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Matthew Purver

Matthew Purver has 6 papers in our library, in 2011–2021, most of them on Dialogue systems, Speech act theory, Code & programming languages; often with Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Gregory J. Mills, Patrick G. T. Healey.

6 papers in our library · 2011–2021

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 33 · 241 works · 3,816 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 6 works in our library · 🔗 208 citations in our library · 6 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Star rank #3080

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 Affiliations

🎓Queen Mary University of LondonLondon · United Kingdom2009–2026 · 154 papersEmployment since 2009 · Professor of Computational Linguistics, Electronic Engineering and Computer Sciencecurrent🔬Jožef Stefan InstituteLjubljana · Slovenia2019–2026 · 79 papersEmployment since 2019 · Višji Znanstveni Sodelavec, Department of Knowledge Technologiescurrent🎓Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate SchoolLjubljana · Slovenia2020–2026 · 45 paperscurrent🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States2004–2011 · 22 papersEmployment 2004–2008 · Engineering Research Associate, Center for the Study of Language and Information🎓King's College LondonLondon · United Kingdom2000–2004 · 9 papersEducation 2000–2004 · PhD, Computer ScienceEmployment 2003–2004 · Research Assistant, Computer Science🎓University of LondonLondon · United Kingdom2014–2025 · 5 papers🔬Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical StudiesHeidelberg · Germany2024 · 3 papers🎓Trinity College DublinDublin · Ireland2024 · 3 papers🔬The Alan Turing InstituteLondon · United Kingdom2023–2024 · 2 papers🎓University of OxfordOxford · United Kingdom2014 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📚 Shelves 7 Arts and Humanities · 6 works Computer Science · 6 works Artificial Intelligence · 6 works Language and Linguistics · 6 works Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work Medicine · 1 work Psychiatry and Mental health · 1 work

🧭 Topics 4 Dialogue systems · 3 works Code & programming languages · 2 works Semantic parsing & meaning representation · 2 works Speech act theory · 2 works

 Works by year

2020s

20213 papers

2010s

20141 paper20112 papers

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Incrementality and intention-recognition in utterance processing (2011 · 167 citations)
    The paper asks whether everyday conversation really requires speakers and hearers to compute nested, higher-order intentions about each other, as Gricean and joint-action models such as Clark (1996) assume.
  2. Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution (2021 · 143 citations)
    Cross-domain text-to-SQL systems score well on benchmarks such as Spider. Much of that success, however, comes from schema linking, which matches question words literally against table and column names. Gan et al. examine what happens when users refer to schema items or cell values with different but equivalent…
  3. Exploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generalization (2021 · 123 citations)
    Cross-domain text-to-SQL systems score highly on Spider, but it is unclear whether they truly learn the domain knowledge implicit in their training data.
  4. On Incrementality in Dialogue: Evidence from Compound Contributions (2011 · 116 citations)
    The paper examines compound contributions (CCs): utterances that extend or finish an earlier contribution, whether by the original speaker or someone else.
  5. Investigating the Contribution of Distributional Semantic Information for Dialogue Act Classification (2014 · 30 citations)
    The paper asks whether word meaning learned from co-occurrence statistics helps label utterances with dialogue acts such as statement, question, opinion or backchannel, and which kinds of information actually drive accuracy.
  6. Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis (2021 · 13 citations)
    Dialogue act (DA) taggers are usually tuned for average accuracy, so they handle frequent tags well and largely miss rare ones.

All works

12 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 6 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Incrementality and intention-recognition in utterance processingEleni Gregoromichelaki, Ruth Kempson, Matthew Purver, et al.Dialogue & Discourse · 167 citations
  2. Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym SubstitutionYujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Qiuping Huang, et al.Annual Meeting of the Association for… · 143 citations
  3. Exploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL GeneralizationYujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Matthew PurverConference on Empirical Methods in Natural… · 123 citations
  4. On Incrementality in Dialogue: Evidence from Compound ContributionsChristine Howes, Matthew Purver, Patrick G. T. Healey, et al.Dialogue & Discourse · 116 citations
  5. How Furiously Can Colorless Green Ideas Sleep? Sentence Acceptability in Context (original ↗)Jey Han Lau et al.2020 · Transactions of the Association for… · 69 citations · no summary yet
  6. The Theory and Use of Clarification Requests in Dialogue (original ↗)Matthew Purver2004 · PhD thesis, King's College London · 33 citations · no summary yet
  7. Investigating the Contribution of Distributional Semantic Information for Dialogue Act ClassificationDmitrijs Milajevs, Matthew PurverWorkshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and… · 30 citations
  8. Answering Clarification Questions (original ↗)Matthew Purver et al.2003 · Proceedings of the Fourth SIGdial Workshop of… · 24 citations · no summary yet
  9. Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease DiagnosisShamila Nasreen, Julian Hough, Matthew PurverAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on… · 13 citations
  10. Efficient Solutions For An Intriguing Failure of LLMs: Long Context Window Does Not Mean LLMs Can Analyze Long Sequences Flawlessly (original ↗)Peyman Hosseini et al.2025 · Proceedings of the 31st International… · 7 citations · no summary yet
  11. Referential ambiguity and clarification requests: comparing human and LLM behaviour (original ↗)Chris Madge, Matthew Purver, Massimo Poesio2025 · Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on… · 4 citations · no summary yet
  12. LEDA: a Large-Organization Email-Based Decision-Dialogue-Act Analysis Dataset (original ↗)Vanja Mladen Karan et al.2023 · Findings of the Association for Computational… · 1 citation · no summary yet

 Co-authors here

5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 208 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 14 citing papers with a page here →.

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