Dr Mark Stevenson
School of Computer Science
Senior Lecturer
School Programmes Lead (UG)
Member of the Natural Language Processing research group
Full contact details
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Mark Stevenson is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and a member of the Natural Language Processing group. He previously worked at Reuters Ltd (where he was involved in the production and dissemination of the widely used Reuters Corpus), Adastral Park (British Telecom’s research lab), and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University.
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 and co-ordinator of the EU-funded project PATHS.
- Research interests
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Mark Stevenson’s research aims to develop systems to extract knowledge from text and assist users in accessing this information. The majority of his work has been carried out within the fields of Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. His work has been applied to a wide range of areas including healthcare, evidence synthesis, professional search, scholarly document analysis, search interfaces, cultural heritage, computational social science and software testing.
- Publications
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- Grants
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- Distinguishing Common and Proper Nouns, Industrial, 03/2011 - 12/2025, £31,847 as PI
- Automatically mapping and assessing inequalities in public health research, NIHR, 04/2021 - 12/2021, £48,764, as PI
- Institute of Coding, HEFCE, 11/2017 - 03/2021, £957,000, as Co-PI
- Digital Sensitivity Review, Industrial, 11/2018 - 03/2019, £39,880, as PI
- Data Analytics, Royal Academy of Engineering, 09/2017 - 09/2020, £30,000 as PI
- Recommendation Algorithm, Industrial, 04/2017 - 10/2017, £60,600 as PI
- HiDE: A Tool for Unrestricted Literature Based Discovery, Government, 01/2016 - 06/2016, £66,584 as PI
- InPuT: Individual Profiling using Text Analysis, Government, 09/2014 - 09/2015, £10,746 as PI
- Information Processing and Sensemaking: An Exploratory Search System for Document Collections, Government, 09/2014 - 08/2015, £77,840 as PI
- Connected Marketplace, Industrial, 01/2014 - 08/2014, £5,000 as PI
- PUMP: Developing a Data Set of Textual and Visual Topic Labels, EPSRC, 09/2013 - 10/2013, £1,540 as PI
- Language Processing for Literature Based Discovery in Medicine, EPSRC, 06/2012 - 05/2015, £293,127 as PI
- PATHS: Personalised Access to Cultural Heritage Spaces, EC FP7, 01/2011 - 12/2013, £709,407 as PI
- Lexical Disambiguation for the Biomedical Domain, EPSRC, 02/2007 - 01/2010, £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’’
Winner of best paper award at CLEF 2004 (with Roland Roller) - Keynote speaker at RANLP 2013
- Area chair for EMNLP 2013 track “semantics”
- 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 Natural Language Processing research group
- Area chair for EACL 2017 track ``Document analysis including text categorisation, topic models, and retrieval’’