Cohort 2021

Sandrine Chausson

Research Interests: Analysing the role of discourse in the formation, distribution and adoption of ideas using NLP, with applications for Social Sciences, History of Ideas and Moral Philosophy; special interest in the Climate Change discourse and Identity Politics

Research Topic: Between Good and Evil: Analysing collective perceptions of right and wrong using NLP

Supervisors: Björn Ross, Nadin Kokciyan

Gautier Dagan

Thesis defended: Learning to act from Multi-modal Interactions with Large Language Models

Supervisors: Alex Lascarides, Frank Keller

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Steph Droop

Research Interests: Causal modelling, causal cognition, causal machine learning

Research Topic: Unifying inference and selection in singular causal explanation

Supervisors: Neil Bramley, Chris Lucas

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Nick Ferguson

Thesis being defended: Meta-Level Reasoning in the Era of Large Language Models

Supervisors: Kobby Nuamah, Alan Bundy, Mark Steedman, Liane Guillou

Wenyu Huang

Research Interests: Knowledge graphs and knowledge representation learning; knowledge enhanced pre-trained language models, especially for response generation with conversational search queries

Research Topic: Open Domain Conversational Search based on Knowledge-aware Language Models

Supervisors: Jeff Pan, Ivan Titov

Oli Liu

Research Interests: Cognitive modeling with and interpretability for models of speech and language

Research Topic: On the variability of phoneme encoding in self-supervised learning representations

Supervisors: Sharon Goldwater, Hao Tang

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Aida Tarighat

Thesis being defended: Written Disfluencies and Nonliteral Meaning in Natural Language Processing: Evidence from Behavioral and Computational Studies

Supervisors: Martin Corley, Patrick Sturt

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Nicholas Sanders

Thesis defended: Learning Expressive Representations for Speech Generation

Supervisors: Simon King, Korin Richmond

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Jonas Waldendorf

Research Interests: Low Resource Neural Machine Translation focussing on Data Augmentation

Research Topic: Challenges in Neural Machine Translation: Rare Vocabulary, Hallucina- tions, and Domain Drift

Supervisors:  Lexi Birch, Barry Haddow

Mengyu Wang

Research Interests: Natural language processing for finance, question answering and reasoning

Research Topic: Text-based Financial Market Prediction

Supervisors: Tiejun Ma, Shay Cohen

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