"<p style=\"font-family: Lora, Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">I am a lecturer above-the-bar at the <a href=\"http://datascienceinstitute.ie/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">Data Science Institute</a> and <a href=\"http://www.insight-centre.org/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">Insight Centre for Data Analytics</a> at the <a href=\"http://www.nuigalway.ie/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">National University of Ireland Galway</a> and the leader of the <span style=\"font-weight: 700;\">Unit for Linguistic Data</span>. I am the coordinator of the <a href=\"http://pret-a-llod.eu/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">Prêt-à-LLOD</a> project and work package leader in the <a href=\"http://elex.is/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">ELEXIS</a> infrastructure. My research interests include the following:</p><ul style=\"font-family: Lora, Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><li>Ontologies, lexicography and the lexicon-ontology interface</li><li>Collaborative development and publishing of language resources</li><li>Big data and data science</li><li>Linked data and the Semantic Web</li><li>Machine translation and multilingualism</li><li>Machine learning methods for NLP</li><li>Digital Humanities</li><li>Under-resourced languages</li></ul><p style=\"font-family: Lora, Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">I obtained my PhD from the <a href=\"https://www.nii.ac.jp/en/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">National Institute of Informatics</a> in Tokyo under the supervision of <a href=\"https://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/nhc30\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">Nigel Collier</a> and until 2015 I was a post-doctoral researcher at the <a href=\"http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">University of Bielefeld</a> in Bielefeld, Germany in <a href=\"http://cimiano.de/doku.php\" property=\"foaf:knows\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">Prof. Philipp Cimiano's</a> group, <a href=\"http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/\" property=\"foaf:workplaceHomepage\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">AG Semantic Computing</a>.</p><p style=\"font-family: Lora, Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"></p><p style=\"font-family: Lora, Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">You can contact me at <a href=\"mailto:john@mccr.ae\" property=\"foaf:mbox\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">john@mccr.ae</a>.</p><p style=\"font-family: Lora, Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">ORCID: <a href=\"http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7227-1331\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">0000-0002-7227-1331</a><br>Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmccrae\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">@johnmccrae</a><br><a href=\"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6naYN28AAAAJ\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 189, 255);\">Google Scholar</a></p>"@fr