Meet the current programme doctoral researchers that started in 2019 Georgia CarterThesis Defended: Effects of Context on Semantic Representations and Mechanisms in Humans and Language ModelsSupervisors: Paul Hoffman, Frank Keller Jie ChiThesis Defended: Understanding and Modeling Code-Switching: Metrics, Triggers, and Applications in Multilingual NLPSupervisors: Peter Bell, Catherine Lai Henry ConklinThesis Defended: Information Structure in Mappings: An Approach to Learning, Representation, and GeneralisationSupervisors: Kenny Smith, Ivan Titov Tom HoskingThesis Defended: Learning Weakly Structured Representations for Text-to-Text GenerationSupervisors: Mirella Lapata, Hao Tang Parag JainThesis Defended: Context Representations for Conversational Natural Language UnderstandingSupervisors: Mirella Lapata, Ivan Titovhttps://parajain.github.io/ Faheem KirefuResearch interests: Machine translation (in particular, low resource techniques) and natural language understandingResearch Topic: Parameter Efficient Fine TuningSupervisors: Lexi Birch, Barry Haddow Nicole Meng-SchneiderResearch Interests: Usable security, looking at the privacy implications of voice-controlled interfaces, especially smart speakers, and the social impact of such systemsResearch Topic: OF SMART SPEAKER IN MULTI-USER SPACES Supervisors: Nadin Kokciyan, Maria Wolters Rimvydas RubaviciusThesis Defended: Processing Embodied Conversation for Interactive Task LearningSupervisors: Alex Lascarides, Ram RamamoorthySocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Rohit SaxenaThesis Defended: Abstractive Summarization of Long Narratives through Content Selection and Model Scaling.Supervisors: Frank Keller, Hao TangSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Emelie Van De Vreken Research Interests: Machine learning for speech synthesis and prosody modellingResearch Topic: Voice Puppetry for Synthesis ControlSupervisors: Korin Richmond, Catherine Lai Dan WellsResearch Interests: Investigating speech synthesis for low-resource languages through multilingual modelling, transfer learning and model adaptation in end-to-end neural network systems.Research Topic: On Low-Resource Text-to-Speech SynthesisSupervisors: Korin Richmond, Hao Tang Irene WintherDefended Thesis: Learning the easy way: The role of form similarity in language learning and processingSupervisors: Martin Pickering, Yevgen Matusevychhttps://iwinther.github.io Alumni - Graduates of our Programme This article was published on 2024-12-08