about me

I am a lecturer in the Interaction, Media and Communication research group, in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London.more ...

contact

My email address is m.purver (at) qmul.ac.uk; my office is CS/403 and my office surgery hours are 2-4pm on Wednesdays - please email me for an appointment. more ...

research

My main research interest is in the computational semantics and pragmatics of dialogue - using the context of a conversation to build models of what people are actually talking about. This includes modelling and building systems which let people interact with devices via speech, which can summarize business meetings, which can understand what people are saying on Twitter, and more.more ...

teaching

This year (2011-12) I am teaching XML & Structured Information (AMCM043), Interaction Design (DCS318/AMCM318), Interactive Systems Design (AMCM016) and the MEng Team Project (ELE614).more ...

software

Try our Wheel of Emotion emotion analysis demo; get our Sentimental iPhone app based on our research into understanding Twitter messages; download open source code for our incremental parser and dialogue system, DYLAN. more ...

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Wheel of Emotion

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