Prof Matthew Purver
Professor of Computational Linguistics
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Dialogue, Interaction
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
Grants

Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI
Internship: Iacopo GhinassiMatthew Purver£10,311
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation11-01-2024 - 10-07-2024
Annotating Reference and Coreference In Dialogue Using Conversational Agents in gamesMassimo Poesio, Julian Hough,
Diego Perez-Liebana and
Matthew Purver£986,834
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council01-02-2022 - 31-07-2025
Cross-Lingual Embeddings for News Media IndustryMatthew Purver£357,506
EU Commission - Horizon 202001-01-2019 - 31-03-2022
CQC Text SeverityMatthew Purver£24,164
CQC Care Quality Commission05-03-2018 - 31-05-2018
Research Group
PhD Students
- Zahraa Al Sahili
Cog Sci - Iqra Ali
Cog Sci - Dina Almanea
From Belief to Label: How Annotators’ Degree of Conservatism Shape Disagreement in Sexism Judgments - Xiangyan Chen
Cog Sci - Xavier D'Cruz
Beyond Supervised Deep Learning For Musical Audio: Can Pretraining With Unlabelled Data Improve Deep Networks For Music Source Separation? - Jifan Dai
Cog Sci - Ian Grant
Event Extraction and Temporal Information Extraction: in Support of Autism Diagnosis and Treatment - Seyedpeyman Hosseini
Modelling and Sentiment Analysis of Game Reviews (Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence) - Cian Kennedy
Cog Sci - Guneet Kohli
Cog Sci - Zicen Liao
Cog Sci - Hyunkyung Park
Enhancing Fact-Verification Performance in Conversation With Coreference Resolution - Maja Pavlovic
Cog Sci - Juexi Shao
Grounding of Conversational Agents in a Collaborative Construction Environment - Mingwei Shi
Cog Sci - Yuhan Xia
Cog Sci - Fengkai Yang
Coreference With Dialogue - Ziyu Zhai
Cog Sci - Zengqun Zhao
Analysis of Human Affective Behaviour Using Visual-Language Models