Cohort 2022

Sydelle De Souza

Research Interests: Computational cognitive models of language processing. Specifically, analogical processes in the acquisition of semi-compositional verb-argument structures. Also, systematicity in biological and artificial systems

Research Topic: Investigating the Acquisition, Processing, & Emergence of Semi-Compositional Verb-Argument Structures

Supervisors: Jenny Culbertson, Frank Mollica

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Christina Du

Research Interests: hallucination mitigation, reasoning, interpretability, knowledge mechanism

Research Topic: Reducing Faithfulness Hallucination in Summarisation

Supervisors: Pasquale Minervini, Ivan Titov

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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: 'Most' as Instructions for Numerical Perception

Supervisors: Dan Lassiter, Frank Mollica

Ella Markham

Research Interests: Semantics/pragmatics acquisition, Computational modelling of language acquisition

Research Topic: Low Mapping Words as Incremental Meaning Refinement

Supervisors: Hugh Rabagliati, Neil Bramley

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Nickil Maveli

Research Interests: LLMs for code understanding and generation, code semantics, benchmarking and evaluation for code

Research Topic: Functional Equivalence of Code and its Understanding through LLMs

Supervisors: Shay Cohen, Antonio Vergari

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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

Piotr Nawrot

Research Interests: Improving the efficiency of neural models, adaptive and dynamic memory

Research Topic: Conditional Compression for Efficient Neural Models

Supervisors: Edo Ponti, Ivan Titov

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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

Argyrios Papoudakis

Research Interests: Long-context reasoning and modelling, text-generation, multi-modal learning (language and vision)

Research Topic: Understanding Characters in Long-form Narratives

Supervisors:  Frank Keller, Mirella Lapata, Ivan Titov

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Guillem Ramirez Santos

Research Interests: privacy-preserving machine learning, optimisation of API calls to LLMs

Research Topic: Collaborations between LLMs with Privacy and Efficiency Constraints

Supervisors: Ivan Titov, Lexi Birch

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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

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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

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