Prof Massimo Poesio

Massimo Poesio

Professor of Computational Linguistics

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/people/profiles/poesiomassimo.html
Centre for Multimodal AI
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
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Research

Computational linguistics / NLP, Games and NLP, Anaphora / Coreference, Disagreement and NLP, Brain data, Dialogue and interaction

Interests

Computational linguistics/natural language processing, and in particular anaphora resolution/coreference, disagreements in interpretation, using brain data for NLP, distributional semantics, deception detection. Using games to collect judgments for NLP. Interaction and dialogue, and in particular conversational agents in virtual world games, the role of attention in interpretation, non-verbal interaction. Cognitive science. Formal semantics.