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Professor Matthew Purver, BA MPhil PhD

Matthew

Professor of Computational Linguistics

Email: m.purver@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 20 7882 7236
Room Number: Peter Landin, CS 403
Website: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver
Office Hours: Wednesday 13:00-15:00

Teaching

Natural Language Processing (Postgraduate)

Natural Language Processing (aka Computational Linguistics) has become an important and growing field in the last decade. Many of the most important applications for computing now involve the processing and understanding of spoken or written language: machine translation, question answering, news summarisation, text and opinion mining, and spoken dialogue systems like the iPhone's Siri. This module will introduce the core techniques in language processing, including statistical and rule-based approaches, and show how to apply them to the main application areas.

Neural Networks and NLP (Postgraduate)

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become one of the most important technologies in Artificial Intelligence. Automatic methods for processing natural language now find application in almost every aspect of our communication in person or online, in particular through social media. The increased use of Neural Networks has played an important role in the most recent progress of NLP, as NN techniques have delivered improved performance in applications ranging from language modelling (next word prediction) to speech to machine translation to sentiment analysis. The proposed module provides a thorough introduction to this cutting-edge approach to developing NLP systems.

Research

Research 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

More information on my web page.

Publications

  • Armendariz CS, Purver M, Ulčar M et al. (2019). CoSimLex: A Resource for Evaluating Graded Word Similarity in Context. nameOfConference

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  • Rohanian M, Hough J, Purver M (2019). Detecting depression with word-level multimodal fusion. 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association - INTERSPEECH


  • Nasreen S, Purver M, Hough J (2019). A Corpus Study on Questions, Responses and Misunderstanding Signals in Conversations with Alzheimer’s Patients. nameOfConference

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  • MCGREGOR SE, AGRES K, Rataj K et al. (2019). Re-Representing Metaphor: Modelling metaphor perception using dynamically contextual distributional semantics. nameOfConference


  • DROOG-HAYES M, WIGGINS GA, PURVER MRJ (2019). Detecting Summary-worthy Sentences: the Effect of Discourse Features. 13th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing


  • Droog-Hayes M, Wiggins GA, Purver M (2019). Detecting Summary-Worthy Sentences: The Effect of Discourse Features. 2019 IEEE 13th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)


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  • Martín-Vide C, Pollak S, Purver M (2019). Preface. nameOfConference

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  • McGinity MM, Purver M, Wiggins G (2019). The influence of cost on the emergence of a common language among cooperating agents. nameOfConference

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  • HEALEY PGT, PURVER MRJ (2018). Self-Repetition in Dialogue and Monologue. AixDial: the 22nd SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

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  • Sadrzadeh M, Purver M, Hough J et al. (2018). Exploring Semantic Incrementality with Dynamic Syntax and Vector Space Semantics. nameOfConference

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  • PURVER MRJ, HOUGH J, HOWES C (2018). Computational Models of Miscommunication Phenomena. nameOfConference


  • Droog-Hayes M, Wiggins G, Purver M (2018). Automatic detection of narrative structure for high-level story representation. nameOfConference

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  • HOUGH J, PURVER MRJ (2017). Probabilistic Record Type Lattices for Incremental Reference Processing. nameOfConference


  • McGregor S, Jezek E, Purver M et al. (2017). A geometric method for detecting semantic coercion. nameOfConference

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  • Concannon S, Healey P, Purver M (2017). How natural is argument in natural dialogue?. Computational Models of Natural Argument

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  • Chesney S, Liakata M, Poesio M et al. (2017). Incongruent Headlines: Yet Another Way to Mislead Your Readers. Proceedings of the 2017 EMNLP Workshop: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism


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  • Concannon S, Healey PGT, Purver M (2017). Opening Up and Closing Down Discussion: Experimenting with Epistemic Status in Conversation. nameOfConference

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  • HEALEY PGT, HOWES C, HOUGH J et al. (2016). Better late than Now-or-Never: The case of interactive repair phenomena. nameOfConference


  • Maleshkova J, Purver M, Weyrich T et al. (2016). Interactivity and User Engagement in Art Presentation Interfaces. nameOfConference


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  • Maleshkova J, Purver M, Weyrich T et al. (2016). Investigating Design and Evaluation Guidelines for Interactive Presentation of Visual Art. nameOfConference


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  • Agres KR, McGregor S, Rataj K et al. (2016). Modeling metaphor perception with distributional semantics vector space models. nameOfConference

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  • (2016). Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation, CC-NLG 2016, Edinburgh, UK, September 2016. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Gervás P, Griffiths SS (2016). Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation.. nameOfConference

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  • McGregor S, Purver M, Wiggins G (2016). Process Based Evaluation of Computer Generated Poetry. Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation


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  • Milajevs D, Sadrzadeh M, Purver M (2016). Robust Co-occurrence Quantification for Lexical Distributional Semantics. Proceedings of the ACL 2016 Student Research Workshop


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  • Concannon S, Healey P, Purver M (2015). Shifting Opinions: Experiments on Agreement and Disagreement in Dialogue. 19th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (goDIAL)

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  • Concannon S, Healey PGT, Purver M (2015). Taking a Stance: a Corpus Study of Reported Speech. 19th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (goDIAL)

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  • McGregor S, Purver M, Wiggins G (2015). An Emergent Model of Metaphors as Transformations of Vector Spaces. nameOfConference

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  • Agres K, McGregor S, Purver M et al. (2015). Conceptualizing Creativity: From Distributional Semantics to Conceptual Spaces. nameOfConference

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  • Mylonas D, Purver M, Sadrzadeh M et al. (2015). The Use of English Colour Terms in Big Data. nameOfConference

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  • Eshghi A, Howes C, Gregoromichelaki E et al. (2015). Feedback in Conversation as Incremental Semantic Update. International Conference on Computational Semantics

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  • Purver M, Sadrzadeh M (2015). From Distributional Semantics to Distributional Pragmatics?. nameOfConference

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  • Sadrzadeh M, Purver M (2015). Geometry of Meaning from Words to Dialogue Acts. nameOfConference

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  • McGregor S, Purver M, Wiggins G (2015). Metaphor, Meaning, Computers and Consciousness. nameOfConference

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  • Griffiths SS, McGinity MM, Forth J et al. (2015). Information-theoretic segmentation of natural language. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Sadrzadeh M, Stone M (2015). Introduction. nameOfConference

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  • (2015). Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics, IWCS 2015, 15-17 April, 2015, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. nameOfConference

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  • Howes C, Hough J, Purver M et al. (2014). Helping, I Mean Assessing Psychiatric Communication: An Application of Incremental Self-Repair Detection. nameOfConference

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  • Concannon S, Purver M (2014). Inferring Cultural Preference of Arts Audiences Through Twitter Data. nameOfConference

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  • Hough J, Purver M (2014). Lattice Theoretic Relevance in Incremental Reference Processing. nameOfConference

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  • Maleshkova J, Purver M (2014). Beyond the White Cube: Presentation of Visual Art in Interactive 3D Environments. nameOfConference


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  • McGregor S, Wiggins G, Purver M (2014). Computational Creativity: A Philosophical Approach, and an Approach to Philosophy. nameOfConference

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  • Dacres S, Haddadi H, Purver M (2014). Topic and Sentiment Analysis on OSNs: a Case Study of Advertising Strategies on Twitter. nameOfConference

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  • Healey PGT, Purver M, Howes C (2014). Divergence in dialogue.. nameOfConference


  • Milajevs D, Kartsaklis D, Sadrzadeh M et al. (2014). Evaluating Neural Word Representations in Tensor-Based Compositional Settings.. nameOfConference

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  • Hough J, Purver M (2014). Strongly Incremental Repair Detection.. nameOfConference

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  • Hough J, Purver M (2013). Modelling Expectation in the Self-Repair Processing of Annotat-, um, Listeners. SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

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  • Howes C, Purver M, McCabe R (2013). Using Conversation Topics for Predicting Therapy Outcomes in Schizophrenia. nameOfConference


  • PURVER MRJ, Eshghi A, Hough J (2013). Data-driven Learning in an Incremental Grammar Framework. Linguistic Evidence

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  • Howes C, Purver M, McCabe R (2013). Investigating Topic Modelling for Therapy Dialogue Analysis. nameOfConference

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  • Eshghi A, Purver M, Hough J (2013). Probabilistic Induction for an Incremental Semantic Grammar. nameOfConference

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  • Khaorapapong N, Cox D, PURVER MRJ (2013). Augmenting Real-World Social Networking with Vibrotactile Display. 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2013)

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  • Haddadi H, Healey P, McCabe R et al. (2013). Healthcare Informatics for Mental Health: Recent Advances and the Outlook for the Future. nameOfConference

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  • Howes C, Healey P, PURVER MRJ et al. (2012). Finishing each other's ... Responding to incomplete contributions in dialogue. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)

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  • Howes C, Purver M, McCabe R et al. (2012). Helping the Medicine Go Down: Repair and Adherence in Patient-Clinician Dialogues. 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2012)

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  • Eshghi A, Purver M, Hough J et al. (2012). Inducing lexical entries for an incremental semantic grammar. 7th International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language Processing (CSLP’12)

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  • Yuan Z, Purver M (2012). Predicting Emotion Labels for Chinese Microblog Texts. 1st International Workshop on Sentiment Discovery from Affective Data (SDAD)

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  • Hough J, Purver M (2012). Processing Self-Repairs in an Incremental Type-Theoretic Dialogue System. 16th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SeineDial)

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  • Howes C, Healey PGT, Purver M et al. (2012). Finishing each other’s ... Responding to incomplete contributions in dialogue. 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012)

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  • Howes C, Healey PGT, Purver M (2012). Whose turn is it anyway? Same- and cross-person compound contributions in dialogue. 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012)

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  • Howes C, Purver M, McCabe R et al. (2012). Predicting Adherence to Treatment for Schizophrenia from Dialogue Transcripts. 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2012 Conference)

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  • Khaorapapong N, PURVER MRJ (2012). An Assistive Device for Shy Users in Face-to-Face Communication. Doctoral Consortium at the 16th annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2012)

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  • Khaorapapong N, PURVER MRJ (2012). Designing Unobtrusive Interfaces to Increase Naturalness of First Time Face-To-Face Interaction. 5th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME 2012)

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  • Khaorapapong N, PURVER MRJ (2012). Icebreaker T-shirt: a Wearable Device for Easing Face-to-Face Interaction. 16th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2012)

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  • Eshghi A, Hough J, Purver M et al. (2012). Conversational Interactions: Capturing Dialogue Dynamics. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Battersby S (2012). Experimenting with Distant Supervision for Emotion Classification. 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012)

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  • Ginzburg J, Purver M (2012). Quantification, the Reprise Content Hypothesis, and Type Theory. nameOfConference

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  • Eshghi A, Purver M, Hough J (2011). DyLan: Parser for Dynamic Syntax. nameOfConference

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  • Howes C, Healey P, Purver M (2011). Tracking the Dative Alternation in Conversation. Structural Alternations

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  • Healey PGT, Eshghi A, Purver M et al. (2011). Making a Contribution: Processing Clarification Requests in Dialogue. 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D)

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  • Purver M, Eshghi A, Hough J (2011). Incremental Semantic Construction in a Dialogue System. 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)

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  • Kempson R, Gregoromichelaki E, Meyer-Viol W et al. (2011). Natural-language Syntax as Procedures for Interpretation: the Dynamics of Ellipsis Construal. nameOfConference


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  • Howes C, Purver M, HEALEY PGT et al. (2011). On Incrementality in Dialogue: Evidence from Compound Contributions. nameOfConference


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  • Eshghi A, Healey PGT, Purver M et al. (2010). Incremental Turn Processing in Dialogue. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)

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  • Healey PGT, Purver M, Howes C (2010). Structural Divergence in Dialogue. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)

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  • Healey PGT, Purver M, Howes C (2010). Structural Divergence in Dialogue. nameOfConference

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  • (2010). Aspects of Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue: SemDial 2010, 14th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Gregoromichelaki E, Meyer-Viol W et al. (2010). Splitting the ‘I’s and Crossing the ‘You’s: Context, Speech Acts and Grammar. nameOfConference

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  • Healey PGT, Howes C, Purver M (2010). Does Structural Priming Occur in Ordinary Conversation?. nameOfConference

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  • Kempson R, Gregoromichelaki E, Mills GJ et al. (2010). On Dialogue Modelling, Language Processing Dynamics, and Linguistic Knowledge. nameOfConference

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  • Howes C, Healey PGT, Purver M (2010). Tracking lexical and syntactic alignment in conversation.. 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

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  • (2009). Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Howes C, Gregoromichelaki E et al. (2009). Split Utterances in Dialogue: a Corpus Study. SIGDIAL 2009

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  • Kempson R, Gregoromichelaki E, Purver M et al. (2009). How Mechanistic Can Accounts Of Interaction Be?. nameOfConference

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  • (2009). Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference, The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 11-12 September 2009, London, UK. nameOfConference

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  • Tur G, Stolcke A, Voss L et al. (2008). The CALO Meeting Speech Recognition and Understanding System. nameOfConference

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  • Gruenstein A, Niekrasz J, Purver M (2008). Meeting Structure Annotation: Annotations Collected with a General Purpose Toolkit. nameOfConference

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  • Cann R, Kempson R, Purver M (2007). Context and Well-formedness: the Dynamics of Ellipsis. nameOfConference


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  • Ehlen P, Niekrasz J, Purver M (2007). A Meeting Browser That Learns. nameOfConference

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  • Ehlen P, Purver M, Niekrasz J (2007). A Meeting Browser that Learns.. nameOfConference

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  • Ehlen P, Laidebeure S, Niekrasz J et al. (2006). Browsing Meetings: Automatic Understanding, Presentation and Feedback for Multi-Party Conversations (Demo). nameOfConference

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  • Weng F, Varges S, Raghunathan B et al. (2006). CHAT: A Conversational Helper for Automotive Tasks. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Ratiu F, Cavedon L (2006). Robust Interpretation in Dialogue by Combining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features. nameOfConference

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  • Varges S, Purver M (2006). Robust Language Analysis and Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems. nameOfConference

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  • Kempson R, Cann R, Purver M (2006). Grammar Formalisms and Explanations of Dialogue. nameOfConference

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  • Niekrasz J, Purver M (2006). A Multimodal Discourse Ontology for Meeting Understanding. nameOfConference

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  • Weng FL, Varges S, Raghunathan B et al. (2006). CHAT: A Conversational Helper for Automotive Tasks. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Ehlen P, Niekrasz J (2006). Detecting action items in multi-party meetings: Annotation and initial experiments. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Ratiu F, Cavedon L (2006). Robust Interpretation in Dialogue by Combining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features. nameOfConference

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  • Cavedon L, Purver M, Ratiu F (2005). Combining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features for Robust Multi-Device Dialogue. nameOfConference

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  • Pallotta V, Niekrasz J, Purver M (2005). Collaborative and Argumentative Models of Meeting Discussions. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Niekrasz J, Peters S (2005). Ontology-Based Discourse Understanding for a Persistent Meeting Assistant. nameOfConference

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  • Niekrasz J, Purver M, Dowding J et al. (2005). Ontology-Based Discourse Understanding for a Persistent Meeting Assistant. nameOfConference

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  • Mirkovic D, Cavedon L, PURVER MRJ et al. (2005). Dialogue management using scripts and combined confidence scores. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M (2004). The Theory and Use of Clarification Requests in Dialogue. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M (2004). CLARIE: the Clarification Engine. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Kempson R (2004). Incremental Context-Based Generation for Dialogue. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Kempson R (2004). Incrementality, Alignment and Shared Utterances. nameOfConference

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  • Fernández R, Purver M (2004). Information State Update: Semantics or Pragmatics?. nameOfConference

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  • Kempson R, Purver M (2004). Grammars with Parsing Dynamics: a New Perspective on Alignment. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Fernández R (2003). Utterances as Update Instructions. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Healey PGT, King J et al. (2003). Answering Clarification Questions. nameOfConference

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  • HEALEY PGT, Mills G, King J et al. (2003). Answering Clarification Questions. Proceedings of the 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Association of Computational Linguistics. Sapporo

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  • Healey PGT, Purver M, King J et al. (2003). Experimenting with clarification in dialogue. nameOfConference

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  • Otsuka M, Purver M (2003). Incremental Generation by Incremental Parsing. 6th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium

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  • HEALEY PGT, Ginzburg J, Purver M (2003). On the Means for Clarification in Dialogue. Smith R and van Kuppevelt (eds) Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue. Association of Computational Linguistics


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  • Purver M, Ginzburg J, Healey P (2003). On the means for clarification in dialogue. nameOfConference

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  • Purver M, Ginzburg J, Healey P (2001). On the Means for Clarification in Dialogue. 2nd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

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  • Ginzburg J, Sag IA, Purver M (2001). Integrating Conversational Move Types in the Grammar of Conversation. 5th Workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (BI-DIALOG)

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