Paul Sheridan

Paul Sheridan

Assistant Professor at the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Prince Edward Island

Publications

Last updated: 24 March 2026

Under review manuscripts

Guo, Y., Sheridan, P. (2026). “Greedy-Gnorm: A Gradient Matrix Norm-Based Alternative to Attention Entropy for Head Pruning”. Machine Learning (Under review). Preprint available at arXiv.

Ahmed, Z., Sheridan, P., McIsaac, M., Farooque, A. A. (2026). “Common TF–IDF Variants Arise as Key Components in the Test Statistic of a Penalized Likelihood-ratio Test for Word Burstiness”. Discover Computing (Revision requested).

Lai, U., Lewis, D. C. P., Sheridan, P., Randhawa, G. S., Farooque, A. A. (2025). “A Comparative Analysis of Lexical Diversity in Human-Written and Large Language Model-Emulated Text using Heaps’ Law”. Computational Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (Submitted).

Sarria Hurtado, S., Sheridan, P., Mullen, T., Lai, U., Onodera, T., Randhawa, G. S., Farooque, A. A. (2025). “A Heuristic Approach to Term Dispersion Quantification with Applications to Domain-Specific Terminology Extraction”. Natural Language Processing (Revision requested).

Journal articles

Diykh, D., Mumtaz, A., Farooque, A. A., Al-Naemi, S., Malekian, R., Afzaal, H., Randhawa, G. S., Sheridan, P., Esau, T. J. (2026). “Drone-Based RGB to Thermal Image Translation: A Novel Approach for Non-destructive Crop Monitoring”. Expert Systems with Applications, 318: 132061. Full text available at Expert Systems with Applications.

Visser Solisa, N., Sheridan, P., Onsjö, M., van Cranenburgh, A., Pianzola, F. (2026). “A Classification Benchmark based on the Literary Theme Ontology”. Journal of Open Digital Humanities, 12: 31. Full text available at Journal of Open Digital Humanities.

Boluwade, A., Sheridan, P., Rathnayake, U. (2025). “Investigating Spatial Extremes of Annual Daily Precipitation in Atlantic Canada using CMIP6 Multi-Model Ensembles for Flood Risk Assessment”. Sustainability, 17(18): 8198. Full text available at Sustainability.

Jamei, M., Farooque, A. A., Ali, M., Karbasi, M., Afzaal, H., Cheema, S. J., Zaman, Q. U., Woon, K. S., Sheridan, P. (2025). “eXplainable Expert Systems for Potato Tuber Yield Prediction in the Maritime Provinces of Canada”. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 238: 110831. Full text available at Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.

Sheridan, P., Ahmed, Z., Farooque, A. A. (2025). “A Fisher’s Exact Test Justification of the TF-IDF Term-Weighting Scheme”. The American Statistician, 1-11. Full text available at The American Statistician. Preprint available at arXiv.

Boluwade, A., Sheridan, P., Farooque, A. A. (2024). “Spatial Modeling of Extreme Temperature in the Canadian Prairies using Max-Stable Processes”. Results in Engineering, 101879. Full text available at Results in Engineering.

Sheridan, P., Onsjö, M. (2024). “The Hypergeometric Test Performs Comparably to a Common TF-IDF Variant on Standard Information Retrieval Tasks”. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 83(10): 28875-28890. Full text available at Multimedia Tools and Applications. Preprint available at arXiv.

Yamaguchi, K., Nakagawa, S., Saku, A., Isoba, Y., Yamaguchi, R., Sheridan, P., Takane, K., Ikenoue, T., Zhu, C., Miura, M., Nagatoshi, S., Aikou, S., Shida, Y., Shida, D., Tsumoto, K., Miyano, S., Imoto, S., Furukawa, Y. (2023). “Bromodomain Protein BRD8 Regulates Cell Cycle Progression in Colorectal Cancer Cells Through a TIP-60-Independent Regulation of the pre-RC Complex”. iScience, 26(4): 106563. Full text available at iScience.

Pham, T., Sheridan, P., Shimodaira, H. (2021). “Non-Parametric Estimation of the Preferential Attachment Function from on Network Snapshot”. Journal of Complex Networks, 9(5): cnab024. Full text available at Journal of Complex Networks.

Pham, T., Sheridan, P., Shimodaira, H. (2020). “PAFit: An R Package for Modeling and Estimating Preferential Attachment and Node Fitness in Temporal Complex Networks”. Journal of Statistical Software, 92(3): 1-30. Full text available at Journal of Statistical Software.

Onsjö, M., Sheridan, P. (2020) “Theme Enrichment Analysis: A Statistical Test for Identifying Significantly Enriched Themes in a List of Stories with an Application to the Star Trek Television Franchise”. Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, 10(1): 1. Note: Both authors contributed equally to this work. Full text available at Digital Studies/Le champ numérique.

Sheridan, P., Onsjö, M., Becerra, C., Jimenez, S., Dueñas, G. (2019), “An Ontology-Based Recommender System with an Application to the Star Trek Television Franchise”. Future Internet, 11(9): 182. Full text available at Future Internet.

Inoue, D., Fujino, T., Sheridan, P., Zhang, Y., Nagase, R., Horikawa, S., Li, Z., Matsui, H., Kanai, A., Saika, M., Yamaguchi, R., Kozuka-Hata, H., Kawabata, K., Yokoyama, A., Goyama, S., Inaba, T., Imoto, S., Miyano, S., Xu, M., Yang, F., Oyama, M., Kitamura, T. (2018). “A Novel ASXL1-OGT Axis Plays Roles in H3K4 Methylation and Tumor Suppression in Myeloid Malignancies”. Leukemia, 32: 1327-1337. Full text available at Leukemia.

Sheridan, P., Onodera, T. (2018). “A Preferential Attachment Paradox: How Preferential Attachment Combines with Growth to Produce Networks with Log-Normal In-Degree Distributions”. Scientific Reports, 8: 2811. Full text available at Scientific Reports.

Lyons, E., Sheridan, P., Tremmel, G., Miyano, S., Sugano, S. (2017). “Large-scale DNA Barcode Library Generation for Biomolecule Identification in High-Throughput Screens”. Scientific Reports, 7: 13899. Full text available at Scientific Reports.

Pham, T., Sheridan, P., Shimodaira, H. (2016). “Joint Estimation of Preferential Attachment and Node Fitness in Growing Networks”. Scientific Reports, 6: 32558. Full text available at Scientific Reports.

Koso, H., Yi, H., Sheridan, P., Miyano, S., Ino, Y., Todo, T., Watanabe, S. (2016). “Identification of RNA-Binding Protein LARP4B as a Tumor Suppressor in Glioma”. Cancer Research, 76: 2254-2264. Full text available at Cancer Research.

Pham, T., Sheridan, P., Shimodaira, H. (2015). “A Statistical Method for Measuring Preferential Attachment in Temporal Complex Networks”. PlOS One, e0137796. Full text available at PlOS One.

Takahashi, Y., Sheridan, P., Niida, A., Sawada, G., Uchi, R., Mizuno, H., Kurashige, J., Sugimachi, K., Sasaki, S., Shimada, Y., Hase, K., Kusunoki, M., Kudo, S., Watanabe, M., Yamada, K., Sugihara, K., Yamamoto, H., Suzuki, A., Doki, Y., Miyano, S., Mori, M., Mimori, K. (2015). “The AURKA/TPX2 Axis Drives Colon Tumorigenesis Cooperatively with MYC”. Annals of Oncology, 26: 935-942. Full text available at Annals of Oncology.

Balogun, E., Balogun, J., Yusuf, S., Inuwa, H., Ndams, I., Sheridan, P., Inoaka, D., Shiba, T., Harada, S., Kita, K., Esievo, K., Nok, A. (2014). “Anemia Amelioration by Lactose Infusion During Trypanosomosis could be Associated with Erythrocytes Membrane De-galactosylation”. Veterinary Parasitology, 199: 259-263. Full text available at Veterinary Parasitology.

Sheridan, P., Yagahara, Y., Shimodaira, H. (2012). “Measuring Preferential Attachment in Growing Networks with Missing-Timelines using Markov Chain Monte Carlo”. Physica A, 20: 5031-5040. Full text available at Physica A.

Sheridan, P., Kamimura, T., Shimodaira, H. (2010). “A Scale-Free Structure Prior for Graphical Models with Applications in Functional Genomics”. PLOS One, 5(11): e13580. Full text available at PLOS One.

Sheridan, P., Yagahara, Y., Shimodaira, H. (2008). “A Preferential Attachment Model with Poisson Growth for Scale-Free Networks”. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 60: 747-761. Full text available at Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics.

Conference activity

Papers

Roby, R., Power, C., and Sheridan, P. (2026). “Detecting Disability Insensitive Language in Scholarly Works”. 20th International Conference on Digital Inclusion, Assistive Technology (AT), Accessible ICT (eAccessibility) (ICCHP 2026), Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic, July 15–17.

Chereddy, S., Vinden, N., Kopel, K. , Aslam, K., Randhawa, G. S., Sheridan, P. Farooque, A. A. (2026). “Measuring Deep Thought in LLMs Through Hidden State Analysis”. The Fifth International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (ICPRAI 2026), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, June 15–18.

Lai, U., Randhawa, G. S., Sheridan, P. (2023). “Heaps’ Law in GPT-Neo Large Language Model Emulated Corpora”. Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2023), a Satellite Workshop of the NTCIR-17 Conference, Tokyo, Japan, December 12. Full text available at NII Institutional Repository. Preprint available at arXiv.

Sheridan, P., Onsjö, M., Hastings, J. (2019). “The Literary Theme Ontology for Media Annotation and Information Retrieval”. Proceedings of JOWO2019: The Joint Ontology Workshops, Graz, Austria, September 23-25. Full text available at Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2019 Episode V: The Styrian Autumn of Ontology.

Pham, T., Sheridan, P., Shimodaira, H. (2015). “Nonparametric Estimation of the Preferential Attachment Function in Complex Networks: Evidence of Deviations from Log Linearity”. Proceedings of ECCS’14: European Conference on Complex Systems, Lucca, Italy, September 22-26. Full text available at Proceedings of ECCS 2014.

Onodera, T., Sheridan, P. (2013). “Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Preferential Attachment in Growing Networks”. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Phase Transition, Critical Phenomena and Related Topics in Complex Networks, Sapporo, Japan, September 9-11.

Sheridan, P., Kamimura, T., Shimodaira, H. (2009). “On Scale-Free Priors and their Applicability in Large-Scale Network Inference with Graphical Models”. Complex 2009: Complex Sciences, Shanghai, China, February 23-25. Full text available at Complex 2009: Complex Sciences.

Posters

Acorn, C., Reyes-Vélez, J., Bolufe-Rohler, A., Montelpare, W., Sheridan, P. (2025). “Well-Being of Indigenous and Visible Minority Veterans”. The 9th Annual Student Program for Research Engagement and Excellence (SPREE), Charlottetown, Canada, August 27.

Yamaguchi, K., Nakagawa, S., Yamaguchi, R., Sheridan, P., Takane, K., Ikenoue, T., Nagatoichi, S., Kozuka-Hata, H., Oyama, M., Aikou, S., Ahiko, Y., Shida, D., Tsumoto, K., Miyano, S., Imoto, S., Furukawa, Y. (2024). “TIP60-Independent Mechanism of BRD8 is involved in Colorectal Tumorigenesis”, AACR Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, April 4-10.

Sheridan, P., Tremmel, G., Yamaguchi, R., Imoto, S., Miyano, S. (2015). “Headache-Free Geneset Analysis for the Working Molecular Biologist”. 42nd IMSUT Founding Commemorative Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, June 1-2.

Takahashi, Y., Sheridan, P., Niida, A., Sawada, G., Uchi, R., Mizuno, H., Kurashige, J., Sugimachi, K., Sasaki, S., Shimada, Y., Hase, K., Kusunoki, M., Kudo, S., Watanabe, M., Yamada, K., Sugihara, K., Yanamoto, H., Suzuki, A., Doki, Y., Miyano, S., Mori, M., Mimori, K. (2013). “Genomic Co-amplification of TPX2 and AURKA with MYC Cooperatively Promote MYC-driven Carcinogenesis”. Systems Cancer Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, December.

Sheridan, P., Onodera, T. (2013). “The Resolution of a Minor Preferential Attachment Paradox makes Major Confusions Plain”. The International Workshop on Phase Transition, Critical Phenomena and Related Topics in Complex Networks, Sapporo, Japan, September 9-11.

Sheridan, P., Yagahara, Y., Shimodaira, H. (2009). “Estimating Preferential Attachment in Growing Networks with Unknown Node Ordering”. Global COE Opening Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, January 30 - February 1.

Sheridan, P., Kamimura, T., Shimodaira, H. (2008). “Estimating Gene Networks from Microarray Data using Graphical Models with Scale-Free Priors”. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Big Island of Hawaii, USA, January 4-8.

Sheridan, P., Kamimura, T., Shimodaira, H. (2007). “Comparing Scale-Free Priors over Graph Structures for Bayesian Inference of Gene Networks”. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Maui, USA, January 3-7.