
Paul Nulty
Lecturer
Paul Nulty has a degree in Computer Science and Linguistics from University College Dublin, and received a PhD in Computer Science, also from UCD, on the topic "Lexical Expressions of Semantic Relations between Nouns". He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher on projects at LSE and Cambridge University. Before joining Birkbeck as a lecturer in 2021, he was a Marie Curie/Enterprise Ireland research fellow at CeADAR, UCD. His research focus is on applying natural language processing and data visualisation methods to questions in the social sciences and humanities.
Contact Information
- Room
- MAL 268
- Telephone
- 020 3926 1776
- Email address
Research
Areas of interest: Natural language processing, distributional semantics, digital humanities, computational social science, visualisation of linguistic data
Research groups
PhD Students
Key Publications
- The UCD-Net System at SemEval-2020 Task 1: Temporal Referencing with Semantic Network Distances. (2020)
- quanteda: An R package for the quantitative analysis of textual data. (2018)
- Network Visualisations for Exploring Political Concepts. (2017)
- General and specific paraphrases of semantic relations between nouns. (2013)