Dr Peter Smith
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- Dr Peter Smith
- +44 (0)20 7040 8437
- p.w.h.smith@city.ac.uk
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A309E, College Building
Postal Address
Northampton Square
London
EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom
About
Overview
I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Computing, part of the School of Informatics at City University.
Qualifications
PhD Philosophy of Language, Leeds University, 1991
MSc Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Essex University, 1977
BSc Computing, Sheffield Metropolitan University, 1976
Employment
11/2011 - to date City University London, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science & Assistant Dean for Recruitment
02/2010 - 10/2011 City University London, Head of Department
Membership of professional bodies
11/2011 Computing a Schools
Research
Research interests
- Authorship Attribution
- Sentiment Analysis and Text Mining
- The Visualisation of Evolutionary Processes
- Evolutionary Computing
Publications
Conference paper/proceedings
- Smith, P.W.H. (2000). Controlling code growth in genetic programming.
Journal articles (3)
- Smith, P.W.H. and Aldridge, W. (2011). Improving Authorship Attribution: Optimizing Burrows' Delta Method. JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS, 18(1), pp. 63–88. doi:10.1080/09296174.2011.533591.
- Smith, P.W.H. (2010). Using genetic algorithms in word-vector optimisation. 2010 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI 2010. doi:10.1109/UKCI.2010.5625589.
- Smith, P.W.H. and Harries, K. (1998). Code Growth, Explicitly Defined Introns, and Alternative Selection Schemes. EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, 6(4), pp. 339–360. doi:10.1162/evco.1998.6.4.339.
Education
My Part I Maths with Computing Course taught to First year Undergraduate students, ably assisted by Charlie Watson was awarded the First Prize in The City University Moodle Launch Award for The School of Informatics.