Department of Computing

Peter Smith

Head of Department

Dr Peter Smith
Head of Department
Room: A309E
Department of Computing
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB

peters@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 8437
fax: +44 20 7040 8887
Dr Peter W.H. Smith MSc(Essex) PhD(Leeds) IM(ICCF) I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Computing, part of the School of Informatics at City University.

Research Interests

  1. Authorship Attribution
  2. Sentiment Analysis and Text Mining
  3. Business Intelligence
  4. Evolutionary Computing
Two recent papers in these areas are:

Smith P.W.H. & Aldridge W. (2011) Improving Authorship Attribution: Optimizing Burrow’s Delta Method. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 2011,18,1 pp. 63-88.

Smith P.W.H. (2010) Word Vector Optimisation using a Genetic Algorithm. Presented at UKCI2010 University of Essex. Published by IEEE Explore Available at IEEE Explore

Other Pages

My formal departmental profile can be found here. For an informal introduction to my life, and for links that I use when I should be working click here. On a more professional footing, I also have pages describing my research interests, my publications and my teaching commitments.

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.

Other interests

I used to play chess for many years. I represented England 3 times in the European Team Championships. I also played in the European individual Championship as well as playing in two World Championship Semi-finals, in the second of these, I gained the International Master's title see International Master Title For a collection of my games see:

A Last Word

Something nearly so. Something nearly not.

The King of Siam ruminating on the need for fuzzy logic. "From "Its a Puzzlement" The King and I - with apologies to Oscar Hammerstein"