Maria Liakata
About
Maria is a Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at Queen Mary, University of London. She is in receipt of an EPSRC/UKRI Turing AI fellowship award on Creating Time Sensitive Sensors from Language & Heterogeneous User-Generated Content (2019-2025) www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/time-sensitiv... . Maria has a DPhil from the University of Oxford on learning pragmatic knowledge from text. Her work has contributed to advances in knowledge discovery from corpora, automation of scientific experimentation and automatic extraction of information from the scientific literature. She has published widely both in NLP and interdisciplinary venues. Past awards include an IBM Faculty Award for work on emotion sensing from heterogeneous mobile phone data, being a co-investigator on the EU Project PHEME, which studied the spread of rumours in social media (2014-2017) and an Early Career Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust (2010-2013) on reasoning with scientific articles.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
A system for recognition of named entities in Greek
Year: 2000
Citations: 26
Venue: International Conference on Natural Language Processing
Latest Recorded Paper
Visual content and thematic analyses of images shared on social media before and after episodes of self-harm in a UK clinical youth sample
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: BMJ open 16 (1), e103456
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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