I am a lecturer within the Department of English Studies at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. I was initially employed under a "Ramon y Cajal" contract (a 5 year research contract) but converted to a permanent teaching contract in 2009.
My current interests are in corpus linguistics, in particular, in studying learner corpora to profile what grammatical features are most at stake at each proficiency level, for a given mother tongue and learning context. I also develop software for multi-layer corpus development: UAM CorpusTool.
I have previously worked in several major research centres, including, Information Sciences Institute (Los Angeles), Department of AI at the University of Edinburgh, IRST/ITC (Trento, Italy), IPSI/GMD (Germany), as well as visiting stays in centres such as ITRI (Brighton, UK), University of Waterloo (Canada), Telecom Research Labs (Melbourne, Australia), and Microsoft Research Lab (Sydney, Australia).
linguistics
Líneas de investigaciónCorpus linguistics, computational linguistics, systemic functional grammar
Mick O'Donnell "Dynamic modelling of context: Field, Tenor and Mode revisited". Lingua, No. 261, 2021.
Mick O'Donnell (2020) "On the Abstractness of Levels of Description in Systemic Functional Linguistics". In Gordon Tucker, Huang Guowen, Lise Fontaine, Edward McDonald (eds) Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar: Convergence and Divergence. London: Equinox.
Mick O'Donnell (2019) "Continuing Issues in SFL". In Geoff Thompson, Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine, Jennifer Yameng Liang (eds) Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Cambrdige University Press.
Mick O'Donnell and Penny MacDonald (2019) "Using a learner corpus to support online intelligent tutoring: the ALEGRO project". In Andrea Abel, Aivars Glaznieks, Verena Lyding, Lionel Nicolas (eds) Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research: Selected Papers from the Fourth Learner Corpus Research Conference. Lovain: Presses universitaires de Louvain.
Mick O'Donnell (2017) "Interactions between Natural Language Processing and Systemic Functional Linguistics". In Bartlett, T and O'Grady, G. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Routledge.
John Bateman and Mick O'Donnell (2015) "Computational Linguistics: the Halliday connection". In J. Webster (ed.), Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 453-466.
Mick O'Donnell (2015) "Using learner corpora to order linguistic structures in terms of apparent difficulty". In Erik Castello, Katherine Ackerley, Francesca Coccetta (eds) Studies in Learner Corpus Linguistics: Research and Applications for Foreign Language Teaching and Assessment. Peter Lang. Pp71-85.
Mick O'Donnell (2013) "A dynamic view of choice in writing: composition as text evolution". In Lise Fontaine, Tom Bartlett & Gerard O'Grady (eds.) Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 247-266.
Mick O'Donnell (2013) "Systemic Functional Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics: Interconnections and current state". In Fang Yan and Jonathan J. Webster (eds) Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and Application. London: Equinox.
Mick O'Donnell (2013) "Exploring Identity through Appraisal Theory: a Corpus Annotation Methodology". Linguistics and the Human Sciences. Vol 9, No 1 (2013) [PDF]
Mick O'Donnell (2013) "From Learner Corpora to Curriculum Design: an empirical approach to staging the teaching of grammatical concepts". Proceedings of the V International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2013). Procedia, 571-580. [PDF]
Mick O'Donnell (2012) "Appraisal analysis and the computer". Revista Canarias de Estudios Ingleses 65, November 2012, pp. 115-130. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Mick (2012) "Using learner corpora to redesign university-level EFL Grammar education". Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada (RESLA). Vol 1. Extra. Pp 145-160. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 2011 "From Teaching Literature to Exploring Ideological Development: the life and works of Ruqaiya Hasan". Nexus, 2011.1. (ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE ESTUDIOS ANGLO-NORTEAMERICANOS): 114-124. [PDF]
Mick O'Donnell, Susana Murcia, Rebeca García, Clara Molina, Paul Rollinson, Penny MacDonald, Keith Stuart, Maria Boquera. 2009. Exploring the proficiency of English learners: The TREACLE project. Proceedings of the Fifth Corpus Linguistics, Liverpool. [PDF]
Amaya Mendikoetxea, Michael O'Donnell and Paul Rollinson 2009. "WriCLE: A learner corpus for Second Language Acquisition Research" Proceedings of the Fifth Corpus Linguistics, Liverpool. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Mick 2009 "Resources and Courses", in Jonathan Webster (ed), A Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics, London & New York: Continuum.
O'Donnell, M. 2008. "Demonstration of the UAM CorpusTool for text and image annotation". Proceedings of the ACL-08:HLT Demo Session (CompanionVolume), Columbus, Ohio, June 2008. Association for Computational Linguistics. pages 13-16. [PDF]
O'Donnell, M. 2008. "The UAM CorpusTool: Software for corpus annotation and exploration". In Bretones Callejas, Carmen M. et al. (eds) Applied Linguistics Now: Understanding Language and Mind / La Lingüística Aplicada Hoy: Comprendiendo el Lenguaje y la Mente. Almería: Universidad de Almería. Pp. 1433-1447. [PDF]
Ismael Pascual-Nieto, Diana Pérez-Marín, Mick O'Donnell and Pilar Rodríguez 2008 "Enhancing a free-text Adaptive Computer Assisted Assessment system with self-assessment features". 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), July, 2008. Santander, Cantabria, Spain. [PDF]
Ismael Pascual-Nieto, Diana Pérez-Marín, Pilar Rodríguez and Mick O'Donnell 2008 "Using Automatically Generated Students' Clickable Conceptual Models for E-tutoring". Revista CEUR-WS, 354, pp 1-8. [PDF]
O'Donnell, M. 2008 "Evolving Questions in Text Planning". Proceedings of the 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008). Salt Fork, Ohio, June 12-14. Pp. 121-128. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Mick , Michele Zappavigna and Casey Whitelaw (2008) "A survey of process type classification over difficult cases", in Carys Jones and Eija Ventola (eds) From Language to Multimodality: New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning. Continuum: London. [PDF]
Gema Chocano, Rocío Jiménez, Cristóbal Lozano, Amaya Mendikoetxea, Susana Murcia, Michael O'Donnell, Paul Rollinson, Iván Teomiro. 2007. "An exploration into word order in learner corpora: The WOSLAC Project". Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference 2007, Matthew Davies, Paul Rayson, Susan Hunston, Pernilla Danielsson (eds.), Universidad de Birmingham, Birmingham [PDF]
McCabe, A., O'Donnell, M. and Whittaker, R., (eds) (2007), Advances In Language And Education. London: Continuum. [PDF]
Rachel Whittaker, Mick O'Donnell, Anne McCabe (2007) "Introduction: Responses to the changing face of education". In McCabe, A., O'Donnell, M. and Whittaker, R., (eds) (2007), Advances In Language And Education. London: Continuum. pp. 1 -12. [PDF]
Pascual Nieto, Ismael and Michael O'Donnell 2007 "Flexible statistical construction of bilingual dictionaries". Revista de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN), n 39, septiembre de 2007. 249-258. [PDF]
Whittaker, R., O'Donnell, M. and McCabe, A. (eds) (2006), Language and Literacy: Functional Approaches. London: Continuum. [PDF]
Marti, P., Zancanaro, M., O'Grady, M., O'Hare, G., Not, E., Bianchi, A., O'Donnell, M, 2006 "A Mediated Experience of Art", in P. Purcell (ed), Networked Neighbourhoods: the Connected Community in Context. Springer: London, New York, 2006. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 2005 "The UAM Systemic Parser" , Proceedings of the 1st Computational Systemic Functional Grammar Conference, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. 16 July 2005. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Mick and John Bateman 2005 "SFL in Computational Contexts". In J. Webster, R. Hasan & C. Matthiessen (eds), Continuing Discourse on Language A Functional Perspective. London: Equinox. [PDF]
Van Moll, Maarten & Mick O'Donnell 2004 "Automatic Recognition of Generic Structure: Medical Discharge Notices". In David Banks (ed.) Text and Texture: Systemic Functional viewpoints on the nature and structure of text. L'Harmattan, Paris. [PDF]
Murcia, Susana and Mick O'Donnell, 2003 "Advice In Instructional Texts: A Comparison Between English And Spanish". Proceedings of the 3rd International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Compostela, Spain. October 2003. [PDF]
Benson, James, William Greaves, Michael O'Donnell and Jared Taglialatela 2002 "Evidence for Symbolic Language Processing in a Bonobo (Pan paniscus)". Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 9, No. 12, December 2002. Republished as Benson, James, William Greaves, Michael O'Donnell and Jared Taglialatela. 2004 "The ideational dimension". Chapter 2 in James Benson & William Greaves (Eds.) Functional Dimensions of Ape-Human Discourse. Equinox.
O'Donnell, Michael 2001 "Editorials vs. front page news: Differences in realis and tense across newspaper genres". Proceedings of the 2nd International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Compostela, Spain. 25-27 October 2001. [PDF]
Murcia, Susana and Mick O'Donnell, 2001 "Semantic functions in instructional texts: a comparison between English and Spanish". Proceedings of the 2nd International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Compostela, Spain. 25-27 October 2001. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael, Chris Mellish, Jon Oberlander and Alisair Knott 2001 "ILEX: An architecture for a dynamic hypertext generation system". Natural Language Engineering 7, 225--250. [PDF]
Knott, A., Oberlander, J., O'Donnell, M. and Mellish, C. 2001 "Beyond elaboration: the interaction of relations and focus in coherent text." In T. Sanders, J. Schilperoord and W. Spooren (eds.) Text representation: linguistic and psycholinguistic aspect. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp181--196. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 2000 "RSTTool 2.4 -- A Markup Tool for Rhetorical Structure Theory". Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'2000), 13-16 June 2000, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel. 253 -- 256. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 2000 "Intermixing Multiple Discourse Strategies for Automatic Text Composition". Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (RCEI), No. 40 (April): Special Issue on Intercultural and Textual Approaches to Systemic-Functional Linguistics. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 2000 "Museum audio guides which adapt to the user and context". Proceedings of the 1st Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla, Seville, November 2000. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael, Alistair Knott, Jon Oberlander and Chris Mellish 2000 "Optimising text quality in generation from relational databases". Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'2000), 13-16 June 2000, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel. 133 --140. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 1999 "Context in Dynamic Modelling". In Mohsen Ghadessy (ed.) Text And Context In Functional Linguistics. Benjamins: Holland. Pp. 63-99. [PDF]
Cox, Richard, Mick O'Donnell and Jon Oberlander 1999 "Dynamic versus static hypermedia in museum education: an evaluation of ILEX, the intelligent labelling explorer". Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education conference (AI-ED99), Le Mans, July 1999. Amsterdam: IOS Press. [PDF]
Mellish, C., A. Knott, J. Oberlander and M. O'Donnell 1998 Experiments using stochastic search for text planning. Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. [PDF]
Mellish, C., M. O'Donnell, J. Oberlander and A. Knott 1998 An architecture for opportunistic text generation. Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. [PDF]
Oberlander, J. , M. O'Donnell, A. Knott and C. Mellish. 1998. "Conversation in the museum: experiments in dynamic hypermedia with the intelligent labelling explorer." New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 4, 11--32. [PDF]
O'Donnell, M., H. Cheng and J. Hitzeman. Integrating Referring and Informing in NP Planning. Proceedings of the Coling-ACL '98 Workshop on the Computational Treatment of Nominals, August 16, 1998, Universite de Montreal, Canada. pp. 46-55., [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 1997 RST-Tool: An RST Analysis Tool. Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation March 24 - 26, 1997 Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg, Germany. [PDF]
Knott, Alistair, Michael O'Donnell, Jon Oberlander, Chris Mellish 1997 "Defeasible Rules in Content Selection and Text Structuring", proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation March 24 - 26, 1997 Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg, Germany. [PDF]
Oberlander, J., C. Mellish, M. O'Donnell and A. Knott 1997. "Exploring a gallery with intelligent labels". In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums, pp153-161. Paris, September, 1997. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 1997 Variable-Length On-Line Document Generation. Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation March 24 - 26, 1997 Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg, Germany. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 1997 Variable-Length On-Line Document Generation, Proceedings of the Flexible Hypertext Workshop of the Eighth ACM International Hypertext Conference, Southhampton, UK. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 1996 "Precompiling Systemic Grammars for Parsing" Unpublished paper [PDF]
Knott, Alistair, Chris Mellish, Jon Oberlander & Mick O'Donnell "Sources of Flexibility in Dynamic Hypertext Generation", in Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Herstmonceux Castle, UK, 13-15 June 1996. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 1996 "Input Specification in the WAG Sentence Generation System", in Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Herstmonceux Castle, UK, 13-15 June 1996. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 1995 "From Corpus to Codings: Semi-Automating the Acquisition of Linguistic Features", in Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Empirical Methods in Discourse Interpretation and Generation, Stanford University, California, March 27-29. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 1995 "Sentence Generation Using the Systemic WorkBench", in Proceedings of the Fifth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, 20-22 May, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp 235-238. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael & Peter Sefton 1995 "Modelling Telephonic Interaction: A Dynamic Approach". In: Interface. Journal of Applied Linguistics 10.1 (1995) 63-78. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 1994 Sentence Analysis and Generation -- a Systemic Perspective, Ph.D. Dissertation, Linguistics Dept., University of Sydney. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 1994 "WAG Generation Manual". Unpublished Document. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 1993 "Reducing Complexity in a Systemic Parser" in Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Parsing Technologies", Tilburg, the Netherlands, August 10-13. [PDF]
Rowles C., X. Huang, M. de Beler, J. Vonwiller, R. King, C. Matthiessen, P. Sefton & M. O'Donnell 1993a "Understanding Spoken English Using a Systemic Functional Framework." First Pacific Association Conference on Computational Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada, April 1993.
Rowles C., M. de Beler, M. O'Donnell and P. Sefton 1993b "The Use of Context in the Understanding of Spoken English", the 6th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Melbourne, November, 1993.
O'Donnell, Michael 1992 "Dynamic representation of exchange structure", In M. O'Donnell, M. Matthiessen and P. Sefton, Resources in Dialogue Modelling. Research Report, Departments of Linguistics and Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney. [PDF]
King R., Vonwiller J., Matthiessen C., O'Donnell M. & Sefton P. (1992) "Speech Modelling of Interactive Speech Response Systems in Telecommunications", in Proceedings of the Institute of Engineers Australia Communucations Conference. Sydney 101-111.
Rowles, C., X. Huang, M. de Beler, J. Vonwiller, R. King, C. Matthiessen, P. Sefton & M. O'Donnell, 1992a "Understanding Spoken English", First Australian Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Information Retrieval, Melbourne, November, 1992.
Rowles, C., X. Huang, M. de Beler, J. Vonwiller, R. King, C. Matthiessen, P. Sefton & M. O'Donnell, 1992b "Using Prosody to Assist in the Understanding of Spoken English, Fourth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Brisbane, November- December, 1992.
Matthiessen C., O'Donnell M, and Zeng L. 1991 "Discourse Analysis and the Need for Functionally Complex Grammars in Parsing" in Proceedings of the Second Japan-Australia Joint Symposium on Natural Language Processing, October 2-5, 1991, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka City, Japan. [PDF]
O'Donnell, Michael 1990 "A Dynamic Model of Exchange", Word, Volume 41:3, pp. 293-328. [PDF]
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