Cohort 2020

Anil Batra

Research Interests: Multi-modal AI/LLMs, conditional text generation, ego/exo-centric video understanding, diffusion models

Research Topic: Instructional Video Understanding

Supervisors: Frank Keller, Laura Sevilla

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Agostina Calabrese

Research Interests: Policy-aware explainable abuse detection

Research Topic: Policy-aware explainable abuse detection 

Supervisors: Björn Ross, Mirella Lapata

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Verna Dankers

Research Interests: memorisation, compositional generalisation, interpretability, figurative language processing

Research Topic: Memorisation Meets Compositionality in Natural Language Processing

Supervisors:  Ivan Titov, Chris Lucas

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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 Labelling

Supervisors: Lexi Birch, Frank Keller

Lauren Fletcher

Research Interests: The relationship between neurodiversity and neurominority identity and language learning, use, and change

Research Topic: Neurodiversity and Language Evolution: an Experimental Exploration of Autistic Individuals' Language Learning, Use, and Change

Supervisors: Jenny Culbertson, Hugh Rabagliati

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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

Matthias Lindemann

Research Interests: Improving compositional generalisation in semantic parsing

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

Supervisors:  Ivan Titov, Alexander Koller

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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

Wanqiu Long

Research Interests: discourse phenomena

Research Topic: Enhancing Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition by Exploiting Relations between Sense Labels

Supervisors: Bonnie Webber, Siddharth Narayanaswamy

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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

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

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

Zheng Zhao

Research Interests: Explores how large language models learn, adapt, and represent information across domains, languages, and tasks

Research Topic: Understanding Learning and Representation in Large Language Models

Supervisors: Shay Cohen, Bonnie Webber

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