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Gabriel Murray

Dr Gabriel Murray, PhD and MSc (Edinburgh)‌‌

CERA Research Associate

Research and Graduate Studies

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Biography

News

My recent paper on ethical A.I. is available on arXiv here, and is featured on O'Reilly Media

Education

PhDInformatics, University of Edinburgh, 2008. I completed my PhD in the Centre for Speech Technology Research under the supervision of Steve Renals. Here is my PhD thesis, Using Speech-Specific Characteristics for Automatic Speech Summarization.

MSc.Speech and Language Processing, University of Edinburgh, 2004

BALinguistics, University of Washington, 2003

Research Interests

Speech and natural language processing, computational linguistics, multi-modal interaction, sentiment analysis

Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, belief networks, markov decision processes, markov rewards processes

Data Quality, data mining, statistical process control, Bayesian statistics

Computational Social Science, Complex Adaptive Systems, small group interaction

 

Software can be found at my GitHub page

Publications

Books

Methods for Mining and Summarizing Text Conversations, G. Carenini and G. Murray and R. Ng, Morgan Claypool, 2011.

Book Chapters

Opinion Summarization and Visualization, G. Murray and E. Hoque and G. Carenini, in Sentiment Analysis in Social Networks, Eds. Pozzi, Fersini, Messina, Liu. Elsevier, 2016.

Summarization, G. Murray and T. Kleinbauer, in Multimodal Signal Processing: Human Interactions in Meetings, Eds. Renals, Bourlard, Carletta, and Popescu-Bellis. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Journal Papers

Graph-Based Prediction of Meeting Participation, G. Murray, Multimodal Technologies & Interaction, Volume 3, Issue 3, 2019. 

Information Processing and Overload in Group Conversation: A Graph-Based Prediction Model, G. Murray, Multimodal Technologies & Interaction, Volume 3, Issue 3, 2019. 

Automatic Summarization of Bug Reports, S. Rastkar and G. Murphy and G. Murray, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume 40, 2014.

Subjectivity Detection in Spoken and Written Conversations, G. Murray and G. Carenini, Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Volume 17, Issue 3, 2011.

Extrinsic Summarization Evaluation: A Decision Audit Task. G. Murray and T. Kleinbauer and P. Poller and T. Becker and S. Renals and J. Kilgour. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, Volume 6, Issue 2, October 2009.

Conferences and Workshops 

Analyzing Verbal and Nonverbal Features for Predicting Group Performance, U. Kubasova and G. Murray and M. Braley, Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria.  

Connecting Small Group Affect and Social Network Centrality Measures, G. Murray, IC2S2 2019, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 

Predicting Small Group Interaction Dynamics with Social Network Analysis, G. Murray, IC2S2 2019, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Predicting Group Performance in Task-Based Interaction, G. Murray and C. Oertel, ICMI 2018, Boulder, Colorado, USA.  

Language-Based Automatic Assessment of Cognitive and Communicative Functions Related to Parkinson’s Disease, Workshop on Language, Cognition, and Computational Models, COLING 2018, G. Murray and L. Jessiman and M. Braley, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. 

Predicting Group Satisfaction in Meeting Discussions, C. Lai and G. Murray, ICMI 2018 Workshop on Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

The Group Affect and Performance (GAP) Corpus, M. Braley and G. Murray, ICMI 2018 Workshop on Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology (GIFT), Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Multimodal Analysis of Group Attitudes Towards Meeting Management, G. Murray and C. Lai,  ICMI 2018 Workshop on Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology (GIFT), Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Interpreting Models of Social Group Interactions in Meetings with Probabilistic Model Checking, O. Andrei and G. Murray,  ICMI 2018 Workshop on Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology (GIFT), Boulder, Colorado, USA. 

Markov Reward Models for Analyzing Group Interaction, G. Murray, ICMI 2017 conference, Glasgow, U.K.

Detecting Dementia through Retrospective Analysis of Routine Blog Posts by Bloggers with DementiaV. Masrani and G. Murray and T. Field and G. Carenini, ACL 2017 BioNLP Workshop, Vancouver, Canada.

Modelling Participation in Small Group Social Sequences with Markov Rewards AnalysisG. Murray, ACL 2017 NLP+CSS Workshop, Vancouver, Canada.  
 
Domain Adaptation for Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment, V. Masrani and G. Murray and T. Field and G. Carenini, Canadian AI 2017, Edmonton, Alberta. 
 
Stoic Ethics for Artificial Agents, G. Murray, Canadian AI 2017, Edmonton, Alberta. ‌
 
Uncovering Hidden Sentiment in Meetings, G. Murray, Canadian AI 2016, Victoria, Canada. 
 
Using Meeting Artifacts to Learn About Unobserved Group Dynamics, G. Murray, SBP-BRiMS 2016, Washington D.C., USA.

An Interface for Assisted Curation of Knowledge Bases from Unstructured Text, J. Wright and G. Murray and B. Hachey, HICCS 2016, Kauai, USA.

Analyzing Productivity Shifts in Meetings, G. Murray, Canadian AI 2015, Halifax, Canada.

Abstractive Meeting Summarization as a Markov Decision Process, G. Murray, Canadian AI 2015, Halifax, Canada.

UFV in the TAC 2015 Cold Start Knowledge Base Population Track, D. Johnson and G. Murray and B. Tremblay and J. Wright, TAC 2015, NIST, USA.

Resources for Analyzing Productivity in Group Interactions, G. Murray, LREC 2014 Multi-Modal Corpora Workshop, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Learning How Productive and Unproductive Meetings Differ, G. Murray, Canadian AI 2014, Montreal, Canada.

Using the Omega Index for Evaluating Abstractive Community Detection, G. Murray and G. Carenini and R. Ng, NAACL 2012, Workshop on Evaluation Metrics and System Comparison for Automatic Summarization, Montreal, Canada.

Supervised Topic Segmentation of Email Conversations, S. Joty and G. Carenini and G. Murray and R. Ng, ICWSM 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

Exploiting Conversational Features to Detect High-Quality Blog Comments, N. Fitzgerald and G. Carenini and G. Murray and S. Joty, Canadian AI 2011, St. John's, NL, Canada.

The Impact of ASR on Abstractive vs. Extractive Meeting Summaries, G. Murray and G. Carenini and R. Ng, Interspeech 2010, Tokyo, Japan.

Generating and Validating Abstracts of Meeting Conversations: a User Study, G. Murray and G. Carenini and R. Ng, INLG 2010, Dublin, Ireland.

 Interpretation and Transformation for Abstracting Conversations, G. Murray and G. Carenini and R. Ng, NAACL 2010, Los Angeles, USA.

Exploiting Conversation Structure in Unsupervised Topic Segmentation for Emails, S. Joty and G. Carenini and G. Murray and R. Ng, EMNLP 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Summarizing Software Artifacts: A Case Study of Bug Reports, S. Rastkar and G. Murphy and G. Murray, ICSE 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.

Detecting Subjectivity in Multiparty Speech , G. Murray and G. Carenini, Interspeech 2009, Brighton, U.K.

Predicting Subjectivity in Multimodal Conversations,  G. Murray and G. Carenini, EMNLP 2009, Singapore.

Regression-Based Summarization of Email Conversations , J. Ulrich and G. Carenini and G. Murray and R. Ng, ICWSM 2009, San Jose, California.

Summarizing Spoken and Written Conversations, G. Murray and G. Carenini, EMNLP 2008, Waikiki, Hawaii.

Extrinsic Summarization Evaluation: A Decision Audit Task, G. Murray and T. Kleinbauer and P. Poller and S. Renals and T. Becker and J. Kilgour, MLMI 2008, Special Session on User Requirements and Evaluation, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Meta Comments for Summarizing Meeting Speech, G. Murray and S. Renals, MLMI 2008, Utrecht, Netherlands.

A Publicly Available Annotated Corpus for Supervised Email Summarization, J. Ulrich and G. Murray and G. Carenini, EMAIL-2008 Workshop, AAAI 2008, Chicago, USA.

Detecting Action Items in Meetings, G. Murray and S. Renals, MLMI 2008, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Towards Online Speech Summarization, G. Murray and S. Renals, Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.

Term-weighting for Summarization of Multi-Party Spoken Dialogues, G. Murray and S. Renals, MLMI 2007, Brno, Czech Republic.

Dialogue Act Compression Via Pitch Contour Preservation , G.Murray and S. Renals, Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, USA.

Dimensionality Reduction Aids Term Co-Occurrence Based Multi-Doc. Summarization, B. Hachey and G. Murray and D. Reitter, COLING-ACL 2006, Summarization Workshop, Sydney, Australia.

Prosodic Correlates of Rhetorical Relations, G. Murray and M. Taboada and S. Renals, Proceedings of the ACTS Workshop, HLT/NAACL 2006, June 2006, New York City, USA.

Incorporating Speaker and Discourse Features into Speech Summarization, G. Murray and S. Renals and J. Carletta and J. Moore, Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2006, June 2006, New York City, USA.

The EMBRA System at DUC 2005, B. Hachey and G. Murray and D. Reitter, Proceedings of Documenting Understanding Conference 2005, October 2005, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Evaluating Automatic Summaries of Meeting Recordings, G. Murray and S. Renals and J. Carletta and J. Moore, Proceedings of ACL 2005 MTSE workshop, June 2005, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Extractive Summarization of Meeting Recordings, G. Murray and S. Renals and J. Carletta, Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, September 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.

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