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Jennifer Foster

Contact Details

W:https://www.computing.dcu.ie/~jfoster/

I am an experienced research leader in the field of Natural Language Processing and AI. I am a PI on a Science Foundation Ireland Frontiers for the Future project, and a named supervisor in the SFI-funded CRT, ml-labs. Previously, I was a PI on Enterprise Ireland and Irish Research Council projects and a Funded Investigator in the SFI-funded CNGL and its successor centre, ADAPT. I have supervised eleven PhD students to completion, and am currently supervising four PhD students. I have authored 100+ peer-reviewed publications on Natural Language Processing topics including language parsing and generation, interpretability, sentiment analysis, question answering, grammar checking, language models and Irish language technology. I am a regular programme committee member for the main conferences in my field, and from 2016 to 2019, I served on the executive board of the Association for Computational Linguistics. I teach Natural Language Processing to students on the B.Sc. in Data Science and M.Sc in Computing (NLP) programmes, and introductory python programming to students on the B.Sc. in Computing for Business. I am the Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2023	Callan, D.; Foster, J. (2023) 'How interesting and coherent are the stories generated by a large-scale neural language model? Comparing human and automatic evaluations of machine-generated text'. Expert Systems, 40 . [Link] [DOI]
	2017	Kaljahi, Rasoul and Foster, Jennifer (2017) 'Any-gram Kernels for Sentence Classification: A Sentiment Analysis Case Study'. .
	2015	Agic, \vZeljko and Aranzabe, Maria Jesus and Atutxa, Aitziber and Bosco, Cristina and Choi, Jinho and de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine and Dozat, Timothy and Farkas, Rich\'ard and Foster, Jennifer and Ginter, Filip and others (2015) 'Universal dependencies 1.1'. 3 .
	2009	Seeker, Wolfgang and Bermingham, Adam and Foster, Jennifer and Hogan, Deirdre (2009) 'Exploiting syntax in sentiment polarity classification'. .
	2009	Wagner, J.; Foster, J.; van Genabith, J. (2009) 'Judging grammaticality: Experiments in sentence classification'. CALICO JOURNAL, 26 . [Link] [DOI]
	2008	Dickinson, Markus and Foster, Jennifer (2008) 'Similarity rules! exploring methods for ad-hoc rule detection'. 12 :147-158.
	2008	Wagner, Joachim and Foster, Jennifer and van Genabith, Josef (2008) 'Using Decision Trees to Detect and Classify Grammatical Errors'. 8 .
	2007	Foster, Jennifer (2007) 'Real bad grammar: Realistic grammatical description with grammaticality'. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 3 (1):73-86.
	2004	Foster, Jennifer and Vogel, Carl (2004) 'Parsing ill-formed text using an error grammar'. 21 (3-4):269-291.
	2007	Foster, Jennifer (2007) 'Treebanks gone bad'. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 10 (3-4). [DOI]

Conference Publication

	Year	Publication
	2023	Lyu, C.; Nguyen, M.D.; Ninh, V.T.; Zhou, L.; Gurrin, C.; Foster, J. (2023) *Dialogue-to-Video Retrieval* [Link] [DOI]
	2022	Cassidy, L.; Lynn, T.; Barry, J.; Foster, J. (2022) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics *TwittIrish: A Universal Dependencies Treebank of Tweets in Modern Irish* [Link]
	2022	Barry, J.; Wagner, J.; Cassidy, L.; Cowap, A.; Lynn, T.; Walsh, A.; Meachair, M.J.Ó.; Foster, J. (2022) 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 *gaBERT - an Irish Language Model* [Link]
	2022	Lyu, C.; Foster, J.; Graham, Y. (2022) Insights 2022 - 3rd Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop *Extending the Scope of Out-of-Domain: Examining QA models in multiple subdomains* [Link]
	2021	Dzendzik, D.; Vogel, C.; Foster, J. (2021) EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings *English Machine Reading Comprehension Datasets: A Survey* [Link]
	2021	Lyu, C.; Shang, L.; Graham, Y.; Foster, J.; Jiang, X.; Liu, Q. (2021) EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings *Improving Unsupervised Question Answering via Summarization-Informed Question Generation* [Link]
	2021	Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2021) EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings *Revisiting Tri-training of Dependency Parsers* [Link]
	2021	Callan, D.; Foster, J. (2021) *Evaluation of Interest and Coherence in Machine Generated Stories* [Link]
	2021	Foster, J.; Wagner, J. (2021) Teaching NLP 2021 - Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Teaching Natural Language Processing *Naive Bayes versus BERT: Jupyter notebook assignments for an introductory NLP course* [Link]
	2021	Barry, J.; Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2021) DeepLo@EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 - Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource Natural Language Processing - Proceedings *Cross-lingual parsing with polyglot training and multi-treebank learning: A faroese case study* [Link]
	2021	Barry, James; Mohammadshahi, Alireza; Wagner, Joachim; Foster, Jennifer; Henderson, James (2021) IWPT 2021: THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARSING TECHNOLOGIES: PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE (INCLUDING THE IWPT 2021 SHARED TASK) *The DCU-EPFL Enhanced Dependency Parser at the IWPT 2021 Shared Task*
	2020	Lyu, C.; Foster, J.; Graham, Y. (2020) COLING 2020 - 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference *Improving Document-Level Sentiment Analysis with User and Product Context* [Link]
	2020	Dzendzik, Daria and Vogel, Carl and Foster, Jennifer (2020) Proceedings of the First Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP *Q. Can Knowledge Graphs be used to Answer Boolean Questions? A. It’s complicated!*
	2020	Walsh, Abigail and Lynn, Teresa and Foster, Jennifer (2020) Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons *Annotating Verbal MWEs in Irish for the PARSEME Shared Task 1.2*
	2020	Barry, James; Wagner, Joachim; Foster, Jennifer (2020) 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARSING TECHNOLOGIES AND IWPT 2020 SHARED TASK ON PARSING INTO ENHANCED UNIVERSAL DEPENDENCIES *The ADAPT Enhanced Dependency Parser at the IWPT 2020 Shared Task*
	2020	Elder, H.; O'Connor, A.; Foster, J. (2020) EMNLP 2020 - 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference *How to make neural natural language generation as reliable as templates in task-oriented dialogue* [Link]
	2020	Wagner, J.; Barry, J.; Foster, J. (2020) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics *Treebank embedding vectors for out-of-domain dependency parsing* [Link]
	2020	Elder, H.; Burke, R.; O'Connor, A.; Foster, J. (2020) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics *Shape of synth to come: Why we should use synthetic data for English surface realization* [Link]
	2020	Barry, J.; Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2020) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics *The ADAPT Enhanced dependency parser at the IWPT 2020 shared task* [Link]
	2019	Elder, Henry and Foster, Jennifer and Barry, James and O'Connor, Alexander (2019) Proceedings of the Workshop on Methods for Optimizing and Evaluating Neural Language Generation (NeuralGen) *Designing a symbolic intermediate representation for neural surface realization* [Link]
	2019	Dzendzik, D.; Vogel, C.; Foster, J. (2019) NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop *Is it dishwasher safe? Automatically answering yes/No questions using customer reviews* [Link]
	2019	Kennedy, S.; Walsh, N.; Sloka, K.; McCarren, A.; Foster, J. (2019) ACL 2019 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop *Fact or factitious? Contextualized opinion spam detection* [Link]
	2019	Walsh, A.; Lynn, T.; Foster, J. (2019) ACL 2019 - Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet, MWE-WN 2019 - Proceedings of the Workshop *Ilfhocail: A lexicon of irish mwes* [Link]
	2018	Kaljahi, R.; Foster, J. (2018) WASSA 2018 - 9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, Proceedings of the Workshop *Sentiment Expression Boundaries in Sentiment Polarity Classification* [Link] [DOI]
	2017	Lynn, T.; Foster, J.; Dras, M. (2017) *Morphological features of the Irish Universal Dependency Treebank* [Link]
	2017	Arora, P.; Foster, J.; Jones, G.J.F. (2017) *Query expansion for sentence retrieval using pseudo relevance feedback and word embedding* [Link] [DOI]
	2017	Bogdanova, D.; Foster, J.; Dzendzik, D.; Liu, Q. (2017) 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017 - Proceedings of Conference *If you can't beat them join them: Handcrafted features complement neural nets for non-factoid answer reranking* [Link]
	2016	Graham, Y.; Liu, Q. (2016) 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference *Achieving accurate conclusions in evaluation of automatic machine translation metrics* [Link]
	2016	Kaljahi, Rasoul and Foster, Jennifer (2016) Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Modeling of People’s Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES) *Detecting opinion polarities using kernel methods*
	2016	Barman, U.; Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2016) EMNLP 2016 - 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching, CS 2016 - Proceedings of the Workshop *Part-of-speech Tagging of Code-mixed Social Media Content: Pipeline, Stacking and Joint Modelling* [Link]
	2016	Lynn, Teresa and Foster, Jennifer (2016) Celtic Language Technology Workshop *Universal dependencies for Irish*
	2015	Kaljahi, R.; Foster, J.; Roturier, J.; Ribeyre, C.; Lynn, T.; Le Roux, J. (2015) Conference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing *Foreebank: Syntactic analysis of customer support forums* [Link]
	2015	Arora, P.; Hokamp, C.; Foster, J.; Jones, G.J.F. (2015) SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings *DCU: Using Distributional Semantics and Domain Adaptation for the Semantic Textual Similarity SemEval-2015 Task 2* [Link]
	2015	Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2015) ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - Workshop on Noisy User-Generated Text, WNUT 2015 - Proceedings of the Workshop *DCU-ADAPT: Learning Edit Operations for Microblog Normalisation with the Generalised Perceptron* [Link]
	2014	Wagner, Joachim and Arora, Piyush and Cortes, Santiago and Barman, Utsab and Bogdanova, Dasha and Foster, Jennifer and Tounsi, Lamia (2014) Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014) *DCU: Aspect-based Polarity Classification for SemEval Task 4* [Link]
	2014	Kaljahi, R.; Foster, J.; Roturier, J. (2014) Proceedings of SSST 2014 - 8th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation *Syntax and semantics in quality estimation of machine translation* [Link]
	2014	Barman, Utsab and Wagner, Joachim and Chrupala, Grzegorz and Foster, Jennifer (2014) Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching *DCU-UVT: Word-Level Language Classification with Code-Mixed Data* Doha, Qatar, [Link]
	2014	Lynn, Teresa and Foster, Jennifer and Dras, Mark and Tounsi, Lamia (2014) Proceedings of the First Celtic Language Technology Workshop *Cross-lingual transfer parsing for low-resourced languages: An Irish case study*
	2014	Kaljahi, R.; Foster, J.; Rubino, R.; Roturier, J. (2014) COLING 2014 - 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2014: Technical Papers *Quality estimation of english-French machine translation: A detailed study of the role of syntax* [Link]
	2014	Le Roux, Joseph and Rozenknop, Antoine and Foster, Jennifer (2014) ROADEF-15\`eme congr\`es annuel de la Soci\'et\'e fran\ccaise de recherche op\'erationnelle et d'aide \`a la d\'ecision *Analyse syntaxique des langues naturelles par combinaison de grammaires alg\'ebriques et d\'ecomposition lagrangienne*
	2014	Kaljahi, Rasoul and Foster, Jennifer and Roturier, Johann (2014) Proceedings of the Third Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2014) *Semantic role labelling with minimal resources: Experiments with french*
	2014	Kaljahi, Rasoul and Foster, Jennifer and Roturier, Johann (2014) Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation *Syntax and Semantics in Quality Estimation of Machine Translation*
	2014	Barman, U.; Das, A.; Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2014) 1st Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching, Switching 2014 at the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2014 - Proceedings *Code Mixing: A Challenge for Language Identification in the Language of Social Media* [Link]
	2014	Barman, U.; Wagner, J.; Chrupała, G.; Foster, J. (2014) 1st Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching, Switching 2014 at the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2014 - Proceedings *DCU-UVT: Word-Level Language Classification with Code-Mixed Data* [Link]
	2014	Wagner, J.; Arora, P.; Cortes, S.; Barman, U.; Bogdanova, D.; Foster, J.; Tounsi, L. (2014) 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014, Proceedings *DCU: Aspect-based Polarity Classification for SemEval Task 4* [Link]
	2014	Kaljahi, R.; Foster, J.; Roturier, J. (2014) Proceedings of the 3rd Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, SEM 2014 Semantic role labelling with minimal resources: Experiments with French* [Link] [DOI]
	2014	Maritxalar, M.; Uí Donnchadha, E.; Foster, J.; Ward, M. (2014) *Quizzes on tap: Exporting a test generation system from one less-resourced language to another* [Link] [DOI]
	2013	Rubino, R.; Wagner, J.; Foster, J.; Roturier, J.; Kaljahi, R.S.Z.; Hollowood, F. (2013) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics *DCU-Symantec at the WMT 2013 Quality Estimation Shared Task* [Link]
	2013	Rubino, R.; Foster, J.; Kaljahi, R.S.Z.; Roturier, J.; Hollowood, F. (2013) 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Proceedings of the Main Conference *Estimating the Quality of Translated User-Generated Content* [Link]
	2013	Le Roux, J.; Rozenknop, A.; Foster, J. (2013) EMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference *Combining PCFG-LA models with dual decomposition: A case study with function labels and binarization* [Link]
	2013	Arora, P.; Foster, J.; Jones, G.J.F. (2013) *Applying query formulation and fusion techniques for cross language news story search* [Link] [DOI]
	2013	Kaljahi, R.S.Z.; Foster, J.; Rubino, R.; Roturier, J.; Hollowood, F. (2013) 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Proceedings of the Main Conference *Parser Accuracy in Quality Estimation of Machine Translation: A Tree Kernel Approach* [Link]
	2013	Seddah, D.; Tsarfaty, R.; Kübler, S.; Candito, M.; Choi, J.D.; Farkas, R.; Foster, J.; Goenaga, I.; Gojenola, K.; Goldberg, Y.; Green, S.; Habash, N.; Kuhlmann, M.; Maier, W.; Nivre, J.; Przepiórkowski, A.; Roth, R.; Seeker, W.; Versley, Y.; Vincze, V.; Woliński, M.; Wróblewska, A.; De La Clérgerie, E.V. (2013) SPMRL 2013 - 4th Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages, Proceedings of the Workshop *Overview of the SPMRL 2013 shared task: Cross-framework evaluation of parsing morphologically rich languages* [Link]
	2013	Lynn, T.; Foster, J.; Dras, M.; Van Genabith, J. (2013) SPMRL 2013 - 4th Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages, Proceedings of the Workshop *Working with a small dataset - Semi-supervised dependency parsing for Irish* [Link]
	2013	Arora, Piyush and Foster, Jennifer and Jones, Gareth JF (2013) Post-Proceedings of the 4th and 5th Workshops of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation *Applying Query Formulation and Fusion Techniques For Cross Language News Story Search*
	2012	Lynn, T.; Cetinoglu, O.; Foster, J.; UiDhonnchadha, E.; Dras, M.; Van Genabith, J. (2012) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012 *Irish treebanking and parsing: A preliminary evaluation* [Link]
	2012	Apidianaki, Marianna and Dagan, Ido and Foster, Jennifer and Marton, Yuval and Seddah, Djam\'e and Tsarfaty, Reut (2012) Proceedings of the ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing of Morphologically Rich Languages *Proceedings of the ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing of Morphologically Rich Languages*
	2012	Le Roux, Joseph and Foster, Jennifer and Wagner, Joachim and Kaljahi, Rasul and Bryl, Anton (2012) NAACL 2012 *DCU-Paris13 systems for the SANCL 2012 shared task*
	2012	Tu, Z.; He, Y.; Foster, J.; Van Genabith, J.; Liu, Q.; Lin, S. (2012) 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference *Identifying high-impact sub-structures for convolution kernels in document-level sentiment classification* [Link]
	2012	Lynn, Teresa and Foster, Jennifer and Dras, Mark and Dhonnchadha, Elaine U\i (2012) Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2012 *Active Learning and the Irish Treebank*
	2012	Rubino, R.; Foster, J.; Wagner, J.; Roturier, J.; Kaljahi, R.S.Z.; Hollowood, F. (2012) WMT 2012 - 7th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of the Workshop *DCU-Symantec Submission for the WMT 2012 Quality Estimation Task* [Link]
	2012	Kaljahi, Rasoul Samad Zadeh and Rubino, Raphael and Roturier, Johann and Foster, Jennifer (2012) Proceedings of AMTA *A Detailed Analysis of Phrase-based and Syntax-based Machine Translation: The Search for Systematic Differences*
	2011	Hogan, D.; Foster, J.; Van Genabith, J. (2011) Workshop on Multiword Expressions: From Parsing and Generation to the Real World, MWE 2011 at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings *Decreasing lexical data sparsity in statistical syntactic parsing - Experiments with named entities* [Link]
	2011	Foster, J.; Çetinoǧlu, O.; Wagner, J.; Le Roux, J.; Hogan, S.; Nivre, J.; Hogan, D.; Van Genabith, J. (2011) AAAI Workshop - Technical Report *#hardtoparse: POS tagging and parsing the Twitterverse* [Link]
	2011	Foster, J.; Çetinoğlu, Ö.; Wagner, J.; van Genabith, J. (2011) IWPT 2011 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies *Comparing the use of edited and unedited text in parser self-training* [Link]
	2011	Seddah, Djam\'e and Tsarfaty, Reut and Foster, Jennifer (2011) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages *Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages*
	2011	Foster, J.; Çetinoğlu, Ö.; Wagner, J.; Le Roux, J.; Nivre, J.; Hogan, D.; van Genabith, J. (2011) IJCNLP 2011 - Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing *From News to Comment: Resources and Benchmarks for Parsing the Language of Web 2.0* [Link]
	2010	Tsarfaty, R.; Seddah, D.; Goldberg, Y.; Kübler, S.; Candito, M.; Foster, J.; Versley, Y.; Rehbein, I.; Tounsi, L. (2010) 1st Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages, SPMRL 2010 - Proceedings *Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages (SPMRL) What, How and Whither* [Link]
	2010	Tetreault, J.; Foster, J.; Chodorow, M. (2010) ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference *Using parse features for preposition selection and error detection* [Link]
	2010	Tsarfaty, Reut and Seddah, Djame and Goldberg, Yoav and Kuebler, Sandra and Versley, Yannick and Candito, Marie and Foster, Jennifer and Rehbein, Ines and Tounsi, Lamia (2010) The 1st Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages, NAACL *Statistical parsing of morphologically rich languages*
	2010	Foster, J. (2010) NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference *cba to check the spelling investigating parser performance on discussion forum posts* [Link]
	2010	Attia, M.; Foster, J.; Hogan, D.; Le Roux, J.; Tounsi, L.; van Genabith, J. (2010) 1st Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages, SPMRL 2010 - Proceedings *Handling Unknown Words in Statistical Latent-Variable Parsing Models for Arabic, English and French* [Link]
	2009	Foster, J.; Andersen, Ø.E. (2009) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2009 *GenERRate: Generating Errors for Use in Grammatical Error Detection* [Link]
	2009	Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2009) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies, IWPT 2009 *The effect of correcting grammatical errors on parse probabilities* [Link]
	2008	Foster, J.; Wagner, J.; Van Genabith, J. (2008) ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference *Adapting awsj-Trained parser to grammatically noisy text* [Link]
	2008	Foster, J.; Van Genabith, J. (2008) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008 *Parser evaluation and the BNC: Evaluating 4 constituency parsers with 3 metrics* [Link]
	2008	Bermingham, A.; Smeaton, A.; Foster, J.; Hogan, D. (2008) *DCU at the TREC 2008 blog track* [Link]
	2008	Hogan, D.; Foster, J.; Wagner, J.; Van Genabith, J. (2008) INLG 2008 - 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Proceedings of the Conference *Parser-based retraining for domain adaptation of probabilistic generators* [Link]
	2008	Foster, J.; Wagner, J.; van Genabith, J. (2008) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics *Adapting a WSJ-trained parser to grammatically noisy text* [Link]
	2008	Foster, Jennifer; van Genabith, Josef (2008) SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION, LREC 2008 *Parser Evaluation and the BNC: Evaluating 4 constituency parsers with 3 metrics*
	2007	Foster, J. (2007) Proceedings of IJCAI 2007 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, AND 2007 *Treebanks gone bad: Generating a treebank of ungrammatical english* [Link]
	2007	Wagner, Joachim and Seddah, Djam\'e and Foster, Jennifer and Van Genabith, Josef (2007) Proceedings of the Twelfth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference *C-structures and F-structures for the British National Corpus*
	2007	Wagner, J.; Foster, J.; Van Genabith, J. (2007) EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning *A comparative evaluation of deep and shallow approaches to the automatic detection of common grammatical errors* [Link]
	2007	Foster, J.; Wagner, J.; Seddah, D.; van Genabith, J. (2007) IWPT 2007 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parsing Technologies *Adapting WSJ-trained parsers to the British national corpus using in-domain self-training* [Link]
	2007	Foster, J. (2007) *Treebanks gone bad: Parser evaluation and retraining using a treebank of ungrammatical sentences* [Link] [DOI]
	2006	Wagner, Joachim and Foster, Jennifer and van Genabith, Josef (2006) Workshop on Interfaces of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning *Detecting grammatical errors using probabilistic parsing*
	2004	Foster, Jennifer and Vogel, Carl (2004) In Stephan Kepser and Marga Reis, editors, Pre-Proceedings of the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Perspectives *Good reasons for noting bad grammar: Constructing a corpus of ungrammatical language*
	2004	Foster, Jennifer (2004) LREC *Parsing Ungrammatical Input: an Evaluation Procedure*
	2000	Foster, Jennifer (2000) Proceedings of the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session *A unification strategy for parsing agreement errors*
	2024	Cahill, L.M.; Baltazar, T.; Bruen, S.; Xu, L.; Ward, M.; Dhonnchadha, E.U.; Foster, J. (2024) 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages, SIGUL 2024 at LREC-COLING 2024 - Workshop Proceedings *Exploring Text Classification for Enhancing Digital Game-Based Language Learning for Irish* [Link]
	2023	Lyu, C.; Ji, T.; Graham, Y.; Foster, J. (2023) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics *Is a Video worth n × n Images? A Highly Efficient Approach to Transformer-based Video Question Answering* [Link]
	2023	Cowap, A.; Graham, Y.; Foster, J. (2023) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 *Do Stochastic Parrots have Feelings Too? Improving Neural Detection of Synthetic Text via Emotion Recognition* [Link]
	2023	Yang, L.; Song, Y.; Ren, X.; Lyu, C.; Wang, Y.; Zhuo, J.; Liu, L.; Wang, J.; Foster, J.; Zhang, Y. (2023) EMNLP 2023 - 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings *Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Natural Language Processing: Past, Present, and Future* [Link]
	2023	Wagner, J.; Foster, J. (2023) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics *Investigating the Saliency of Sentiment Expressions in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis* [Link]
	2023	Lyu, C.; Yang, L.; Zhang, Y.; Graham, Y.; Foster, J. (2023) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics *Exploiting Rich Textual User-Product Context for Improving Personalized Sentiment Analysis* [Link]
	2023	Lyu, C.; Ji, T.; Graham, Y.; Foster, J. (2023) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics *Semantic-aware Dynamic Retrospective-Prospective Reasoning for Event-level Video Question Answering* [Link]
	2023	Lyu, C.; Li, W.; Ji, T.; Wang, L.; Zhou, L.; Gurrin, C.; Yang, L.; Yu, Y.; Graham, Y.; Foster, J. (2023) MM 2023 - Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia *Graph-Based Video-Language Learning with Multi-Grained Audio-Visual Alignment* [Link] [DOI]
	2022	Walsh, A.; Lynn, T.; Foster, J. (2022) LREC 2022 Workshop - Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, MWE 2022 - Proceedings *A BERT’s Eye View: Identification of Irish Multiword Expressions Using Pre-trained Language Models* [Link]

Other Publication

	Year	Publication
	2015	Bogdanova, Dasha and Ganguly, Debasis and Foster, Jennifer and Vahid, Ali H (2015) ADAPT. DCU at TREC LiveQA: A sentence retrieval based approach to live question answering.
	2012	Apidianaki, M.; Daga, I.; Erk, K.; Foster, J.; Marton, Y.; Rehbein, I.; Seddah, D.; Tsarfaty, R.; Turney, P. (2012) Preface to SP-SEM-MRL 2012. [Link]

Research Projects

	Title	Role	Description	Start date	End date
	Language oriented retrieval and generation - Language technology for next generation search	DCU PI		01/04/2008	16/05/2011
	Gaeltech 2	DCU PI		01/10/2021	30/09/2023

Current Postgraduate Students

	Student Name	Degree	Supervision
	Cowap ,Alan	PhD	Supervisor

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2022	Natural Language Technologies	CA4023
2020	Programming Fundamentals III	CA278
2021	Programming Fundamentals (Project)	CA377
2023		CA337
2020	Description of 2022_CA4019	CA4019