Dr Diana Maynard
School of Computer Science
Senior Research Fellow
Deputy Head of the Natural Language Processing research group


d.maynard@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (DCS)
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Dr Diana Maynard
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DP
- Research interests
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- Information extraction
- GATE
- Social media analysis
- Sentiment analysis
- Online abuse and misinformation detection
- Term recognition
- Ontologies and semantic web
- Freedom of the media
- NLP for scientometrics
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Datasets
Preprints
- Research group
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Member of the research group.
- Grants
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Current grants
- Influencing policy work on human rights violations against journalists, Research England, 09/2024 - 06/2025, £34,667, as PI
- Toolkit for Analysing and Visualising Online Violence Against Female Journalists, EPSRC, 04/2024 - 03/2025, £45,363, as PI
- Atrium: Advancing FronTier Research In the Arts and hUManities, Horizon Europe, 01/2024 - 12/2027, £370,950, as PI
Previous grants
- RISIS2: , EC H2020, 01/2019 - 12/2022, £476,741, as co-PI
- Visualising the environmental impacts of plant-based recipes in Europe, Research England, 12/2021 - 05/2022, £18,407, as PI
- Calculating the environmental impact of plant based recipes, Industrial, 01/2021 - 12/2021, £2,500, as PI
- Pilot project on developing and trialling a toolkit for strengthening national context monitoring of violations against journalists, Free Press, 06/2020 - 12/2020, £29,094, as Co-PI
- Pilot project on developing a database for the improved collection and systematisation of information on incidents of violations against journalists, Free Press, 04/2019 - 11/2019, £29,030, as Co-I
- The Intelligent Automation of Contract Analysis of Collateral Warranties, Innovate UK, 03/2019 - 08/2020, £114,552, as PI
- Social Understandings of Scale: The role of Print and Social Media in the EU Referendum Debate, British Academy, 01/2018 - 06/2019, £49,716, as Co-PI
- Improving the monitoring of violence against journalists, Free Press, 12/2017 - 10/2018, £26,589, as Co-I
- KNOWMAK: , EC H2020, 01/2017 - 12/2019, £196,654, as PI
- COMRADES: , EC H2020, 01/2016 - 12/2018, £257,000, as PI