Will is Professor (Personal Chair in Gaelic Ethnology and Linguistics). His research interests span music, linguistics, traditional narrative and language technology. He is known, in particular, for his work on formulaic language, traditional music, Gaelic grammatical description and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most of his recent work has been in Gaelic NLP, and he recently finished an MSc in Speech and Language Processing (University of Edinburgh). Will is a key participant in the DR-LIB knowledge centre, and the project Unlocking AI Skills for the Languages of Ireland and Britain.
