Dr Mark Hepple

About

Mark Hepple studied Psychology at Sheffield University (BSc, 1986), and Cognitive Science at Edinburgh University (MSc, 1987; PhD, 1990). Thereafter, he was a Research Associate at Cambridge University (1990-92), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (1992-93).He joined the Department of Computer Science at Sheffield University in 1993, as a Lecturer, and as a member of the Natural Language Processing group. He retired his post in July 2026 but continues to foster close relationships with the school as an Honorary Senior Lecturer.

Selected publications

• Onyenwe IE, Hepple M, Chinedu U & Ezeani I (2019) Toward an effective Igbo part-of-speech tagger. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 18(4). View this article in WRRO
• Onyenwe IE, Hepple M, Chinedu U & Ezeani I (2018) A Basic Language Resource Kit Implementation for the IgboNLP Project. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) , 17(2). View this article in WRRO
• Srijith PK, Hepple M, Bontcheva K & Preotiuc-Pietro D (2017) Sub-story detection in Twitter with hierarchical Dirichlet processes. Information Processing & Management, 53(4), 989-1003. View this article in WRRO
• Verhagen M, Gaizauskas RJ, Schilder F, Hepple M, Moszkowicz J & Pustejovsky J (2009) The TempEval challenge: identifying temporal relations in text.. Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 43, 161-179.
• Roberts A, Gaizauskas R, Hepple M & Guo Y (2008) Mining clinical relationships from patient narratives.. BMC Bioinformatics, 9 Suppl 11(Suppl 11), S3.
• Roberts A, Gaizauskas R, Hepple M, Davis N, Demetriou G, Guo Y, Kola J, Roberts I, Setzer A, Tapuria A & Wheeldin B (2007) The CLEF corpus: semantic annotation of clinical text.. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2007, 625-629.
• Harkema H, Roberts I, Gaizauskas R & Hepple M (2005) A web service for biomedical term look-up.. Comp Funct Genomics, 6(1-2), 86-93.
• Krotov A, Hepple M, Gaizauskas RJ & Wilks Y (1999) Evaluating two methods for Treebank grammar compaction.. Nat. Lang. Eng., 5, 377-394.
• Pulman SG & Hepple MR (1993) Feature-based formalism for two-level phonology: A description and implementation. Computer Speech and Language, 7(4), 333-358.
• Setzer A, Gaizauskas, R & Hepple M (2005) Using Semantic Inferences for Temporal Annotation Comparison, The Language Of Time (pp. 575-584). Oxford University PressOxford