Meet the CDT NLP's second cohort of Doctoral Researchers [scald=4264:sdl_editor_representation] Image Anil Batra Research Interests: Develop interpretable neural models for multi-modal (Language and Vision) summarisation. Research Topic: Instructional video understanding Supervisors: Laura Sevilla; Frank Keller [scald=4324:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Agostina Calabrese","caption":""}] Agostina Calabrese Research Interests: Policy-aware explainable abuse detection. Research Topic: Policy-aware explainable abuse detection Supervisors: Björn Ross; Mirella Lapata Image Verna Dankers Research Interests: The evaluation and development of techniques for compositional generalisation in neural models of artificial and natural languages. Research Topic: Memorisation meets compositionality in natural language processing Supervisors: Ivan Titov; Chris Lucas [scald=4325:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Radina Dobreva ","caption":""}] Radina Dobreva Research Interests: Multi-domain neural machine translation and domain generalisation. Research Topic: Exploring movie audio description through the lens of video semantic role labeling Supervisors: Lexi Birch; Frank Keller [scald=4332:sdl_editor_representation] Lauren Fletcher Research Interests: Neuro-atypicalities and how they affect language learning, use, universals and evolution. Research Topic: Language evolution and neurodiversity Supervisors: Jenny Culbertson; Hugh Rabagliati [scald=4326:sdl_editor_representation] Shawn Guo Research Interests: Exploring how emergent languages from multi-agent systems could help to transfer knowledge across different environments, with the help from deep reinforcement learning and iterated learning methods. Research Topic: Cultural evolution in the age of generative AI: language as a case study Supervisors: Kenny Smith; Stefano Albrecht [scald=4310:sdl_editor_representation] Matthias Lindemann Research Interests: Improving compositional generalisation in semantic parsing. Research Topic: Improving compositional generalization of semantic parsers Supervisors: Ivan Titov: Alexander Koller [scald=6057:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Danyang Liu - new5","caption":""}] Danyang Liu Research Interests: Natural language generation especially variational auto-encoder and multi-modal language understanding. Research Topic: Grounded Visual Story Telling Supervisors: Frank Keller; Mirella Lapata/Ivan Titov [scald=5471:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Wanqiu Long","caption":""}] Wanqiu Long Research Interests: Multi-sentence question-answering and document-level neural machine translation. Research Topic: Exploiting label inter-relations can enhance implicit discourse relation recognition Supervisors: Bonnie Webber; Siddharth Narayanaswamy [scald=4304:sdl_editor_representation] Atli Sigurgeirsson Research Interests: Understanding and controlling prosody and style in end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis. Research Topic: Interpretation of TTS models from a controllability perspective Supervisors: Simon King; Sharon Goldwater [scald=4350:sdl_editor_representation] Siqi Sun Research Interests: Transfer learning from linguistic resources to end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis. Research Topic: Sequence-to-Sequence Linguistic Frontend Modelling for Text-to-Speech and Its Improvement Supervisors: Korin Richmond; Hao Tang [scald=6054:sdl_editor_representation {"alt":"Eddie Ungless - new3","caption":""}] Eddie Ungless Research Interests: Social bias in NLP, computational social science, ethics. Research Topic: In theory and in practice: A holistic inquiry into the impact of biased language technologies Supervisors: Björn Ross; Vaishak Belle; Zachary Horne [scald=4331:sdl_editor_representation] Zheng Zhao Research Interests: Toward faithfulness: Fact-preserving natural language generation. Research Topic: Layer by Layer: Uncovering Where Multi-Task Learning Happens in Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models Supervisors: Shay Cohen; Bonnie Webber This article was published on 2024-12-08
