about me

I am Professor of Computational Linguistics and head of the Computational Linguistics Lab at Queen Mary University of London; and a senior researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. more ...

contact

My email address is m.purver (at) qmul.ac.uk; in semester 2 (Jan-Apr) my office surgery hours are 12-1pm on Mondays - please email me for an appointment. more ...

research

My research is in computational linguistics (aka natural language processing) - getting computers to behave as if they understood human language. I'm 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.more ...

teaching

This year (2025-26) I will be teaching the new Conversational Agents and Dialogue Systems module (ECS7033P) as part of the MSc Artificial Intelligence programme.more ...

publications

You can access the publications of my group here.more ...