Alumni

Meet the graduates of our programme

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Dr Laurie Burchell 

Cohort 2019

Thesis: Improving natural language processing for under-served languages through increased training data diversity

Thesis Awarded: 09.10.24

Supervisors: Lexi Birch, Kenneth Heafield

Socials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website 

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Dr Ronald Cardenas

Cohort 2019 

Thesis: Cognitive structures of content for controlled summarization

Thesis Awarded: 20.03.24

Supervisors: Shay Cohen, Matthias Galle 

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Dr Georgia Carter

Cohort 2019 

Thesis: Effects of Context on Semantic Representations and Mechanisms in Humans and Language Models

Thesis Awarded: 10.04.25

Supervisors: Paul Hoffman, Frank Keller

 

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Dr Jie Chi 

Cohort 2019

Thesis: Understanding and Modeling Code Switching: Metrics, Triggers, and Applications in Multilingual NLP

Thesis Awarded: 10.06.25

Supervisors: Peter Bell, Catherine Lai

 

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Dr Henry Conklin 

Cohort 2019

Thesis: Information Structure in Mappings: An Approach to Learning, Representation, and Generalisation

Thesis Awarded: 10.06.25

Supervisors: Kenny Smith, Ivan Titov

 

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Dr Tom Hosking 

Cohort 2019

Thesis: Learning Weakly Structured Representations for Text-to-Text Generation

Thesis Awarded: 14.01.25

Supervisors: Mirella Lapata, Hao Tang

 

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Faheem Kirefu

Cohort 2019

MSc(R)

Supervisors: Lexi Birch, Barry Haddow

 

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Dr Matthias Lindemann

Cohort 2020

Thesis: Enhancing Structural Inductive Biases of Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Semantic Parsing and Beyond

Thesis Awarded: 10.06.25

Supervisors: Ivan Titov, Alexander Koller

Socials: Google Scholar Personal Website

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Dr Nina Markl

Cohort 2019

Thesis: Language variation, automatic speech recognition and algorithmic bias

Thesis Awarded: 16.11.23

Supervisors: Catherine Lai, Lauren Hall-Lew

Socials: Personal Website 

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Dr Nikita Moghe

Cohort 2019

Thesis: Segment-level Evaluation of Machine Translation Metrics

Thesis Awarded: 13.08.24

Supervisors: Lexi Birch, Mark Steedman

Socials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website 

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Dr Rimvydas Rubavicius

Cohort 2019

Thesis: Processing Embodied Conversation for Interactive Task Learning

Thesis Awarded: 10.06.25

Supervisors: Alex Lascarides, Ram Ramamoorthy

Socials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website 

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Dr Irene Winther 

Cohort 2019

Thesis: Learning the easy way: The role of form similarity in language learning and processing

Thesis Awarded: 10.06.25

Supervisors: Martin Pickering, Yevgen Matusevych

Socials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website