Leon Derczynski

Aarhus, Denmark United Kingdom

Research Fellow

Technology / Software / Internet

Leon Derczynski is a scientific Research Associate, who finished a PhD in Temporal Information Extraction at the University in Sheffield in 2012 under an enhanced EPSRC doctoral training grant. His main interests are information extraction, spatio-temporal semantics and handling noisy linguistic data. He has been working in commercial and academic research on NLP and IR since 2003 with focus on temporal relations, temporal and spatial information extraction, semantic annotation, usability and social media. He regularly guides teams through the TAC-KBP challenge, building complex information extraction and corroboration frameworks. Leon contributes to ISO consortiums for spatio-tempor