Dr Mark Stevenson
School of Computer Science
Senior Lecturer
School Programmes Lead (UG)
Member of the Natural Language Processing research group
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- Profile
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Mark Stevenson is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science. He is a member of the Natural Language Processing group which he joined in 1995. His PhD, on Word Sense Disambiguation, was published as a monograph.
He has been Principal Investigator of projects funded by a range of sources including the EU, EPSRC and Google. He was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow (2006-2011) and co-ordinator of the EU-funded project PATHS.
He has also worked in a range of commercial and academic organisations including Reuters Ltd (where he was involved in the production and dissemination of the widely used Reuters Corpus), Adastral Park (British Telecom鈥檚 research lab) and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University.
- Research interests
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Mark Stevenson鈥檚 research focusses on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Topics he has worked on include word sense disambiguation, Information Extraction, plagiarism/reuse detection, lexicon adaptation, cross-lingual information retrieval and exploratory search.
His research includes applications of these technologies to a range of areas including biomedical journal articles (interpretation of documents, extraction of information from them and data mining information from corpora), cultural heritage (automatic organisation of corpora, exploratory search interfaces) and software testing (generation of realistic test suites).
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Reports
Preprints
- Grants
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Current Grants
- Distinguishing Common and Proper Nouns, Industrial, 03/2011 - 12/2025, 拢31,847 as PI
Previous Grants
- Automatically mapping and assessing inequalities in public health research, NIHR, 04/2021 - 12/2021, 拢48,764, as PI
- Institute of Coding, HEFCE, 11/2017 - 03/2021, 拢957,000, as Co-PI
- Digital Sensitivity Review, Industrial, 11/2018 - 03/2019, 拢39,880, as PI
- Data Analytics, Royal Academy of Engineering, 09/2017 - 09/2020, 拢30,000 as PI
- Recommendation Algorithm, Industrial, 04/2017 - 10/2017, 拢60,600 as PI
- HiDE: A Tool for Unrestricted Literature Based Discovery, Government, 01/2016 - 06/2016, 拢66,584 as PI
- InPuT: Individual Profiling using Text Analysis, Government, 09/2014 - 09/2015, 拢10,746 as PI
- Information Processing and Sensemaking: An Exploratory Search System for Document Collections, Government, 09/2014 - 08/2015, 拢77,840 as PI
- Connected Marketplace, Industrial, 01/2014 - 08/2014, 拢5,000 as PI
- PUMP: Developing a Data Set of Textual and Visual Topic Labels, EPSRC, 09/2013 - 10/2013, 拢1,540 as PI
- , EPSRC, 06/2012 - 05/2015, 拢293,127 as PI
- , EC FP7, 01/2011 - 12/2013, 拢709,407 as PI
- , EPSRC, 02/2007 - 01/2010, 拢239,920, as PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Area chair for EACL 2017 track ``Document analysis including text categorisation, topic models, and retrieval鈥欌
Winner of best paper award at CLEF 2004 (with Roland Roller) - Keynote speaker at RANLP 2013
- Area chair for EMNLP 2013 track 鈥渟emantics鈥
- Assistant Director of Advanced Computing Research Centre
- Co-ordinator of EU-funded project (PATHS)
- Member of ACL SIGLEX board (2010-2013 and 2013-2016)
- EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow (2006-2011)
- Member of editorial board of Computational Linguistics (2008-2010)
- Member of the research group
- Area chair for EACL 2017 track ``Document analysis including text categorisation, topic models, and retrieval鈥欌