Interests

• formal and computational semantics for natural language
• automated reasoning and language
• combining statistical and symbolic models of language

Biography

Employment:



1978-84 Lecturer in Linguistics, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia

1984-97 Lecturer in Natural Language Processing, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

1988-97 Director, SRI International Cambridge Computer Science Research Centre.

1997-00 Reader in Computational Linguistics, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

1999-00 Deputy Head, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

2000-06 Professor of General Linguistics, Humanities Division, Oxford University.

2006-     Professor of Computational Linguistics, Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

2007-8   Deputy Director, Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

2008-9   (Acting) Director, Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

2010-13 Deputy Head, Oxford University Department of Computer Science (formerly Computing Laboratory)

2014-16 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Computer Science.

Stephen Pulman is a Professorial Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has also held visiting professorships at the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, University of Stuttgart; and at Copenhagen Business School.

He is a co-founder of TheySay Ltd, a sentiment analysis company which was spun out of the dept in 2010.