Maria Liakata is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick.

She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford on learning pragmatic knowledge from text and her research interests include text and data mining, natural language processing, biological text mining, computational semantics, scientific discourse structure and sentiment analysis. Her work has contributed to advances in knowledge discovery from corpora, autmation of scientific experimentation and automatic extraction of information from the scientific literature.

Maria's recent work has looked at the analysis of emotions in suicide notes and she is in the process of porting this work to social media, to help detect mental illness and prevent crises. Maria remains a Visiting Fellow at European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK where she holds an Early Career Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. Maria co-chairs the Linguistics Annotation & Interoperability with Discourse Workshop at ACL 2013.