He is the founding Director of CNGL (2007-2013) and previously served as the Director of the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) 2001-2009. He has led national and international research projects, including Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland funded research and worked as the local DCU lead PI for many EU-funded projects, including EuroMatrixPlus, META-NET, EXPERT and QTLaunchPad. His research focuses on Machine Translation, Localisation, and Text Analytics (Parsing and Generation).