Research
Natural Language Processing
I have conducted research in different problems of natural language processing such as text summarisation, word embedding learning, relation extraction, semantic/relational similarity measurement, textual entailment, discourse analysis, information retrieval, domain adaptation, argument mining and sentiment classification. Please see my publications page for more details about these works.
Data Mining
I have been involved in various research projects related to data mining such as legal data, medical data, financial data and cooking receipies.
Machine Learning
I lead the Data Mining and the Machine Learning (DMML) research group and have authored text books in Deep Learning and Machine Learning for Web Mining.
Research grants
DynAIRx: Artificial Intelligence for Multiple Long-Term Conditions (AIM)
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
September 2022 - August 2025
NIHR ARC 2 national social care implementation projects
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK), LCCG - LIVERPOOL CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP (UK)
October 2019 - March 2026
KTP with Fletchers Solicitors Ltd
FLETCHERS SOLICITORS LTD (UK), INNOVATE UK (UK)
April 2017 - April 2020
WEB-RADR
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
September 2014 - August 2017