Dr Adrian Ó Dubhghaill

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Postdoctoral research: Dr Adrian Ó Dubhghaill

Irish Research Council Laureate fellow, GLOSSAM project (2024–2025)

A new digital infrastructure for glossing

Adrian Ó Dubhghaill's work focuses on computational techniques and resources to support under-resourced and minority languages. His research interests are in the areas of Natural Language Processing, as well as the Celtic languages, in particular, Old Irish. He created the Würzburg Irish Glosses website and two Universal Dependencies treebanks of Old Irish glosses.

Adrian received his BA from University College Cork in 2012 and an MA in Medieval Celtic Languages and Literature (Early Irish and Medieval Welsh) from University College Dublin in 2013. He studied Information Systems for Business Performance in University College Cork and was awarded an MSc in 2016. He also received a Higher Diploma in Irish (TEG Level C1) from the University of Galway in 2020. His PhD research, completed in 2024 under the supervision of Dr John McCrae and Dr Clodagh Downey, addressed the application of NLP techniques to diplomatically edited Old Irish text.