Prof Maria Liakata

Maria Liakata

Professor of Natural Language Processing
Deputy Centre Lead and “Health and Wellbeing” Theme Lead

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

Research

Natural Language Processing, Semantics & Discourse, Social Media, Machine Learning, BioNLP & NLP for Mental Health

Interests

Maria is a Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at Queen Mary, University of London. She is in receipt of an EPSRC/UKRI Turing AI fellowship award on Creating Time Sensitive Sensors from Language & Heterogeneous User-Generated Content (2019-2025) https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/time-... .

Maria has a DPhil from the University of Oxford on learning pragmatic knowledge from text. Her work has contributed to advances in knowledge discovery from corpora, automation of scientific experimentation and automatic extraction of information from the scientific literature. She has published widely both in NLP and interdisciplinary venues. Past awards include an IBM Faculty Award for work on emotion sensing from heterogeneous mobile phone data, being a co-investigator on the EU Project PHEME, which studied the spread of rumours in social media (2014-2017) and an Early Career Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust (2010-2013) on reasoning with scientific articles.

Publications

solid heart iconPublications of specific relevance to the Centre for Human-Centred Computing

2024

bullet iconEvaluating Synthetic Data Generation from User Generated Text
Chim J, Ive J and Liakata M
Computational Linguistics, Mit Press, 1-44.  
25-11-2024
bullet iconCohort profile: The Social media, smartphone use and Self-harm in Young People (3S-YP) study–A prospective, observational cohort study of young people in contact with mental health services
Bye A, Carter B, Leightley D, Trevillion K, Liakata M, Branthonne-Foster S, Cross S, Zenasni Z, Carr E, Williamson G, Viyuela AV and Dutta R
Plos One, Public Library of Science (Plos) vol. 19 (5) 
22-05-2024
Relevant PublicationA longitudinal multi-modal dataset for dementia monitoring and diagnosis
Gkoumas D, Wang B, Tsakalidis A, Wolters M, Purver M, Zubiaga A and Liakata M
Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer Nature, 1-20.  
30-03-2024
bullet iconExtended overview of the CLEF 2024 LongEval Lab on Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance
Alkhalifa R, Borkakoty H, Deveaud R, El-Ebshihy A, Espinosa-Anke L, Fink T, Galuščáková P, Gonzalez-Saez G, Goeuriot L, Iommi D, Liakata M, Madabushi HT, Medina-Alias P, Mulhem P, Piroi F, Popel M and Zubiaga A
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 3740, 2267-2289.  
01-01-2024
bullet iconExciting Mood Changes: A Time-aware Hierarchical Transformer for Change Detection Modelling
Hills A, Tseriotou T, Miscouridou X, Tsakalidis A and Liakata M
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics., 12526-12537.  
01-01-2024
bullet iconCombining Hierachical VAEs with LLMs for clinically meaningful timeline summarisation in social media
Song J, Chim J, Tsakalidis A, Ive J, Atzil-Slonim D and Liakata M
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics., 14651-14672.  
01-01-2024
bullet iconOverview of the CLEF 2024 LongEval Lab on Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance
Alkhalifa R, Borkakoty H, Deveaud R, El-Ebshihy A, Espinosa-Anke L, Fink T, Galuščáková P, Gonzalez-Saez G, Goeuriot L, Iommi D, Liakata M, Madabushi HT, Medina-Alias P, Mulhem P, Piroi F, Popel M and Zubiaga A
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). vol. 14959 LNCS, 208-230.  
01-01-2024
bullet iconMessage from the General Chair
König A and Liakata M
5th Rapid Workshop: Resources and Processing of Linguistic, Para-Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Data From People With Various Forms of Cognitive/Psychiatric/Developmental Impairments, Rapid 2024 At Lrec-Coling 2024 - Workshop Proceedings 
01-01-2024
bullet iconA Multi-Task Transformer Model for Fine-grained Labelling of Chest X-Ray Reports
Zhu Y, Liakata M and Montana G
2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings., 862-875.  
01-01-2024
bullet iconKnowledge Graphs for Real-World Rumour Verification
Dougrez-Lewis J, Kochkina E, Liakata M and He Y
2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings., 9843-9853.  
01-01-2024
bullet iconLongEval: Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance at CLEF 2024
Alkhalifa R, Borkakoty H, Deveaud R, El-Ebshihy A, Espinosa-Anke L, Fink T, Gonzalez-Saez G, Galuščáková P, Goeuriot L, Iommi D, Liakata M, Madabushi HT, Medina-Alias P, Mulhem P, Piroi F, Popel M, Servan C and Zubiaga A
In Advances in Information Retrieval, Springer Nature 60-66.  
01-01-2024
bullet iconSig-Networks Toolkit: Signature Networks for Longitudinal Language Modelling
Tseriotou T, Chan RSY, Tsakalidis A, Bilal IM, Kochkina E, Lyons T and Liakata M
EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of System Demonstrations., 223-237.  
01-01-2024
bullet iconOverview of the CLPsych 2024 Shared Task: Leveraging Large Language Models to Identify Evidence of Suicidality Risk in Online Posts
Chim J, Tsakalidis A, Gkoumas D, Atzil-Slonim D, Ophir Y, Zirikly A, Resnik P and Liakata M
CLPsych 2024 - 9th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, Proceedings of the Workshop., 177-190.  
01-01-2024

2023

Relevant PublicationDevelopment and validation of open-source deep neural networks for comprehensive chest x-ray reading: a retrospective, multicentre study
Cid YD, Macpherson M, Gervais-Andre L, Zhu Y, Franco G, Santeramo R, Lim C, Selby I, Muthuswamy K, Amlani A, Hopewell H, Indrajeet D, Liakata M, Hutchinson CE, Goh V and Montana G
The Lancet Digital Health, Elsevier vol. 6 (JAMA Netw Open 2 2019), e44-e57.  
08-12-2023
Relevant PublicationEvaluating the generalisability of neural rumour verification models
Kochkina E, Hossain T, Logan RL, Arana-Catania M, Procter R, Zubiaga A, Singh S, He Y and Liakata M
Information Processing and Management, Elsevier vol. 60 (1) 
26-10-2023
Relevant PublicationObservational prospective study of social media, smartphone use and self-harm in a clinical sample of young people: study protocol
Bye A, Carter B, Leightley D, Trevillion K, Liakata M, Branthonne-Foster S, Williamson G, Zenasni Z and Dutta R
Bmj Open, Bmj vol. 13 (2) 
01-02-2023
Relevant PublicationMaximizing the positive and minimizing the negative: Social media data to study youth mental health with informed consent
Leightley D, Bye A, Carter B, Trevillion K, Branthonne-Foster S, Liakata M, Wood A, Ougrin D, Orben A, Ford T and Dutta R
Frontiers in Psychiatry, Frontiers vol. 13 
10-01-2023
Relevant PublicationLongEval: Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance at CLEF 2023
Alkhalifa R, Bilal I, Borkakoty H, Camacho-Collados J, Deveaud R, El-Ebshihy A, Espinosa-Anke L, Gonzalez-Saez G, Galuščáková P, Goeuriot L, Kochkina E, Liakata M, Loureiro D, Tayyar Madabushi H, Mulhem P, Piroi F, Popel M, Servan C and Zubiaga A
In Advances in Information Retrieval, Springer Nature 499-505.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationPANACEA: An Automated Misinformation Detection System on COVID-19
Zhao R, Arana-Catania M, Zhu L, Kochkina E, Gui L, Zubiaga A, Procter R, Liakata M and He Y
The 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational., 67-74.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationCreation and evaluation of timelines for longitudinal user posts
Hills A, Tsakalidis A, Nanni F, Zachos I and Liakata M
EACL 2023 - 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference., 3773-3786.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationSequential Path Signature Networks for Personalised Longitudinal Language Modeling
Tseriotou T, Tsakalidis A, Foster P, Lyons T and Liakata M
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023., 5016-5031.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationA Digital Language Coherence Marker for Monitoring Dementia
Gkoumas D, Tsakalidis A and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing., 16021-16034.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationTime-Aware Predictions of Moments of Change in Longitudinal User Posts on Social Media
Hills A, Tsakalidis A and Liakata M
In Advanced Analytics and Learning On Temporal Data, Springer Nature 293-305.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationOverview of the CLEF-2023 LongEval Lab on Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance
Alkhalifa R, Bilal I, Borkakoty H, Camacho-Collados J, Deveaud R, El-Ebshihy A, Espinosa-Anke L, Gonzalez-Saez G, Galuščáková P, Goeuriot L, Kochkina E, Liakata M, Loureiro D, Mulhem P, Piroi F, Popel M, Servan C, Tayyar Madabushi H and Zubiaga A
In Experimental Ir Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, Springer Nature 440-458.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationExtended Overview of the CLEF-2023 LongEval Lab on Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance
Alkhalifa R, Bilal I, Borkakoty H, Camacho-Collados J, Deveaud R, El-Ebshihy A, Espinosa-Anke L, Gonzalez-Saez G, Galuščáková P, Goeuriot L, Kochkina E, Liakata M, Loureiro D, Mulhem P, Piroi F, Popel M, Servan C, Madabushi HT and Zubiaga A
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 3497, 2181-2203.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationReformulating NLP tasks to Capture Longitudinal Manifestation of Language Disorders in People with Dementia.
Gkoumas D, Purver M and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing., 15904-15917.  
01-01-2023

2022

Relevant PublicationTemplate-based Abstractive Microblog Opinion Summarization
Bilal IM, Wang B, Tsakalidis A, Nguyen D, Procter R and Liakata M
Transactions of The Association For Computational Linguistics, Mit Press vol. 10, 1229-1248.  
22-11-2022
Relevant PublicationPHEMEPlus: Enriching Social Media Rumour Verification with External Evidence
Dougrez-Lewis J, Kochkina E, Arana-Catania M, Liakata M and He Y
Proceedings of the Fifth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER)., 49-58.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationIdentifying Moments of Change from Longitudinal User Text
Tsakalidis A, Nanni F, Hills A, Chim J, Song J and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)., 4647-4660.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationNatural Language Inference with Self-Attention for Veracity Assessment of Pandemic Claims
Arana-Catania M, Kochkina E, Zubiaga A, Liakata M, Procter R and He Y
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies., 1496-1511.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationOverview of the CLPsych 2022 Shared Task: Capturing Moments of Change in Longitudinal User Posts
Tsakalidis A, Chim J, Bilal IM, Zirikly A, Atzil-Slonim D, Nanni F, Resnik P, Gaur M, Roy K, Inkster B, Leintz J and Liakata M
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology., 184-198.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationPreface
Chakraborty T, Akhtar MS, Shu K, Bernard HR, Liakata M and Nakov P
Constraint 2022 - 2nd Workshop On Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages During Emergency Situation, Proceedings of The Workshop, II-III.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationIntroduction
Zirikly A, Atzil-Slonim D, Liakata M, Bedrick S, Desmet B, Ireland M, Lee A, MacAvaney S, Purver M, Resnik R and Yates A
CLPsych 2022 - 8th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, Proceedings., V-VI.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationUnsupervised Opinion Summarisation in the Wasserstein Space
Song J, Bilal IM, Tsakalidis A, Procter R and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing., 8592-8607.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationA Pipeline for Generating, Annotating and Employing Synthetic Data for Real World Question Answering
Maufe M, Ravenscroft J, Procter R and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations., 80-97.  
01-01-2022

2021

bullet iconNatural Language Processing markers in first episode psychosis and people at clinical high-risk
Morgan SE, Diederen K, Vértes PE, Ip SHY, Wang B, Thompson B, Demjaha A, De Micheli A, Oliver D, Liakata M, Fusar-Poli P, Spencer TJ and McGuire P
Translational Psychiatry, Springer Nature vol. 11 (1) 
13-12-2021
bullet iconCitizen Participation and Machine Learning for a Better Democracy
Procter R, Arana-Catania M, van Lier F-A, Tkachenko N, He Y, Zubiaga A and Liakata M
Digital Government Research and Practice vol. 2 (3), 1-22.  
01-07-2021
bullet iconModelling Paralinguistic Properties in Conversational Speech to Detect Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder
Wang B, Wu Y, Vaci N, Liakata M, Lyons T and Saunders KEA
ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). vol. 00, 7243-7247.  
11-06-2021
bullet iconSubjectivity analysis of arabic-english wikipedia
AlKameli A and Liakata M
 
07-06-2021
bullet iconBoosting Low-Resource Biomedical QA via Entity-Aware Masking Strategies
Pergola G, Kochkina E, Gui L, Liakata M and He Y
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume., 1977-1985.  
01-01-2021
bullet iconCD2CR: Co-reference resolution across documents and domains
Ravenscroft J, Cattan A, Clare A, Dagan I and Liakata M
EACL 2021 - 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference., 270-280.  
01-01-2021
bullet iconAutomatic Identification of Ruptures in Transcribed Psychotherapy Sessions
Tsakalidis A, Atzil-Slonim D, Polakovski A, Shapira N, Tuval-Mashiach R and Liakata M
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access., 122-128.  
01-01-2021
bullet iconLearning Disentangled Latent Topics for Twitter Rumour Veracity Classification
Dougrez-Lewis J, Liakata M, Kochkina E and He Y
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021., 3902-3908.  
01-01-2021
bullet iconEvaluation of Thematic Coherence in Microblogs
Bilal IM, Wang B, Liakata M, Procter R and Tsakalidis A
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)., 6800-6814.  
01-01-2021
bullet iconCDˆ2CR: Co-reference resolution across documents and domains
Ravenscroft J, Clare A, Cattan A, Dagan I and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume., 270-280.  
01-01-2021
bullet iconEvaluation of Abstractive Summarisation Models with Machine Translation in Deliberative Processes
Arana-Catania M, Procter R, He Y and Liakata M
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization., 57-64.  
01-01-2021
bullet iconGiBERT: Enhancing BERT with Linguistic Information using a Lightweight Gated Injection Method
Peinelt N, Rei M and Liakata M
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021., 2322-2336.  
01-01-2021

2020

bullet iconLearning to Detect Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder with Language and Speech in Non-Clinical Interviews
Wang B, Wu Y, Taylor N, Lyons T, Liakata M, Nevado-Holgado AJ and Saunders KEA
Interspeech 2020., 437-441.  
25-10-2020
bullet iconBirds of a feather check together: Leveraging homophily for sequential rumour detection
Lathiya S, Dhobi JS, Zubiaga A, Liakata M and Procter R
Online Social Media and Networks, Elsevier vol. 19 
08-09-2020
bullet iconHow We Do Things With Words: Analyzing Text as Social and Cultural Data
Nguyen D, Liakata M, DeDeo S, Eisenstein J, Mimno D, Tromble R and Winters J
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Frontiers vol. 3 
25-08-2020
bullet icontBERT: Topic Models and BERT Joining Forces for Semantic Similarity Detection
Peinelt N, Nguyen D and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics., 7047-7055.  
01-01-2020
bullet iconEstimating predictive uncertainty for rumour verification models
Kochkina E and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics., 6964-6981.  
01-01-2020
bullet iconQMUL-SDS at CheckThat! 2020: Determining COVID-19 Tweet Check-Worthiness Using an Enhanced CT-BERT with Numeric Expressions
Alkhalifa R, Yoong T, Kochkina E, Zubiaga A and Liakata M
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 2696 
01-01-2020
bullet iconQMUL-SDS @ DIACR-Ita: Evaluating Unsupervised Diachronic Lexical Semantics Classification in Italian
Alkhalifa R, Tsakalidis A, Zubiaga A and Liakata M
 
01-01-2020
bullet iconSequential Modelling of the Evolution of Word Representations for Semantic Change Detection
Tsakalidis A and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)., 8485-8497.  
01-01-2020

2019

bullet iconPolitical Homophily in Independence Movements: Analyzing and Classifying Social Media Users by National Identity
Zubiaga A, Wang B, Liakata M and Procter R
Ieee Intelligent Systems, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers vol. 34 (6), 34-42.  
01-11-2019
bullet iconPreface
Liakata M and Vlachos A
Proceedings of the Conference for Truth and Trust Online 2019. 
05-10-2019
bullet iconA Path Signature Approach for Speech Emotion Recognition
Wang B, Liakata M, Ni H, Lyons T, Nevado-Holgado AJ and Saunders K
Interspeech 2019., 1661-1665.  
15-09-2019
bullet iconComprehensive Impact
Ravenscroft J, Liakata M, Clare A and Duma D
In Definitions, Qeios 
06-08-2019
bullet iconAcademic Impact
Ravenscroft J, Liakata M, Clare A and Duma D
In Definitions, Qeios 
06-08-2019
bullet iconGaussian processes for rumour stance classification in social media
Lukasik M, Bontcheva K, Cohn T, Zubiaga A, Liakata M and Procter R
Acm Transactions On Information Systems vol. 37 (2) 
01-02-2019
bullet iconBig Data Methods for Ultra‐dense Network Deployment
Guo W, Liakata M, Mosquera G, Qi W, Deng J and Zhang J
In Ultra-Dense Networks For 5g and Beyond 203-230.  
01-02-2019
bullet iconBig data methods for ultra-dense network deployment
Guo W, Liakata M, Mosquera G, Qi W, Deng J and Zhang J
In Ultra-Dense Networks For 5g and Beyond: Modelling, Analysis, and Applications 205-230.  
01-02-2019
bullet iconCan We Assess Mental Health Through Social Media and Smart Devices? Addressing Bias in Methodology and Evaluation
Tsakalidis A, Liakata M, Damoulas T and Cristea AI
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 11053, 407-423.  
01-01-2019
bullet iconAiming beyond the Obvious: Identifying Non-Obvious Cases in Semantic Similarity Datasets
Peinelt N, Liakata M and Nguyen D
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics., 2792-2798.  
01-01-2019
bullet iconSemEval-2019 Task 7: RumourEval, Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours
Gorrell G, Kochkina E, Liakata M, Aker A, Zubiaga A, Bontcheva K and Derczynski L
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation., 845-854.  
01-01-2019
bullet iconRumourEval 2019: Determining rumour veracity and support for rumours
Gorrell G, Kochkina E, Liakata M, Aker A, Zubiaga A, Bontcheva K and Derczynski L
NAACL HLT 2019 - International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2019, Proceedings of the 13th Workshop., 845-854.  
01-01-2019

2018

bullet iconUsing clinical Natural Language Processing for health outcomes research: Overview and actionable suggestions for future advances
Velupillai S, Suominen H, Liakata M, Roberts A, Shah AD, Morley K, Osborn D, Hayes J, Stewart R, Downs J, Chapman W and Dutta R
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Elsevier vol. 88, 11-19.  
24-10-2018
bullet iconNowcasting the Stance of Social Media Users in a Sudden Vote
Tsakalidis A, Aletras N, Cristea AI and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management., 367-376.  
17-10-2018
bullet iconBuilding and evaluating resources for sentiment analysis in the Greek language
Tsakalidis A, Papadopoulos S, Voskaki R, Ioannidou K, Boididou C, Cristea AI, Liakata M and Kompatsiaris Y
Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer Nature vol. 52 (4), 1021-1044.  
14-07-2018
bullet iconDiscourse-aware rumour stance classification in social media using sequential classifiers
Zubiaga A, Kochkina E, Liakata M, Procter R, Lukasik M, Bontcheva K, Cohn T and Augenstein I
Information Processing and Management vol. 54 (2), 273-290.  
01-03-2018
bullet iconDetection and resolution of rumours in social media: A survey
Zubiaga A, Aker A, Bontcheva K, Liakata M and Procter R
Acm Computing Surveys vol. 51 (2) 
01-02-2018
bullet iconMicroblog Analysis as a Program of Work
Tolmie P, Procter R, Rouncefield M, Liakata M and Zubiaga A
Acm Transactions On Social Computing, Association For Computing Machinery (Acm) vol. 1 (1), 1-40.  
18-01-2018
bullet iconAll-in-one: Multi-task learning for rumour verification
Kochkina E, Liakata M and Zubiaga A
COLING 2018 - 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings., 3402-3413.  
01-01-2018
bullet iconHarriGT: A Tool for Linking News to Science
Ravenscroft J, Clare A and Liakata M
Proceedings of ACL 2018, System Demonstrations., 19-24.  
01-01-2018
bullet iconHarriGT: Linking news articles to scientific literature
Ravenscroft J, Clare A and Liakata M
ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of System Demonstrations. vol. 2018-January, 19-24.  
01-01-2018

2017

bullet iconExploiting context for rumour detection in social media
Zubiaga A, Liakata M and Procter R
International Conference on Social Informatics. vol. 10539 LNCS, 109-123.  
01-09-2017
bullet iconTowards Real-Time, Country-Level Location Classification of Worldwide Tweets
Zubiaga A, Voss A, Procter R, Liakata M, Wang B and Tsakalidis A
Ieee Transactions On Knowledge and Data Engineering vol. 29 (9), 2053-2066.  
01-09-2017
bullet iconA hierarchical topic modelling approach for tweet clustering
Wang B, Liakata M, Zubiaga A and Procter R
International Conference on Social Informatics. vol. 10540 LNCS, 378-390.  
01-09-2017
bullet iconStance classification in out-of-domain rumours: A case study around mental health disorders
Aker A, Zubiaga A, Bontcheva K, Kolliakou A, Procter R and Liakata M
International Conference on Social Informatics. vol. 10540 LNCS, 53-64.  
01-09-2017
bullet iconErratum: Corrigendum: Characterisation of mental health conditions in social media using Informed Deep Learning
Gkotsis G, Oellrich A, Velupillai S, Liakata M, Hubbard TJP, Dobson RJB and Dutta R
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 7 (1) 
16-05-2017
bullet iconSupporting the Use of User Generated Content in Journalistic Practice
Tolmie P, Procter R, Randall DW, Rouncefield M, Burger C, Hoi GWS, Zubiaga A and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 3632-3644.  
02-05-2017
bullet iconCharacterisation of mental health conditions in social media using Informed Deep Learning
Gkotsis G, Oellrich A, Velupillai S, Liakata M, Hubbard TJP, Dobson RJB and Dutta R
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 7 (1) 
22-03-2017
bullet iconMeasuring scientific impact beyond academia: An assessment of existing impact metrics and proposed improvements
Ravenscroft J, Liakata M, Clare A and Duma D
Plos One, Public Library of Science (Plos) vol. 12 (3) 
09-03-2017
bullet iconIncongruent Headlines: Yet Another Way to Mislead Your Readers
Chesney S, Liakata M, Poesio M and Purver M
Proceedings of the 2017 EMNLP Workshop: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism., 56-61.  
01-01-2017
bullet iconTDParse: Multi-target-specific sentiment recognition on Twitter
Wang B, Liakata M, Zubiaga A and Procter R
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers., 483-493.  
01-01-2017
bullet iconSemEval-2017 Task 8: RumourEval: Determining rumour veracity and support for rumours
Derczynski L, Bontcheva K, Liakata M, Procter R, Wong Sak Hoi G and Zubiaga A
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)., 69-76.  
01-01-2017
bullet iconTuring at SemEval-2017 Task 8: Sequential Approach to Rumour Stance Classification with Branch-LSTM
Kochkina E, Liakata M and Augenstein I
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)., 475-480.  
01-01-2017
bullet iconTOTEMSS: Topic-based, Temporal Sentiment Summarisation for Twitter
Wang B, Liakata M, Tsakalidis A, Kolaitis SG, Papadopoulos S, Apostolidis L, Zubiaga A, Procter R and Kompatsiaris Y
8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the IJCNLP 2017, System Demonstrations., 21-24.  
01-01-2017
bullet iconClassifierGuesser: A Context-based Classifier Prediction System for Chinese Language Learners
Peinelt N, Liakata M and Hsieh SK
8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the IJCNLP 2017, System Demonstrations., 41-44.  
01-01-2017

2016

bullet iconRhetorical Classification of Anchor Text for Citation Recommendation
Duma D, Liakata M, Clare A, Ravenscroft J and Klein E
D-Lib Magazine, Cnri Acct vol. 22 (9/10) 
01-09-2016
bullet iconAnalysing How People Orient to and Spread Rumours in Social Media by Looking at Conversational Threads
Zubiaga A, Liakata M, Procter R, Hoi GWS and Tolmie P
Plos One, Public Library of Science (Plos) vol. 11 (3) 
04-03-2016
bullet iconMulti-label annotation in scientific articles - The multi-label cancer risk assessment corpus
Ravenscroft J, Oellrich A, Saha S and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016., 4115-4123.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconStance classification in rumours as a sequential task exploiting the tree structure of social media conversations
Zubiaga A, Kochkina E, Liakata M, Procter R and Lukasik M
COLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016: Technical Papers., 2438-2448.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconSMILE: Twitter emotion classification using domain adaptation
Wang B, Liakata M, Zubiaga A, Procter R and Jensen E
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 1619, 15-21.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconSentiHood: Targeted aspect based sentiment analysis dataset for urban neighbourhoods
Saeidi M, Bouchard G, Liakata M and Riedel S
COLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016: Technical Papers., 1546-1556.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconCombining heterogeneous user generated data to sense well-being
Tsakalidis A, Liakata M, Damoulas T, Jellinek B, Guo W and Cristea AI
COLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016: Technical Papers., 3007-3018.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconCrowdsourcing protein family database curation
Jeffryes M, Liakata M and Bateman A
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 1747 
01-01-2016
bullet iconCRUDE: Combining Resource Usage Data and Error Logs for Accurate Error Detection in Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Gurumdimma N, Jhumka A, Liakata M, Chuah E and Browne J
2016 IEEE 35th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)., 51-60.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconApplying core scientific concepts to context-based citation recommendation
Duma D, Liakata M, Clare A, Ravenscroft J and Klein E
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016., 1737-1742.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconThe language of mental health problems in social media
Gkotsis G, Oellrich A, Hubbard T, Dobson R, Liakata M, Velupillai S and Dutta R
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Lingusitics and Clinical Psychology., 63-73.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconDon't Let Notes Be Misunderstood: A Negation Detection Method for Assessing Risk of Suicide in Mental Health Records
Gkotsis G, Velupillai S, Oellrich A, Dean H, Liakata M and Dutta R
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Lingusitics and Clinical Psychology., 95-105.  
01-01-2016

2015

bullet iconBio-event definition in text mining towards event interconnection
Li C and Liakata M
Bmc Proceedings, Springer Nature vol. 9 (Suppl 5) 
06-08-2015
bullet iconTowards Increasing the Error Handling Time Window in Large-Scale Distributed Systems Using Console and Resource Usage Logs
Gurumdimma N, Jhumka A, Liakata M, Chuah E and Browne J
2015 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA. vol. 3, 61-68.  
01-08-2015
bullet iconCrowdsourcing the Annotation of Rumourous Conversations in Social Media
Zubiaga A, Liakata M, Procter R, Bontcheva K and Tolmie P
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web., 347-353.  
18-05-2015
bullet iconSession details: RDSM 2015
Bontcheva K, Liakata M, Procter R and Scharl A
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web. 
18-05-2015
bullet iconTowards Detecting Patterns in Failure Logs of Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Gurumdimma N, Jhumka A, Liakata M, Chuah E and Browne J
2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshop., 1052-1061.  
01-05-2015
bullet iconTowards detecting rumours in social media
Zubiaga A, Liakata M, Procter R, Bontcheva K and Tolmie P
AAAI Workshop - Technical Report. vol. WS-15-04, 35-41.  
01-01-2015
bullet iconMaking the most of tweet-inherent features for social spam detection on twitter
Wang B, Zubiaga A, Liakata M and Procter R
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 1395, 10-16.  
01-01-2015
bullet iconHarriGT: Linking news articles to scientific literature
Ravenscroft J, Clare A and Liakata M
ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of System Demonstrations., 19-24.  
01-01-2015
bullet iconWarwickDCS: From Phrase-Based to Target-Specific Sentiment Recognition
Townsend R, Tsakalidis A, Zhou Y, Wang B, Liakata M, Zubiaga A, Cristea A and Procter R
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015)., 657-663.  
01-01-2015
bullet iconUsing word embedding for bio-event extraction
Li C, Song R, Liakata M, Vlachos A, Seneff S and Zhang X
Proceedings of BioNLP 15., 121-126.  
01-01-2015

2014

bullet iconIt's all in the content
Gkotsis G, Stepanyan K, Pedrinaci C, Domingue J and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science., 202-210.  
23-06-2014
bullet iconUniversity_of_Warwick: SENTIADAPTRON - A Domain Adaptable Sentiment Analyser for Tweets - Meets SemEval
Townsend R, Kalair A, Kulkarni O, Procter R and Liakata M
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014)., 768-772.  
01-01-2014

2013

bullet iconMerits of random forests emerge in evaluation of chemometric classifiers by external validation
Scott IM, Lin W, Liakata M, Wood JE, Vermeer CP, Allaway D, Ward JL, Draper J, Beale MH, Corol DI, Baker JM and King RD
Analytica Chimica Acta, Elsevier vol. 801, 22-33.  
23-09-2013
bullet iconBiological network extraction from scientific literature: state of the art and challenges
Li C, Liakata M and Rebholz-Schuhmann D
Briefings in Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press (Oup) vol. 15 (5), 856-877.  
22-02-2013
bullet iconDynamic enhancement of drug product labels to support drug safety, efficacy, and effectiveness
Boyce RD, Horn JR, Hassanzadeh O, De Waard A, Schneider J, Luciano JS, Rastegar-Mojarad M and Liakata M
Journal of Biomedical Semantics, Springer Nature vol. 4 (1) 
01-01-2013
bullet iconA Discourse-Driven Content Model for Summarising Scientific Articles Evaluated in a Complex Question Answering Task
Liakata M, Dobnik S, Saha S, Batchelor C and Rebholz-Schuhmann D
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing., 747-757.  
01-01-2013
bullet iconPartridge: An Effective System for the Automatic Cassification of the Types of Academic Papers
Ravenscroft J, Liakata M and Clare A
In Research and Development in Intelligent Systems Xxx, Springer Nature 351-358.  
01-01-2013

2012

bullet iconAutomatic recognition of conceptualization zones in scientific articles and two life science applications
Liakata M, Saha S, Dobnik S, Batchelor C and Rebholz-Schuhmann D
Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press (Oup) vol. 28 (7), 991-1000.  
08-02-2012
bullet iconThree Hybrid Classifiers for the Detection of Emotions in Suicide Notes
Liakata M, Kim J-H, Saha S, Hastings J and Rebholz-Schuhmann D
Biomedical Informatics Insights, Sage Publications vol. 5s1 (Suppl 1) 
01-01-2012

2011

bullet iconOn the formalization and reuse of scientific research
King RD, Liakata M, Lu C, Oliver SG and Soldatova LN
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, The Royal Society vol. 8 (63), 1440-1448.  
13-04-2011
bullet iconA comparison and user-based evaluation of models of textual information structure in the context of cancer risk assessment
Guo Y, Korhonen A, Liakata M, Silins I, Hogberg J and Stenius U
Bmc Bioinformatics, Springer Nature vol. 12 (1) 
08-03-2011
bullet iconExploring the generation and integration of publishable scientific facts using the concept of nano-publications
Clare A, Croset S, Grabmueller C, Kafkas S, Liakata M, Oellrich A and Rebholz-Schuhmann D
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 721, 13-17.  
01-01-2011

2010

bullet iconEnhancement of Plant Metabolite Fingerprinting by Machine Learning
Scott IM, Vermeer CP, Liakata M, Corol DI, Ward JL, Lin W, Johnson HE, Whitehead L, Kular B, Baker JM, Walsh S, Dave A, Larson TR, Graham IA, Wang TL, King RD, Draper J and Beale MH
Plant Physiology, Oxford University Press (Oup) vol. 153 (4), 1506-1520.  
21-06-2010
bullet iconAn Integrated Laboratory Robotic System for Autonomous Discovery of Gene Function
Sparkes A, King RD, Aubrey W, Benway M, Byrne E, Clare A, Liakata M, Markham M, Whelan KE, Young M and Rowland J
Slas Technology, Sage Publications vol. 15 (1), 33-40.  
01-02-2010
bullet iconCorpora for conceptualisation and zoning of scientific papers
Liakata M, Teufel S, Siddharthan A and Batchelor C
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010., 2054-2061.  
01-01-2010
bullet iconTowards Robot Scientists for autonomous scientific discovery
Sparkes A, Aubrey W, Byrne E, Clare A, Khan MN, Liakata M, Markham M, Rowland J, Soldatova LN, Whelan KE, Young M and King RD
Automated Experimentation, Springer Nature vol. 2 (1) 
01-01-2010
bullet iconIdentifying the information structure of scientific abstracts: An investigation of three different schemes
Guo Y, Silins I, Korhonen A, Sun L, Liakata M and Stenius U
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics., 99-107.  
01-01-2010

2009

bullet iconMake Way for Robot Scientists
King RD, Rowland J, Oliver SG, Young M, Aubrey W, Byrne E, Liakata M, Markham M, Pir P, Soldatova LN, Sparkes A, Whelan KE and Clare A
Science, American Association For The Advancement of Science (Aaas) vol. 325 (5943), 945-945.  
20-08-2009
bullet iconThe Robot Scientist Adam
King RD, Rowland J, Aubrey W, Liakata M, Markham M, Soldatova LN, Whelan KE, Clare A, Young M, Sparkes A, Oliver SG and Pir P
Computer, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 42 (8), 46-54.  
01-08-2009
bullet iconThe Automation of Science
King RD, Rowland J, Oliver SG, Young M, Aubrey W, Byrne E, Liakata M, Markham M, Pir P, Soldatova LN, Sparkes A, Whelan KE and Clare A
Science, American Association For The Advancement of Science (Aaas) vol. 324 (5923), 85-89.  
03-04-2009
bullet iconSemantic annotation of papers
Liakata M, Q C and Soldatova LN
Proceedings of the Workshop on BioNLP - BioNLP '09. 
01-01-2009
bullet iconSemantic Annotation of Papers: Interface & Enrichment Tool (SAPIENT)
Liakata M, Claire CQ and Soldatova LN
BioNLP 2009 - Biomedical Natural Language Processing Workshop, BioNLP 2009 - held in conjunction with 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2009 - Proceedings., 193-200.  
01-01-2009

2008

bullet iconAutomatic fine-grained semantic classification for domain adaptation
Liakata M and Pulman S
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Semantics in Text Processing - STEP '08., 139-153.  
01-01-2008

2005

bullet iconA two-level morphology of Malagasy
Dalrymple M, Liakata M and Mackie L
PACLIC 19 - Proceedings of the 19th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. 
01-12-2005
bullet iconUsing ILP to learn a domain theory in the form of a FSA
Liakata M and Pulman S
Learning Language in Logic - Challenge Task: Extracting Relations from Bio-Medical Texts, LLL 2005 - ICML 2005 Workshop., 46-52.  
01-12-2005

2004

bullet iconLearning domain theories
Pulman SG and Liakata M
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. vol. 260 
01-01-2004
bullet iconLearning theories from text
Liakata M and Pulman S
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics - COLING '04. 
01-01-2004

2002

bullet iconFrom trees to predicate-argument structures
Liakata M and Pulman S
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics -. vol. 1, 1-7.  
01-01-2002

2000

bullet iconNamed entity recognition in Greek texts
Demiros I, Boutsis S, Giouli V, Liakata M, Papageorgiou H and Piperidis S
2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2000. 
01-01-2000
bullet iconA System for Recognition of Named Entities in Greek
Boutsis S, Demiros I, Giouli V, Liakata M, Papageorgiou H and Piperidis S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 1835, 424-435.  
01-01-2000

Grants

solid heart iconGrants of specific relevance to the Centre for Human-Centred Computing
solid heart iconAddressing socio-technical limitations of LLMs for medical and social computing
Maria Liakata, Julia Ive, Matthew Purver, Michael Schlichtkrull, Claude Chelala and Greg Slabaugh
£1,799,332 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-05-2024 - 31-03-2028
solid heart iconDCE CDT EngD Studentship - Joseph Boyle
Maria Liakata
£50,000 CANON MEDICAL RESEARCH EUROPE LIMITED
01-01-2024 - 31-12-2028
solid heart iconThe environment and eating disorders: developing novel measures, approaches, and hypotheses through
Maria Liakata
£66,281 MRC Medical Research Council
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2026
solid heart iconFellowship: Creating time sensitive sensors from language & heterogeneous UGC
Maria Liakata
£1,132,956 Alan Turing Institute, The
01-04-2020 - 31-03-2025

solid heart iconBuilding Transparent AISystems Explaining their Decisions in NaturalLanguage for Social Applications
Julia Ive and Maria Liakata
£30,000 Alan Turing Institute, The
01-09-2022 - 28-02-2023
solid heart iconAn AI-enabled evidence-driven framework for rumour veracity assessment during pandemics: lessons from COVID-19
Maria Liakata and Arkaitz Zubiaga
£174,128 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-01-2021 - 30-09-2022
solid heart iconFilament AI KTP - grant transfer
Maria Liakata
£11,596 Innovate UK
01-01-2021 - 16-10-2022
solid heart iconSocial media, Smartphone use and Self harm in Young People (3S-YP study)
Maria Liakata
£3,628 MRC Medical Research Council
01-01-2021 - 31-08-2024
solid heart iconMobile Sensing of Altered EveryDay Function in Early Alzheimer’s Disease (Maria Liakata)
Maria Liakata
£117,912 Wellcome Trust
01-09-2020 - 01-12-2023