Research

artificial systems, Artificial Intelligence, incremental processing, interactive responsiveness

Interests

My principal research interests are in the study of spoken (and non-verbal) dialogue and in dialogue systems (generally considered a subfield of Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing). I am concerned in general with following questions:

• How do people repair their own speech in dialogue when encountering trouble? (disfluency)
• How do people combine speech and physical action when communicating in task-orientated settings?
• What are the best models for putting this information into machines (robots and avatars) to make interaction more natural?

For more details and all publications please see my personal homepage.

Publications

Publications of specific relevance to Applied Data Science

2018

PURVER MRJ, HOUGH J and HOWES C (2018). Computational Models of Miscommunication Phenomena. Wiley  Topics in Cognitive Science  10.1111/tops.12324

2017

HOUGH J and PURVER MRJ (2017). Probabilistic Record Type Lattices for Incremental Reference Processing. Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics , Editors: Chatzikyriakidis S and Luo Z. Springer International Publishing  10.1007/978-3-319-50422-3_8

2016

HEALEY PGT, HOWES C, HOUGH J and PURVER MRJ (2016). Better late than Now-or-Never: The case of interactive repair phenomena. Cambridge University Press (Cup): Stm Journals  Behavioral and Brain Sciences  vol. 39, e76-e76. 10.1017/S0140525X15000813

2014

Purver M, Hough J and Gregoromichelaki E (2014). Dialogue and Compound Contributions. Natural Language Generation in Interactive Systems , Editors: Stent A and Bangalore S. Cambridge University Press  10.1017/CBO9780511844492.004

2013

Howes C, Healey PG, Eshghi A and Hough J (2013). Well, that's one way: Interactivity in parsing and production. Cambridge Journals Online  Behav Brain Sci  vol. 36, (4) 359-359. 10.1017/S0140525X12002592

Eshghi A, Purver M, Hough J and Sato Y (2013). Probabilistic Grammar Induction in an Incremental Semantic Framework. Constraint Solving and Language Processing - 7th International Workshop, Cslp 2012, OrléAns, France, September 2012. Revised Sel , Editors: Duchier D and Parmentier Y. Springer  10.1007/978-3-642-41578-4_6