Prof Matthew Purver
Professor of Computational Linguistics
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Dialogue, Interaction
Interests
Computational linguistics / natural language processingSemantics and pragmatics of natural language
Dialogue modelling and dialogue systems
Mental health and dialogue
Social media analysis
Computational social science
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI2026
Evaluating fine-tuned, embedding-based, and zero-shot models for aspect-based sentiment analysis in South Slavic newsChatterjee N Koloski B Doucet A Pollak S Purver M
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Frontiers vol. 9
18-09-2026
CG-TTRL: Context-Guided Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for On-Device Large Language ModelsHosseini P Bohdal O Ceritli T Castro I Purver M Ozay M Michieli U
Transactions of The Association For Computational Linguistics, MIT Press vol. 14, 1883-1898.
28-08-2026
DuoMem: Towards Capable On-Device Memory Agents via Dual-Space DistillationHosseini P Bohdal O Alajrami A Maracani A Castro I Purver M Ozay M Ozkan S et al.
In Arxiv
29-06-2026
FineDialFact: A benchmark for Fine-grained Dialogue Fact VerificationChen X Li Y Gan Y Zubiaga A Purver M
In Arxiv
12-06-2026
FairJudge: Abstention-Aware Multimodal Judges for Fairness and Alignment Evaluation in Text-to-Image ModelsSahili ZA Fetanat M Fetanat M Patras I Purver M
In Arxiv
25-05-2026
FineDialFact: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Dialogue Fact VerificationChen X Li Y Gan Y Zubiaga A Purver M
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)., 2798-2811.
01-05-2026
Exploring Social Bias in Slovenia: The EEC-SL DatasetCaporusso J Hoogland D Koloski B Purver M Pollak S Vintar S
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)., 4019-4030.
01-05-2026
Multilingual Cognitive Impairment Detection in the Era of Foundation ModelsHoogland D Koloski B Caporusso J Kolenik T Pollak S Manouilidou C Purver M
Proceedings of the Sixth Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments in cooperation with the MENTAL.ai consortium., 1-12.
01-05-2026
Environmental, Social and Governance Sentiment Analysis on Slovene News: A Novel Dataset and ModelsDodig P Koloski B Sitar Šuštar K Pollak S Purver M
The 7th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop., 49-58.
01-05-2026
Environmental, Social and Governance Sentiment Analysis on Slovene News: A Novel Dataset and ModelsDodig P Koloski B Šuštar KS Pollak S Purver M
In Arxiv
08-04-2026
Multilingual Cognitive Impairment Detection in the Era of Foundation ModelsHoogland D Koloski B Caporusso J Kolenik T Vitez AZ Pollak S Manouilidou C Purver M
In Arxiv
08-04-2026
Fine-Refine: Iterative Fine-grained Refinement for Mitigating Dialogue HallucinationChen X Gan Y Purver M
In Arxiv
17-02-2026
ClarQ4LLM: A Benchmark for Models Clarifying and Requesting Information in Task-Oriented DialogGan Y Li C Xie J Wen L Purver M Poesio M
IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. PP (99), 1-16.
04-02-2026
Mono- and cross-lingual evaluation of representation language models on less-resourced languagesUlčar M Žagar A Armendariz CS Repar A Pollak S Purver M Robnik-Šikonja M
Computer Speech & Language, Elsevier vol. 95, 101852-101852.
01-01-2026
Diagnosing Lower Extremity Arteriovenous Diseases Using Agentic LLMsLiao Z Sun Y Purver M
BioNLP 2026., 250-267.
01-01-2026
2024
When Cohesion Lies in the Embedding Space: Embedding-Based Reference-Free Metrics for Topic SegmentationGhinassi I Wang L Newell C Purver M
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)., 17525-17536.
01-05-2024
Recent Trends in Linear Text Segmentation: A SurveyGhinassi I Wang L Newell C Purver M
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024., 3084-3095.
01-01-2024
2023
Comparing neural sentence encoders for topic segmentation across domains: not your typical text similarity taskGhinassi I Wang L Newell C Purver M
Peerj Computer Science, Peerj vol. 9
03-11-2023
Multimodal Topic Segmentation of Podcast Shows with Pre-trained Neural EncodersGhinassi I Wang L Newell C Purver M
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval., 602-606.
12-06-2023
Lessons Learnt from Linear Text Segmentation: a Fair Comparison of Architectural and Sentence Encoding Strategies for Successful SegmentationGhinassi I Wang L Newell C Purver M
Proceedings of the Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Large Language Models for Natural Language Processings., 408-418.
01-01-2023
2022
ARCIDUCA: Annotating Reference and Coreference In Dialogue Using Conversational Agents in gamesPoesio M Bartle R Chamberlain J Hough J Madge C Perez-Liebana D Purver M Yu J
23-08-2022
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AIAddressing socio-technical limitations of LLMs for medical and social computingMaria Liakata, Julia Ive, Matthew Purver, Michael Schlichtkrull, Claude Chelala and Greg Slabaugh
£1,799,332 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-05-2024 - 31-03-2028
Internship: Iacopo GhinassiMatthew Purver
£10,311 British Broadcasting Corporation
11-01-2024 - 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 Council
01-02-2022 - 31-07-2025
Streamlining Social Decision Making for Improved Internet StandardsMatthew Purver, Ignacio De Castro Arribas, Pat Healey and Gareth Tyson
£757,243 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-01-2020 - 30-06-2024
Cross-Lingual Embeddings for News Media IndustryMatthew Purver
£357,506 EU Commission - Horizon 2020
01-01-2019 - 31-03-2022
Research Group
PhD Students
- Zahraa Al Sahili
Towards Trustworthy AI Across Vision and Language - Iqra Ali
Longitudinal Modeling With Large Language Models and Applications in Mental Health - 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 - Harshad Gupta
Cog Sci - Seyedpeyman Hosseini
Modelling and Sentiment Analysis of Game Reviews (Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence) - Cian Kennedy
Cog Sci - Guneet Kohli
Reasoning-Centric Evaluation of Large Language Models: a Transparent Reference-Free Framework - Zicen Liao
Cog Sci - Hyunkyung Park
Reliable Dialogue Fact Verification For Context-Dependent Claims: Controlled Rewriting, Context-Use Audits, and Layerwise Diagnostics - Maja Pavlovic
Soft-Label Learning: Uncertainty, Disagreement or Noise? - Juexi Shao
Grounding of Conversational Agents in a Collaborative Construction Environment - Mingwei Shi
Mitigating Hallucinations in Small Language Models and Downstream Agentic AI - Yuhan Xia
Cog Sci - Fengkai Yang
Coreference With Dialogue - Ziyu Zhai
Cog Sci - Zengqun Zhao
Analysis of Human Affective Behaviour Using Visual-Language Models
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