Prof Matthew Purver

Matthew Purver

Professor of Computational Linguistics

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
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Research

computational linguistics, natural language processing, dialogue

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

Publications

Relevant PublicationPublications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI

2024

bullet iconGkoumas D, Wang B, Tsakalidis A, Wolters M, Purver M, Zubiaga A and Liakata M (2024). A longitudinal multi-modal dataset for dementia monitoring and diagnosis. Lang. Resour. Evaluation vol. 58, 883-902.  
01-09-2024
bullet iconBarnes MR, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C, Tyson G, Purver M, Castro I and Clegg RG (2024). Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing Hierarchy. arxiv
28-05-2024
bullet iconCaporusso J, Hoogland D, Brglez M, Koloski B, Purver M and Pollak S (2024). A Computational Analysis of the Dehumanisation of Migrants from Syria and Ukraine in Slovene News Media. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024
20-05-2024
bullet iconGkoumas D, Wang B, Tsakalidis A, Wolters M, Purver M, Zubiaga A and Liakata M (2024). A longitudinal multi-modal dataset for dementia monitoring and diagnosis. Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer Nature, 1-20.  
30-03-2024
bullet iconGraham Y and Purver M (2024). Message from the Program Chairs. EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
17-03-2024
bullet iconHealey PGT, Khare P, Castro I, Tyson G, Karan M, Shekhar R, McQuistin S, Perkins C and Purver M (2024). Power and vulnerability: managing sensitive language in organizational communication. Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers vol. 14 
23-02-2024
bullet iconLi C, Gan Y, Yang Z, Chen Y, Qiu X, Lin Y, Purver M and Poesio M (2024). Analyzing and Enhancing Clarification Strategies for Ambiguous References in Consumer Service Interactions. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
01-01-2024
bullet iconAndrensek L, Koloski B, Pelicon A, Lavrac N, Pollak S and Purver M (2024). Evaluating and explaining training strategies for zero-shot cross-lingual news sentiment analysis. CoRR vol. abs/2409.20054 
01-01-2024
bullet icon (2024). Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024, St. Julian's, Malta, March 17-22, 2024., Editors: Graham Y and Purver M. 
01-01-2024
bullet icon (2024). Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024 - Volume 2: Short Papers, St. Julian's, Malta, March 17-22, 2024., Editors: Graham Y and Purver M. 
01-01-2024
bullet icon (2024). Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024 - Volume 1: Long Papers, St. Julian's, Malta, March 17-22, 2024., Editors: Graham Y and Purver M. 
01-01-2024
bullet iconGhinassi I, Wang L, Newell C and Purver M (2024). When Cohesion Lies in the Embedding Space: Embedding-Based Reference-Free Metrics for Topic Segmentation. 
01-01-2024
bullet iconCaporusso J, Hoogland D, Brglez M, Koloski B, Purver M and Pollak S (2024). A Computational Analysis of the Dehumanisation of Migrants from Syria and Ukraine in Slovene News Media., Editors: Calzolari N, Kan M-Y, Hoste V, Lenci A, Sakti S and Xue N. 
01-01-2024
bullet iconPelicon A, Karan M, Shekhar R, Purver M and Pollak S (2024). Denoising Labeled Data for Comment Moderation Using Active Learning. 
01-01-2024
bullet iconBarnes MR, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C, Tyson G, Purver M, Castro I and Clegg RG (2024). Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing Hierarchy., Editors: Lin Y-R, Mejova Y and Cha M. 
01-01-2024
bullet iconIvačič N, Purver M, Lind F, Boomgaarden H, Bajt V and Pollak S (2024). Comparing News Framing of Migration Crises using Zero-Shot Classification. 
01-01-2024

2023

Relevant PublicationGhinassi I, Wang L, Newell C and Purver M (2023). Comparing neural sentence encoders for topic segmentation across domains: not your typical text similarity task. PeerJ Computer Science, PeerJ vol. 9 
03-11-2023
Relevant PublicationGhinassi I, Wang L, Newell C and Purver M (2023). Lessons Learnt from Linear Text Segmentation: a Fair Comparison of Architectural and Sentence Encoding Strategies for Successful Segmentation. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 7 Sep 2023 - 9 Sep 2023
07-09-2023
bullet iconGhinassi I, Purver M, Phan H and Newell C (2023). Exploring Pre-Trained Neural Audio Representations for Audio Topic Segmentation. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
14-07-2023
bullet iconGan Y, Chen X and Purver M (2023). Re-appraising the Schema Linking for Text-to-SQL. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
09-07-2023
bullet iconKaran M, Khare P, Shekhar R, McQuistin S, Castro I, Tyson G, Perkins C, Healey P and Purver M (2023). LEDA: a Large-Organization Email-Based Decision-Dialogue-Act Analysis Dataset. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
09-07-2023
bullet iconKhare P, Shekhar R, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C, Castro I, Tyson G, Healey P and Purver M (2023). Tracing Linguistic Markers of Influence in a Large Online Organisation. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
09-07-2023
bullet iconMcQuistin S, Karan M, Khare P, Perkins C, Purver M, Healey P, Castro I and Tyson G (2023). Errare humanum est: What do RFC Errata say about Internet Standards? 2023 7th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)
29-06-2023
Relevant PublicationGhinassi I, Wang L, Newell C and Purver M (2023). Multimodal Topic Segmentation of Podcast Shows with Pre-trained Neural Encoders. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
12-06-2023
bullet iconHealey PGT, Howes C, Kempson R, Mills GJ, Purver M, Gregoromichelaki E, Eshghi A and Hough J (2023). “Who's there?”: Depicting identity in interaction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cambridge University Press (CUP) vol. 46, e37-e37.  
05-04-2023
bullet iconWright GA and Purver M (2023). Self-Comprehension for More Coherent Language Generation. Artificial General Intelligence  328-337.  
01-01-2023
bullet iconNakwijit P, Samir M and Purver M (2023). Lexicools at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Sexism Lexicon Construction via XAI. Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
01-01-2023
bullet iconHosseini P, Hosseini M, Al-azzawi S, Liwicki M, Castro I and Purver M (2023). Lon-eå at SemEval-2023 Task 11: A Comparison of Activation Functions for Soft and Hard Label Prediction. Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
01-01-2023
bullet iconIvačič N, Tran THH, Koloski B, Pollak S and Purver M (2023). Analysis of Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition in South-Slavic Languages. Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing 2023 (SlavicNLP 2023)
01-01-2023
bullet iconGkoumas D, Purver M and Liakata M (2023). Reformulating NLP tasks to Capture Longitudinal Manifestation of Language Disorders in People with Dementia., Editors: Bouamor H, Pino J and Bali K. 
01-01-2023
bullet iconHosseini P, Hosseini M, Al-Azzawi SS, Liwicki M, Castro I and Purver M (2023). Lon-eå at SemEval-2023 Task 11: A Comparison of Activation Functions for Soft and Hard Label Prediction. 
01-01-2023

2022

bullet iconShekhar R, Karan M and Purver M (2022). CoRAL: a Context-aware Croatian Abusive Language Dataset. Findings of the ACL: AACL-IJCNLP 21 Nov 2022 - 23 Nov 2022
21-11-2022
bullet iconWright GA and Purver M (2022). A Self-Evaluating Architecture for Describing Data. Text, Speech, and Dialogue  187-198.  
16-09-2022
Relevant PublicationPoesio M, Bartle R, Chamberlain J, Hough J, Madge C, Perez-Liebana D, Purver M and Yu J (2022). ARCIDUCA: Annotating Reference and Coreference In Dialogue Using Conversational Agents in games. 
23-08-2022
bullet iconGregoromichelaki E, Eshghi A, Howes C, Mills G, Kempson R, Hough J, Healey P and Purver M (2022). Language and Cognition as Distributed Process and Interactions. Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
22-08-2022
bullet iconPurver M, Martinc M, Ichev R, Lončarski I, Sitar Šuštar K, Valentinčič A and Pollak S (2022). Tracking Changes in ESG Representation: Initial Investigations in UK Annual Reports. Proceedings of the First Computing Social Responsibility Workshop within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Marseille, France
25-06-2022
bullet iconNakwijit P and Purver M (2022). Misspelling Semantics In Thai. The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 2022 Marseille, France 21 Jun 2022 - 23 Jun 2022
22-06-2022
bullet iconKhare P, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C, Tyson G, Purver M, Healey P and CASTRO I (2022). The Web We Weave: Untangling the Social Graph of the IETF. AAAI 16th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) Atlanta, Georgia, US and Online 6 Jun 2022 - 9 Jun 2022
06-06-2022
bullet iconGan Y, Chen X, Huang Q and Purver M (2022). Measuring and Improving Compositional Generalization in Text-to-SQL via Component Alignment. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022
01-01-2022
bullet iconTran THH, Martinc M, Purver M and Pollak S (2022). JSI at SemEval-2022 Task 1: CODWOE - Reverse Dictionary: Monolingual and cross-lingual approaches. Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)
01-01-2022
bullet iconZirikly A, Atzil-Slonim D, Liakata M, Bedrick S, Desmet B, Ireland M, Lee A, MacAvaney S, Purver M, Resnik R and Yates A (2022). Introduction. 
01-01-2022
bullet iconNakwijit P and Purver M (2022). Misspelling Semantics in Thai. 
01-01-2022
bullet iconShekhar R, Karan M and Purver M (2022). CoRAL: a Context-aware Croatian Abusive Language Dataset. 
01-01-2022
bullet iconKoloski B, Montariol S, Purver M and Pollak S (2022). Knowledge informed sustainability detection from short financial texts. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP)
01-01-2022
bullet iconBoleda G, Bekki D, Chatzikyriakides S, Clark S, Coecke B, Greco G, Lewis M, Moortgat M, Moot R, Purver M, Sadrzadeh M and Wijnholds G (2022). Preface. 
01-01-2022
bullet iconGan Y, Chen X, Huang Q and Purver M (2022). Measuring and Improving Compositional Generalization in Text-to-SQL via Component Alignment., Editors: Carpuat M, Marneffe M-CD and Ruíz IVM. 
01-01-2022
bullet iconNakwijit P and Purver M (2022). Misspelling Semantics in Thai., Editors: Calzolari N, Béchet F, Blache P, Choukri K, Cieri C, Declerck T, Goggi S, Isahara H, Maegaard B, Mariani J, Mazo H, Odijk J and Piperidis S. 
01-01-2022
bullet iconShekhar R, Karan M and Purver M (2022). CoRAL: a Context-aware Croatian Abusive Language Dataset., Editors: He Y, Ji H, Liu Y, Li S, Chang C-H, Poria S, Lin C, Buntine WL, Liakata M, Yan H, Yan Z, Ruder S, Wan X, Arana-Catania M, Wei Z, Huang H-H, Wu J-L, Day M-Y, Liu P and Xu R. 
01-01-2022

2021

bullet iconGan Y, Chen X, Xie J, Purver M, Woodward JR, Drake J and Zhang Q (2021). Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
07-11-2021
bullet iconGan Y, Chen X and Purver M (2021). Exploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generalization. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
07-11-2021
bullet iconMcQuistin S, Karan M, Khare P, Perkins C, Tyson G, Purver M, Healey P, Iqbal W, Qadir J and Castro I (2021). Characterising the IETF through the lens of RFC deployment. Proceedings of the 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference
02-11-2021
bullet iconGan Y, Chen X and Purver M (2021). Exploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generalization. 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
01-11-2021
bullet iconDel Bosque Trevino JE, Hough J and Purver M (2021). Communicative Grounding of Analogical Explanations in Dialogue: A Corpus Study of Conversational Management Acts and Statistical Sequence Models for Tutoring through Analogy., Editors: Howes C, Simon D, Breitholtz E and Chatzikyriakidis S. Reasoning and Interaction Gothenburg, Sweden 4 Oct 2021 - 6 Oct 2021
04-10-2021
bullet iconWRIGHT G and Purver M (2021). Evaluating Natural Language Descriptions Generated in a Workspace-Based Architecture. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC)
14-09-2021
bullet iconNasreen S, HOUGH J and Purver M (2021). Detecting Alzheimer's Disease using Interactional and Acoustic features from Spontaneous Speech. Interspeech
03-09-2021
bullet iconZosa E, Shekhar R, Karan M and Purver M (2021). Not All Comments are Equal: Insights into Comment Moderation from a Topic-Aware Model. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
01-09-2021
bullet iconRohanian M, Hough J and Purver M (2021). Alzheimer’s Dementia Recognition Using Acoustic, Lexical, Disfluency and Speech Pause Features Robust to Noisy Inputs. Interspeech 2021
30-08-2021
bullet iconNasreen S, HOUGH J and Purver M (2021). Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis. SIGDIAL: 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
29-07-2021
bullet iconKaran M, Khare P, Healey P and Purver M (2021). Mitigating Topic Bias when Detecting Decisions in Dialogue. SIGDIAL: 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
29-07-2021
bullet iconPurver M, Sadrzadeh M, Kempson R, Wijnholds G and Hough J (2021). Incremental Composition in Distributional Semantics. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, Springer Verlag 
07-07-2021
bullet iconPelicon A, Shekhar R, Skrlj B, Purver M and Pollak S (2021). Investigating cross-lingual training for offensive language detection. PeerJ Comput. Sci. vol. 7, e559-e559.  
25-06-2021
bullet iconNasreen S, Rohanian M, Hough J and Purver M (2021). Alzheimer’s Dementia Recognition From Spontaneous Speech Using Disfluency and Interactional Features. Frontiers in Computer Science vol. 3, 640669-640669.  
18-06-2021
bullet iconGan Y, Chen X, Huang Q, Purver M, Woodward JR, Xie J and Huang P (2021). Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution. 
02-06-2021
bullet iconPelicon A, Shekhar R, Martinc M, Škrlj B, Purver M and Pollak S (2021). Zero-shot Cross-lingual Content Filtering: Offensive Language and Hate Speech Detection. EACL workshop on News Media Content Analysis and Automated Report Generation Kyiv (online) 19 Apr 2021
19-04-2021
bullet iconPollak S, Robnik-Šikonja M, Purver M, Boggia M, Shekhar R, Pranjić M, Salmela S, Krustok I, Paju T, Linden C-G, Leppànen L, Zosa E, Ulčar M, Freiental L, Traat S, Cabrera-Diego LA, Martinc M, Lavrač N, Škrlj B, Žnidaršič M, et al. (2021). EMBEDDIA Tools, Datasets and Challenges: Resources and Hackathon Contributions. EACL workshop on News Media Content Analysis and Automated Report Generation Kyiv (online) 19 Apr 2021
19-04-2021
bullet iconRohanian M, Hough J and Purver M (2021). Multi-modal fusion with gating using audio, lexical and disfluency features for Alzheimer's Dementia recognition from spontaneous speech. 
01-01-2021
bullet iconGan Y, Chen X, Huang Q, Purver M, Woodward JR, Xie J and Huang P (2021). Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution., Editors: Zong C, Xia F, Li W and Navigli R. 
01-01-2021
bullet iconGan Y, Chen X and Purver M (2021). Exploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generalization. 
01-01-2021
bullet iconGan Y, Chen X, Xie J, Purver M, Woodward JR, Drake J and Zhang Q (2021). Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications. 
01-01-2021
bullet iconZosa E, Shekhar R, Karan M and Purver M (2021). Not All Comments are Equal: Insights into Comment Moderation from a Topic-Aware Model. 
01-01-2021
bullet iconZosa E, Shekhar R, Karan M and Purver M (2021). Not All Comments Are Equal: Insights into Comment Moderation from a Topic-Aware Model., Editors: Angelova G, Kunilovskaya M, Mitkov R and Nikolova-Koleva I. 
01-01-2021
bullet iconNasreen S, Hough J and Purver M (2021). Detecting Alzheimer's Disease Using Interactional and Acoustic Features from Spontaneous Speech., Editors: Hermansky H, Cernocký H, Burget L, Lamel L, Scharenborg O and Motlícek P. 
01-01-2021
bullet iconRohanian M, Hough J and Purver M (2021). Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition Using Acoustic, Lexical, Disfluency and Speech Pause Features Robust to Noisy Inputs., Editors: Hermansky H, Cernocký H, Burget L, Lamel L, Scharenborg O and Motlícek P. 
01-01-2021
bullet iconGan Y, Chen X, Xie J, Purver M, Woodward JR, Drake JH and Zhang Q (2021). Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications., Editors: Moens M-F, Huang X, Specia L and Yih SW-T. 
01-01-2021

2020

bullet iconMcGregor S, Purver M and Wiggins G (2020). Metaphor generation through context sensitive distributional semantics. Producing Figurative Expression  419-448.  
26-11-2020
bullet iconRohanian M, Hough J and Purver M (2020). Multi-modal fusion with gating using audio, lexical and disfluency features for Alzheimer's Dementia recognition from spontaneous speech. Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 25 Oct 2020 - 29 Oct 2020
25-10-2020
bullet iconGregoromichelaki E, Mills G, Howes C, Eshghi A, Chatzikyriakidis S, Purver M, Kempson R, Cann R and Healey P (2020). Completability vs (In)completeness. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, Taylor & Francis (Routledge) 
22-10-2020
bullet iconShekhar R, Pranjić M, Pollak S, Pelicon A and Purver M (2020). Automating News Comment Moderation with Limited Resources: Benchmarking in Croatian and Estonian. Journal of Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology vol. 34 (1), 49-79.  
08-09-2020
bullet iconLau JH, Armendariz CS, Lappin S, Purver M and Shu C (2020). How Furiously Can Colourless Green Ideas Sleep? Sentence Acceptability in Context. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, MIT Press vol. 8, 296-310.  
22-06-2020
bullet iconLau JH, Santos Armendariz C, Lappin S, Purver M and Shu C (2020). How Furiously Can Colourless Green Ideas Sleep? Sentence Acceptability in Context. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, MIT Press vol. 8, 296-310.  
17-06-2020
bullet iconArmendariz CS, Purver M, Ulcar M, Pollak S, Ljubesic N and Granroth-Wilding M (2020). CoSimLex: A Resource for Evaluating Graded Word Similarity in Context., Editors: Calzolari N, Béchet F, Blache P, Choukri K, Cieri C, Declerck T, Goggi S, Isahara H, Maegaard B, Mariani J, Mazo H, Moreno A, Odijk J and Piperidis S. 
01-01-2020
bullet iconWright GA and Purver M (2020). Creative Language Generation in a Society of Engagement and Reflection., Editors: Cardoso FA, Machado P, Veale T and Cunha JM. 
01-01-2020
bullet iconTabak T and Purver M (2020). Temporal Mental Health Dynamics on Social Media. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020
01-01-2020
bullet iconTabak T and Purver M (2020). Temporal Mental Health Dynamics on Social Media., Editors: Verspoor K, Cohen KB, Conway M, Bruijn BD, Dredze M, Mihalcea R and Wallace BC. 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020
01-01-2020
bullet iconArmendariz CS, Purver M, Pollak S, Ljubešić N, Ulčar M, Vulić I and Pilehvar MT (2020). SemEval-2020 Task 3: Graded Word Similarity in Context. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
01-01-2020
bullet iconGan Y, Purver M and Woodward JR (2020). A Review of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Models., Editors: Shmueli B and Huang YJ. 
01-01-2020
bullet iconArmendariz CS, Purver M, Ulcar M, Pollak S, Ljubesic N, Robnik-Sikonja M, Granroth-Wilding M and Vaik K (2020). CoSimLex: A Resource for Evaluating Graded Word Similarity in Context. 
01-01-2020
bullet iconGan Y, Purver M and Woodward JR (2020). A Review of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Models. 
01-01-2020

2019

bullet iconSupej A, Plahuta M, Purver M, Mathioudakis M and Pollak S (2019). Gender, Language and Society - Word Embeddings as a Reflection of Social Inequalities in Linguistic Corpora., Editors: Ignjatović M, Kanjuo-Mrčela A and Kuhar R. Znanost in družbe prihodnosti, Slovensko sociološko srečanje [Annual meeting of the Slovenian Sociological Association: Science and future societies] Bled, Slovenia 18 Oct 2019 - 19 Oct 2019
24-12-2019
bullet iconArmendariz CS, Purver M, Ulčar M, Pollak S, Ljubešić N, Robnik-Šikonja M, Granroth-Wilding M and Vaik K (2019). CoSimLex: A Resource for Evaluating Graded Word Similarity in Context. 
11-12-2019
bullet iconRohanian M, Hough J and Purver M (2019). Detecting depression with word-level multimodal fusion. 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association - INTERSPEECH Graz, Austria
15-09-2019
bullet iconNasreen S, Purver M and Hough J (2019). A Corpus Study on Questions, Responses and Misunderstanding Signals in Conversations with Alzheimer’s Patients. 
01-09-2019
bullet iconMCGREGOR SE, AGRES K, Rataj K, PURVER MRJ and WIGGINS GA (2019). Re-Representing Metaphor: Modelling metaphor perception using dynamically contextual distributional semantics. Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media 
15-04-2019
bullet iconXiao P, Toivonen H, Gross O, Cardoso A, Correia J, Machado P, Martins P, Oliveira HG, Sharma R, Pinto AM, Díaz A, Francisco V, Gervás P, Hervás R, León C, Forth J, Purver M, Wiggins GA, Miljković D, Podpečan V, et al. (2019). Conceptual representations for computational concept creation. ACM Computing Surveys vol. 52 (1) 
01-02-2019
bullet iconDROOG-HAYES M, WIGGINS GA and PURVER MRJ (2019). Detecting Summary-worthy Sentences: the Effect of Discourse Features. 13th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing Newport Beach, CA 30 Jan 2019 - 2 Feb 2019
01-02-2019
bullet iconDroog-Hayes M, Wiggins GA and Purver M (2019). Detecting Summary-Worthy Sentences: The Effect of Discourse Features. 2019 IEEE 13th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)
30-01-2019
bullet iconMcGinity MM, Purver M and Wiggins G (2019). The influence of cost on the emergence of a common language among cooperating agents. 
01-01-2019
bullet iconMartín-Vide C, Pollak S and Purver M (2019). Preface. 
01-01-2019
bullet icon (2019). Statistical Language and Speech Processing - 7th International Conference, SLSP 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 14-16, 2019, Proceedings., Editors: Martín-Vide C, Purver M and Pollak S. 
01-01-2019

2018

bullet iconHEALEY PGT and PURVER MRJ (2018). Self-Repetition in Dialogue and Monologue. 
09-11-2018
bullet iconSadrzadeh M, Purver M, Hough J and Kempson R (2018). Exploring Semantic Incrementality with Dynamic Syntax and Vector Space Semantics. 
01-11-2018
bullet iconAlharbi S and Purver M (2018). Applying Distributional Semantics to Enhance Classifying Emotions in Arabic Tweets. Computer Science & Information Technology
28-04-2018
bullet iconPURVER MRJ, HOUGH J and HOWES C (2018). Computational Models of Miscommunication Phenomena. Topics in Cognitive Science, Wiley 
08-03-2018
bullet iconDroog-Hayes M, Wiggins G and Purver M (2018). Automatic detection of narrative structure for high-level story representation. 
01-01-2018

2017

bullet iconHOUGH J and PURVER MRJ (2017). Probabilistic Record Type Lattices for Incremental Reference Processing. Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics , Editors: Chatzikyriakidis S and Luo Z. 189-222.  
01-02-2017
bullet iconConcannon S, Healey P and Purver M (2017). How natural is argument in natural dialogue? Computational Models of Natural Argument
01-01-2017
bullet iconMcGregor S, Jezek E, Purver M and Wiggins G (2017). A geometric method for detecting semantic coercion. 
01-01-2017
bullet iconConcannon S, Healey PGT and Purver M (2017). Opening Up and Closing Down Discussion: Experimenting with Epistemic Status in Conversation. 
01-01-2017
bullet iconChesney S, Liakata M, Poesio M and Purver M (2017). Incongruent Headlines: Yet Another Way to Mislead Your Readers. Proceedings of the 2017 EMNLP Workshop: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism
01-01-2017

2016

bullet iconFORTH J, AGRES K, PURVER MRJ and WIGGINS GA (2016). Entraining IDyOT: timing in the information dynamics of thinking., Editors: RAVIGNANI A. Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media vol. 7, 1575-1575.  
18-10-2016
bullet iconMcGregor S, Purver M and Wiggins G (2016). Words, concepts, and the geometry of analogy. Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics and Cognitive Science
02-08-2016
bullet iconHEALEY PGT, HOWES C, HOUGH J and PURVER MRJ (2016). Better late than Now-or-Never: The case of interactive repair phenomena. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cambridge University Press (CUP): STM Journals vol. 39, e76-e76.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconAgres KR, McGregor S, Rataj K, Purver M and Wiggins GA (2016). Modeling metaphor perception with distributional semantics vector space models. 
01-01-2016
bullet iconMilajevs D, Sadrzadeh M and Purver M (2016). Robust Co-occurrence Quantification for Lexical Distributional Semantics. Proceedings of the ACL 2016 Student Research Workshop
01-01-2016
bullet iconMcGregor S, Purver M and Wiggins G (2016). Process Based Evaluation of Computer Generated Poetry. Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation
01-01-2016
bullet iconPurver M, Gervás P and Griffiths SS (2016). Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation., Editors: Purver M, Gervás P and Griffiths SS. 
01-01-2016
bullet icon (2016). Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation, CC-NLG 2016, Edinburgh, UK, September 2016., Editors: Purver M, Gervás P and Griffiths SS. 
01-01-2016
bullet iconMaleshkova J, Purver M, Weyrich T and McOwan PW (2016). Investigating Design and Evaluation Guidelines for Interactive Presentation of Visual Art. Curating the Digital  125-147.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconMaleshkova J, Purver M, Weyrich T and McOwan PW (2016). Interactivity and User Engagement in Art Presentation Interfaces. Curating the Digital  107-123.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconPurver M, Gervás P and Griffiths S (2016). Introduction. 
01-01-2016
bullet iconMilajevs D, Sadrzadeh M and Purver M (2016). Robust co-occurrence quantification for Lexical distributional semantics. 
01-01-2016

2015

bullet iconSylwester K and Purver M (2015). Twitter Language Use Reflects Psychological Differences between Democrats and Republicans., Editors: Danforth CM. PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science (PLoS) vol. 10 (9), e0137422-e0137422.  
16-09-2015
bullet iconKempson R, Cann R, Eshghi A, Gregoromichelaki E and Purver M (2015). Ellipsis. Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory , Editors: Lappin S and Fox C. 
01-09-2015
bullet iconConcannon S, Healey P and Purver M (2015). Shifting Opinions: Experiments on Agreement and Disagreement in Dialogue. 19th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (goDIAL) Gothenberg, Sweden 24 Aug 2015 - 26 Aug 2015
01-08-2015
bullet iconConcannon S, Healey PGT and Purver M (2015). Taking a Stance: a Corpus Study of Reported Speech. 19th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (goDIAL) Gothenburg, Sweden 23 Aug 2015 - 25 Aug 2015
01-08-2015
bullet iconMcGregor S, Purver M and Wiggins G (2015). An Emergent Model of Metaphors as Transformations of Vector Spaces. 
01-07-2015
bullet iconAgres K, McGregor S, Purver M and Wiggins G (2015). Conceptualizing Creativity: From Distributional Semantics to Conceptual Spaces. 
01-06-2015
bullet iconMylonas D, Purver M, Sadrzadeh M, MacDonald L and Griffin L (2015). The Use of English Colour Terms in Big Data. 
01-05-2015
bullet iconMcGregor S, Purver M and Wiggins G (2015). Metaphor, Meaning, Computers and Consciousness. 
01-04-2015
bullet iconEshghi A, Howes C, Gregoromichelaki E, Hough J and Purver M (2015). Feedback in Conversation as Incremental Semantic Update. International Conference on Computational Semantics
01-04-2015
bullet iconPurver M and Sadrzadeh M (2015). From Distributional Semantics to Distributional Pragmatics? 
01-04-2015
bullet iconSadrzadeh M and Purver M (2015). Geometry of Meaning from Words to Dialogue Acts. 
01-04-2015
bullet iconYuan Z and Purver M (2015). Predicting Emotion Labels for Chinese Microblog Texts. Advances in Social Media Analysis , Editors: Gaber MM, Cocea M, Wiratunga N and Goker A. 129-149.  
01-01-2015
bullet iconMcGregor S, Agres K, Purver M and Wiggins G (2015). From Distributional Semantics to Conceptual Spaces: A Novel Computational Method for Concept Creation. Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, De Gruyter Open vol. 6 (1), 55-86.  
01-01-2015
bullet iconGriffiths SS, McGinity MM, Forth J, Purver M and Wiggins GA (2015). Information-theoretic segmentation of natural language. 
01-01-2015
bullet iconPurver M, Sadrzadeh M and Stone M (2015). Introduction. 
01-01-2015
bullet icon (2015). Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics, IWCS 2015, 15-17 April, 2015, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK., Editors: Purver M, Sadrzadeh M and Stone M. 
01-01-2015

2014

bullet iconMilajevs D, Kartsaklis D, Sadrzadeh M and Purver M (2014). Evaluating Neural Word Representations in Tensor-Based Compositional Settings. 
01-10-2014
bullet iconHough J and Purver M (2014). Strongly Incremental Repair Detection. 
01-10-2014
bullet iconConcannon S and Purver M (2014). Inferring Cultural Preference of Arts Audiences Through Twitter Data. 
01-09-2014
bullet iconHowes C, Hough J, Purver M and McCabe R (2014). Helping, I Mean Assessing Psychiatric Communication: An Application of Incremental Self-Repair Detection. 
01-09-2014
bullet iconHough J and Purver M (2014). Lattice Theoretic Relevance in Incremental Reference Processing. 
01-08-2014
bullet iconPurver M (2014). A Simple Baseline for Discriminating Similar Languages. 
01-08-2014
bullet iconMaleshkova J and Purver M (2014). Beyond the White Cube: Presentation of Visual Art in Interactive 3D Environments. 
01-07-2014
bullet iconPurver M, Hough J and Gregoromichelaki E (2014). Dialogue and Compound Contributions. Natural Language Generation in Interactive Systems , Editors: Stent A and Bangalore S. 63-92.  
01-06-2014
bullet iconMcGregor S, Wiggins G and Purver M (2014). Computational Creativity: A Philosophical Approach, and an Approach to Philosophy. 
01-06-2014
bullet iconHowes C, Purver M and McCabe R (2014). Linguistic Indicators of Severity and Progress in Online Text-based Therapy for Depression. 
01-06-2014
bullet iconDacres S, Haddadi H and Purver M (2014). Topic and Sentiment Analysis on OSNs: a Case Study of Advertising Strategies on Twitter. 
01-05-2014
bullet iconHough J and Purver M (2014). Probabilistic Type Theory for Incremental Dialogue Processing. 
01-04-2014
bullet iconMilajevs D and Purver M (2014). Investigating the Contribution of Distributional Semantic Information for Dialogue Act Classification. 
01-04-2014
bullet iconFarion C and Purver M (2014). Did you pack your keys? Smart objects and forgetfulness. 
01-01-2014
bullet iconHealey PGT, Purver M and Howes C (2014). Divergence in dialogue. PLoS One vol. 9 (2) 
01-01-2014
bullet iconMilajevs D, Kartsaklis D, Sadrzadeh M and Purver M (2014). Evaluating Neural Word Representations in Tensor-Based Compositional Settings., Editors: Moschitti A, Pang B and Daelemans W. 
01-01-2014
bullet iconHough J and Purver M (2014). Strongly Incremental Repair Detection., Editors: Moschitti A, Pang B and Daelemans W. 
01-01-2014
bullet iconMcGregor S, Wiggins G and Purver M (2014). Computational creativity: A philosophical approach, and an approach to philosophy. 
01-01-2014
bullet iconMaleshkova J and Purver M (2014). Beyond the White Cube: Presentation of Visual Art in Interactive 3D Environments. 
01-01-2014

2013

bullet iconMaleshkova J, Purver M, Grau O and Pansiot J (2013). Presentation and communication of visual artworks in an interactive virtual environment. 
30-12-2013
bullet iconHough J and Purver M (2013). Modelling Expectation in the Self-Repair Processing of Annotat-, um, Listeners. SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Amsterdam 16 Dec 2013 - 18 Dec 2013
01-12-2013
bullet iconEshghi A, Hough J and Purver M (2013). Incremental Grammar Induction from Child-Directed Dialogue Utterances. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) Sofia, Bulgaria
01-08-2013
bullet iconHowes C, Purver M and McCabe R (2013). Using Conversation Topics for Predicting Therapy Outcomes in Schizophrenia. Biomedical Informatics Insights, Libertas Academica vol. 6, 39-50.  
01-07-2013
bullet iconPURVER MRJ, Eshghi A and Hough J (2013). Data-driven Learning in an Incremental Grammar Framework. Linguistic Evidence Tübingen 4 Apr 2013 - 6 Apr 2013
01-04-2013
bullet iconEshghi A, Purver M and Hough J (2013). Probabilistic Induction for an Incremental Semantic Grammar. 
01-03-2013
bullet iconFarion C and Purver M (2013). Message Bag: Can Assistive Technology Combat Forgetfulness? 4th Augmented Human International Conference Stuttgart, Germany 7 Mar 2013 - 8 Mar 2013
01-03-2013
bullet iconHowes C, Purver M and McCabe R (2013). Investigating Topic Modelling for Therapy Dialogue Analysis. 
01-03-2013
bullet iconKhaorapapong N, Cox D and PURVER MRJ (2013). Augmenting Real-World Social Networking with Vibrotactile Display. 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2013) Barcelona 1 Jan 1970
01-02-2013
bullet iconEshghi A, Purver M, Hough J and Sato Y (2013). Probabilistic grammar induction in an incremental semantic framework. 92-107.  
01-01-2013
bullet iconHaddadi H, Healey P, McCabe R and Purver M (2013). Healthcare Informatics for Mental Health: Recent Advances and the Outlook for the Future. 
01-01-2013

2012

bullet iconHowes C, Purver M, McCabe R, Healey PGT and Lavelle M (2012). Helping the Medicine Go Down: Repair and Adherence in Patient-Clinician Dialogues. 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2012)
01-09-2012
bullet iconEshghi A, Purver M, Hough J and Sato Y (2012). Inducing lexical entries for an incremental semantic grammar., Editors: Duchier D and Parmentier Y. 7th International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language Processing (CSLP’12) University of Orleans. France 13 Sep 2012 - 14 Sep 2012
01-09-2012
bullet iconHough J and Purver M (2012). Processing Self-Repairs in an Incremental Type-Theoretic Dialogue System. 16th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SeineDial)
01-09-2012
bullet iconYuan Z and Purver M (2012). Predicting Emotion Labels for Chinese Microblog Texts. 1st International Workshop on Sentiment Discovery from Affective Data (SDAD)
01-09-2012
bullet iconHowes C, Healey P, PURVER MRJ and Eshghi A (2012). Finishing each other's ... Responding to incomplete contributions in dialogue. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Riva del Garda, Italy 1 Jan 1970 - 8 Sep 2012
01-09-2012
bullet iconHowes C, Healey PGT and Purver M (2012). Whose turn is it anyway? Same- and cross-person compound contributions in dialogue. 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012)
01-08-2012
bullet iconHowes C, Healey PGT, Purver M and Eshghi A (2012). Finishing each other’s ... Responding to incomplete contributions in dialogue. 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012)
01-08-2012
bullet iconHowes C, Purver M, McCabe R, Healey PGT and Lavelle M (2012). Predicting Adherence to Treatment for Schizophrenia from Dialogue Transcripts. 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2012 Conference) Seoul National University, South Korea 5 Jul 2012 - 6 Jul 2012
01-07-2012
bullet iconKhaorapapong N and PURVER MRJ (2012). Designing Unobtrusive Interfaces to Increase Naturalness of First Time Face-To-Face Interaction. 5th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME 2012) Newcastle 1 Jan 1970
01-06-2012
bullet iconKhaorapapong N and PURVER MRJ (2012). Icebreaker T-shirt: a Wearable Device for Easing Face-to-Face Interaction. 16th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2012) Newcastle 1 Jan 1970
01-06-2012
bullet iconKhaorapapong N and PURVER MRJ (2012). An Assistive Device for Shy Users in Face-to-Face Communication. Doctoral Consortium at the 16th annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2012) Newcastle 1 Jan 1970
01-06-2012
bullet iconPurver M and Battersby S (2012). Experimenting with Distant Supervision for Emotion Classification. 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012) Avignon, France 23 Apr 2012 - 27 Apr 2012
01-01-2012
bullet iconEshghi A, Hough J, Purver M, Kempson R and Gregoromichelaki E (2012). Conversational Interactions: Capturing Dialogue Dynamics. From Quantification to Conversation: Festschrift for Robin Cooper on the occasion of his 65th birthday , Editors: Larsson S and Borin L. 325-349.  
01-01-2012
bullet iconGinzburg J and Purver M (2012). Quantification, the Reprise Content Hypothesis, and Type Theory. From Quantification to Conversation: Festschrift for Robin Cooper on the occasion of his 65th birthday , Editors: Larsson S and Borin L. 85-110.  
01-01-2012

2011

bullet iconEshghi A, Purver M and Hough J (2011). DyLan: Parser for Dynamic Syntax. 
01-10-2011
bullet iconHowes C, Healey P and Purver M (2011). Tracking the Dative Alternation in Conversation. Structural Alternations
01-08-2011
bullet iconHealey PGT, Eshghi A, Purver M and Howes C (2011). Making a Contribution: Processing Clarification Requests in Dialogue. 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D)
01-07-2011
bullet iconHowes C, Purver M, Healey PGT, Mills GJ and Gregoromichelaki E (2011). On Incrementality in Dialogue: Evidence from Compound Contributions. Dialogue & Discourse, Linguistic Society of America vol. 2 (1), 279-311.  
01-01-2011
bullet iconGregoromichelaki E, Kempson R, Purver M, Mills GJ, Cann R, Meyer-Viol W and Healey PGT (2011). Incrementality and Intention-Recognition in Utterance Processing. Dialogue & Discourse vol. 2 (1), 199-233.  
01-01-2011
bullet iconFox S, Ehlen P and Purver M (2011). Enabling Distributed Communication of Manual Skills. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Emerald vol. 4, 49-63.  
01-01-2011
bullet iconPurver M, Eshghi A and Hough J (2011). Incremental Semantic Construction in a Dialogue System., Editors: Bos J and Pulman S. 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)
01-01-2011
bullet iconPurver M (2011). Topic Segmentation. Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech , Editors: Tur G and de Mori R. 291-317.  
01-01-2011
bullet iconHowes C, Purver M, HEALEY PGT, Mills GJ and Gregoromichelaki E (2011). On Incrementality in Dialogue: Evidence from Compound Contributions. Dialogue and Discourse vol. 2 (1), 279-311.  
01-01-2011
bullet iconKempson R, Gregoromichelaki E, Meyer-Viol W, Purver M, White G and Cann R (2011). Natural-language Syntax as Procedures for Interpretation: the Dynamics of Ellipsis Construal., Editors: Lecomte A and Tron c con S. 
01-01-2011

2010

bullet iconEshghi A, Healey PGT, Purver M, Howes C, Gregoromichelaki E and Kempson R (2010). Incremental Turn Processing in Dialogue. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)
01-09-2010
bullet iconHealey PGT, Purver M and Howes C (2010). Structural Divergence in Dialogue. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)
01-09-2010
bullet iconHealey PGT, Purver M and Howes C (2010). Structural Divergence in Dialogue. 
01-08-2010
bullet icon (2010). Aspects of Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue: SemDial 2010, 14th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue., Editors: Lupkowski PL and Purver M. 
01-06-2010
bullet iconPurver M, Gregoromichelaki E, Meyer-Viol W and Cann R (2010). Splitting the ‘I’s and Crossing the ‘You’s: Context, Speech Acts and Grammar., Editors: Lupkowski P and Purver M. 
01-06-2010
bullet iconHealey PGT, Howes C and Purver M (2010). Does Structural Priming Occur in Ordinary Conversation? 
01-02-2010
bullet iconKempson R, Gregoromichelaki E, Mills GJ, Purver M, Howes C and Healey PGT (2010). On Dialogue Modelling, Language Processing Dynamics, and Linguistic Knowledge. 
01-02-2010
bullet iconTur G, Stolcke A, Voss L, Peters S, Hakkani-T UD, Dowding J, Favre B, Fernández R, Frampton M, Frandsen M, Frederickson C, Graciarena M, Kintzing D, Leveque K, Mason S, Niekrasz J, Purver M, Riedhammer K, Shriberg E, Tien J, et al. (2010). The CALO Meeting Assistant System. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, IEEE vol. 18 (6), 1601-1611.  
01-01-2010
bullet iconHowes C, Healey PGT and Purver M (2010). Tracking lexical and syntactic alignment in conversation., Editors: Ohlsson S and Catrambone R. 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Portland, Oregon 11 Aug 2010 - 14 Aug 2010
01-01-2010

2009

bullet iconGargett A, Gregoromichelaki E, Kempson R, Purver M and Sato Y (2009). Grammar resources for modelling dialogue dynamically. Cogn Neurodyn vol. 3 (4), 347-363.  
01-12-2009
bullet iconPurver M, Fernández R, Frampton M and Peters S (2009). Cascaded Lexicalised Classifiers for Second-Person Reference Resolution. SIGDIAL 200910th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2009 Conference) London, UK
01-09-2009
bullet icon (2009). Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference., Editors: Healey PGT, Pieraccini R, Byron D, Young S and Purver M. 
01-09-2009
bullet iconPurver M, Howes C, Gregoromichelaki E and Healey PGT (2009). Split Utterances in Dialogue: a Corpus Study. SIGDIAL 2009 London, UK
01-09-2009
bullet iconKempson R, Gregoromichelaki E, Purver M, Mills GJ, Gargett A and Howes C (2009). How Mechanistic Can Accounts Of Interaction Be? 
01-06-2009
bullet icon (2009). Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference, The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 11-12 September 2009, London, UK., Editors: Healey PGT, Pieraccini R, Byron DK, Young SJ and Purver M. 
01-01-2009
bullet iconPurver M, Howes C, Healey PGT and Gregoromichelaki E (2009). Split utterances in dialogue. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference on The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue - SIGDIAL '09
01-01-2009

2008

bullet iconTur G, Stolcke A, Voss L, Dowding J, Favre B, Fernández R, Frampton M, Frandsen M, Frederickson C, Graciarena M, Hakkani-T ur D, Kintzing D, Leveque K, Mason S, Niekrasz J, Peters S, Purver M, Riedhammer K, Shriberg E, Tien J, et al. (2008). The CALO Meeting Speech Recognition and Understanding System. 
01-12-2008
bullet iconDowman M, Savova V, Griffiths TL, K ording KP, Tenebaum JB and Purver M (2008). A Probabilistic Model of Meetings That Combines Words and Discourse Features. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing vol. 16 (7), 1238-1248.  
01-09-2008
bullet iconFernández R, Frampton M, Ehlen P, Purver M and Peters S (2008). Modelling and Detecting Decisions in Multi-Party Dialogue., Editors: Schlangen D and Hockey BA. 
01-06-2008
bullet iconGruenstein A, Niekrasz J and Purver M (2008). Meeting Structure Annotation: Annotations Collected with a General Purpose Toolkit. Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue , Editors: Dybkjaer L and Minker W. 247-274.  
01-01-2008
bullet iconTur G, Sfolcke A, Voss L, Dowding J, Favre B, Fernandez R, Frampton M, Frandsen M, Frederickson C, Graciarena M, Hakkani-Tur D, Kintzing D, Leveque K, Mason S, Niekrasz J, Peters S, Purver M, Riedhammer K, Shriberg E, Tien J, et al. (2008). THE CALO MEETING SPEECH RECOGNITION AND UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM. 
01-01-2008
bullet iconPurver M, Niekrasz J and Ehlen P (2008). Automatic Annotation of Dialogue Structure from Simple User Interaction., Editors: Popescu-Belis A, Renals S and Bourlard H. 
01-01-2008
bullet iconEhlen P, Purver M, Niekrasz J, Lee K and Peters S (2008). Meeting Adjourned: Off-line Learning Interfaces for Automatic Meeting Understanding. 
01-01-2008
bullet iconFernández R, Frampton M, Ehlen P, Purver M and Peters S (2008). Modelling and detecting decisions in multi-party dialogue. 
01-01-2008

2007

bullet iconWeng F, Yan B, Feng Z, Ratiu F, Raya M, Lathrop B, Lien A, Mishra R, Varges S, Lin F, Purver M, Meng Y, Bratt H, Scheideck T, Zhang Z, Raghunathan B and Peters S (2007). CHAT To Your Destination. 
01-09-2007
bullet iconCann R, Kempson R and Purver M (2007). Context and Well-formedness: the Dynamics of Ellipsis. Research on Language and Computation, Springer vol. 5 (3), 333-358.  
01-09-2007
bullet iconPurver M, Dowding J, Niekrasz J, Ehlen P, Noorbaloochi S and Peters S (2007). Detecting and Summarizing Action Items in Multi-Party Dialogue. 
01-09-2007
bullet iconGupta S, Niekrasz J, Purver M and Jurafsky D (2007). Resolving “You” in Multi-Party Dialog. 
01-09-2007
bullet iconGupta S, Purver M and Jurafsky D (2007). Disambiguating Between Generic and Referential “You” in Dialog. 
01-06-2007
bullet iconYan B, Weng F, Feng Z, Ratiu F, Raya M, Meng Y, Varges S, Purver M, Lin F, Lien A, Scheideck T, Raghunathan B, Mishra R, Lathrop B, Bratt H and Peters S (2007). A Conversational In-Car Dialog System (Demo). 
01-04-2007
bullet iconEhlen P, Niekrasz J and Purver M (2007). A Meeting Browser That Learns., Editors: Yorke-Smith N. 
01-03-2007
bullet iconEhlen P, Purver M and Niekrasz J (2007). A Meeting Browser that Learns. 
01-01-2007

2006

bullet iconPurver M (2006). CLARIE: Handling Clarification Requests in a Dialogue System. Research on Language and Computation, Springer vol. 4 (2-3), 259–288-259–288.  
01-10-2006
bullet iconPurver M, Cann R and Kempson R (2006). Grammars as Parsers: Meeting the Dialogue Challenge. Research on Language and Computation, Springer vol. 4 (2-3), 289-326.  
01-10-2006
bullet iconWeng F, Varges S, Raghunathan B, Ratiu F, Pon-Barry H, Lathrop B, Zhang Q, Bratt H, Scheideck T, Xu K, Purver M, Mishra R, Lien A, Raya M, Peters S, Meng Y, Russell J, Cavedon L, Shriberg E, Schmidt H, et al. (2006). CHAT: a conversational helper for automotive tasks. Interspeech 2006
17-09-2006
bullet iconPurver M, Ratiu F and Cavedon L (2006). Robust interpretation in dialogue by combining confidence scores with contextual features. Interspeech 2006
17-09-2006
bullet iconPurver M, Ratiu F and Cavedon L (2006). Robust Interpretation in Dialogue by Combining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features. 
01-09-2006
bullet iconWeng F, Varges S, Raghunathan B, Ratiu F, Pon-Barry H, Lathrop B, Zhang Q, Scheideck T, Bratt H, Xu K, Purver M, Mishra R, Raya M, Peters S, Meng Y, Cavedon L and Shriberg L (2006). CHAT: A Conversational Helper for Automotive Tasks. 
01-09-2006
bullet iconEhlen P, Laidebeure S, Niekrasz J, Purver M, Dowding J and Peters S (2006). Browsing Meetings: Automatic Understanding, Presentation and Feedback for Multi-Party Conversations (Demo). 
01-09-2006
bullet iconVarges S and Purver M (2006). Robust Language Analysis and Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems. 
01-08-2006
bullet iconPurver M, Ehlen P and Niekrasz J (2006). Shallow Discourse Structure for Action Item Detection. 
01-06-2006
bullet iconKempson R, Cann R and Purver M (2006). Grammar Formalisms and Explanations of Dialogue. 
01-02-2006
bullet iconPurver M, Ehlen P and Niekrasz J (2006). Detecting Action Items in Multi-Party Meetings: Annotation and Initial Experiments. Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction  200–211-200–211.  
01-01-2006
bullet iconPurver M, Kording KP, Griffiths TL and Tenenbaum JB (2006). Unsupervised Topic Modelling for Multi-Party Spoken Discourse. 
01-01-2006
bullet iconWeng FL, Varges S, Raghunathan B, Ratiu F, Pon-Barry H, Lathrop B, Zhang Q, Bratt H, Scheideck T, Xu K, Purver M, Mishra R, Lien A, Raya M, Peters S, Meng Y, Russell J, Cavedon L, Shriberg E, Schmidt H, et al. (2006). CHAT: A Conversational Helper for Automotive Tasks. 
01-01-2006
bullet iconPurver M, Ehlen P and Niekrasz J (2006). Detecting action items in multi-party meetings: Annotation and initial experiments., Editors: Renals S, Bengio S and Fiscus JG. 
01-01-2006
bullet iconPurver M, Ratiu F and Cavedon L (2006). Robust Interpretation in Dialogue by Combining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features. 
01-01-2006
bullet iconNiekrasz J and Purver M (2006). A Multimodal Discourse Ontology for Meeting Understanding. Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: Second International Workshop MLMI 2005, Revised Selected Papers , Editors: Renals S and Bengio S. 162–173-162–173.  
01-01-2006

2005

bullet iconCavedon L, Purver M and Ratiu F (2005). Combining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features for Robust Multi-Device Dialogue. 
01-12-2005
bullet iconGruenstein A, Niekrasz J and Purver M (2005). Meeting Structure Annotation: Data and Tools. 
01-09-2005
bullet iconCann R, Purver M and Kempson R (2005). Context and Well-formedness: the Dynamics of Ellipsis., Editors: Kempson R and Morrill G. 
01-08-2005
bullet iconPallotta V, Niekrasz J and Purver M (2005). Collaborative and Argumentative Models of Meeting Discussions. 
01-07-2005
bullet iconPurver M, Niekrasz J and Peters S (2005). Ontology-Based Discourse Understanding for a Persistent Meeting Assistant. 
01-04-2005
bullet iconNiekrasz J, Purver M, Dowding J and Peters S (2005). Ontology-Based Discourse Understanding for a Persistent Meeting Assistant., Editors: Shapiro D, Berry P, Gersh J and Schurr N. 
01-03-2005
bullet iconNiekrasz J and Purver M (2005). A multimodal discourse ontology for meeting understanding., Editors: Renals S and Bengio S. 
01-01-2005

2004

bullet iconPurver M (2004). The Theory and Use of Clarification Requests in Dialogue. 
01-08-2004
bullet iconFernández R and Purver M (2004). Information State Update: Semantics or Pragmatics? 
01-07-2004
bullet iconPurver M (2004). CLARIE: the Clarification Engine. 
01-07-2004
bullet iconPurver M and Kempson R (2004). Incremental Context-Based Generation for Dialogue., Editors: Belz A, Evans R and Piwek P. 
01-07-2004
bullet iconPurver M and Kempson R (2004). Incrementality, Alignment and Shared Utterances., Editors: Ginzburg J and Vallduví E. 
01-07-2004
bullet iconPurver M and Kempson R (2004). Incremental Parsing, or Incremental Grammar?, Editors: Keller F, Clark S, Crocker M and Steedman M. 
01-07-2004
bullet iconKempson R and Purver M (2004). Grammars with Parsing Dynamics: a New Perspective on Alignment. 
01-03-2004
bullet iconPurver M and Ginzburg J (2004). Clarifying Noun Phrase Semantics. Journal of Semantics, Oxford Journals vol. 21 (3), 283-339.  
01-01-2004
bullet iconPurver M and Kempson R (2004). Context-based incremental generation for dialogue., Editors: Belz A, Evans R and Piwek P. 
01-01-2004

2003

bullet iconPurver M and Fernández R (2003). Utterances as Update Instructions. 
01-09-2003
bullet iconPurver M and Ginzburg J (2003). Clarifying Noun Phrase Semantics in HPSG., Editors: S MU. 
01-07-2003
bullet iconPurver M, Healey PGT, King J, Ginzburg J and Mills GJ (2003). Answering Clarification Questions. 
01-07-2003
bullet iconPurver M and Otsuka M (2003). Incremental Generation by Incremental Parsing: Tactical Generation in Dynamic Syntax. 
01-04-2003
bullet iconHEALEY PGT, Ginzburg J and Purver M (2003). On the Means for Clarification in Dialogue. Smith R and van Kuppevelt (eds) Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue. Association of Computational Linguistics
01-01-2003
bullet iconGinzburg J, Sag IA and Purver M (2003). Integrating Conversational Move Types in the Grammar of Conversation. Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium , Editors: K UP, Rieser H and Zeevat H. 25–42-25–42.  
01-01-2003
bullet iconHEALEY PGT, Mills G, King J, Purver M and Ginzburg J (2003). Answering Clarification Questions. Proceedings of the 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Association of Computational Linguistics. Sapporo
01-01-2003
bullet iconHealey PGT, Purver M, King J, Ginzburg J and Mills GJ (2003). Experimenting with clarification in dialogue., Editors: Alterman R and Kirsh D. 
01-01-2003
bullet iconOtsuka M and Purver M (2003). Incremental Generation by Incremental Parsing. 6th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium
01-01-2003
bullet iconPurver M, Ginzburg J and Healey P (2003). On the means for clarification in dialogue., Editors: VanKuppevelt J and Smith RW. 
01-01-2003

2002

bullet iconPurver M (2002). Processing Unknown Words in a Dialogue System. 3rd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
01-07-2002

2001

bullet iconPurver M, Ginzburg J and Healey P (2001). On the Means for Clarification in Dialogue. 2nd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
01-09-2001
bullet iconGinzburg J, Sag IA and Purver M (2001). Integrating Conversational Move Types in the Grammar of Conversation., Editors: K UP, Rieser H and Zeevat H. 5th Workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (BI-DIALOG)
01-06-2001

Grants

solid heart iconGrants of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI
bullet iconAddressing socio-technical limitations of LLMs for medical and social computing
Maria Liakata, Julia Ive, Matthew Purver, Michael Schlichtkrull, Claude Chelala and Gregory Slabaugh
£1,799,332 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-05-2024 - 31-03-2028)


bullet iconInternship: Iacopo Ghinassi
Matthew Purver
£10,311 BBC British Broadcasting Corporation (11-01-2024 - 10-07-2024)
solid heart iconAnnotating Reference and Coreference In Dialogue Using Conversational Agents in games
Massimo Poesio, Julian Hough, Diego Perez-Liebana and Matthew Purver
£986,834 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-02-2022 - 31-07-2025)
bullet iconStreamlining Social Decision Making for Improved Internet Standards
Matthew Purver, Ignacio De Castro Arribas, Patrick Healey and Gareth Tyson
£757,243 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-01-2020 - 30-06-2024)