Dr David McLean

Snr Lecturer, Digital Technology Solutions MSc Apprenticeship Programme Leader

My profile

Biography

Academic Interests : Artificial Intelligence (see google scholar) and Programming

Leisure : Keen on most outdoor sports particularly mountain biking and paragliding (member British Hanggliding and Paragliding Association for 20 years, former Hanggliding Instructor (trainee) and Hangglding club coach).

Words of wisdom

Do something that challenges (even frightens you) on a regular basis

Learn and parctice programming regularly - now part of the UK national curriculum from primary up - see www.processing.org to get started

Academic and professional qualifications

BSc Computing from University of Leeds

PhD Artificial Neural Networks “Generalisation in Continuous Data Domains”

PGCE

Fellow HE

Other academic service (administration and management)

Digital Technology Solutions MSc Apprenticeship Programme Leader

Languages

C#, Java etc, Prolog

External examiner roles

Sheffield Hallam University

Expert reviewer

IEEE and various others

Other distinctions

Collaborated with Prof. Donald Michie (AI field),

Submitted in 2 Research Assessment Exercises,

previous involvement in 2 Spin-off Companies,

Patent “Analysis of the Behaviour of a Subject”- psychological profiling using neural networks

Get in touch

0161 247 1536
E135 John Dalton Building

Teaching

Postgraduate teaching

Data Management & Machine Learning (Weka, Matlab)

Supervision

8 PhD completions

Research outputs

Research expertise

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining,  Conversational Agents, Artificial Neural Networks, Expert Systems, Programming and Data Structures

  • Chapters in books

    Latham, A., Crockett, K., McLean, D., Edmonds, B. (2012) 'Adaptive tutoring in an intelligent conversational agent system.' pp. 148-167.

    Latham, A., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D., Edmonds, B. (2011) 'Oscar: An Intelligent Adaptive Conversational Agent Tutoring System..' In O'Shea, J., Nguyen, N.T., Crockett, K.A., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (ed.) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications - 5th KES International Conference, KES-AMSTA 2011, Manchester, UK, June 29 - July 1, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, pp. 563-572.

    McLean, D.A. (2011) 'Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2010.' In Luo, X., Spaniol, M., Wang, L., Li, Q., Nejdl, W., Zhang, W. (ed.) Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2010. Springer-Verlag New York Incorporated,

  • Journal articles

    Little, C., McLean, D., Crockett, K., Edmonds, B. (2020) 'A Semantic and Syntactic Similarity Measure for Political Tweets.' IEEE Access, 8pp. 154095-154113.

    Chandran, D., Crockett, K., Mclean, D. (2014) 'On the Creation of a Fuzzy Dataset for the Evaluation of Fuzzy Semantic Similarity Measures.'

    Hijjawi, M., Bandar, Z., Crockett, K., McLean, D. (2014) 'ArabChat: An arabic conversational agent.' 2014 6th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, CSIT 2014 - Proceedings, pp. 227-237.

    Chandran, D., Crockett, K., Mclean, D., Bandar, Z. (2013) 'FAST: A fuzzy semantic sentence similarity measure.' IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems,

    Latham, A., Crockett, K., McLean, D. (2013) 'An adaptation algorithm for an intelligent natural language tutoring system.' Computers and Education, 71pp. 97-110.

    McLean, D., Rybakov, V. (2013) 'Multi-agent temporary logic TS4KnU based at non-linear time and imitating uncertainty via agents' interaction.' Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7895 LNAI(PART 2) pp. 375-384.

    Latham, A., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D., Edmonds, B. (2012) 'A conversational intelligent tutoring system to automatically predict learning styles..' Comput. Educ., 59pp. 95-109.

    O'Shea, J., Bandar, Z., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D. (2010) 'Benchmarking short text semantic similarity..' Int. J. Intell. Inf. Database Syst., 4pp. 103-120.

    Dancey, D., Bandar, Z.A., McLean, D. (2010) 'Rule extraction from neural networks for medical domains.' Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,

    Dancey, D., Bandar, Z.A., McLean, D. (2007) 'Logistic model tree extraction from artificial neural networks..' IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern B Cybern, 37(4) pp. 794-802.

    Rothwell, J., Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J., McLean, D. (2007) 'Charting the behavioural state of a person using a backpropagation neural network.' Neural Computing and Applications, 16(4-5) pp. 327-339.

    Crockett, K.A., Bandar, Z., McLean, D., O'Shea, J. (2006) 'On constructing a fuzzy inference framework using crisp decision trees..' Fuzzy Sets Syst., 157pp. 2809-2832.

    Rothwell, J., Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J., McLean, D. (2006) 'Silent talker: A new computer-based system for the analysis of facial cues to deception.' Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20(6) pp. 757-777.

    Li, Y., McLean, D., Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J., Crockett, K.A. (2006) 'Sentence Similarity Based on Semantic Nets and Corpus Statistics..' IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 18pp. 1138-1150.

    Wedge, D., Ingram, D., McLean, D., Mingham, C., Bandar, Z. (2006) 'On global-local artificial neural networks for function approximation..' IEEE Trans Neural Netw, 17(4) pp. 942-952.

    Wedge, D.C., Ingram, D.M., Mingham, C.G., McLean, D.A., Bandar, Z.A. (2005) 'Neural network architectures and overtopping predictions.' Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Maritime Engineering, 158(3) pp. 123-133.

    Dancey, D., McLean, D., Bandar, Z. (2004) 'Decision tree extraction from trained neural networks.' Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2004, 2pp. 515-519.

    Li, Y., Bandar, Z., McLean, D., O'Shea, J. (2004) 'A method for measuring sentence similarity and its application to conversational agents.' Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2004, 2pp. 820-825.

    Li, Y., Bandar, Z.A., McLean, D. (2003) 'An approach for measuring semantic similarity between words using multiple information sources.' IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 15(4) pp. 871-882.

    McLean, D., Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J.D. (1998) 'An empirical comparison of back propagation and the RDSE algorithm on continuously valued real world data..' Neural Netw, 11(9) pp. 1685-1694.

  • Conference papers

    Farrukh, M.U., Wainwright, R., Crockett, K., McLean, D., Dagnall, N. (2023) 'Building Actionable Personas Using Machine Learning Techniques.' In 2022 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI). Singapore, 4/12/2022 - 8/12/2022. IEEE,

    Alnajran, N., Crockett, K., McLean, D., Latham, A. (2018) 'A Heuristic Based Pre-processing Methodology for Short Text Similarity Measures in Microblogs.' In IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4rd International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS),. Exeter, UK, 23/6/2018 - 30/6/2018. IEEE,

    Alnajran, N., Crockett, K., McLean, D., Latham, A. (2018) 'An Empirical Performance Evaluation of Semantic-Based Similarity Measures in Microblogging Social Media.' In Fifth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2018). Zurich, 17/12/2018 - 20/12/2018.

    Alnajran, N.N., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D., Latham, A. (2018) 'A Word Embedding Model Learned from Political Tweets.' pp. 177-183.

    Crockett, K.A., Mclean, D., Latham, A., Alnajran, N. (2017) 'Cluster Analysis of Twitter Data: A Review of Algorithms.' 2. 24/2/2017 - 26/2/2017. Science and Technology Publications (SCITEPRESS)/Springer Books, pp. 239-249.

    Alnajran, N., Crockett, K., McLean, D., Latham, A. (2017) 'Cluster analysis of twitter data: A review of algorithms.' 2. pp. 239-249.

    Chandran, D., Crockett, K., Mclean, D., Crispin, A.J. (2015) 'An automatic corpus based method for a building Multiple Fuzzy Word Dataset.' IEEE,

    O'Shea, J.D., McLean, D., Bandar, Z. (2014) 'Improved interpolation and extrapolation from continuous training examples using a new neuronal model with an adaptive steepness.' In Intelligent Information Systems. 29/11/1994 - 2/12/1994. pp. 125-129.

    Crockett, K., Latham, A., Mclean, D., O'Shea, J. (2013) 'A fuzzy model for predicting learning styles using behavioral cues in an conversational intelligent tutoring system.'

    Latham, A., Crockett, K., Mclean, D. (2013) 'Profiling student learning styles with multilayer perceptron neural networks.' pp. 2510-2515.

    Pearce, D.M., Bandar, Z., McLean, D. (2011) 'Using Properties to Compare Both Words and Clauses..' 6682. O'Shea, J., Nguyen, N.T., Crockett, K.A., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (ed.) Springer, pp. 534-543.

    Hijjawi, M., Bandar, Z., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D. (2011) 'An Application of Pattern Matching Stemmer in Arabic Dialogue System..' 6682. O'Shea, J., Nguyen, N.T., Crockett, K.A., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (ed.) Springer, pp. 35-43.

    Crockett, K.A., Latham, A., McLean, D., Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J. (2011) 'On predicting learning styles in conversational intelligent tutoring systems using fuzzy classification trees..' IEEE, pp. 2481-2488.

    Crockett, K.A., Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J., McLean, D. (2010) 'Goal Orientated Conversational Agents - The rocky road to commercialization..' IEEE, pp. 1-8.

    McLean, D., Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J., Crockett, K.A. (2010) 'Commercialisation of an artificially intelligent deception detection system in the current security climate..' IEEE, pp. 1-6.

    Latham, A., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D., Edmonds, B. (2010) 'Predicting Learning Styles in a Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System..' 6483. Luo, X., Spaniol, M., Wang, L., Li, Q., Nejdl, W., Zhang, W. (ed.) Springer, pp. 131-140.

    Latham, A., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D., Edmonds, B., O'Shea, K. (2010) 'Oscar: An intelligent conversational agent tutor to estimate learning styles..' IEEE, pp. 1-8.

    Crockett, K., Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J., McLean, D. (2009) 'Bullying and debt: Developing novel applications of dialogue systems.' In 6th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. Pasadena, 14/7/2009 - 17/7/2009. pp. 1-9.

    O'Shea, J., Bandar, Z., Crockett, K.A., McLean, D. (2008) 'A Comparative Study of Two Short Text Semantic Similarity Measures..' 4953. Nguyen, N.T., Jo, G., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (ed.) Springer, pp. 172-181.

    Crockett, K.A., Bandar, Z., McLean, D. (2007) 'On the Optimization of T-norm parameters within Fuzzy Decision Trees..' IEEE, pp. 1-6.

    Wedge, D., Ingram, D.M., McLean, D., Mingham, C.G., Bandar, Z. (2005) 'A Global-Local Artificial Neural Network with Application to Wave Overtopping Prediction..' 3697. Duch, W., Kacprzyk, J., Oja, E., Zadrozny, S. (ed.) Springer, pp. 109-114.

    Crockett, K.A., Bandar, Z., McLean, D. (2004) 'Strategies For Fuzzy Inference within Classifier Systems..' Barr, V., Markov, Z. (ed.) AAAI Press, pp. 387-392.

    Crockett, K., Bandar, Z., Mclean, D. (2002) 'Combining multiple decision trees using fuzzy-neural inference.' In IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. HONOLULU, HI, 12/5/2002 - 17/5/2002. IEEE, pp. 1523-1527.

    Li, Y.H., Bandar, Z., Mclean, D. (2002) 'Measuring semantic similarity between words using lexical knowledge and neural networks.' In 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. 2412. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, 12/8/2002 - 14/8/2002. Yin, H., Allinson, N., Freeman, R., Keane, J., Hubbard, S. (ed.) SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, pp. 111-116.

    Crockett, K.A., Bandar, Z., McLean, D. (2001) 'Growing a Fuzzy Decision Forest..' IEEE, pp. 614-617.

    McLean, D., Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J. (1999) 'Decision boundary modelling-a constructive algorithm for high precision real world data models.' In International Joint Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. 5. Washington, DC, 10/7/1999 - 16/7/1999. pp. 3114-3118.

    McLean, D., Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J. (1999) 'Improving generalisation using modular neural networks.' In International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA 99). PORTOROZ, SLOVENIA, 6/4/1999 - 9/4/1999. Dobnikar, A., Steele, N.C., Pearson, D.W., Albrecht, R.F. (ed.) SPRINGER, pp. 35-39.

    Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J., McLean, D. (1999) 'An optimised decision tree induction algorithm for real world data domains.' In 6th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 1999. ICONIP'99.. 2. Perth, WA, 16/11/1999 - 20/11/1999. pp. 441-6.

    McLean, D., Bandar, Z. (1999) 'Comparative testing of hyper-planar classifiers on continuous data domains.' In International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA 99). PORTOROZ, SLOVENIA, 6/4/1999 - 9/4/1999. Dobnikar, A., Steele, N.C., Pearson, D.W., Albrecht, R.F. (ed.) SPRINGER, pp. 16-21.

  • Patents

    O'Shea, J.D., Bandar, Z., Rothwell, J., McLean, D. (2002) Analysis of the Behaviour of a subject.