Dr Phillip Smith PhD

Dr Phillip Smith

School of Computer Science
Associate Professor

Contact details

Email
p.smith.7@cs.bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Computer Science
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Phillip Smith is an associate professor and the Head of Student Development and Support in the School of Computer Science at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.

Phillip is interested in natural language processing, in particular, sentiment analysis. Phillip is investigating how discourse function affects supervised machine learning classifiers trained to tackle this problem.

Please follow the link below to find out more about Phillip's work:

Qualifications

  • PhD, Computer Science 2017

  • AFHEA, 2016

  • BSc Computer Science (1st Class) 2009

Biography

Phil Smith qualified with a BSc in Computer Science from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. He went on to work as a software engineer before returning to Birmingham for a PhD investigating the development of machine learning algorithms for sentiment analysis in the clinical domain. He was awarded his PhD in 2017 and is now a lecturer in the department.

Teaching

2018-19 (Birmingham)

  • Professional Computing (Level 2/I, UG, Autumn)

  • Artificial Intelligence (Level 1/C, UG, Spring)

  • MSc Operating Systems and Networks (Level 4/M C, PG, Spring)

2017-2018 (Birmingham)

  • Professional Computing (Level 2/I, UG, Autumn)

  • Robot Programming (Level 1/C, UG, Spring)

  • MSc Operating Systems and Networks (Level 4/M C, PG, Spring)

2016-2017 (Birmingham)

  • MSc Operating Systems and Networks (Level 4/M C, PG, Spring)

  • Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing (Extended) (Level 4/M, PG, Spring)

Other activities

I am a careers tutor and an A2B lead tutor for the School of Computer Science. I have also carried out consultancy work for Birmingham City Council on the issue of public health.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Ali, M, Baqir, A, Raza Sherazi, HH, Khalid, S, Smith, P & Lee, M 2024, '', ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, vol. 23, no. 12, 169.

Devine, RT, Kovatchev, V, Grumley Traynor, I, Smith, P & Lee, M 2023, '', Psychological Assessment, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 165-177.

Alharbi, AI, Smith, P & Lee, M 2022, '', Data and Knowledge Engineering, vol. 138, 101973.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Kovatchev, V, Smith, P, Lee, M, Grumley Traynor, I, Luque Aguilera, I & Devine, RT 2020, . in D Scott, N Bel & C Zong (eds), Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, International Committee on Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 6217, International Conference on Computational Linguistics , Barcelona, Spain, 8/12/20.

Conference article

Alharbi, AI, Smith, P & Lee, M 2021, '', Procedia CIRP, vol. 189, pp. 258-265.

Conference contribution

Al Amer, S, Lee, M & Smith, P 2025, . in Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2025). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, The Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 3/05/25.

Al Amer, S, Lee, M & Smith, P 2025, . in AK Ojha, C Liu, E Vylomova, F Pirinen, J Abbott, J Washington, N Oco, V Malykh, V Logacheva & X Zhao (eds), Proceedings of The Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2024). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 159-165, Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages , Bangkok, Thailand, 15/08/24.

Alnafesah, G, Smith, P & Lee, M 2023, . in R Mitkov & G Angelova (eds), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Incoma Ltd, pp. 80-89, 2023 International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Large Language Models for Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2023, Varna, Bulgaria, 4/09/23.

Al Amer, S, Lee, M & Smith, P 2023, . in R Mitkov & G Angelova (eds), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Incoma Ltd, pp. 22-31, 2023 International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Large Language Models for Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2023, Varna, Bulgaria, 4/09/23.

Gokhan, T, Smith, P & Lee, M 2023, . in E Métais, F Meziane, V Sugumaran, W Manning & S Reiff-Marganiec (eds), Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 28th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2023, Derby, UK, June 21–23, 2023, Proceedings. 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13913, Springer, Cham, pp. 299–312, 28th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, Derby, United Kingdom, 21/06/23.

Kovatchev, V, Smith, P, Lee, M & Devine, R 2021, . in C Zong, F Xia, W Li & R Navigli (eds), Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). vol. 1, International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 1196-1206, Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, Virtual, Online, 1/08/21.

Gokhan, T, Smith, P & Lee, M 2021, . in Proceedings of the 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop FNP 2021., 18, Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing (FNP), Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 94-98, 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop, FNP 2021, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 15/09/21. <>

Alduayj, SS & Smith, P 2019, . in 2nd International Conference on Computer Applications and Information Security, ICCAIS 2019., 8769559, 2nd International Conference on Computer Applications and Information Security, ICCAIS 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2nd International Conference on Computer Applications and Information Security, ICCAIS 2019, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1/05/19.

Smith, P & Lee, M 2014, . in A Gelbukh (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing : 15th International Conference, CICLing 2014, Kathmandu, Nepal, April 6-12, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. vol. 8404 LNCS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , vol. 8404, Springer, pp. 45-52, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 15th International Conference, CICLing 2014, Kathmandu, Nepal, Nepal, 6/04/14.

Preprint

Kovatchev, V, Smith, P, Lee, M & Devine, R 2021 '' arXiv, pp. 1-11. <>