Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield
Mark Stevenson is a Senior Lecturer in Sheffield University's School of Computer Science where he is a member of the Natural Language Processing group. The aim of his research is the development of systems to extract knowledge from text and assist users in accessing this information.
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.
He has also worked in a range of commercial and academic organisations including 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.