Matthew Shardlow
Scholar

Matthew Shardlow

Google Scholar ID: RMA0XzoAAAAJ
Reader in Natural Language Processing, Manchester Metropolitan University
Natural Language ProcessingText SimplificationLexical Complexity Prediction
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,655
 
H-index
23
 
i10-index
35
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
21
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple academic articles during his PhD; applied text mining techniques across diverse fields such as Chemistry, Neuroscience, Journalism, and Finance.
Research Experience
  • Worked as part of an EC H2020 project called 'An Open Mining Infrastructure for Text and Data (OpenMinTeD)', developing a text mining platform for non-expert users. Since 2017, he has been with Manchester Metropolitan University, where he established the Text and Data Mining Lab in 2018 and now leads the Natural Language Processing lab.
Education
  • Studied at the University of Manchester from 2007 to 2015, completing his BSc and PhD. During his PhD, he focused on lexical simplification and published several academic articles.
Background
  • As a reader in the Department of Computing and Mathematics, his time is split between teaching and research. His key interests include text simplification, emoji understanding, and the application of text mining to various disciplines.
Miscellany
  • Views teaching as an extension of research, eager to mentor students interested in natural language processing.