User:Mpurver

I am Reader in Computational Linguistics in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. I am joint head of the Computational Linguistics Lab and deputy head of the Cognitive Science research group; I'm also a member of the Centre for Intelligent Sensing and the Centre for Digital Music. Beyond that, I co-founded Chatterbox Labs in 2011.

My main research interest is in the computational semantics and pragmatics of dialogue - using the context of a conversation to build models of what people are actually talking about.

Before arriving at QMUL in 2009, I worked in the Computational Semantics Lab at CSLI, Stanford, on projects building an automatic meeting-understanding system and a conversational dialogue system for cars. Prior to that I did my PhD at King's College London with Jonathan Ginzburg, looking at clarificational dialogue and what it means for dialogue systems; and my BA and MPhil at the University of Cambridge where I was lucky enough to be supervised by Karen Spärck Jones. In between, I spent 8 years as an engineer in the field of active noise & vibration control, mostly with Ultra Electronics and Noise Cancellation Technologies.