 (pp 274-290). St. Petersburg, Russia, 25 September 2018 - 25 September 2018.
  • Gorrell G, Greenwood MA, Roberts I, Maynard D & Bontcheva K (2018) Twits, Twats and Twaddle: Trends in Online Abuse towards UK Politicians. Proceedings Of The Twelfth International Conference On Web And Social Media (pp 600-603). California, USA, 25 June 2018 - 25 June 2018.
  • Derczynski L, Bontcheva K & Roberts I (2016) Broad twitter corpus: A diverse named entity recognition resource. Coling 2016 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics Proceedings of Coling 2016 Technical Papers (pp 1169-1179)
  • Maynard D, Greenwood MA, Roberts I, Windsor G & Bontcheva K (2015) . Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference (pp 1-2)
  • Dimitrov M, Cunningham H, Roberts I, Kostov P, Simov A, Rigaux P & Lippell H (2014) . The Semantic Web: ESWC 2014 Satellite ¾Ã²Ý¸£Àû, Vol. 8798 (pp 315-319)
  • Bontcheva K, Roberts I, Derczynski L & Rout D (2014) The GATE Crowdsourcing Plugin: Crowdsourcing Annotated Corpora Made Easy. Proceedings of the European chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics. ACL
  • Bontcheva K, Roberts I, Derczynski L & Rout D (2014) The GATE Crowdsourcing Plugin: Crowdsourcing Annotated Corpora Made Easy. Eacl 2014 Proceedings of the Demonstrations at the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp 93-96)
  • Tablan V, Bontcheva K, Roberts I, Cunningham H & Dimitrov M (2013) AnnoMarket: An open cloud platform for NLP. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 2013-August (pp 19-24)
  • Johansson M, Li YY, Wakefield J, Greenwood M, Heitz T, Roberts I, Cunningham H, Brennan P, Roberts A & Mckay J (2009) Using Prior Information Attained from the Literature to Improve Ranking in Genome-wide Association Studies. GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY, Vol. 33(8) (pp 798-798)
  • Roberts A, Gaizauskas RJ, Hepple M, Demetriou G, Guo Y, Roberts I & Setzer A (2009) Building a semantically annotated corpus of clinical texts.. J. Biomed. Informatics, Vol. 42 (pp 950-966)
  • Agatonovic M, Aswani N, Bontcheva K, Cunningham H, Heitz T, Li Y, Roberts I & Tablan V (2008) Large-scale, parallel automatic patent annotation.. PaIR (pp 1-8)
  • Davis N, Demetriou G, Gaizauskas RJ, Guo Y & Roberts I (2006) Web Service Architectures for Text Mining: An Exploration of the Issues via an E-Science Demonstrator.. Int. J. Web Serv. Res., Vol. 3 (pp 95-112)
  • Gaizauskas RJ, Greenwood MA, Hepple M, Roberts I & Saggion H (2004) The University of Sheffield's TREC 2004 QA Experiments.. TREC, Vol. 500-261
  • Harkema H, Gaizauskas RJ, Hepple M, Davis N, Guo Y, Roberts A & Roberts I (2004) A Large-Scale Resource for Storing and Recognizing Technical Terminology.. LREC
  • Roberts I & Gaizauskas RJ (2004) Evaluating Passage Retrieval Approaches for Question Answering.. ECIR, Vol. 2997 (pp 72-84)
  • Gaizauskas RJ, Davis N, Demetriou G, Guo Y & Roberts I (2004) . IEEE SCC (pp 145-152)
  • Gaizauskas RJ, Greenwood MA, Hepple M, Roberts I, Saggion H & Sargaison M (2003) The University of Sheffield's TREC 2003 Q&A Experiments.. TREC, Vol. 500-255 (pp 782-790)
  • Greenwood MA, Roberts I & Gaizauskas RJ (2002) The University of Sheffield TREC 2002 Q&A System.. TREC, Vol. 500-251

Software, code or databases

  • Cunningham H, Tablan V, Bontcheva K, Roberts I, Maynard D, Roberts A & Aswani N (2012) GATE, a General Architecture for Text Engineering. Sheffield, UK: University of Sheffield Retrieved from

Datasets

  • Gorrell G, Bakir M, Roberts I, Greenwood M & Bontcheva K .

Preprints

  • Rehm G, Galanis D, Labropoulou P, Piperidis S, Welß M, Usbeck R, Köhler J, Deligiannis M, Gkirtzou K, Fischer J , Chiarcos C et al (2020) , arXiv.
  • Gorrell G, Bakir ME, Greenwood MA, Roberts I & Bontcheva K (2019) , arXiv.
  • Gorrell G, Bakir ME, Roberts I, Greenwood MA, Iavarone B & Bontcheva K (2019) , arXiv.
  • Maynard D, Roberts I, Greenwood MA, Rout D & Bontcheva K () .