Computational linguistics research @QMCogSci, co-founder @chatterboxco, teaching interaction design @QMIxD.
Joined March 2009
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Matthew Purver retweeted
10 Jun 2022
đź“‘new paper on the generalisability of abusive language detection models and the role of slurs and profanity in training!
đź’non-abusive swearing and implicit abuse are often confusing for models. _how_ do such biases come into play?
đź’ˇopen access on:
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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7 Jul 2022
Latest issue of @cs4fn magazine - how to make computers out of rope, wood and custard cs4fn.blog/cunningcontraptio…
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6 Apr 2022
Nice blog post @BBCRD by @QMCompLing 's very own Iacopo Ghinassi - read about his work in topic segmenation #NLProc
EECS PhD student, Iacopo Ghinassi, has been working with @BBCRD to explore ways to segment and annotate media content without direct human effort.
The project is part of the DAME doctoral training programme sponsored by the BBC.
Read here: bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2022-03-ar…
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Matthew Purver retweeted
17 Jan 2022
What could happen if GPT-4 is your waiter? GPT-4 cannot recognize clarification requests.
17 Jan 2022
“On the importance of dialogue act recognition, and the inadequacy of lexical features” thoughtsofhumans.com/wp-cont…
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17 Jan 2022
“On the importance of dialogue act recognition, and the inadequacy of lexical features” thoughtsofhumans.com/wp-cont…
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14 Jan 2022
2 postdocs in NLP / comp soc sci @QMEECS - deadline 21st Jan 2022 i.e. the end of next week!
21 Dec 2021
We're recruiting 2x postdocs at @QMEECS to look at social decision making in the @ietf and user generated content moderation in the @embeddiaproject qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it… @mpurver @Ignactro @Pat_Healey
5 Jan 2022
Looking for something new for the new year? We're recruiting postdocs in NLP/computational social science for dialogue and interaction at @QMCompLing @QMCogSci - deadline 21st Jan:
21 Dec 2021
We're recruiting 2x postdocs at @QMEECS to look at social decision making in the @ietf and user generated content moderation in the @embeddiaproject qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it… @mpurver @Ignactro @Pat_Healey
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22 Dec 2021
Funded PhD studentships @QMEECS available in a range of areas including NLP for conversational agents, interaction, mental health analysis and games: eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-stud… #NLProc #PhD
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Matthew Purver retweeted
21 Dec 2021
Postdoc research positions in NLP, dialogue modelling, social data science with us at @QMEECS:
21 Dec 2021
We're recruiting 2x postdocs at @QMEECS to look at social decision making in the @ietf and user generated content moderation in the @embeddiaproject qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it… @mpurver @Ignactro @Pat_Healey
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30 Jun 2021
New work from @QMCompLing @QMCogSci:
30 Jun 2021
(1/5) New ACL paper out now: Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution, Gan, Chen, Chang, Purver, Woodward, Xie, Huang: improving Text-to-SQL robustness via a new dataset, input data augmentation and adversarial training arxiv.org/abs/2106.01065 #NLProc
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Matthew Purver retweeted
21 Apr 2021
We have an opening for a lecturer in #NLProc to work with us at @QMEECS @QMCompLing -- apply by 20th May & help spread the word!
webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/…
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Matthew Purver retweeted
16 Feb 2021
New research job in the Cogsci group building an application to enhance mental health conversations.
webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/…
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23 Dec 2020
Run your own dialogue experiments with our new @QMCogSci toolkit:
22 Dec 2020
Entirely new version of text-chat based toolkit for online dialogue experiments using Telegram built by Greg Mills! @QMCogSci @QMEECS @mpurver. Open-source and downloadable at:
cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/diet/
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9 Dec 2020
Join us at @QMEECS - PhD studentships for next year now open for applications, see here for details: eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-stud…
Matthew Purver retweeted
3 Dec 2020
Congratulations to Morteza Rohanian & Julian Hough: new incremental dialogue work announced as a COLING 2020 Outstanding Paper: coling2020.org/2020/11/29/ou… aclweb.org/anthology/2020.co…
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Matthew Purver retweeted
27 Oct 2020
Deadline extended to Wednesday November 4th!
15 Oct 2020
Join us for a two year project @QMUL @QMCogSci on developing #NLProc methods for monitoring Alzheimer’s through language, mobility and sleep data (Wellcome Trust funded MEDEA Project). Collaboration with Cambridge, UCL, @turinginst. tinyurl.com/yxthvsgf. Deadline 28/10/20
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Matthew Purver retweeted
15 Oct 2020
Join us for a two year project @QMUL @QMCogSci on developing #NLProc methods for monitoring Alzheimer’s through language, mobility and sleep data (Wellcome Trust funded MEDEA Project). Collaboration with Cambridge, UCL, @turinginst. tinyurl.com/yxthvsgf. Deadline 28/10/20
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12 Aug 2020
This year's @intelsensing Summer School is online and includes a multimodal data task - registration free (but mandatory) here: cis.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/school20…
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Matthew Purver retweeted
18 Jun 2020
Our new TACL paper on context-dependent sentence acceptability modelling is out: doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00315 #NLProc
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