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Dr Ronan Reilly

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BSc, PhD

Head of Department.

Tel: (353 1) 708 3847
Fax: (353 1) 708 3848
Email: Ronan.Reilly@may.ie

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Ronan Reilly has a BSc in psychology and computer science and a PhD in psychology in the area of computer-based cognitive modelling. He has been with the Dept. of Computer Science since 2002. His research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and he has specific interests in natural language understanding and neural computation.

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Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence;Cognitive Science;Natural Language ; Neural Computation.

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Research Students

Dr. James Hammerton

Colm Connolly

Shazia Akhtar

Donal Mac Fhearraigh

Svetlana Damianova

Nikolinka Nenova

Ita Howe

Corina Sas

Stephen Sheridan

Triona Tammemagi

Suzanne Ward

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Research Projects

QUALIT (ESPRIT Project 8162)

CoSEI (A Computer Science and English Initiative at UCD)

Learning Computational Grammers

Cortical Software Re-Use

A Computational Model of Eye Movement Control in Reading

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Publications

In Press

Reilly, R.G. (In Press). The relationship between object manipulation and language development in Broca's area: A connectionist simulation of Greenfield's hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

2001

Reilly, R.G. (2001).  Collaborative cell assemblies:  Towards a cortical computational building block.  In Proceedings of EmerNet: Third International Workshop on Current Computational Architectures Integrating Neural Networks and Neuroscience.  University of Durham, August.

Akhtar, S., & Reilly, R.G. (2001).  Automating XML markup.  In Proceedings of ACH / ALLC 2001.  New York University, June 13-16.

2000

Nenova, N., & Reilly, R.G., (2000).  Supporting discourse structure by applying discourse particles taxonomy.  In Proceedings of "Discourse particles, modal and focal particles, and all that stuff: A conference on particles"  Brussels, December 8-9.

Reilly, R.G. (2000).  Evolution of symbolization: Signposts to a bridge between connectionist and symbolic systems.  In S. Wermter & R. Sun (Eds.), Hybrid neural systems.  Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Nenova, N., & Reilly, R.G., (2000).  Predicting discourse moves using interjection discourse particles.  In Proceeding of First Meeting of Speech Technology Transfer. University of Seville, 6-10 November

1999

Kechadi, M.T. and Reilly, R.G. (1999) "Recurrent Neural Network Approach for Partitioning Irregular Graphs," Proceedings of HPCN-99, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 12-14, 1999.

Reilly, R.G. (1999). A case study of transient dyslexia. Brain and Langauge, 70, 336-346.

Kechadi, M.T. & Reilly, R.G. (1999) Recurrent Neural Network Approach for Partitioning Irregular Graphs, Proceedings of HPCN-99, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 12-14, 1999

1998

Reilly, R.G., & O’Regan, J.K, (University of Paris V), "Eye movement control during reading: A simulation of some word-targetting strategies", Vision Research, 38, 1998, pp. 303-317.

Reilly, R.G., Kechadi, M-T, Kuznetsov, Y., Timoshenko, E., Dawson, K. 1998. Using recurrent neural networks to predict aspects of 3-D structure of folded copolymer sequences, Il Nuovo Cimento, 20D, 2565-2573.

1997

Reilly, R.G. 1997. Broca’s area and the development of object assembly and language production skills. In: Proceedings of AI-97, University of Ulster, Magee College, September.

Reilly, R.G. 1997. Cortical software re-use: A neural basis for creative cognition. In: Proceedings of Mind 2, Dublin City University, September.

O’Sullivan, C., & Reilly, R.G. 1997. REACT: REal-time Adaptive Collision Testing: An interactive vision approach. In: D. Thalmann, & M. van de Panne (eds.), Computer Animation and Simulation ‘97. Vienna: Springer.

Kechadi, M-T, Reilly, R.G., Kuznetsov, Y., Timoshenko, E., Dawson, K. 1997. A study of sequence distributions of a painted globule as a model for proteins with good folding properties. Il Nuovo Cimento.

M-Tahar Kechadi, Reilly, R.G., Timoshenko, E.G.,Kusnetsov, Yu.A. and Dawson K.A. 1997. Using neural networks to predict the compactness of folded polymers. International Conference on the Morphology and Kinetics of Phase Separating Complex Fluids, Messina, Italy.

1995

Reilly, R. 1995. Sandy ideas and coloured days: The computational implications of embodiment. Artificial Intelligence Review, 9, 305-322.

1993

Reilly, R. 1993. Boundary effects in the linguistic representations of SRNs. In: Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of Colorado at Boulder, pp. 854-859.

Reilly, R., 1993. A connectionist attentional shift model of eye movement control in reading. In: Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of Colorado at Boulder, pp. 860-865.

Reilly, R., & Sharkey, N. 1993. Connectionist approaches to natural language processing. Hillsdale, NJ: Elbaum.472pp.

Reilly, R. 1993. A connectionist framework for modeling eye-movement control in reading. In G. d'Ydewalle & J. Van Rensbergen (Eds.), Perception and cognition: Advances in eye-movement research. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

1992

Sharkey, N. & Reilly, R. 1992. Connectionist natural language processing. In: British Computer Science Society: Parallel Update Newsletter.

Reilly, R. 1992. A connectionist technique for on-line parsing. Network, 3, 37-45.