Prof Matthew Purver
Professor of Computational Linguistics
Theme Lead: “Natural Language Processing” and Industry and External Engagement Lead
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 Human-Centred Computing
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Human-Centred Computing2026
Scaling Multilingual Safety and Reasoning Evaluation through Reasoning-Guided TranslationSahili ZA Patras I Purver M
In Arxiv
14-10-2026
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
Fine-Refine: Iterative Fine-grained Refinement for Mitigating Dialogue Hallucination.Chen X Gan Y Purver M
Corr vol. abs/2602.15509
01-02-2026
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
2025
Breaking Language Barriers or Reinforcing Bias? A Study of Gender and Racial Disparities in Multilingual Contrastive Vision Language ModelsSahili ZA Patras I Purver M
In Arxiv
18-11-2025
Referential ambiguity and clarification requests: comparing human and LLM behaviourMadge C Purver M Poesio M
Eighth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference.
01-11-2025
Data Matters Most: Auditing Social Bias in Contrastive Vision Language ModelsSahili ZA Patras I Purver M
Transactions on Machine Learning Research
26-10-2025
FairCoT: Enhancing Fairness in Text-to-Image Generation via Chain of Thought Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language ModelsSahili ZA Patras I Purver M
Findings of the ACL: EMNLP 2025.
12-09-2025
Improving Factuality for Dialogue Response Generation via Graph-Based Knowledge AugmentationChen X Gan Y Gu Y Purver M
In Arxiv
07-08-2025
Multimodal Machine Learning in Mental Health: A Survey of Data, Algorithms, and ChallengesSahili ZA Patras I Purver M
In Arxiv
24-06-2025
Cost-Effective Attention Mechanisms for Low Resource Settings: Necessity & Sufficiency of Linear TransformationsHosseini P Hosseini M Castro I Purver M
In Arxiv
16-02-2025
Efficient Solutions For An Intriguing Failure of LLMs: Long Context Window Does Not Mean LLMs Can Analyze Long Sequences FlawlesslyHosseini P Castro I Ghinassi I Purver M
International Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING., 1880-1891.
01-01-2025
A Dataset for Expert Reviewer Recommendation with Large Language Models as Zero-shot RankersKaran VM McQuistin S Yanagida R Perkins C Tyson G Castro I Healey P Purver M
International Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING., 11422-11427.
01-01-2025
A Computational Framework to Identify Self-Aspects in TextCaporusso J Purver M Pollak S
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)., 725-739.
01-01-2025
Breaking Language Barriers or Reinforcing Bias? A Study of Gender and Racial Disparities in Multilingual Contrastive Vision Language ModelsAl Sahili Z Patras I Purver M
Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics., 331-352.
01-01-2025
2024
Efficient Solutions For An Intriguing Failure of LLMs: Long Context Window Does Not Mean LLMs Can Analyze Long Sequences FlawlesslyHosseini P Castro I Ghinassi I Purver M
In Arxiv
20-12-2024
Evaluating and explaining training strategies for zero-shot cross-lingual news sentiment analysisAndrenšek L Koloski B Pelicon A Lavrač N Pollak S Purver M
In Arxiv
30-09-2024
ClarQ-LLM: A Benchmark for Models Clarifying and Requesting Information in Task-Oriented DialogGan Y Li C Xie J Wen L Purver M Poesio M
In Arxiv
14-09-2024
How do Encoder-only LMs Predict Closeness and Respect from Thai Conversations?Nakwijit P Rutherford AT Purver M
28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue.
11-09-2024
The Geography of Temperature SpaceWright GA Purver M
CAOS: Cognition And OntologieS. vol. 3882
08-09-2024
A Computational Analysis of the Dehumanisation of Migrants from Syria and Ukraine in Slovene News MediaCaporusso J Hoogland D Brglez M Koloski B Purver M Pollak S
2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024., 199-210.
20-05-2024
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
Denoising Labeled Data for Comment Moderation Using Active LearningPelicon A Karan VM Shekhar R Purver M Pollak S
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)., 4626-4633.
01-05-2024
A Computational Analysis of the Dehumanisation of Migrants from Syria and Ukraine in Slovene News MediaCaporusso J Hoogland D Brglez M Koloski B Purver M Pollak S
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)., 199-210.
01-05-2024
Comparing News Framing of Migration Crises using Zero-Shot ClassificationIvačič N Purver M Lind F Pollak S Boomgaarden H Bajt V
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective @ LREC-COLING 2024., 18-27.
01-05-2024
A longitudinal multi-modal dataset for dementia monitoring and diagnosis.Gkoumas D Wang B Tsakalidis A Wolters M Purver M Zubiaga A Liakata M
Lang. Resour. Evaluation vol. 58, 883-902.
30-03-2024
A longitudinal multi-modal dataset for dementia monitoring and diagnosisGkoumas D Wang B Tsakalidis A Wolters M Purver M Zubiaga A Liakata M
Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer Nature vol. 58 (3), 883-902.
30-03-2024
Power and vulnerability: managing sensitive language in organizational communicationHealey PGT Khare P Castro I Tyson G Karan M Shekhar R McQuistin S Perkins C et al.
Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers vol. 14
23-02-2024
Lon-ea at SemEval-2023 Task 11: A Comparison of Activation Functions for Soft and Hard Label PredictionHosseini P Hosseini M Al-Azzawi SS Liwicki M Castro I Purver M
In Arxiv
03-01-2024
Multimodal Machine Learning in Mental Health: A Survey of Data, Algorithms, and Challenges.Sahili ZA Patras I Purver M
01-01-2024
Analyzing and Enhancing Clarification Strategies for Ambiguous References in Consumer Service InteractionsLi C Gan Y Yang Z Chen Y Qiu X Lin Y Purver M Poesio M
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue., 289-296.
01-01-2024
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
Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing Hierarchy.Barnes MR Karan M McQuistin S Perkins C Tyson G Purver M Castro I Clegg RG et al.
ICWSM., 126-138.
01-01-2024
2023
A Longitudinal Multi-modal Dataset for Dementia Monitoring and DiagnosisGkoumas D Wang B Tsakalidis A Wolters M Zubiaga A Purver M Liakata M
In Arxiv
23-12-2023
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
Reformulating NLP tasks to Capture Longitudinal Manifestation of Language Disorders in People with DementiaGkoumas D Purver M Liakata M
In Arxiv
15-10-2023
Exploring Pre-Trained Neural Audio Representations for Audio Topic SegmentationGhinassi I Purver M Phan H Newell C
2023 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). vol. 00, 1086-1091.
14-07-2023
Re-appraising the Schema Linking for Text-to-SQLGan Y Chen X Purver M
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023., 835-852.
09-07-2023
Errare humanum est: What do RFC Errata say about Internet Standards?McQuistin S Karan M Khare P Perkins C Purver M Healey P Castro I Tyson G
2023 7th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA). vol. 00, 1-9.
29-06-2023
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
“Who's there?”: Depicting identity in interactionHealey PGT Howes C Kempson R Mills GJ Purver M Gregoromichelaki E Eshghi A Hough J
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cambridge University Press (Cup) vol. 46, e37-e37.
05-04-2023
Self-Comprehension for More Coherent Language GenerationWright GA Purver M
In Artificial General Intelligence, Springer Nature 328-337.
01-01-2023
Lexicools at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Sexism Lexicon Construction via XAINakwijit P Samir M Purver M
Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)., 23-43.
01-01-2023
Lon-eå at SemEval-2023 Task 11: A Comparison of Activation Functions for Soft and Hard Label PredictionHosseini P Hosseini M Al-azzawi S Liwicki M Castro I Purver M
Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)., 1329-1334.
01-01-2023
LEDA: a Large-Organization Email-Based Decision-Dialogue-Act Analysis DatasetKaran M Khare P Shekhar R McQuistin S Castro I Tyson G Perkins C Healey P et al.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023., 6080-6089.
01-01-2023
Tracing Linguistic Markers of Influence in a Large Online OrganisationKhare P Shekhar R Karan M McQuistin S Perkins C Castro I Tyson G Healey P et al.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)., 82-90.
01-01-2023
Analysis of Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition in South-Slavic LanguagesIvačič N Tran THH Koloski B Pollak S Purver M
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing 2023 (SlavicNLP 2023)., 106-112.
01-01-2023
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
Reformulating NLP tasks to Capture Longitudinal Manifestation of Language Disorders in People with Dementia.Gkoumas D Purver M Liakata M
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing., 15904-15917.
01-01-2023
2022
CoRAL: a Context-aware Croatian Abusive Language DatasetShekhar R Karan M Purver M
Findings of the ACL: AACL-IJCNLP 21 Nov 2022 - 23 Nov 2022.
21-11-2022
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
Language and Cognition as Distributed Process and InteractionsGregoromichelaki E Eshghi A Howes C Mills G Kempson R Hough J Healey P Purver M
Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue.
22-08-2022
Tracking Changes in ESG Representation: Initial Investigations in UK Annual ReportsPurver M Martinc M Ichev R Lončarski I Sitar Šuštar K Valentinčič A Pollak S
Proceedings of the First Computing Social Responsibility Workshop within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Marseille, France.
25-06-2022
Misspelling Semantics in ThaiNakwijit P Purver M
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022)., 227-236.
01-06-2022
The Web We Weave: Untangling the Social Graph of the IETFKhare P Karan M McQuistin S Perkins C Tyson G Purver M Healey P Castro I
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. vol. 16, 500-511.
31-05-2022
Measuring and Improving Compositional Generalization in Text-to-SQL via Component AlignmentGan Y Chen X Huang Q Purver M
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022., 831-843.
01-01-2022
JSI at SemEval-2022 Task 1: CODWOE - Reverse Dictionary: Monolingual and cross-lingual approachesTran THH Martinc M Purver M Pollak S
Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)., 101-106.
01-01-2022
A Self-Evaluating Architecture for Describing DataWright GA Purver M
In Text, Speech, and Dialogue, Springer Nature 187-198.
01-01-2022
IntroductionZirikly A Atzil-Slonim D Liakata M Bedrick S Desmet B Ireland M Lee A MacAvaney S et al.
Clpsych 2022 8th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Proceedings., V-VI.
01-01-2022
CoRAL: a Context-aware Croatian Abusive Language DatasetShekhar R Karan M Purver M
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL-IJCNLP 2022., 217-225.
01-01-2022
Knowledge informed sustainability detection from short financial textsKoloski B Montariol S Purver M Pollak S
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP)., 228-234.
01-01-2022
PrefaceBoleda G Bekki D Chatzikyriakides S Clark S Coecke B Greco G Lewis M Moortgat M et al.
01-01-2022
Misspelling Semantics in Thai.Nakwijit P Purver M Calzolari N Béchet F Blache P Choukri K Cieri C Declerck T et al.
LREC., 227-236.
01-01-2022
CoRAL: a Context-aware Croatian Abusive Language Dataset.Shekhar R Karan M Purver M He Y Ji H Liu Y Li S Chang C-H et al.
AACL/IJCNLP (Findings)., 217-225.
01-01-2022
2021
Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language
SpecificationsGan Y Chen X Xie J Purver M Woodward JR Drake J Zhang Q
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021., 2030-2042.
07-11-2021
Characterising the IETF through the lens of RFC deploymentMcQuistin S Karan M Khare P Perkins C Tyson G Purver M Healey P Iqbal W et al.
Proceedings of the 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference., 137-149.
02-11-2021
Exploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL GeneralizationGan Y Chen X Purver M
2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
01-11-2021
Communicative Grounding of Analogical Explanations in Dialogue: A Corpus Study of Conversational Management Acts and Statistical Sequence Models for Tutoring through AnalogyDel Bosque Trevino JE Hough J Purver M
Reasoning and Interaction Gothenburg, Sweden 4 Oct 2021 - 6 Oct 2021., 23-31.
04-10-2021
Not All Comments are Equal: Insights into Comment Moderation from a Topic-Aware ModelZosa E Shekhar R Karan M Purver M
In Arxiv
21-09-2021
Evaluating Natural Language Descriptions Generated in a Workspace-Based ArchitectureWRIGHT G Purver M
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC).
14-09-2021
Exploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL GeneralizationGan Y Chen X Purver M
In Arxiv
11-09-2021
Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language SpecificationsGan Y Chen X Xie J Purver M Woodward JR Drake J Zhang Q
In Arxiv
11-09-2021
Not All Comments are Equal: Insights into Comment Moderation from a Topic-Aware ModelZosa E Shekhar R Karan M Purver M
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing., 1652-1662.
01-09-2021
Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease Using Interactional and Acoustic Features from Spontaneous SpeechNasreen S Hough J Purver M
Interspeech 2021., 1962-1966.
30-08-2021
Investigating cross-lingual training for offensive language detection.Pelicon A Shekhar R Skrlj B Purver M Pollak S
Peerj Comput. Sci. vol. 7, e559-e559.
25-06-2021
Alzheimer’s Dementia Recognition From Spontaneous Speech Using Disfluency and Interactional FeaturesNasreen S Rohanian M Hough J Purver M
Frontiers in Computer Science vol. 3, 640669-640669.
18-06-2021
Zero-shot Cross-lingual Content Filtering: Offensive Language and Hate Speech DetectionPelicon A Shekhar R Martinc M Škrlj B Purver M Pollak S
EACL workshop on News Media Content Analysis and Automated Report Generation Kyiv (online) 19 Apr 2021., 30-34.
19-04-2021
EMBEDDIA Tools, Datasets and Challenges: Resources and Hackathon ContributionsPollak S Robnik-Šikonja M Purver M Boggia M Shekhar R Pranjić M Salmela S Krustok I et al.
EACL workshop on News Media Content Analysis and Automated Report Generation Kyiv (online) 19 Apr 2021., 99-109.
19-04-2021
Multi-modal fusion with gating using audio, lexical and disfluency features for Alzheimer's Dementia recognition from spontaneous speech.Rohanian M Hough J Purver M
CoRR. vol. abs/2106.09668
01-01-2021
Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer’s Disease DiagnosisNasreen S Hough J Purver M
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue., 290-300.
01-01-2021
Mitigating Topic Bias when Detecting Decisions in DialogueKaran M Khare P Healey P Purver M
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue., 542-547.
01-01-2021
Not All Comments are Equal: Insights into Comment Moderation from a Topic-Aware Model.Zosa E Shekhar R Karan M Purver M
CoRR. vol. abs/2109.10033
01-01-2021
Not All Comments Are Equal: Insights into Comment Moderation from a Topic-Aware Model.Zosa E Shekhar R Karan M Purver M Angelova G Kunilovskaya M Mitkov R Nikolova-Koleva I
RANLP., 1652-1662.
01-01-2021
2020
Metaphor generation through context sensitive distributional semanticsMcGregor S Purver M Wiggins G
In Producing Figurative Expression, John Benjamins Publishing Company 421-448.
26-11-2020
Multi-modal fusion with gating using audio, lexical and disfluency features for Alzheimer's Dementia recognition from spontaneous speechRohanian M Hough J Purver M
Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 25 Oct 2020 - 29 Oct 2020. vol. 2020-October, 2187-2191.
25-10-2020
Completability vs (In)completenessGregoromichelaki E Mills GJ Howes C Eshghi A Chatzikyriakidis S Purver M Kempson R Cann R et al.
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, Taylor & Francis vol. 52 (2), 260-284.
02-07-2020
Automating News Comment Moderation with Limited Resources: Benchmarking in Croatian and EstonianShekhar R Pranjić M Pollak S Pelicon A Purver M
Journal For Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, University Library J. C. Senckenberg vol. 34 (1), 49-79.
01-07-2020
How Furiously Can Colourless Green Ideas Sleep? Sentence Acceptability in Context.Lau JH Armendariz CS Lappin S Purver M Shu C
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, MIT Press vol. 8, 296-310.
22-06-2020
How Furiously Can Colorless Green Ideas Sleep? Sentence Acceptability in ContextLau JH Armendariz C Lappin S Purver M Shu C
Transactions of The Association For Computational Linguistics, MIT Press vol. 8, 296-310.
01-06-2020
Temporal Mental Health Dynamics on Social Media.Tabak T Purver M Verspoor K Cohen KB Conway M Bruijn BD Dredze M Mihalcea R et al.
1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020.
01-01-2020
SemEval-2020 Task 3: Graded Word Similarity in ContextArmendariz CS Purver M Pollak S Ljubešić N Ulčar M Vulić I Pilehvar MT
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation., 36-49.
01-01-2020
CoSimLex: A Resource for Evaluating Graded Word Similarity in ContextArmendariz CS Purver M Ulcar M Pollak S Ljubesic N Robnik-Sikonja M Granroth-Wilding M Vaik K
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION (LREC 2020)., 5870-5878.
01-01-2020
2019
Gender, Language and Society - Word Embeddings as a Reflection of Social Inequalities in Linguistic CorporaSupej A Plahuta M Purver M Mathioudakis M Pollak S Ignjatović M Kanjuo-Mrčela A 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., 75-83.
24-12-2019
CoSimLex: A Resource for Evaluating Graded Word Similarity in ContextArmendariz CS Purver M Ulčar M Pollak S Ljubešić N Robnik-Šikonja M Granroth-Wilding M Vaik K
11-12-2019
Detecting depression with word-level multimodal fusionRohanian M Hough J Purver M
20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association - INTERSPEECH Graz, Austria. vol. 2019-September, 1443-1447.
15-09-2019
A Corpus Study on Questions, Responses and Misunderstanding Signals in Conversations with Alzheimer’s PatientsNasreen S Purver M Hough J
Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers.
01-09-2019
Re-Representing Metaphor: Modelling metaphor perception using dynamically contextual distributional semanticsMCGREGOR SE AGRES K Rataj K PURVER MRJ WIGGINS GA
Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media
15-04-2019
The influence of cost on the emergence of a common language among cooperating agentsMcGinity MM Purver M Wiggins G
2019 Aisb Convention., 21-27.
01-01-2019
2018
Self-Repetition in Dialogue and MonologueHEALEY PGT PURVER MRJ
09-11-2018
Computational Models of Miscommunication PhenomenaPurver M Hough J Howes C
Topics in Cognitive Science, Wiley vol. 10 (2), 425-451.
08-03-2018
2017
How natural is argument in natural dialogue?Concannon S Healey P Purver M
Computational Models of Natural Argument. vol. 1876, 43-48.
01-01-2017
Opening Up and Closing Down Discussion: Experimenting with Epistemic Status in ConversationConcannon S Healey PGT Purver M
Cogsci 2017 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Computational Foundations of Cognition., 1818-1823.
01-01-2017
2016
Better late than Now-or-Never: The case of interactive repair phenomenaHealey PGT Howes C Hough J Purver M
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cambridge University Press (Cup) vol. 39
01-01-2016
2015
Shifting Opinions: Experiments on Agreement and Disagreement in DialogueConcannon S Healey P Purver M
19th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (goDIAL) Gothenberg, Sweden 24 Aug 2015 - 26 Aug 2015., 15-23.
01-08-2015
Taking a Stance: a Corpus Study of Reported SpeechConcannon S Healey PGT Purver M
19th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (goDIAL) Gothenburg, Sweden 23 Aug 2015 - 25 Aug 2015., 6-14.
01-08-2015
2014
Divergence in dialogue.Healey PGT Purver M Howes C
Plos One vol. 9 (2)
01-01-2014
CoSimLex: A Resource for Evaluating Graded Word Similarity in ContextArmendariz CS Purver M Ulčar M Pollak S Ljubešić N Robnik-Šikonja M Granroth-Wilding M Vaik K
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Marseille.
Creative Language Generation in a Society of Engagement and ReflectionWright G Purver M
International Conference on Computational Creativity Coimbra 7 Sep 2020 - 11 Sep 2020.
Temporal Mental Health Dynamics on Social MediaTabak T Purver M
NLP COVID-19 Workshop at EMNLP 19 Nov 2020 - 20 Nov 2020.
Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition Using Acoustic, Lexical, Disfluency and
Speech Pause Features Robust to Noisy InputsRohanian M Hough J Purver M
Interspeech.
Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing HierarchyBarnes MR Karan M McQuistin S Perkins C Tyson G Purver M Castro I Clegg RG
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Human-Centred ComputingAddressing 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
Towards Interpretable Control of Real-Time Audio Generation - 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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