Niall Twomey

Anomaly Detection in Star Light Curves using Hierarchical Gaussian Processes

2018 · Bristol Research (University of Bristol)

Here we examine astronomical time-series called light-curve data, which represent the brightness of celestial objects over a period of time. We focus specifically on the task of finding anomalies in three sets of light-curves of …

Towards Multi-Language Recipe Personalisation and Recommendation

2020

Multi-language recipe personalisation and recommendation is an under-explored field of information retrieval in academic and production systems. The existing gaps in our current understanding are numerous, even on fundamental questions such as whether consistent and …

Non-Linear Multiple Field Interactions Neural Document Ranking

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Ranking tasks are usually based on the text of the main body of the page and the actions (clicks) of users on the page. There are other elements that could be leveraged to better contextualise …

Equitable Ability Estimation in Neurodivergent Student Populations with Zero-Inflated Learner Models

2022 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

At present, the educational data mining community lacks many tools needed for ensuring equitable ability estimation for Neurodivergent (ND) learners. On one hand, most learner models are susceptible to under-estimating ND ability since confounding contexts …