Dr Mark Stevenson

About

Mark Stevenson is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and a member of the Natural Language Processing group. He previously worked at 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.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.

Selected publications

• (2007) Words and Intelligence I: Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks. Springer.
• (2007) Words and Intelligence II: Essays in Honour of Yorick Wilks. Springer.
• Stevenson M (2003) Word Sense Disambiguation: The Case for Combinations of Knowledge Sources. Stanford, CA.: CSLI Publications.
• Alabed S, Anderson A, Maiter A, Hughes A, McAnenly N, Salehi M, Sharkey M, Dwivedi K, Hokmabadi A, Alahdab F , Stevenson M et al (2026) Large language models for simplifying radiology reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis of patient, public, and clinician evaluations. The Lancet Digital Health, 100960-100960.
• Fletcher AHA & Stevenson M (2025) Predicting retracted research: a dataset and machine learning approaches. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 10. View this article in WRRO
• Zhao Z, Thomas J, Kell G, Stansfield C, Clowes M, Graziosi S, Brunton J, Marshall IJ & Stevenson M (2024) The FAIR database: facilitating access to public health research literature. JAMIA Open, 7(4). View this article in WRRO
• Callaghan M, Müller-Hansen F, Bond M, Hamel C, Devane D, Kusa W, O’Mara-Eves A, Spijker R, Stevenson M, Stansfield C , Thomas J et al (2024) Computer-assisted screening in systematic evidence synthesis requires robust and well-evaluated stopping criteria. Systematic Reviews, 13. View this article in WRRO
• Stevenson M & Bin-Hezam R (2024) Stopping methods for technology assisted reviews based on point processes. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 42(3), 1-37. View this article in WRRO
• Jose-Garcia A, Sneyd A, Merlo A, Ollangier A, Tarling G, Zhang H, Stevenson R, Everson R & Arthur R (2023) C3-IoC: A career guidance system for assessing student skills using machine learning and network visualisation. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 33(4), 1092-1119. View this article in WRRO
• Peng X, Stevenson R, Lin C & Li C (2022) Understanding linearity of cross-lingual word embedding mappings. Transactions on Machine Learning Research. View this article in WRRO