about me

I am Professor of Computational Linguistics and head of the Computational Linguistics Lab at Queen Mary University of London; a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, and a senior researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute. more ...

contact

My email address is m.purver (at) qmul.ac.uk; my office is CS/403, and in semester 2 (Jan-Apr) my office surgery hours are 1-3pm on Wednesdays - please email me for an appointment. more ...

research

My research is in computational linguistics (aka natural language processing) - getting computers to behave as if they understood human language. I'm mainly interested in conversational language: systems which can have conversations with people, or which can understand people having conversations with each other, face-to-face or online.more ...

teaching

I currently teach on the modules Natural Language Processing (ECS763P) and Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing (ECS7001P).more ...

software

Try our (free!) sentiment, emotion and excitement detection APIs; check out our Live London Emotion Map or our Wheel of Emotion emotion analysis demo; get our Sentimental iPhone app; download open source code for our incremental parser and dialogue system, DYLAN. more ...