Hello, my name is James Barry. I am working as an Applied Research Scientist at IBM Research Europe (Daresbury). Prior to that, I completed a PhD at the ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University supervised by Dr. Jennifer Foster and Dr. Joachim Wagner. My research was focused on neural dependency parsing, particularly in low-resource, multi-task and multilingual settings.

Publications

My publications can be found on my Google Scholar profile

• James Barry, Joachim Wagner, Lauren Cassidy, Alan Cowap, Teresa Lynn, Abigail Walsh, Mícheál J. Ó Meachair and Jennifer Foster (2022). gaBERT - an Irish Language Model. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), pp. 4774-4788, Online and in the Le Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France, 20th - 25th June 2022, European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

• Lauren Cassidy, Teresa Lynn, James Barry, and Jennifer Foster. 2022. TwittIrish: A Universal Dependencies Treebank of Tweets in Modern Irish. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 6869–6884, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib].

• James Barry, Alireza Mohammadshahi, Joachim Wagner, Jennifer Foster, and James Henderson. 2021. The DCU-EPFL Enhanced Dependency Parser at the IWPT 2021 Shared Task. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Parsing Technologies and the IWPT 2021 Shared Task on Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies (IWPT 2021), pages 204–212, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib].

• James Barry, Joachim Wagner, and Jennifer Foster. 2020. The ADAPT Enhanced Dependency Parser at the IWPT 2020 Shared Task. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parsing Technologies and the IWPT 2020 Shared Task on Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies, pages 227–235, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib]

• Joachim Wagner, James Barry, and Jennifer Foster. 2020. Treebank Embedding Vectors for Out-of-Domain Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 8812–8818, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib].

• James Barry, Joachim Wagner, and Jennifer Foster. 2019. Cross-lingual Parsing with Polyglot Training and Multi-treebank Learning: A Faroese Case Study. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource NLP (DeepLo 2019), pages 163–174, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib].

• Henry Elder, Jennifer Foster, James Barry, and Alexander O’Connor. 2019. Designing a Symbolic Intermediate Representation for Neural Surface Realization. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Methods for Optimizing and Evaluating Neural Language Generation, pages 65–73, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib].

Masters Thesis

• James Barry, supervised by Jennifer Foster (2017). Sentiment Analysis of Online Reviews Using Bag-of-Words and LSTM Approaches. Proceedings of the 25th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. [bib].

Other Activities

I, along with Joachim Wagner and Jennifer Foster submitted to the CoNLL 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies as team “ADAPT-DCU”, where we placed 9th out of 27 systems in unofficial runs. We were unable to submit to the official competition due to an unfortunate power cut just before the deadline.

Teaching

I have been a Teaching Assistant for the following modules:

• Programming Fundamentals (2020)
• Introduction to Programming (2019, 2020)
• Computability and Complexity (2018, 2019)

Reviewing

I have been a reviewer for the following conferences and workshops:

• ACL (2020, 2022)
• EACL (2020)
• SyntaxFest (secondary reviewer) (2019)
• CoNLL UD Shared Task (2018)

Contact/Other Information

• My email is firstname [dot] lastname [at] ibm [dot] com.
• You can find me on Twitter: @jamesarbarry.
• My code is on GitHub: github.com/jbrry.

Posts

• Sep 22, 2022

  Creating a Bowling Game using the Common Lisp Object System

• Dec 3, 2020

  XPOS Tagging with Meta Structure

• Nov 7, 2020

  POS Tagging with Meta Structure

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