Meet the CDT NLP's fourth cohort of Doctoral Researchers Image [scald=6011:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Sydelle de Souza - new","caption":""}] Sydelle De Souza Research Interests: Acquiring and Processing Semi-transparent Verb-Argument Structures in the L1 and the L2 Research Topic: On the Edge of Productivity: Investigating the Acquisition, Processing, & Emergence of Semi-Productive Verb-Argument Structures Supervisors: Jenny Culbertson / Frank Mollica [scald=6012:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Christina Du - new","caption":""}] Christina Du Research Interests: Knowledge representation and reasoning; editing and updating knowledge in language models; interactive learning system Research Topic: Reducing faithfulness hallucination in summarisation Supervisors: Pasquale Minervini / Ivan Titov [scald=6077:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Tekevwe Kwakpovwe","caption":""}] Tekevwe Kwakpovwe Research Interests: Computational models of cognitions, pragmatics, quantitative reasoning and language acquisition; in NLP; NLP for low-resourced languages and the philosophy of cognitive science and language Research Topic: Computational Quantification of Quantifier Cognition Supervisors: Dan Lassiter / Frank Mollica [scald=6014:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Ella Markham - new","caption":""}] Ella Markham Research Interests: Semantics/pragmatics acquisition; Computational modelling of language acquisition Research Topic: Slow mapping words as incremental meaning refinement Supervisors: Hugh Rabagliati / Neil Bramley [scald=6080:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Nickil Maveli","caption":""}] Nickil Maveli Research Interests: Neuro-symbolic methods for NLP, compositional generalization, learning from weak supervision, and cross-lingual and multilingual representation learning Research Topic: Functional Equivalence of Code and its Understanding through LLMs Supervisors: Antonio Vergari / Shay Cohen [scald=6016:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Sean Memery - new","caption":""}] Sean Memery Research Interests: 3D scene generation from textual descriptions and physics-informed networks Research Topic: Reasoning about complex physical systems in natural language Supervisors: Kartic Subr / Mirella Lapata [scald=6017:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Piotr Nawrot - new","caption":""}] Piotr Nawrot Research Interests: Multimodality, hierarchical language modelling, eliminating redundancies in neural networks Research Topic: Conditional Compression for Efficient Neural Models Supervisors: Edo Ponti / Ivan Titov [scald=6018:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Opeyemi Osakuade - new","caption":""}] Opeyemi Osakuade Research Interests: Deep learning for Speech synthesis, Speech recognition, and Natural Language Understanding Research Topic: Analysis of self-supervised speech representations for tone languages Supervisors: Simon King / Korin Richmond [scald=6019:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Argyrios Papoudakis -new","caption":""}] Argyrios Papoudakis Research Interests: Multi-modal (language and vision) learning; reasoning and understanding of long temporal data; efficient representation learning Research Topic: Understanding Long-form Narratives from Different Perspectives Supervisors: Frank Keller / Mirella Lapata / Ivan Titov [scald=6078:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Guillem Ramirez Santos - new","caption":""}] Guillem Ramirez Santos Research Interests: Finding out-of-the-box applications for prompting, such as data augmentation or creating synthetic examples. Making pre-trained language models more efficient. Cross-lingual NLP Research Topic: Collaborations between LLMs with Privacy and Efficiency Constraints Supervisors: Ivan Titov / Lexi Birch [scald=6021:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Ivan Vegner - new","caption":""}] Ivan Vegner Research Interests: Neuro-symbolic learning of logical predicate structures, few-shot and zero-shot learning, out-of-domain generalization Research Topic: End-to-End Neural Analogical Reasoning Supervisors: Alex Doumas / Siddharth Narayanaswamy [scald=6022:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Danna Zheng - new","caption":""}] Danna Zheng Research Interests: Multilingual semantic parsing, especially text-to-SQL Research Topic: Cross-Domain and Cross-Lingual Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing Supervisors: Jeff Pan / Mirella Lapata [scald=6023:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Giulio Zhou -new","caption":""}] Giulio Zhou Research Interests: Machine Translation and Natural Language Generation/Understanding. Specifically, deep learning applications in NLP with focus on linguistically-informed and low-resourced systems Research Topic: Prosody in Text: What is lost and How to retain it Supervisors: Barry Haddow / Lexi Birch This article was published on 2024-12-08
