I am currently working at the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin as a researcher and as the coordinator of the UCD Computer Programming Support Centre (CPSC) My primary research interests lie in the application of statistical Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to Information Retrieval (IR) and Information Extraction (IE) related tasks.

I recently completed my Ph.D. at the UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics. My thesis investigated the benefits of computational linguistic and machine learning techniques for sentence level event detection and coreference resolution. In 2007, I spent a semester at the University of Melbourne working with the Language Technology Research Group on the sentence level event detection task.

2010

Martina Naughton, Nicola Stokes, Joe Carthy. Sentence-level Event Coreference Resolution. Journal Submitted for review, November 2010.

M. Naughton, N. Curley, T. Kechadi, & J. Carthy, Third-level specialised support centres: Their impact on student success. In Proceedings of the 3rd Irish Conference on Engaging Pedagogy (ICEP '10), Maynooth, 2011. [PDF]

2009

PhD Thesis: Martina Naughton. Sentence-Level Event Detection and Coreference Resolution. School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, October 2009. [PDF] [tar.gz]

M. Naughton, N. Stokes and J. Carthy, Sentence-Level Event Classification in Unstructured Texts, Information Retrieval, 13(2):132-156, 2009. [PDF]

D. Lillis, M. Naughton, A. Cronin, J. Carthy, R. Collier, T. Kechadi, Challenging the Norm in the Teaching of Practical Computer Science, In Proceedings of the 2nd Irish Conference on Engaging Pedagogy (ICEP '09), Dublin, 2009. [PDF]

M. Naughton, J. Carthy, T. Kechadi, Teaching and learning methodologies to support student transition, In Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the Confederation of Student Services in Ireland (CSSI '09), Sligo, 2009. [PDF]

2008

M. Naughton, N. Stokes and J. Carthy, Investigating Statistical Techniques for Sentence-Level Event Classification, In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling '08), pp 617--624, Manchester, 2008. [PDF]

2007

M. Naughton. Exploiting Structure for Event Discovery Using the MDI Algorithm, In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop, Applied Computational Linguistics Conference (ACL), Prague, 2007. [PDF]

2006

M. Naughton, N. Kushmerick and J. Carthy. Event Extraction from Heterogeneous News Sources, In Proceedings of the Workshop Event Extraction and Synthesis, American National Conference in Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Boston, 2006. [PDF]

M. Naughton, N. Kushmerick and J. Carthy. Clustering Sentences for Discovering Events in News Articles, In Proceedings of the 28th European Conference Information Retrieval (ECIR). London, 2006. [PDF]

2004

M. Naughton, F. Toolan and J. Carthy. Visualisation in Incident Analysis, In Proceedings of the 8th World Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Florida, July 2004.

Awards

PhD Scholarship from the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) and IBM, 2004.

Collaborations

August 2007-December 2007: Visiting researcher at the National ICT Australia Victoria Research Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science, University of Melbourne.

Programme Committee Member

European Conference on Information Retreival (ECIR 2011)
European Conference on Information Retreival (ECIR 2010)
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010)
Australian Language Technology Association Workshop (ALTA 2008)

Organising Committee Member

10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2007)