Dr Matthew Purver, BA MPhil PhD

Reader in Computational Linguistics
Email: m.purver@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 20 7882 7236Room Number: Peter Landin, CS 403Website: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurverOffice Hours: Wednesday 12:00-14:00
Teaching
Interactive System Design (Postgraduate/Undergraduate)
The main areas of study are (i) interaction and design (ii) modelling of interaction (iii) the design process (iv) design principles and (v) usability evaluation. Various types of interfaces will be considered including those encountered on the web and mobile computing devices. A historical perspective is encouraged in order to provide a means of understanding current and projected developments in the discipline and profession of interactive computer system design. The module will include seminars and group laboratory classes in which analysis, design and evaluation methods will be used in practical contexts. Students will be expected to participate fully in the seminars by presenting and discussing their own designs and evaluations. Students will be required to construct prototype interfaces using techniques of their own choice (e.g. Java, Director).
Neural Networks and NLP (Postgraduate)
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become one of the most important technologies in Artificial Intelligence. Automatic methods for processing natural language now find application in almost every aspect of our communication in person or online, in particular through social media. The increased use of Neural Networks has played an important role in the most recent progress of NLP, as NN techniques have delivered improved performance in applications ranging from language modelling (next word prediction) to speech to machine translation to sentiment analysis. The proposed module provides a thorough introduction to this cutting-edge approach to developing NLP systems.
Research
Research Interests:
- Computational linguistics / natural language processing
- Semantics and pragmatics of natural language
- Dialogue modelling and dialogue systems
- Mental health and dialogue
- Social media analysis
- Computational social science
Publications
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PURVER MRJ, HOUGH J, HOWES C (2018). Computational Models of Miscommunication Phenomena. nameOfConference
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HOUGH J, PURVER MRJ (2017). Probabilistic Record Type Lattices for Incremental Reference Processing. nameOfConference
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Concannon S, Healey P, Purver M (2017). How natural is argument in natural dialogue?. Computational Models of Natural Argument
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FORTH J, AGRES K, PURVER MRJ et al. (2016). Entraining IDyOT: timing in the information dynamics of thinking. nameOfConference
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McGregor S, Purver M, Wiggins G (2016). Words, concepts, and the geometry of analogy. Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics and Cognitive Science
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HEALEY PGT, HOWES C, HOUGH J et al. (2016). Better late than Now-or-Never: The case of interactive repair phenomena. nameOfConference
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Sylwester K, Purver M (2015). Twitter Language Use Reflects Psychological Differences between Democrats and Republicans. nameOfConference
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Kempson R, Cann R, Eshghi A et al. (2015). Ellipsis. nameOfConference
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Concannon S, Healey P, Purver M (2015). Shifting Opinions: Experiments on Agreement and Disagreement in Dialogue. 19th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (goDIAL)
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Concannon S, Healey PGT, Purver M (2015). Taking a Stance: a Corpus Study of Reported Speech. 19th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (goDIAL)
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McGregor S, Purver M, Wiggins G (2015). An Emergent Model of Metaphors as Transformations of Vector Spaces. nameOfConference
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Agres K, McGregor S, Purver M et al. (2015). Conceptualizing Creativity: From Distributional Semantics to Conceptual Spaces. nameOfConference
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Eshghi A, Howes C, Gregoromichelaki E et al. (2015). Feedback in Conversation as Incremental Semantic Update. International Conference on Computational Semantics
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McGregor S, Agres K, Purver M et al. (2015). From Distributional Semantics to Conceptual Spaces: A Novel Computational Method for Concept Creation. nameOfConference
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Yuan Z, Purver M (2015). Predicting Emotion Labels for Chinese Microblog Texts. nameOfConference
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Milajevs D, Kartsaklis D, Sadrzadeh M et al. (2014). Evaluating Neural Word Representations in Tensor-Based Compositional Settings. nameOfConference
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Hough J, Purver M (2014). Strongly Incremental Repair Detection. nameOfConference
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Howes C, Hough J, Purver M et al. (2014). Helping, I Mean Assessing Psychiatric Communication: An Application of Incremental Self-Repair Detection. nameOfConference
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Concannon S, Purver M (2014). Inferring Cultural Preference of Arts Audiences Through Twitter Data. nameOfConference
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Purver M (2014). A Simple Baseline for Discriminating Similar Languages. nameOfConference
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Maleshkova J, Purver M (2014). Beyond the White Cube: Presentation of Visual Art in Interactive 3D Environments. nameOfConference
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Purver M, Hough J, Gregoromichelaki E (2014). Dialogue and Compound Contributions. nameOfConference
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Howes C, Purver M, McCabe R (2014). Linguistic Indicators of Severity and Progress in Online Text-based Therapy for Depression. nameOfConference
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Dacres S, Haddadi H, Purver M (2014). Topic and Sentiment Analysis on OSNs: a Case Study of Advertising Strategies on Twitter. nameOfConference
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Milajevs D, Purver M (2014). Investigating the Contribution of Distributional Semantic Information for Dialogue Act Classification. nameOfConference
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Hough J, Purver M (2014). Probabilistic Type Theory for Incremental Dialogue Processing. nameOfConference
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Farion C, Purver M (2014). "Did you pack your keys?" Smart objects and forgetfulness. nameOfConference
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Healey PGT, Purver M, Howes C (2014). Divergence in dialogue.. nameOfConference
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Milajevs D, Kartsaklis D, Sadrzadeh M et al. (2014). Evaluating Neural Word Representations in Tensor-Based Compositional Settings.. nameOfConference
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Hough J, Purver M (2014). Strongly Incremental Repair Detection.. nameOfConference
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Hough J, Purver M (2013). Modelling Expectation in the Self-Repair Processing of Annotat-, um, Listeners. SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
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Eshghi A, Hough J, Purver M (2013). Incremental Grammar Induction from Child-Directed Dialogue Utterances. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)
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Howes C, Purver M, McCabe R (2013). Using Conversation Topics for Predicting Therapy Outcomes in Schizophrenia. nameOfConference
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Howes C, Purver M, McCabe R (2013). Investigating Topic Modelling for Therapy Dialogue Analysis. nameOfConference
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Farion C, Purver M (2013). Message Bag: Can Assistive Technology Combat Forgetfulness?. 4th Augmented Human International Conference
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Eshghi A, Purver M, Hough J (2013). Probabilistic Induction for an Incremental Semantic Grammar. nameOfConference
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Eshghi A, Purver M, Hough J et al. (2013). Probabilistic grammar induction in an incremental semantic framework. nameOfConference
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Fox S, Ehlen P, Purver M (2011). Enabling Distributed Communication of Manual Skills. nameOfConference
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Gregoromichelaki E, Kempson R, Purver M et al. (2011). Incrementality and Intention-Recognition in Utterance Processing. nameOfConference
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Kempson R, Gregoromichelaki E, Meyer-Viol W et al. (2011). Natural-language Syntax as Procedures for Interpretation: the Dynamics of Ellipsis Construal. nameOfConference
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Howes C, Purver M, HEALEY PGT et al. (2011). On Incrementality in Dialogue: Evidence from Compound Contributions. nameOfConference
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Howes C, Purver M, Healey PGT et al. (2011). On Incrementality in Dialogue: Evidence from Compound Contributions. nameOfConference
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Tur G, Stolcke A, Voss L et al. (2010). The CALO Meeting Assistant System. nameOfConference
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Gargett A, Gregoromichelaki E, Kempson R et al. (2009). Grammar resources for modelling dialogue dynamically.. nameOfConference
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Dowman M, Savova V, Griffiths TL et al. (2008). A Probabilistic Model of Meetings That Combines Words and Discourse Features. nameOfConference
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Purver M, Niekrasz J, Ehlen P (2008). Automatic Annotation of Dialogue Structure from Simple User Interaction. nameOfConference
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Ehlen P, Purver M, Niekrasz J et al. (2008). Meeting Adjourned: Off-line Learning Interfaces for Automatic Meeting Understanding. nameOfConference
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Tur G, Sfolcke A, Voss L et al. (2008). THE CALO MEETING SPEECH RECOGNITION AND UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM. nameOfConference
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Cann R, Kempson R, Purver M (2007). Context and Well-formedness: the Dynamics of Ellipsis. nameOfConference
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Purver M (2006). CLARIE: Handling Clarification Requests in a Dialogue System. nameOfConference
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Purver M, Cann R, Kempson R (2006). Grammars as Parsers: Meeting the Dialogue Challenge. nameOfConference
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Purver M, Ehlen P, Niekrasz J (2006). Detecting Action Items in Multi-Party Meetings: Annotation and Initial Experiments. nameOfConference
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Cann R, Purver M, Kempson R (2005). Context and Well-formedness: the Dynamics of Ellipsis. nameOfConference
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Niekrasz J, Purver M (2005). A multimodal discourse ontology for meeting understanding. nameOfConference
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Purver M, Ginzburg J (2004). Clarifying Noun Phrase Semantics. nameOfConference