Research in Computing

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100% of our Computer Science & Informatics REF21 submission was rated “world-leading” or “internationally excellent”

Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021

Argument technology

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There are many theoretical and practical aspects of argumentation. Our research spans the original philosophy through linguistics, cognitive science and AI applied to software engineering.

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Computer vision and image processing

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Our research centres on the general question of how computers can efficiently extract useful information from images, videos and associated data

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Human-centred computing

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Our work includes research in accessibility, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), social inclusion, and user experience (UX)

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Computing Theory and Methodologies

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Our research into graph theory and combinatorics includes algorithmic and computational complexity aspects of graph and combinatorial problems

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