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Dr Andrew Gargett

Lecturer In Artificial Intelligence

School of Languages & Applied Linguistics

andrew.gargett@open.ac.uk

Biography

I am a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, within the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics. I obtained my PhD from the University of London. 

Prior to working at the OU, I led the AI team at the Hartree Centre in Daresbury, one of the national labs within the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Before that I was a Marie Curie Research Fellow on the Gen-Meta project, in the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham.

I teach in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the OU. For 2025-2026, I am chair of L806 Language, Society and Artificial Intelligence. 

My research spans the discipline of linguistics and the field of AI, and the overlaps between these. I am interested in how the field of AI and associated technology can help when trying to answer fundamental questions about language and communication, as well as how models of language and communication can shed light on the many challenges faced by the field of AI.

Publications

Book

Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives (2020)

A Salvage Grammar of Malgana - The Language of Shark Bay, Western Australia (2011)

Book Chapter

Machine translation in language learning, teaching and assessment (2024)

What does it mean when a computer says I? (2023)

Journal Article

Introduction to CALICO Special Issue (2025)

Gen-Meta: Generating metaphors by combining AI and corpus-based modeling (2015)

Incrementality and the Dynamics of Routines in Dialogue (2011)

Grammar resources for modelling dialogue dynamically (2009)

Presentation / Conference

LegalOps: A Summarization Corpus of Legal Opinions (2020)

Building the Emirati Arabic FrameNet (2020)

Learning Neural Word Salience Scores (2018)

Deep generation of metaphors (2015)

Modeling the interaction between sensory and affective meanings for detecting metaphor (2015)

Dimensions of Metaphorical Meaning (2014)

DiVE-Arabic: Gulf Arabic Dialogue in a Virtual Environment (2014)

Mining Online Discussion Forums for Metaphors (2014)

Gen-Meta: Generating Metaphors Using a Combination of AI Reasoning and Corpus-Based Modeling of Formulaic Expressions (2013)

Feedback and activity in dialogue: signals or symptoms? (2012)

Report on the Second Second Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2.5) (2011)

Report on the Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2) (2010)

The GIVE-2 Corpus of giving instructions in virtual environments (2010)

Dialogue Modelling and the Remit of Core Grammar (2009)

Presentation / Conference Contribution

Investigating folk psychology in legal text (2025)