I am a Research Associate at the Department of Computer Science at UCL, Media Futures Group. Previously, I completed a PhD in NLP at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Dr. Mark Stevenson. My main research area is in Natural Language Processing.

My research interests include:

• Computational lexical semantics
• Topic Modelling
• Distributional Semantics
• Social Media Analysis

For more details see my CV.

News

• New paper in PLOS One: Studying User Income through Language, Behaviour and Affect in Social Media
• I co-organise a workshop on Topic Models: Post-processing and Applications at CIKM 2015
• New paper to appear in JASIST: Evaluating Topic Representations for Exploring Document Collections
• New paper in ACL '15: An analysis of the user occupational class through Twitter content
• New paper in *SEM '15: A Hybrid Distributional and Knowledge-based Model of Lexical Semantics

Experience

• Reaserch Associate, Media Futures Group, UCL (2015-present)
• Reaserch Associate, Advanced Computing Research Centre, University of Sheffield (2014)
• Reaserch Assistant, NLP group, University of Sheffield, PATHS project (2011-2013)

Talks

• Interpreting Document Collections with Topic Models, Invited talk at the University of Melbourne (Oct 2015)
• Interpreting Document Collections with Topic Models, Invited talk at the NLIP Seminar Series, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge (Feb 2015)