Walking in Spain. Photographer: Peter Williams Kate's home page
DG300 over Loch Leven
I keep an intermittent diary of my PhD work. This is a disjointed monologue of little general interest - quite blog-like in fact.
Church in Barcelona
I'm interested in relation extraction from text and in automatic ontology building, in the context of the Semantic Web and text databases.
Beinn Dorain in winter
Gliding is what life is mostly about, but I'm also a closet Munro-bagger. Being a Member of a Royal Commission occupies me too.
Kate Byrne © 2006-2009  |  Copyright note
Welcome to the Web site of Kate Byrne. I'm a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Informatics at Edinburgh University, specialising in computational linguistics. Before that I worked at the National Library of Scotland as Head of Computer Services.
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My recommended site of the year is ScotlandsPlaces, launched in October 2009 by RCAHMS, in partnership with NAS and the University of Edinburgh Institute of Geography.
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