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Michael Stewart
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Dr Michael Stewart

Research Fellow

Michael is passionate about natural language processing, knowledge discovery, data visualisation, and web development.

Michael Stewart received his PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2020. His research focuses on information extraction from unstructured technical text, knowledge graph construction, entity typing and lexical normalisation.

Michaels work is published in several highly regarded venues, including Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, and the International Conference on Data Mining. He was awarded the Research & Innovation Project of the Year-Postgraduate Tertiary Student Award at the 28th WAITTA INCITE Awards. As part of a team led by Dr Wei Liu, he was the first prize winner of the ICDM 2019 Knowledge Graph Contest.

Michael is currently working on deep learning-based methods for constructing knowledge graphs from technical short text. He is also developing a number of software tools to support the adoption of technical language processing in industry. These include Red Coat - A Collaborative Annotation Tool for Hierarchical Entity Typing and Echidna - A Knowledge Graph for Maintenance. See UWA NLP-TLP Group to find a demo of these tools.

Michael is a Research Fellow in Research Theme One; he is Co Supervising PhD students Tyler Bikaun, Ziyu Zhao and Chau Nguyen.

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  • Friday 7 February 2025
    Welcome to 2025! CTMTDS is pleased to share news and highlights from the past few months IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Dr. Braden Thorne who has graduated! Braden passed his thesis with minor revisions by examiners. Sandy Spiers who has had his thesis passed with minor revisions by examiners, and has received a...
  • Saturday 13 April 2024
    Welcome to the first newsletter for 2024 where we'll cover all of the exciting activities so far in 2024! IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Ziyu Zhao, whose thesis was 'passed subject to minor revision'. Well done Ziyu! Congratulations also to Braden Thorne and Sandy Spiers who both submitted their theses in May...
  • Friday 1 December 2023
    This month's newsletter focuses on the activities in December IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Research Fellow Eden Li on winning the Innovation and Excellence in Research award in the Australian Business Deans Council ( abdc.edu.au ) for her Data Workflow Method. The panel was impressed with the strong engagement and collaboration...
  • Tuesday 21 November 2023
    This month's newsletter focuses on the activities in November and includes award won by our Research Fellows Eden Li and Sirui Li IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Research Fellow Eden Li on being named a finalist in the 2023 Research and Engagement Awards. These awards recognise the achievements of Curtin researchers across...
  • Wednesday 16 August 2023
    This month's newsletter focuses on the Research Theme 2 travels to Tokyo and the activities of the Centre at the Data & AI for Business Conference and Exhibition. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Hoa Bui on her success in receiving the GSOP 2023 Grant Development Funding, which includes funding to attend...
  • Friday 30 June 2023
    This newsletter focuses on the activities of the Centre during May and June; a busy time for preparing and participating in the 26th World Mining Congress in Brisbane TEAM NEWS # BHP MECoE and CTMDS researchers from Perth that travelled to the World Mining Congress took the opportunity to catch up in...
  • Thursday 11 May 2023
    Welcome to the first newsletter for 2023! We ended 2022 with two events that showcased research across our themes to industry partners. The new year began with the arrival of two new post-doctoral researchers to the Centre. In May, they teamed up with a couple of PhD students to form a...
  • Wednesday 29 June 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on Research Theme 1 - Support the maintainer. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Tyler Bikaun whose paper "QuickGraph: A Rapid Annotation Tool for Knowledge Graph Extraction from Technical Text" was accepted into the Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, a top-ranking...
  • Tuesday 11 January 2022
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities Aug - Dec 2021. Team Updates # Changes to the members of the Centre in the second six months of 2021: One new PhD student, Chau Nguyen, joined the Centre in October. Chau will complete his PhD at UWA within Theme 1 supervised by Tim French...
  • Wednesday 18 August 2021
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities Jan - Jun 2021. Team Updates # Changes to the members of the Centre in the first six months of 2021 include welcoming: Two new PhD students: Sandy Spiers joined the Centre in February. Sandy will complete his PhD at Curtin University within Theme 3, supervised by...
  • Wednesday 6 January 2021
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities. Highlights # Research Fellow for Theme 1 Michael Stewart PhD was accepted, congratulations to Dr Michael Stewart. Chief investigator for Theme 1 Dr Wei Lui is now Associate Professor Wei Lui – congratulations Wei.· PhD Candidates Yingying Yang, Tyler Bikaun, and Ryan Leadbetter completed their first candidacy...
  • Monday 23 November 2020
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities. Highlights # Gabriel González has successfully completed his first candidacy milestone. He presented his PhD research proposal at the Researchers Catch-Up on Friday, 7 July 2020. Melinda Hodkiewicz has been elected to the MRIWA College of Experts. The primary function of the College is to provide...
  • Wednesday 12 August 2020
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities. In this issue we will be focusing on two projects conducted by PhD students while on their industry placement. Highlights # Submission of Masters Theses # Congratulation to Jaymin Moffatt and Toby Griffiths for submitting their Masters of Professional Engineering theses. Thank you to our industry...
  • Tuesday 12 May 2020
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities. Highlights # CTMTDS Launch # The Australian Research Council Training Centre for Transforming Maintenance through Data Science was officially launched at a ceremony held at Curtin University on Friday 21 February. The event, emceed by Prof Andrew Rohl, was attended by the Honourable Steve Irons MP,...
  • Friday 15 November 2019
    Congratulations to Dr Wei Liu and her team of Michael Stewart, Majiga Enkhsaikhan, Morgan Lewis and Tom Smoker for winning the first prize in the ICDM/ICBK Knowledge Graph Contest in Beijing on 11 November. What is the 2019 ICDM & ICBK Contest on Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction # Automatic knowledge graph construction...