Prof Matthew Purver

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
www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/people/profiles/purvermatthew.html
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
Centre for Multimodal AI
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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

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

2024

Relevant PublicationHow do Encoder-only LMs Predict Closeness and Respect from Thai Conversations?
Nakwijit P, Rutherford AT and Purver M
28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. 
11-09-2024
bullet iconA longitudinal multi-modal dataset for dementia monitoring and diagnosis.
Gkoumas D, Wang B, Tsakalidis A, Wolters M, Purver M, Zubiaga A and Liakata M
Lang. Resour. Evaluation vol. 58, 883-902.  
01-09-2024
Relevant PublicationTemporal 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 and Clegg RG
arxiv. vol. abs/2311.13442 
28-05-2024
Relevant PublicationA Computational Analysis of the Dehumanisation of Migrants from Syria and Ukraine in Slovene News Media
Caporusso J, Hoogland D, Brglez M, Koloski B, Purver M and Pollak S
2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024., 199-210.  
20-05-2024
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 iconMessage from the Program Chairs
Graham Y and Purver M
EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics., vi-viii.  
17-03-2024
Relevant PublicationPower and vulnerability: managing sensitive language in organizational communication
Healey PGT, Khare P, Castro I, Tyson G, Karan M, Shekhar R, McQuistin S, Perkins C and Purver M
Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers vol. 14 
23-02-2024
Relevant PublicationAnalyzing and Enhancing Clarification Strategies for Ambiguous References in Consumer Service Interactions
Li C, Gan Y, Yang Z, Chen Y, Qiu X, Lin Y, Purver M and Poesio M
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue., 289-296.  
01-01-2024
Relevant PublicationRecent Trends in Linear Text Segmentation: A Survey
Ghinassi I, Wang L, Newell C and Purver M
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024., 3084-3095.  
01-01-2024
bullet iconFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024, St. Julian's, Malta, March 17-22, 2024

EACL (Findings). Editors: Graham Y and Purver M. 
01-01-2024
bullet iconProceedings 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

EACL (2). Editors: Graham Y and Purver M. 
01-01-2024
bullet iconProceedings 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

EACL (1). Editors: Graham Y and Purver M. 
01-01-2024
bullet iconWhen Cohesion Lies in the Embedding Space: Embedding-Based Reference-Free Metrics for Topic Segmentation
Ghinassi I, Wang L, Newell C and Purver M
2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings., 17525-17536.  
01-01-2024
Relevant PublicationA Computational Analysis of the Dehumanisation of Migrants from Syria and Ukraine in Slovene News Media.
Caporusso J, Hoogland D, Brglez M, Koloski B, Purver M and Pollak S
LREC/COLING., 199-210. Editors: Calzolari N, Kan M-Y, Hoste V, Lenci A, Sakti S and Xue N. 
01-01-2024
Relevant PublicationDenoising Labeled Data for Comment Moderation Using Active Learning
Pelicon A, Karan M, Shekhar R, Purver M and Pollak S
2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings., 4626-4633.  
01-01-2024
Relevant PublicationTemporal 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 and Clegg RG
ICWSM., 126-138. Editors: Lin Y-R, Mejova Y and Cha M. 
01-01-2024
Relevant PublicationComparing News Framing of Migration Crises using Zero-Shot Classification
Ivačič N, Purver M, Lind F, Boomgaarden H, Bajt V and Pollak S
1st Workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective, RFP 2024 at LREC-COLING 2024 - Workshop Proceedings., 18-27.  
01-01-2024

2023

Relevant PublicationComparing neural sentence encoders for topic segmentation across domains: not your typical text similarity task
Ghinassi I, Wang L, Newell C and Purver M
Peerj Computer Science, Peerj vol. 9 
03-11-2023
Relevant PublicationLessons Learnt from Linear Text Segmentation: a Fair Comparison of Architectural and Sentence Encoding Strategies for Successful Segmentation
Ghinassi I, Wang L, Newell C and Purver M
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 7 Sep 2023 - 9 Sep 2023., 408-418.  
07-09-2023
Relevant PublicationExploring Pre-Trained Neural Audio Representations for Audio Topic Segmentation
Ghinassi I, Purver M, Phan H and Newell C
2023 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). vol. 00, 1086-1091.  
14-07-2023
bullet iconRe-appraising the Schema Linking for Text-to-SQL
Gan Y, Chen X and Purver M
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023., 835-852.  
09-07-2023
Relevant PublicationLEDA: a Large-Organization Email-Based Decision-Dialogue-Act Analysis Dataset
Karan M, Khare P, Shekhar R, McQuistin S, Castro I, Tyson G, Perkins C, Healey P and Purver M
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023., 6080-6089.  
09-07-2023
Relevant PublicationTracing Linguistic Markers of Influence in a Large Online Organisation
Khare P, Shekhar R, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C, Castro I, Tyson G, Healey P and Purver M
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)., 82-90.  
09-07-2023
Relevant PublicationErrare humanum est: What do RFC Errata say about Internet Standards?
McQuistin S, Karan M, Khare P, Perkins C, Purver M, Healey P, Castro I and Tyson G
2023 7th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA). vol. 00, 1-9.  
29-06-2023
Relevant PublicationMultimodal Topic Segmentation of Podcast Shows with Pre-trained Neural Encoders
Ghinassi I, Wang L, Newell C and Purver M
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval., 602-606.  
12-06-2023
Relevant Publication“Who's there?”: Depicting identity in interaction
Healey PGT, Howes C, Kempson R, Mills GJ, Purver M, Gregoromichelaki E, Eshghi A and Hough J
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cambridge University Press (Cup) vol. 46, e37-e37.  
05-04-2023
Relevant PublicationSelf-Comprehension for More Coherent Language Generation
Wright GA and Purver M
In Artificial General Intelligence, Springer Nature 328-337.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationLexicools at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Sexism Lexicon Construction via XAI
Nakwijit P, Samir M and Purver M
Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)., 23-43.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationLon-eå at SemEval-2023 Task 11: A Comparison of Activation Functions for Soft and Hard Label Prediction
Hosseini P, Hosseini M, Al-azzawi S, Liwicki M, Castro I and Purver M
Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)., 1329-1334.  
01-01-2023
bullet iconAnalysis of Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition in South-Slavic Languages
Ivačič N, Tran THH, Koloski B, Pollak S and Purver M
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing 2023 (SlavicNLP 2023)., 106-112.  
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
EMNLP., 15904-15917. Editors: Bouamor H, Pino J and Bali K. 
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationLon-eå at SemEval-2023 Task 11: A Comparison of Activation Functions for Soft and Hard Label Prediction.
Hosseini P, Hosseini M, Al-Azzawi SS, Liwicki M, Castro I and Purver M
SemEval@ACL., 1329-1334.  
01-01-2023

2022

Relevant PublicationCoRAL: a Context-aware Croatian Abusive Language Dataset
Shekhar R, Karan M and Purver M
Findings of the ACL: AACL-IJCNLP 21 Nov 2022 - 23 Nov 2022. 
21-11-2022
Relevant PublicationA Self-Evaluating Architecture for Describing Data
Wright GA and Purver M
In Text, Speech, and Dialogue, Springer Nature 187-198.  
16-09-2022
Relevant PublicationARCIDUCA: Annotating Reference and Coreference In Dialogue Using Conversational Agents in games
Poesio M, Bartle R, Chamberlain J, Hough J, Madge C, Perez-Liebana D, Purver M and Yu J
 
23-08-2022
Relevant PublicationLanguage and Cognition as Distributed Process and Interactions
Gregoromichelaki E, Eshghi A, Howes C, Mills G, Kempson R, Hough J, Healey P and Purver M
Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. 
22-08-2022
Relevant PublicationTracking Changes in ESG Representation: Initial Investigations in UK Annual Reports
Purver M, Martinc M, Ichev R, Lončarski I, Sitar Šuštar K, Valentinčič A and Pollak S
Proceedings of the First Computing Social Responsibility Workshop within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Marseille, France. 
25-06-2022
Relevant PublicationMisspelling Semantics In Thai
Nakwijit P and Purver M
The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 2022 Marseille, France 21 Jun 2022 - 23 Jun 2022. 
22-06-2022
Relevant PublicationThe Web We Weave: Untangling the Social Graph of the IETF
Khare P, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C, Tyson G, Purver M, Healey P and CASTRO I
AAAI 16th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) Atlanta, Georgia, US and Online 6 Jun 2022 - 9 Jun 2022. 
06-06-2022
Relevant PublicationMeasuring and Improving Compositional Generalization in Text-to-SQL via Component Alignment
Gan Y, Chen X, Huang Q and Purver M
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022., 831-843.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationJSI at SemEval-2022 Task 1: CODWOE - Reverse Dictionary: Monolingual and cross-lingual approaches
Tran THH, Martinc M, Purver M and Pollak S
Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)., 101-106.  
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 PublicationMisspelling Semantics in Thai
Nakwijit P and Purver M
2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022., 227-236.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationCoRAL: a Context-aware Croatian Abusive Language Dataset
Shekhar R, Karan M and Purver M
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL-IJCNLP 2022., 217-225.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationKnowledge informed sustainability detection from short financial texts
Koloski B, Montariol S, Purver M and Pollak S
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP)., 228-234.  
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationPreface
Boleda G, Bekki D, Chatzikyriakides S, Clark S, Coecke B, Greco G, Lewis M, Moortgat M, Moot R, Purver M, Sadrzadeh M and Wijnholds G
 
01-01-2022
bullet iconMeasuring and Improving Compositional Generalization in Text-to-SQL via Component Alignment.
Gan Y, Chen X, Huang Q and Purver M
NAACL-HLT (Findings)., 831-843. Editors: Carpuat M, Marneffe M-CD and Ruíz IVM. 
01-01-2022
Relevant PublicationMisspelling Semantics in Thai.
Nakwijit P and Purver M
LREC., 227-236. 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
Relevant PublicationCoRAL: a Context-aware Croatian Abusive Language Dataset.
Shekhar R, Karan M and Purver M
AACL/IJCNLP (Findings)., 217-225. 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 iconNatural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications
Gan Y, Chen X, Xie J, Purver M, Woodward JR, Drake J and Zhang Q
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021., 2030-2042.  
07-11-2021
bullet iconExploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generalization.
Gan Y, Chen X and Purver M
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). vol. abs/2109.05157 
07-11-2021
Relevant PublicationCharacterising the IETF through the lens of RFC deployment
McQuistin S, Karan M, Khare P, Perkins C, Tyson G, Purver M, Healey P, Iqbal W, Qadir J and Castro I
Proceedings of the 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference., 137-149.  
02-11-2021
bullet iconExploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generalization
Gan Y, Chen X and Purver M
2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 
01-11-2021
Relevant PublicationCommunicative Grounding of Analogical Explanations in Dialogue: A Corpus Study of Conversational Management Acts and Statistical Sequence Models for Tutoring through Analogy
Del Bosque Trevino JE, Hough J and Purver M
Reasoning and Interaction Gothenburg, Sweden 4 Oct 2021 - 6 Oct 2021., 23-31. Editors: Howes C, Simon D, Breitholtz E and Chatzikyriakidis S. 
04-10-2021
Relevant PublicationEvaluating Natural Language Descriptions Generated in a Workspace-Based Architecture
WRIGHT G and Purver M
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). 
14-09-2021
Relevant PublicationDetecting Alzheimer's Disease using Interactional and Acoustic features from Spontaneous Speech
Nasreen S, HOUGH J and Purver M
Interspeech. 
03-09-2021
Relevant PublicationNot All Comments are Equal: Insights into Comment Moderation from a Topic-Aware Model
Zosa E, Shekhar R, Karan M and Purver M
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing., 1652-1662.  
01-09-2021
Relevant PublicationAlzheimer’s Dementia Recognition Using Acoustic, Lexical, Disfluency and Speech Pause Features Robust to Noisy Inputs
Rohanian M, Hough J and Purver M
Interspeech 2021., 3820-3824.  
30-08-2021
Relevant PublicationRare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis
Nasreen S, HOUGH J and Purver M
SIGDIAL: 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. 
29-07-2021
Relevant PublicationMitigating Topic Bias when Detecting Decisions in Dialogue
Karan M, Khare P, Healey P and Purver M
SIGDIAL: 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. 
29-07-2021
bullet iconIncremental Composition in Distributional Semantics
Purver M, Sadrzadeh M, Kempson R, Wijnholds G and Hough J
Journal of Logic, Language and Information, Springer Verlag 
07-07-2021
Relevant PublicationInvestigating cross-lingual training for offensive language detection.
Pelicon A, Shekhar R, Skrlj B, Purver M and Pollak S
Peerj Comput. Sci. vol. 7, e559-e559.  
25-06-2021
Relevant PublicationAlzheimer’s Dementia Recognition From Spontaneous Speech Using Disfluency and Interactional Features
Nasreen S, Rohanian M, Hough J and Purver M
Frontiers in Computer Science vol. 3, 640669-640669.  
18-06-2021
bullet iconTowards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution
Gan Y, Chen X, Huang Q, Purver M, Woodward JR, Xie J and Huang P
 
02-06-2021
Relevant PublicationZero-shot Cross-lingual Content Filtering: Offensive Language and Hate Speech Detection
Pelicon A, Shekhar R, Martinc M, Škrlj B, Purver M and Pollak S
EACL workshop on News Media Content Analysis and Automated Report Generation Kyiv (online) 19 Apr 2021., 30-34.  
19-04-2021
Relevant PublicationEMBEDDIA Tools, Datasets and Challenges: Resources and Hackathon Contributions
Pollak 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.
EACL workshop on News Media Content Analysis and Automated Report Generation Kyiv (online) 19 Apr 2021., 99-109.  
19-04-2021
Relevant PublicationMulti-modal fusion with gating using audio, lexical and disfluency features for Alzheimer's Dementia recognition from spontaneous speech.
Rohanian M, Hough J and Purver M
CoRR. vol. abs/2106.09668 
01-01-2021
bullet iconTowards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution.
Gan Y, Chen X, Huang Q, Purver M, Woodward JR, Xie J and Huang P
ACL/IJCNLP (1)., 2505-2515. Editors: Zong C, Xia F, Li W and Navigli R. 
01-01-2021
bullet iconExploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generalization
Gan Y, Chen X and Purver M
EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings., 8926-8931.  
01-01-2021
bullet iconNatural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications
Gan Y, Chen X, Xie J, Purver M, Woodward JR, Drake J and Zhang Q
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2021., 2030-2042.  
01-01-2021
Relevant PublicationNot All Comments are Equal: Insights into Comment Moderation from a Topic-Aware Model.
Zosa E, Shekhar R, Karan M and Purver M
CoRR. vol. abs/2109.10033 
01-01-2021
Relevant PublicationNot All Comments Are Equal: Insights into Comment Moderation from a Topic-Aware Model.
Zosa E, Shekhar R, Karan M and Purver M
RANLP., 1652-1662. Editors: Angelova G, Kunilovskaya M, Mitkov R and Nikolova-Koleva I. 
01-01-2021
Relevant PublicationDetecting Alzheimer's Disease Using Interactional and Acoustic Features from Spontaneous Speech.
Nasreen S, Hough J and Purver M
Interspeech., 1962-1966. Editors: Hermansky H, Cernocký H, Burget L, Lamel L, Scharenborg O and Motlícek P. 
01-01-2021
Relevant PublicationAlzheimer's Dementia Recognition Using Acoustic, Lexical, Disfluency and Speech Pause Features Robust to Noisy Inputs.
Rohanian M, Hough J and Purver M
Interspeech., 3820-3824. Editors: Hermansky H, Cernocký H, Burget L, Lamel L, Scharenborg O and Motlícek P. 
01-01-2021
bullet iconNatural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications.
Gan Y, Chen X, Xie J, Purver M, Woodward JR, Drake JH and Zhang Q
EMNLP (Findings)., 2030-2042. Editors: Moens M-F, Huang X, Specia L and Yih SW-T. 
01-01-2021

2020

Relevant PublicationMetaphor generation through context sensitive distributional semantics
McGregor S, Purver M and Wiggins G
In Producing Figurative Expression, John Benjamins Publishing Company 421-448.  
26-11-2020
Relevant PublicationMulti-modal fusion with gating using audio, lexical and disfluency features for Alzheimer's Dementia recognition from spontaneous speech
Rohanian M, Hough J and 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
Relevant PublicationCompletability vs (In)completeness
Gregoromichelaki E, Mills G, Howes C, Eshghi A, Chatzikyriakidis S, Purver M, Kempson R, Cann R and Healey P
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, Taylor & Francis (Routledge) 
22-10-2020
Relevant PublicationAutomating News Comment Moderation with Limited Resources: Benchmarking in Croatian and Estonian
Shekhar R, Pranjić M, Pollak S, Pelicon A and Purver M
Journal of Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, German Society For Computational Linguistics & Language Technology vol. 34 (1), 49-79.  
08-09-2020
Relevant PublicationHow Furiously Can Colourless Green Ideas Sleep? Sentence Acceptability in Context.
Lau JH, Armendariz CS, Lappin S, Purver M and Shu C
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, Mit Press vol. 8, 296-310.  
22-06-2020
Relevant PublicationHow Furiously Can Colourless Green Ideas Sleep? Sentence Acceptability in Context
Lau JH, Santos Armendariz C, Lappin S, Purver M and Shu C
Transactions of The Association For Computational Linguistics, Mit Press vol. 8, 296-310.  
17-06-2020
Relevant PublicationCoSimLex: A Resource for Evaluating Graded Word Similarity in Context.
Armendariz CS, Purver M, Ulcar M, Pollak S, Ljubesic N and Granroth-Wilding M
LREC., 5878-5886. 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
Relevant PublicationCreative Language Generation in a Society of Engagement and Reflection.
Wright GA and Purver M
ICCC., 169-172. Editors: Cardoso FA, Machado P, Veale T and Cunha JM. 
01-01-2020
Relevant PublicationTemporal Mental Health Dynamics on Social Media
Tabak T and Purver M
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020. 
01-01-2020
Relevant PublicationTemporal Mental Health Dynamics on Social Media.
Tabak T and Purver M
1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020. Editors: Verspoor K, Cohen KB, Conway M, Bruijn BD, Dredze M, Mihalcea R and Wallace BC. 
01-01-2020
Relevant PublicationSemEval-2020 Task 3: Graded Word Similarity in Context
Armendariz CS, Purver M, Pollak S, Ljubešić N, Ulčar M, Vulić I and Pilehvar MT
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation., 36-49.  
01-01-2020
bullet iconA Review of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Models
Gan Y, Purver M and Woodward JR
Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Student Research Workshop., 108-115.  
01-01-2020
Relevant PublicationCoSimLex: A Resource for Evaluating Graded Word Similarity in Context
Armendariz CS, Purver M, Ulcar M, Pollak S, Ljubesic N, Robnik-Sikonja M, Granroth-Wilding M and Vaik K
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION (LREC 2020)., 5870-5878.  
01-01-2020

2019

Relevant PublicationGender, Language and Society - Word Embeddings as a Reflection of Social Inequalities in Linguistic Corpora
Supej A, Plahuta M, Purver M, Mathioudakis M and Pollak S
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. Editors: Ignjatović M, Kanjuo-Mrčela A and Kuhar R. 
24-12-2019
Relevant PublicationCoSimLex: A Resource for Evaluating Graded Word Similarity in Context
Armendariz CS, Purver M, Ulčar M, Pollak S, Ljubešić N, Robnik-Šikonja M, Granroth-Wilding M and Vaik K
 
11-12-2019
Relevant PublicationDetecting depression with word-level multimodal fusion
Rohanian M, Hough J and Purver M
20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association - INTERSPEECH Graz, Austria. vol. 2019-September, 1443-1447.  
15-09-2019
Relevant PublicationA Corpus Study on Questions, Responses and Misunderstanding Signals in Conversations with Alzheimer’s Patients
Nasreen S, Purver M and Hough J
Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers. 
01-09-2019
Relevant PublicationRe-Representing Metaphor: Modelling metaphor perception using dynamically contextual distributional semantics
MCGREGOR SE, AGRES K, Rataj K, PURVER MRJ and WIGGINS GA
Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media 
15-04-2019
bullet iconConceptual representations for computational concept creation
Xiao 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.
Acm Computing Surveys vol. 52 (1) 
01-02-2019
bullet iconDetecting Summary-worthy Sentences: the Effect of Discourse Features
DROOG-HAYES M, WIGGINS GA and PURVER MRJ
13th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing Newport Beach, CA 30 Jan 2019 - 2 Feb 2019. 
01-02-2019
bullet iconDetecting Summary-Worthy Sentences: The Effect of Discourse Features
Droog-Hayes M, Wiggins GA and Purver M
2019 IEEE 13th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC). vol. 00, 381-384.  
30-01-2019
Relevant PublicationThe influence of cost on the emergence of a common language among cooperating agents
McGinity MM, Purver M and Wiggins G
2019 AISB Convention., 21-27.  
01-01-2019
bullet iconPreface
Martín-Vide C, Pollak S and Purver M
 
01-01-2019
bullet iconStatistical Language and Speech Processing - 7th International Conference, SLSP 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 14-16, 2019, Proceedings

SLSP. vol. 11816 Editors: Martín-Vide C, Purver M and Pollak S. 
01-01-2019

2018

Relevant PublicationSelf-Repetition in Dialogue and Monologue
HEALEY PGT and PURVER MRJ
 
09-11-2018
bullet iconExploring Semantic Incrementality with Dynamic Syntax and Vector Space Semantics
Sadrzadeh M, Purver M, Hough J and Kempson R
 
01-11-2018
bullet iconApplying Distributional Semantics to Enhance Classifying Emotions in Arabic Tweets
Alharbi S and Purver M
Computer Science & Information Technology., 15-34.  
28-04-2018
Relevant PublicationComputational Models of Miscommunication Phenomena
PURVER MRJ, HOUGH J and HOWES C
Topics in Cognitive Science, Wiley 
08-03-2018
bullet iconAutomatic detection of narrative structure for high-level story representation
Droog-Hayes M, Wiggins G and Purver M
Proceedings of AISB Annual Convention 2018. 
01-01-2018

2017

bullet iconProbabilistic Record Type Lattices for Incremental Reference Processing
HOUGH J and PURVER MRJ
In Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics, Springer International Publishing 189-222. Editors: Chatzikyriakidis S and Luo Z. 
01-02-2017
Relevant PublicationHow natural is argument in natural dialogue?
Concannon S, Healey P and Purver M
Computational Models of Natural Argument. vol. 1876, 43-48.  
01-01-2017
bullet iconA geometric method for detecting semantic coercion
McGregor S, Jezek E, Purver M and Wiggins G
12th International Conference on Computational Semantics, IWCS 2017 - Long Papers. 
01-01-2017
Relevant PublicationOpening Up and Closing Down Discussion: Experimenting with Epistemic Status in Conversation
Concannon S, Healey PGT and Purver M
CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition., 1818-1823.  
01-01-2017
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

2016

bullet iconEntraining IDyOT: timing in the information dynamics of thinking
FORTH J, AGRES K, PURVER MRJ and WIGGINS GA
Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media vol. 7, 1575-1575. Editors: RAVIGNANI A. 
18-10-2016
bullet iconWords, concepts, and the geometry of analogy
McGregor S, Purver M and Wiggins G
Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics and Cognitive Science. vol. 221, 39-48.  
02-08-2016
Relevant PublicationBetter late than Now-or-Never: The case of interactive repair phenomena
HEALEY PGT, HOWES C, HOUGH J and PURVER MRJ
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cambridge University Press (Cup): Stm Journals vol. 39, e76-e76.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconModeling metaphor perception with distributional semantics vector space models
Agres KR, McGregor S, Rataj K, Purver M and Wiggins GA
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 1767 
01-01-2016
bullet iconRobust Co-occurrence Quantification for Lexical Distributional Semantics
Milajevs D, Sadrzadeh M and Purver M
Proceedings of the ACL 2016 Student Research Workshop., 58-64.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconProceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation.
Purver M, Gervás P and Griffiths SS
CC-NLG. Editors: Purver M, Gervás P and Griffiths SS. 
01-01-2016
bullet iconProcess Based Evaluation of Computer Generated Poetry
McGregor S, Purver M and Wiggins G
Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation., 51-60.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconProceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation, CC-NLG 2016, Edinburgh, UK, September 2016

CC-NLG. Editors: Purver M, Gervás P and Griffiths SS. 
01-01-2016
bullet iconInvestigating Design and Evaluation Guidelines for Interactive Presentation of Visual Art
Maleshkova J, Purver M, Weyrich T and McOwan PW
In Curating The Digital, Springer Nature 125-147.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconInteractivity and User Engagement in Art Presentation Interfaces
Maleshkova J, Purver M, Weyrich T and McOwan PW
In Curating The Digital, Springer Nature 107-123.  
01-01-2016
bullet iconIntroduction
Purver M, Gervás P and Griffiths S
CC-NLG 2016 - INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation, Proceedings. 
01-01-2016
bullet iconRobust co-occurrence quantification for Lexical distributional semantics
Milajevs D, Sadrzadeh M and Purver M
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. vol. 2016-August, 58-64.  
01-01-2016

2015

bullet iconTwitter Language Use Reflects Psychological Differences between Democrats and Republicans
Sylwester K and Purver M
Plos One, Public Library of Science (Plos) vol. 10 (9), e0137422-e0137422. Editors: Danforth CM. 
16-09-2015
bullet iconEllipsis
Kempson R, Cann R, Eshghi A, Gregoromichelaki E and Purver M
In Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, Wiley Editors: Lappin S and Fox C. 
01-09-2015
Relevant PublicationShifting Opinions: Experiments on Agreement and Disagreement in Dialogue
Concannon S, Healey P and 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
Relevant PublicationTaking a Stance: a Corpus Study of Reported Speech
Concannon S, Healey PGT and 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
bullet iconAn Emergent Model of Metaphors as Transformations of Vector Spaces
McGregor S, Purver M and Wiggins G
Proceedings of the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC). 
01-07-2015
bullet iconConceptualizing Creativity: From Distributional Semantics to Conceptual Spaces
Agres K, McGregor S, Purver M and Wiggins G
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC)., 118-125.  
01-06-2015
bullet iconThe Use of English Colour Terms in Big Data
Mylonas D, Purver M, Sadrzadeh M, MacDonald L and Griffin L
Proceedings of the 2015 Meeting of the International Colour Association (AIC). 
01-05-2015
bullet iconMetaphor, Meaning, Computers and Consciousness
McGregor S, Purver M and Wiggins G
Proceedings of the 8th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy: The Significance of Metaphor and Other Figurative Modes of Expression and Thought. 
01-04-2015
bullet iconFeedback in Conversation as Incremental Semantic Update
Eshghi A, Howes C, Gregoromichelaki E, Hough J and Purver M
International Conference on Computational Semantics., 261-271.  
01-04-2015
bullet iconFrom Distributional Semantics to Distributional Pragmatics?
Purver M and Sadrzadeh M
Proceedings of the IWCS 2015 Workshop on Interactive Meaning Construction., 21-22.  
01-04-2015
bullet iconGeometry of Meaning from Words to Dialogue Acts
Sadrzadeh M and Purver M
Proceedings of the IWCS 2015 Workshop on Advances in Distributional Semantics. 
01-04-2015
bullet iconPredicting Emotion Labels for Chinese Microblog Texts
Yuan Z and Purver M
In Advances in Social Media Analysis, Springer International Publishing 129-149. Editors: Gaber MM, Cocea M, Wiratunga N and Goker A. 
01-01-2015
bullet iconFrom Distributional Semantics to Conceptual Spaces: A Novel Computational Method for Concept Creation
McGregor S, Agres K, Purver M and Wiggins G
Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, De Gruyter Open vol. 6 (1), 55-86.  
01-01-2015
bullet iconInformation-theoretic segmentation of natural language
Griffiths SS, McGinity MM, Forth J, Purver M and Wiggins GA
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 1510, 54-67.  
01-01-2015
bullet iconIntroduction
Purver M, Sadrzadeh M and Stone M
IWCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics. 
01-01-2015
bullet iconProceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics, IWCS 2015, 15-17 April, 2015, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

IWCS. Editors: Purver M, Sadrzadeh M and Stone M. 
01-01-2015

2014

bullet iconStrongly Incremental Repair Detection
Hough J and Purver M
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)., 78-89.  
01-10-2014
bullet iconEvaluating Neural Word Representations in Tensor-Based Compositional Settings
Milajevs D, Kartsaklis D, Sadrzadeh M and Purver M
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)., 708-719.  
01-10-2014
bullet iconInferring Cultural Preference of Arts Audiences Through Twitter Data
Concannon S and Purver M
Digital Intelligence. 
01-09-2014
bullet iconHelping, I Mean Assessing Psychiatric Communication: An Application of Incremental Self-Repair Detection
Howes C, Hough J, Purver M and McCabe R
Proceedings of the 18th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DialWatt)., 80-89.  
01-09-2014
bullet iconLattice Theoretic Relevance in Incremental Reference Processing
Hough J and Purver M
Proceedings of the RefNet Workshop on Psychological and Computational Models of Reference Comprehension and Production. 
01-08-2014
bullet iconA Simple Baseline for Discriminating Similar Languages
Purver M
Proceedings of the 1st COLING Workshop on Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)., 155-160.  
01-08-2014
bullet iconBeyond the White Cube: Presentation of Visual Art in Interactive 3D Environments
Maleshkova J and Purver M
Proceedings of Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA)., 247-254.  
01-07-2014
bullet iconDialogue and Compound Contributions
Purver M, Hough J and Gregoromichelaki E
In Natural Language Generation in Interactive Systems, Cambridge University Press 63-92. Editors: Stent A and Bangalore S. 
01-06-2014
bullet iconComputational Creativity: A Philosophical Approach, and an Approach to Philosophy
McGregor S, Wiggins G and Purver M
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). 
01-06-2014
bullet iconLinguistic Indicators of Severity and Progress in Online Text-based Therapy for Depression
Howes C, Purver M and McCabe R
Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality., 7-16.  
01-06-2014
bullet iconTopic and Sentiment Analysis on OSNs: a Case Study of Advertising Strategies on Twitter
Dacres S, Haddadi H and Purver M
Proceedings of the 6th ASE International Conference on Social Computing. 
01-05-2014
bullet iconProbabilistic Type Theory for Incremental Dialogue Processing
Hough J and Purver M
Proceedings of the EACL 2014 Workshop on Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics (TTNLS)., 80-88.  
01-04-2014
bullet iconInvestigating the Contribution of Distributional Semantic Information for Dialogue Act Classification
Milajevs D and Purver M
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (CVSC)., 40-47.  
01-04-2014
bullet iconDid you pack your keys? Smart objects and forgetfulness
Farion C and Purver M
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings., 539-542.  
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationDivergence in dialogue.
Healey PGT, Purver M and Howes C
Plos One vol. 9 (2) 
01-01-2014
bullet iconEvaluating Neural Word Representations in Tensor-Based Compositional Settings.
Milajevs D, Kartsaklis D, Sadrzadeh M and Purver M
EMNLP., 708-719. Editors: Moschitti A, Pang B and Daelemans W. 
01-01-2014
bullet iconStrongly Incremental Repair Detection.
Hough J and Purver M
EMNLP., 78-89. Editors: Moschitti A, Pang B and Daelemans W. 
01-01-2014
bullet iconComputational creativity: A philosophical approach, and an approach to philosophy
McGregor S, Wiggins G and Purver M
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2014. 
01-01-2014
bullet iconBeyond the White Cube: Presentation of Visual Art in Interactive 3D Environments
Maleshkova J and Purver M
Electronic Workshops in Computing. 
01-01-2014

2013

bullet iconPresentation and communication of visual artworks in an interactive virtual environment
Maleshkova J, Purver M, Grau O and Pansiot J
 
30-12-2013
bullet iconModelling Expectation in the Self-Repair Processing of Annotat-, um, Listeners
Hough J and Purver M
SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Amsterdam 16 Dec 2013 - 18 Dec 2013., 92-101.  
01-12-2013
bullet iconIncremental Grammar Induction from Child-Directed Dialogue Utterances
Eshghi A, Hough J and Purver M
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) Sofia, Bulgaria., 94-103.  
01-08-2013
bullet iconUsing Conversation Topics for Predicting Therapy Outcomes in Schizophrenia
Howes C, Purver M and McCabe R
Biomedical Informatics Insights, Libertas Academica vol. 6, 39-50.  
01-07-2013
bullet iconData-driven Learning in an Incremental Grammar Framework
PURVER MRJ, Eshghi A and Hough J
Linguistic Evidence Tübingen 4 Apr 2013 - 6 Apr 2013. 
01-04-2013
bullet iconProbabilistic Induction for an Incremental Semantic Grammar
Eshghi A, Purver M and Hough J
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2013) – Long Papers., 107-118.  
01-03-2013
bullet iconMessage Bag: Can Assistive Technology Combat Forgetfulness?
Farion C and Purver M
4th Augmented Human International Conference Stuttgart, Germany 7 Mar 2013 - 8 Mar 2013. (2013 Proceeding), 134-137.  
01-03-2013
bullet iconInvestigating Topic Modelling for Therapy Dialogue Analysis
Howes C, Purver M and McCabe R
Proceedings of IWCS 2013 Workshop on Computational Semantics in Clinical Text (CSCT 2013)., 7-16.  
01-03-2013
bullet iconAugmenting Real-World Social Networking with Vibrotactile Display
Khaorapapong N, Cox D and PURVER MRJ
7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2013) Barcelona 1 Jan 1970. 
01-02-2013
bullet iconProbabilistic grammar induction in an incremental semantic framework
Eshghi A, Purver M, Hough J and Sato Y
92-107.  
01-01-2013
bullet iconHealthcare Informatics for Mental Health: Recent Advances and the Outlook for the Future
Haddadi H, Healey P, McCabe R and Purver M
 
01-01-2013

2012

bullet iconHelping the Medicine Go Down: Repair and Adherence in Patient-Clinician Dialogues
Howes C, Purver M, McCabe R, Healey PGT and Lavelle M
16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2012)., 155-156.  
01-09-2012
bullet iconInducing lexical entries for an incremental semantic grammar
Eshghi A, Purver M, Hough J and Sato Y
7th International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language Processing (CSLP’12) University of Orleans. France 13 Sep 2012 - 14 Sep 2012., 39-50. Editors: Duchier D and Parmentier Y. 
01-09-2012
bullet iconProcessing Self-Repairs in an Incremental Type-Theoretic Dialogue System
Hough J and Purver M
16th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SeineDial)., 136-144.  
01-09-2012
bullet iconPredicting Emotion Labels for Chinese Microblog Texts
Yuan Z and Purver M
1st International Workshop on Sentiment Discovery from Affective Data (SDAD)., 40-47.  
01-09-2012
bullet iconFinishing each other's ... Responding to incomplete contributions in dialogue
Howes C, Healey P, PURVER MRJ and Eshghi A
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Riva del Garda, Italy 1 Jan 1970 - 8 Sep 2012. 
01-09-2012
bullet iconWhose turn is it anyway? Same- and cross-person compound contributions in dialogue
Howes C, Healey PGT and Purver M
34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012)., 1697-1702.  
01-08-2012
bullet iconFinishing each other’s ... Responding to incomplete contributions in dialogue
Howes C, Healey PGT, Purver M and Eshghi A
34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012)., 479-484.  
01-08-2012
bullet iconPredicting Adherence to Treatment for Schizophrenia from Dialogue Transcripts
Howes C, Purver M, McCabe R, Healey PGT and Lavelle M
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., 79-83.  
01-07-2012
bullet iconDesigning Unobtrusive Interfaces to Increase Naturalness of First Time Face-To-Face Interaction
Khaorapapong N and PURVER MRJ
5th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME 2012) Newcastle 1 Jan 1970. 
01-06-2012
bullet iconIcebreaker T-shirt: a Wearable Device for Easing Face-to-Face Interaction
Khaorapapong N and PURVER MRJ
16th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2012) Newcastle 1 Jan 1970. 
01-06-2012
bullet iconAn Assistive Device for Shy Users in Face-to-Face Communication
Khaorapapong N and PURVER MRJ
Doctoral Consortium at the 16th annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2012) Newcastle 1 Jan 1970. 
01-06-2012
bullet iconExperimenting with Distant Supervision for Emotion Classification
Purver M and Battersby S
13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012) Avignon, France 23 Apr 2012 - 27 Apr 2012., 482-491.  
01-01-2012
bullet iconConversational Interactions: Capturing Dialogue Dynamics
Eshghi A, Hough J, Purver M, Kempson R and Gregoromichelaki E
In From Quantification to Conversation: Festschrift For Robin Cooper On The Occasion of His 65th Birthday, College Publications 325-349. Editors: Larsson S and Borin L. 
01-01-2012
bullet iconQuantification, the Reprise Content Hypothesis, and Type Theory
Ginzburg J and Purver M
In From Quantification to Conversation: Festschrift For Robin Cooper On The Occasion of His 65th Birthday, College Publications 85-110. Editors: Larsson S and Borin L. 
01-01-2012

2011

bullet iconDyLan: Parser for Dynamic Syntax
Eshghi A, Purver M and Hough J
 
01-10-2011
bullet iconTracking the Dative Alternation in Conversation
Howes C, Healey P and Purver M
Structural Alternations. 
01-08-2011
bullet iconMaking a Contribution: Processing Clarification Requests in Dialogue
Healey PGT, Eshghi A, Purver M and Howes C
21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D). 
01-07-2011
bullet iconOn Incrementality in Dialogue: Evidence from Compound Contributions
Howes C, Purver M, Healey PGT, Mills GJ and Gregoromichelaki E
Dialogue & Discourse, Linguistic Society of America vol. 2 (1), 279-311.  
01-01-2011
bullet iconIncrementality and Intention-Recognition in Utterance Processing
Gregoromichelaki E, Kempson R, Purver M, Mills GJ, Cann R, Meyer-Viol W and Healey PGT
Dialogue & Discourse vol. 2 (1), 199-233.  
01-01-2011
bullet iconEnabling Distributed Communication of Manual Skills
Fox S, Ehlen P and Purver M
International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Emerald vol. 4, 49-63.  
01-01-2011
bullet iconIncremental Semantic Construction in a Dialogue System
Purver M, Eshghi A and Hough J
9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)., 365-369. Editors: Bos J and Pulman S. 
01-01-2011
bullet iconTopic Segmentation
Purver M
In Spoken Language Understanding: Systems For Extracting Semantic Information From Speech, Wiley 291-317. Editors: Tur G and de Mori R. 
01-01-2011
bullet iconOn Incrementality in Dialogue: Evidence from Compound Contributions
Howes C, Purver M, HEALEY PGT, Mills GJ and Gregoromichelaki E
Dialogue and Discourse vol. 2 (1), 279-311.  
01-01-2011
bullet iconNatural-language Syntax as Procedures for Interpretation: the Dynamics of Ellipsis Construal
Kempson R, Gregoromichelaki E, Meyer-Viol W, Purver M, White G and Cann R
Editors: Lecomte A and Tron c con S. 
01-01-2011

2010

bullet iconIncremental Turn Processing in Dialogue
Eshghi A, Healey PGT, Purver M, Howes C, Gregoromichelaki E and Kempson R
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). 
01-09-2010
bullet iconStructural Divergence in Dialogue
Healey PGT, Purver M and Howes C
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). 
01-09-2010
bullet iconStructural Divergence in Dialogue
Healey PGT, Purver M and Howes C
Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. 
01-08-2010
bullet iconAspects 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 iconSplitting the ‘I’s and Crossing the ‘You’s: Context, Speech Acts and Grammar
Purver M, Gregoromichelaki E, Meyer-Viol W and Cann R
Aspects of Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. SemDial 2010, 14th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue., 43-50. Editors: Lupkowski P and Purver M. 
01-06-2010
bullet iconDoes Structural Priming Occur in Ordinary Conversation?
Healey PGT, Howes C and Purver M
Proceedings of the Linguistic Evidence 2010 Conference. 
01-02-2010
bullet iconOn Dialogue Modelling, Language Processing Dynamics, and Linguistic Knowledge
Kempson R, Gregoromichelaki E, Mills GJ, Purver M, Howes C and Healey PGT
Proceedings of the Linguistic Evidence 2010 Conference. 
01-02-2010
bullet iconThe CALO Meeting Assistant System
Tur 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.
Ieee Transactions On Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Ieee vol. 18 (6), 1601-1611.  
01-01-2010
bullet iconTracking lexical and syntactic alignment in conversation.
Howes C, Healey PGT and Purver M
32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Portland, Oregon 11 Aug 2010 - 14 Aug 2010., 2004-2009. Editors: Ohlsson S and Catrambone R. 
01-01-2010

2009

bullet iconGrammar resources for modelling dialogue dynamically.
Gargett A, Gregoromichelaki E, Kempson R, Purver M and Sato Y
Cogn Neurodyn vol. 3 (4), 347-363.  
01-12-2009
bullet iconCascaded Lexicalised Classifiers for Second-Person Reference Resolution
Purver M, Fernández R, Frampton M and Peters S
SIGDIAL 200910th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2009 Conference) London, UK., 306-309.  
01-09-2009
bullet iconProceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference

Editors: Healey PGT, Pieraccini R, Byron D, Young S and Purver M. 
01-09-2009
bullet iconSplit Utterances in Dialogue: a Corpus Study
Purver M, Howes C, Gregoromichelaki E and Healey PGT
SIGDIAL 2009 London, UK., 262-271.  
01-09-2009
bullet iconHow Mechanistic Can Accounts Of Interaction Be?
Kempson R, Gregoromichelaki E, Purver M, Mills GJ, Gargett A and Howes C
Proceedings of the 13th SEMDIAL Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DiaHolmia)., 67–74-67–74.  
01-06-2009
bullet iconProceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference, The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 11-12 September 2009, London, UK

SIGDIAL Conference. Editors: Healey PGT, Pieraccini R, Byron DK, Young SJ and Purver M. 
01-01-2009
bullet iconSplit utterances in dialogue
Purver M, Howes C, Healey PGT and Gregoromichelaki E
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference on The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue - SIGDIAL '09., 262-271.  
01-01-2009

2008

bullet iconThe CALO Meeting Speech Recognition and Understanding System
Tur 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.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology., 69–72-69–72.  
01-12-2008
bullet iconA Probabilistic Model of Meetings That Combines Words and Discourse Features
Dowman M, Savova V, Griffiths TL, K ording KP, Tenebaum JB and Purver M
Ieee Transactions On Audio, Speech, and Language Processing vol. 16 (7), 1238-1248.  
01-09-2008
bullet iconModelling and Detecting Decisions in Multi-Party Dialogue
Fernández R, Frampton M, Ehlen P, Purver M and Peters S
Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue., 156–163-156–163. Editors: Schlangen D and Hockey BA. 
01-06-2008
bullet iconMeeting Structure Annotation: Annotations Collected with a General Purpose Toolkit
Gruenstein A, Niekrasz J and Purver M
In Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue, Springer 247-274. Editors: Dybkjaer L and Minker W. 
01-01-2008
bullet iconTHE CALO MEETING SPEECH RECOGNITION AND UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM
Tur 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 IEEE WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY: SLT 2008, PROCEEDINGS., 69-72.  
01-01-2008
bullet iconAutomatic Annotation of Dialogue Structure from Simple User Interaction
Purver M, Niekrasz J and Ehlen P
Editors: Popescu-Belis A, Renals S and Bourlard H. 
01-01-2008
bullet iconMeeting Adjourned: Off-line Learning Interfaces for Automatic Meeting Understanding
Ehlen P, Purver M, Niekrasz J, Lee K and Peters S
Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces., 276-284.  
01-01-2008
bullet iconModelling and detecting decisions in multi-party dialogue
Fernández R, Frampton M, Ehlen P, Purver M and Peters S
Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2008., 156-163.  
01-01-2008

2007

bullet iconCHAT To Your Destination
Weng 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
Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue., 79–86-79–86.  
01-09-2007
bullet iconContext and Well-formedness: the Dynamics of Ellipsis
Cann R, Kempson R and Purver M
Research On Language and Computation, Springer vol. 5 (3), 333-358.  
01-09-2007
bullet iconDetecting and Summarizing Action Items in Multi-Party Dialogue
Purver M, Dowding J, Niekrasz J, Ehlen P, Noorbaloochi S and Peters S
Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue., 18–25-18–25.  
01-09-2007
bullet iconResolving “You” in Multi-Party Dialog
Gupta S, Niekrasz J, Purver M and Jurafsky D
Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue., 227–230-227–230.  
01-09-2007
bullet iconDisambiguating Between Generic and Referential “You” in Dialog
Gupta S, Purver M and Jurafsky D
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)., 105–108-105–108.  
01-06-2007
bullet iconA Conversational In-Car Dialog System (Demo)
Yan 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
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT). 
01-04-2007
bullet iconA Meeting Browser That Learns
Ehlen P, Niekrasz J and Purver M
Interaction Challenges for Intelligent Assistants: Papers from the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium. Editors: Yorke-Smith N. 
01-03-2007
bullet iconA Meeting Browser that Learns.
Ehlen P, Purver M and Niekrasz J
AAAI Spring Symposium: Interaction Challenges for Intelligent Assistants., 33-40.  
01-01-2007

2006

bullet iconCLARIE: Handling Clarification Requests in a Dialogue System
Purver M
Research On Language and Computation, Springer vol. 4 (2-3), 259–288-259–288.  
01-10-2006
bullet iconGrammars as Parsers: Meeting the Dialogue Challenge
Purver M, Cann R and Kempson R
Research On Language and Computation, Springer vol. 4 (2-3), 289-326.  
01-10-2006
bullet iconCHAT: a conversational helper for automotive tasks
Weng 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.
Interspeech 2006. 
17-09-2006
bullet iconRobust interpretation in dialogue by combining confidence scores with contextual features
Purver M, Ratiu F and Cavedon L
Interspeech 2006. 
17-09-2006
bullet iconRobust Interpretation in Dialogue by Combining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features
Purver M, Ratiu F and Cavedon L
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech/ICSLP)., 1–4-1–4.  
01-09-2006
bullet iconCHAT: A Conversational Helper for Automotive Tasks
Weng 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
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech/ICSLP)., 1061–1064-1061–1064.  
01-09-2006
bullet iconBrowsing Meetings: Automatic Understanding, Presentation and Feedback for Multi-Party Conversations (Demo)
Ehlen P, Laidebeure S, Niekrasz J, Purver M, Dowding J and Peters S
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (brandial’06)., 173–174-173–174.  
01-09-2006
bullet iconRobust Language Analysis and Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Varges S and Purver M
Proceedings of the ECAI workshop on Development and Evaluation of Robust Spoken Dialogue Systems for Real Applications. 
01-08-2006
bullet iconShallow Discourse Structure for Action Item Detection
Purver M, Ehlen P and Niekrasz J
Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL workshop ‘Analyzing Conversations in Text and Speech’. 
01-06-2006
bullet iconGrammar Formalisms and Explanations of Dialogue
Kempson R, Cann R and Purver M
Proceedings of the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Perspectives. 
01-02-2006
bullet iconDetecting Action Items in Multi-Party Meetings: Annotation and Initial Experiments
Purver M, Ehlen P and Niekrasz J
In Machine Learning For Multimodal Interaction, Springer-Verlag 200–211-200–211.  
01-01-2006
bullet iconUnsupervised Topic Modelling for Multi-Party Spoken Discourse
Purver M, Kording KP, Griffiths TL and Tenenbaum JB
COLING/ACL 2006, VOLS 1 AND 2, PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE., 17-24.  
01-01-2006
bullet iconCHAT: A Conversational Helper for Automotive Tasks
Weng 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.
INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5., 1061-1064.  
01-01-2006
bullet iconDetecting action items in multi-party meetings: Annotation and initial experiments
Purver M, Ehlen P and Niekrasz J
Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction. vol. 4299, 200-211. Editors: Renals S, Bengio S and Fiscus JG. 
01-01-2006
bullet iconRobust Interpretation in Dialogue by Combining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features
Purver M, Ratiu F and Cavedon L
INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5., 1-4.  
01-01-2006
bullet iconA Multimodal Discourse Ontology for Meeting Understanding
Niekrasz J and Purver M
In Machine Learning For Multimodal Interaction: Second International Workshop Mlmi 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Springer-Verlag 162–173-162–173. Editors: Renals S and Bengio S. 
01-01-2006

2005

bullet iconCombining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features for Robust Multi-Device Dialogue
Cavedon L, Purver M and Ratiu F
Proceedings of the 3rd ALTA Australasian Language Technology Workshop. 
01-12-2005
bullet iconMeeting Structure Annotation: Data and Tools
Gruenstein A, Niekrasz J and Purver M
Proceedings of the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue., 117–127-117–127.  
01-09-2005
bullet iconContext and Well-formedness: the Dynamics of Ellipsis
Cann R, Purver M and Kempson R
Proceedings of the ESSLLI Workshop on the Foundations of Natural-Language Grammar Formalisms. Editors: Kempson R and Morrill G. 
01-08-2005
bullet iconCollaborative and Argumentative Models of Meeting Discussions
Pallotta V, Niekrasz J and Purver M
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument. 
01-07-2005
bullet iconOntology-Based Discourse Understanding for a Persistent Meeting Assistant
Purver M, Niekrasz J and Peters S
Proceedings of the CHI 2005 workshop ’The Virtuality Continuum Revisited’. 
01-04-2005
bullet iconOntology-Based Discourse Understanding for a Persistent Meeting Assistant
Niekrasz J, Purver M, Dowding J and Peters S
Persistent Assistants: Living and Working with AI - Papers from the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium., 26–33-26–33. Editors: Shapiro D, Berry P, Gersh J and Schurr N. 
01-03-2005
bullet iconA multimodal discourse ontology for meeting understanding
Niekrasz J and Purver M
MACHINE LEARNING FOR MULTIMODAL INTERACTION. vol. 3869, 162-173. Editors: Renals S and Bengio S. 
01-01-2005

2004

bullet iconThe Theory and Use of Clarification Requests in Dialogue
Purver M
 
01-08-2004
bullet iconInformation State Update: Semantics or Pragmatics?
Fernández R and Purver M
Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Catalog)., 20–27-20–27.  
01-07-2004
bullet iconCLARIE: the Clarification Engine
Purver M
Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Catalog)., 77–84-77–84.  
01-07-2004
bullet iconIncremental Context-Based Generation for Dialogue
Purver M and Kempson R
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG04)., 151–160-151–160. Editors: Belz A, Evans R and Piwek P. 
01-07-2004
bullet iconIncrementality, Alignment and Shared Utterances
Purver M and Kempson R
Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Catalog)., 85–92-85–92. Editors: Ginzburg J and Vallduví E. 
01-07-2004
bullet iconIncremental Parsing, or Incremental Grammar?
Purver M and Kempson R
Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Incremental Parsing: Bringing Engineering and Cognition Together., 74–81-74–81. Editors: Keller F, Clark S, Crocker M and Steedman M. 
01-07-2004
bullet iconGrammars with Parsing Dynamics: a New Perspective on Alignment
Kempson R and Purver M
Proceedings of the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. 
01-03-2004
bullet iconClarifying Noun Phrase Semantics
Purver M and Ginzburg J
Journal of Semantics, Oxford Journals vol. 21 (3), 283-339.  
01-01-2004
bullet iconContext-based incremental generation for dialogue
Purver M and Kempson R
NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION: PROCEEDINGS. vol. 3123, 151-160. Editors: Belz A, Evans R and Piwek P. 
01-01-2004

2003

bullet iconUtterances as Update Instructions
Purver M and Fernández R
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DiaBruck)., 115–122-115–122.  
01-09-2003
bullet iconClarifying Noun Phrase Semantics in HPSG
Purver M and Ginzburg J
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG-03)., 338–358-338–358. Editors: S MU. 
01-07-2003
bullet iconAnswering Clarification Questions
Purver M, Healey PGT, King J, Ginzburg J and Mills GJ
Proceedings of the 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue., 23–33-23–33.  
01-07-2003
bullet iconIncremental Generation by Incremental Parsing: Tactical Generation in Dynamic Syntax
Purver M and Otsuka M
Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG-2003)., 79–86-79–86.  
01-04-2003
bullet iconOn the Means for Clarification in Dialogue
HEALEY PGT, Ginzburg J and Purver M
Smith R and van Kuppevelt (eds) Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue. Association of Computational Linguistics. 
01-01-2003
bullet iconIntegrating Conversational Move Types in the Grammar of Conversation
Ginzburg J, Sag IA and Purver M
In Perspectives On Dialogue in The New Millennium, John Benjamins 25–42-25–42. Editors: K UP, Rieser H and Zeevat H. 
01-01-2003
bullet iconAnswering Clarification Questions
HEALEY PGT, Mills G, King J, Purver M and Ginzburg J
Proceedings of the 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Association of Computational Linguistics. Sapporo. 
01-01-2003
bullet iconExperimenting with clarification in dialogue
Healey PGT, Purver M, King J, Ginzburg J and Mills GJ
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, Pts 1 and 2., 539-544. Editors: Alterman R and Kirsh D. 
01-01-2003
bullet iconIncremental Generation by Incremental Parsing
Otsuka M and Purver M
6th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium., 93–100-93–100.  
01-01-2003
bullet iconOn the means for clarification in dialogue
Purver M, Ginzburg J and Healey P
CURRENT AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN DISCOURSE AND DIALOGUE. vol. 22, 235-255. Editors: VanKuppevelt J and Smith RW. 
01-01-2003

2002

bullet iconProcessing Unknown Words in a Dialogue System
Purver M
3rd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue., 174–183-174–183.  
01-07-2002

2001

bullet iconOn the Means for Clarification in Dialogue
Purver M, Ginzburg J and Healey P
2nd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue., 116–125-116–125.  
01-09-2001
bullet iconIntegrating Conversational Move Types in the Grammar of Conversation
Ginzburg J, Sag IA and Purver M
5th Workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (BI-DIALOG)., 45–56-45–56. Editors: K UP, Rieser H and Zeevat H. 
01-06-2001

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 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

solid heart iconInternship: Iacopo Ghinassi
Matthew Purver
£10,311 BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
11-01-2024 - 10-07-2024
solid heart iconStreamlining Social Decision Making for Improved Internet Standards
Matthew 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
solid heart iconCross-Lingual Embeddings for News Media Industry
Matthew Purver
£357,506 EU Commission - Horizon 2020
01-01-2019 - 31-03-2022
solid heart iconCQC Text Severity
Matthew Purver
£24,164 CQC Care Quality Commission
05-03-2018 - 31-05-2018