Tony Veale

Biography

Research Interests:

• Analogy
• Conceptual Blending
• Lexical Semantics
• Metaphor
• Natural Language Processing
• Question Answering Systems
• WordNet

General

Name and Title: 

Dr Tony Veale BSc MSC PhD

Position: 

Lecturer

Phone: 

+353 1 716 2912

Email: 

Office: 

CSI / B2.11

Address:
School of Computer Science &
Informatics
Computer Science Building
Belfield Dublin 4

• Research
• Teaching
• Collaborators

Research

Research Interests

• My research interests revolve around the creative use and comprehension of language, as exemplified by the following topics:
  
  Analogical Reasoning and Lexical Analogies;
  Metaphor and other forms of non-figurative language (such as irony, humor);
  Ontologies (in particular, Lexical Ontologies), their use and construction.

  I am a funded investigator in the SFI CSET "Next Generation Localization" and a member of the Centre for Next Generation Localization (CNGL)

  
  

  Multilingual language resources

  WordNet and other large-scale lexical resources;
  Language-oriented educational computer games;
  
  I have delivered courses on my research at the 2005 and 2007 ESSLLI summer schools:
  
  2005: Computational treatments of Metaphor
  2007: Enriched Lexical Ontologies
  
  Slides for these courses are available from Afflatus.UCD.ie
  
  
  

 

Teaching

Teaching Interests

• I teach Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Practice & Philosophy of Science (PPS) in Fudan University, Shanghai, as part of UCD's International BSc in Software Engineering.

  In UCD I teach project courses on software-development in groups (COMP20050 and COMP30050).

  I also teach a course Knowledge-Based Industrial Systems to PG/industry students on the Advanced Software Engineering (ASE) degree.

  
  

  Major interests include: Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Philosophy of Science

  I teach mainly on the UCD degree delivered in Fudan, Shanghai, a degree for which I helped create the syllabus in 2002

  I maintain a blog for the courses I teach at the following site:

  http://afflatus.ucd.ie/pebble/
  
  

   

   

Recent Postgraduates

Current Postgraduate Students

• Guofu Li, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor

Modules Taught

• 200700   COMP3002F     Computer Science: Philosophy and Practice of Science
• 200700   COMP3008F     Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence
• 200700   COMP2003F     Computer Science: Object Oriented Programming

Collaborators

Internal Collaborators

• Julie Berndsen, UCD  (as part of the Next Generation Localization CSET)

  Fintan Costello, UCD

  Mel O'Cinneide, UCD

   

External Collaborators

• Kurt Feyaerts and Geert Brone of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
  
  Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza of the university of Rioja, Spain

  Key-Sun Choi of the Korean Institute of Advanced Science and Technology

  Josef van Genabith of Dublin City University, as part of the Next Generation Localization CSET

  Vincent Wade,Trinity College Dublin, as part of the Next Generation Localization CSET