Matthew Purver
Scholar

Matthew Purver

Google Scholar ID: RlNm1d4AAAAJ
Professor of Computational Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London / Jožef Stefan Institute
Computational LinguisticsNatural Language ProcessingDialogueSemanticsPragmatics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
3,117
 
H-index
28
 
i10-index
71
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
147
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Offers sentiment, emotion, and excitement detection APIs; developed the Live London Emotion Map and Wheel of Emotion emotion analysis demo; has a Sentimental iPhone app; open-sourced code for their incremental parser and dialogue system, DYLAN.
Research Experience
  • His research is in computational linguistics (natural language processing) - getting computers to behave as if they understood human language. He is mainly interested in conversational language: systems which can have conversations with people, or which can understand people having conversations with each other, face-to-face or online.
Background
  • Professor of Computational Linguistics and head of the Computational Linguistics Lab at Queen Mary University of London; Senior Researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Miscellany
  • Teaches Natural Language Processing (ECS763P), Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing (ECS7001P), and Interactive System Design (ECS733P).