Natural Language Processing and Speech Systems

Supervisors with research interests in natural language processing and speech systems are listed below.

Edoardo M. Ponti

Lecturer in Natural Language Processing

Research

modular deep learning, efficient architectures of language models, computational typology of language

Frank Keller

Professor and Personal Chair of Computational Cognitive Science

Research

NLP and cognitive science. language and vision tasks, such as image description, visual grounding, video summarization, visual story telling, computational narrative

Hao Tang

Lecturer in Speech Technology

Research

speech representations in NLP, data structures that speech systems use to solve tasks

Ivan Titov

Professor and Personal Chair of Natural Language Processing

Research

natural language understanding (question answering, information extraction, and semantic parsing), improving generalization across tasks and data distributions, interpretability and controllability of deep learning models

Korin Richmond

Reader in Speech Technology

Research

human language and machine learning. articulatory modelling, speech synthesis and recognition, pronunciation modelling, machine learning in tracking shapes in ultrasound videos

Mark Steedman

Professor in Cognitive Science

Research

computational cognitive and social science, natural language and speech processing, Artificial Intelligence

Mirella Lapata

Professor and Personal Chair of Natural Language Processing

Research

probabilistic learning techniques for natural language understanding and generation, extracting semantic information from large volumes of text

Pasquale Minervini

Lecturer in Natural Language Processing

Research

NLP and ML. relational learning and learning from graph-structured data, solving knowledge-intensive tasks, hybrid neuro-symbolic models, compositional generalisation,  designing data-efficient and robust deep learning models

Peter Bell

Professor and Personal Chair of Speech Technology

Research

automatic speech recognition and understanding (cross-domain and cross-lingual adaptation, efficient alignment, search and decoding on audio data, training methods for ASR, end-to-end and raw-waveform methods, ASR systems for minority or under-resourced languages, speech representation learning, audio-visual speech recognition and enhancement)

Simon King

Professor and Personal Chair of Speech Processing

Research

basic building blocks of speech: speech recognition (new acoustic models, multilingual systems), speech synthesis (unit selection methods, HMM-based speech synthesis, multilingual systems)

Tiejun Ma

Professor and Personal Chair of Financial Computing (Risk Modelling)

Research

financial computing, risk modelling