Department of Computer Science and Technology

Natural Language and Information Processing Research Group

Staff

Prof. Ann Copestake ID: aac10 Room: GS20 Compositional and lexical semantics, formalisms for language representation, multiword expressions, generation, grammar development environments.	Prof. Simone Teufel ID: sht25 Room: GS14 Text summarisation, text generation and regeneneration, information retrieval.
Prof. Paula Buttery ID: pjb48 Room: GS16 Language and cognition, language acquisition, language processing, natural language processing and machine learning for intelligent tutoring.	Prof. Andreas Vlachos ID: av308 Room: GS17 Machine learning, natural language understanding and generation, imitation learning, computational journalism.
Dr. Weiwei Sun ID: ws390 Room: GS12 syntactic and semantic parsing, surface realisation, computational historical linguistics, second language acquisition

Post-doctoral Researchers

Dr. Luca Benedetto ID: lb990 Room: GS04 Machine Learning for NLP, automated language teaching and assessment, automated generation and calibration of learning content	Dr. Andrew Caines ID: apc38 Room: GS04 NLP for spoken and low resource language, education technology, dialogue and interaction
Dr. Zhenyun Deng ID: zd302 Room: GS19 Automated fact-checking, Question Answering, Interpretable NLP	Dr. Guy Emerson ID: gete2 Room: Distributional semantics, formal semantics, concept learning, probabilistic machine learning
Dr. Youmna Farag ID: yf273 Room: GS06 Dialogue systems, language generation, discourse coherence	Dr. Zhijiang Guo ID: zg283 Room: GS19 Automated Fact Checking, Structured Prediction, Information Extraction
Russell Moore ID: rjm49 Room: GS22 Modelling human skill proficiency and learning, developing augmented human learning using ML techniques, segmentation of spoken learner language	Dr. Li Nguyen ID: nhbn2 Room: GS22 Codeswitching, multilingualism, heritage language, sociolinguistics, language variation and change
Dr. Nedjma Ousidhoum ID: ndo24 Room: FS09 Automated fact-checking, toxic language detection and evaluation, computational social science	Dr. Michael Schlichtkrull ID: mss84 Room: GS19 Automated fact-checking, natural language understanding, graph neural networks
Dr. David Strohmaier ID: ds858 Room: Word sense disambiguation, lexical semantics	Dr. Shiva Taslimipoor ID: st797 Room: GS24 Machine Learning for NLP, Sequence Tagging, Multiword Expressions, Distributional Semantics

PhD Students

Guy Aglionby ID: ga384 Room: GS08 Supervisor: Teufel Common sense reasoning, knowledge graphs, explainability	Rami Aly ID: rmya2 Room: GS06 Supervisor: Vlachos Automated fact checking, Machine learning for NLP
Eric Chamoun ID: ec806 Room: GS24 Supervisor: Vlachos Machine learning for NLP, Automated fact-checking	Yiwen Chen ID: yc429 Room: GS08 Supervisor: Teufel Mandarin lyrics geneartion with linguistic and melody constraints
Julius Cheng ID: jncc3 Room: GS37 Supervisor: Vlachos Machine learning for NLP, structured prediction, machine translation	Paula Czarnowska ID: pjc211 Room: GS02 Supervisor: Copestake cross-lingual learning, morphologically rich languages, interpretability
Chris Davis ID: ccd38 Room: GS08 Supervisor: Buttery Language acquisition, language and cognition, adaptive learning, multimodal semantics	Mark Elliott ID: mwe24 Room: GS22 Supervisor: Buttery Evaluation of Automated Essay Scoring Models
Dr. Sian Gooding ID: shg36 Room: GS06 Supervisor: Briscoe Personalised text simplification, eye tracking, text complexity, readability	Zeb Goriely ID: zg258 Room: GS08 Supervisor: Buttery NLP, computational linguistics, language acquisition, language and cognition, language evolution
Georgi Karadzhov ID: gmk34 Room: GS37 Supervisor: Vlachos Dialogue systems and conversation augmentation.	Christine de Kock ID: cd700 Room: GS37 Supervisor: Vlachos Hate speech detection and mitigation
Michalis Korakakis ID: mk2008 Room: GS37 Supervisor: Vlachos Imitation learning for structured prediction	Pietro Lesci ID: pl487 Room: FS09 Supervisor: Vlachos Compute- and Data-efficient approaches to NLP (Active Learning, Data Subset Selection, Meta-Learning)
Mila Marcheva ID: mmm67 Room: GS22 Supervisor: Sun Computational modelling of bilingual language acquisition	Richard Diehl Martinez ID: rd654 Room: GS08 Supervisor: Buttery Computational neuro-linguistics, meta-learning, language and cognition
Hope McGovern ID: hem52 Room: GS04 Supervisor: Caines NLP, computational linguistics, digital humanities,	Tiago Pimentel ID: tp472 Room: GS10 Supervisor: Cotterell and Teufel Information-theoretic linguistics, representation learning and how language models encode information
Ieva Raminta Staliunaite ID: irs38 Room: GS24 Supervisor: Vlachos Disagreement and ambiguity in fact checking	Marek Strong ID: ms2518 Room: FS09 Supervisor: Vlachos Machine Learning for NLP, Temporal Fact-Checking, NLI
Gladys Tyen ID: whgt2 Room: GS06 Supervisor: Buttery Dialogue systems for teaching and assessing second language	Josef Valvoda ID: jv406 Room: GS10 Supervisor: Teufel, Cotterell Legal AI, information-theoretic jurisprudence and learning by precedent.
Huiyuan Xie ID: hx255 Room: GS06 Supervisor: Copestake Diagnostic evaluation of NLG models	Yuxiao Ye ID: yy477 Room: GS08 Supervisor: Teufel Real-world Reasoning for Large-scale Argument Mining
Moy Yuan ID: zy317 Room: FS09 Supervisor: Vlachos Fact-checking, knowledge graphs, natural language inference, question generation	Ran Zmigrod ID: rz279 Room: GS10 Supervisor: Cotterell Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Parsing algorithms

Visitors and Local Collaborators

Dr. Oeistein Andersen ID: oa223 Room: GS24	Prof. Edward J. Briscoe ID: ejb Room: GS18 Robust parsing technology, constraint-based processing, automated tutoring of second language learners, language acquisition and language evolution.
Daniel Bruder ID: dmb77 Room: GS10	Dr. Chris Bryant ID: cjb255 Room: GS24 Grammatical error detection and correction, automatic annotation, code-switching
Dr. Mariano Felice ID: mf501 Room: GS24 Cloze test generation, automated language teaching and assessment, grammatical error detection and correction, evaluation methods.	Dr. Ekaterina Kochmar ID: ek358 Room: GS37 Compositional distributional semantics, non-native writers' error detection and correction, readability for non-native speakers, author profiling
Prof. Anna Korhonen ID: alk23 Room: GN06 Computational lexical semantics, lexical and knowledge acquisition, computational discourse, multilingual NLP, biomedical informatics, language in the brain, real-life applications of NLP	Dr. Tamara Polajnar ID: tp366 Room: GS37 NLP and machine learning in production applied to various domains including science and finance
Dr. Marek Rei ID: mr472 Room: GS19 Machine learning, natural language understanding, neural networks, representation learning, compositional semantics, educational and healthcare applications	Prof. Roi Reichart ID: rr439 Room: Machine learning for NLP, out-of-distribution learning, scientific applicaiton of NLP, causality in NLP
Dr. Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha ID: do242 Room: GN06 Computational lexical semantics, semantic relations, multiword expressions, combining lexical and structural semantic models, Bayesian modelling for NLP, kernel methods for NLP, biomedical IE	Dr. Eva Maria Vecchi ID: ev296 Room: GS37 Distributional Semantics; Formal Semantics; Compositionality; Meaning Representation; Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge
Dr. Helen Yannakoudakis ID: hy260 Room: GS19 Machine learning for NLP, representation learning, automated language teaching and assessment, speech, visualisation	Dr. Zheng Yuan ID: zy249 Room: GS24 Grammatical error correction, automated assessment, human-centered NLP in educational contexts, code-switching, creative AI.

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