about me

I am a lecturer in the Cognitive Science 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 1-3pm on Thursdays - please email me for an appointment. On Wednesdays I'm usually at Chatterbox. 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 (2012-13) I am teaching Interaction Design (DCS318), Interactive System Design (ECS733) and the MEng Team Project (ELE614).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 ...

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Wheel of Emotion

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