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Ms. Annabel Latham

Annabel Latham is a PhD Student in Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computing and Mathematics at Manchester Metropolitan University.  Her research interests are conversational agents, agent intelligence and knowledge engineering.

Annabel Latham returned to study gaining an MSc with Distinction in Computing in 2007 from MMU, after graduating with a BSc (Hons) in Computation from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1991.

She achieved an Advanced Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in 2000, and has worked in the field of Academic Marketing for eight years variously as a technical author, project manager, lecturer and tutor.  Annabel has five years experience in the implementation and training of financial software, and four years as Admissions Tutor within MMU.

Annabel has worked as a senior product manager for Higher Education courses, responsible for all areas of development and marketing, including responsibility for publishing and marketing academic texts.  She has travelled worldwide training and providing ISO 9001 quality assurance consultation services to numerous colleges in the Far East.

Current project proposed title: Towards Socially-Intelligent Agents

Past project: A Conversational Expert System for Bullying and Harassment Policies

The project involved the development of a web-based expert system to support a Bullying and Harassment policy.  A Bullying and Harassment policy was knowledge engineered into a knowledge tree representation, and a dynamic GUI developed to allow users to investigate their area of interest non-laterally.  A conversational agent was included to allow natural language questions to be asked.  The expert system was generalised so that other knowledge trees designed within specified restrictions could be ‘plugged in’ to the system.

Conference Papers:

Latham, A, Crockett, K & Bandar, Z 2008, ‘An automated bullying and harassment support system with a conversational capability’, Proceedings of the Annual Research Student Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, ISBN: 978-1-905476-367


Posters:

“Can Automated Tutors be Socially Intelligent?”, Faculty Research and Enterprise Colloquium, September 2008, MMU Faculty of Science & Engineering http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/RESEARCH/Intelgrp/frec_col/accepted_posters.htm