Meet the current programme doctoral researchers that started in 2021 Sandrine ChaussonResearch 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 PoliticsResearch Topic: The Coming of Age of a Collective Environmental Conscience: Tracing Back the Emergence and Normalisation of Environmental Activism using Natural Language ProcessingSupervisors: Björn Ross, Nadin Kokciyan Gautier DaganResearch Interests: Multi-modal agents, planning, large language models, code-generation, tokenizersResearch Topic: Learning from Interactions in Multi-modal Interactive EnvironmentsSupervisors: Alex Lascarides, Frank KellerSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Steph DroopResearch Interests: Causal modelling, causal cognition, causal machine learningResearch Topic: Reasoning and Decision Models to Capture Unconstrained Social ExplanationsSupervisors: Neil Bramley, Chris LucasSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Nick FergusonResearch Interests: Knowledge representation, automated reasoning, hybrid & compositional AI; explainable AI; safe and legal use of AIResearch Topic: Building Human-Aligned Explanations which Take Advantage of Meta-Level Reasoning in AI SystemsSupervisors: Kobby Nuamah, Alan Bundy, Mark Steedman, Liane Guillou Balint GyevnarResearch Interests: Explainable reinforcement learning, AI safety, causality, human-computer interactionResearch Topic: Human-Centred Explainable Autonomous AgentsSupervisors: Shay Cohen, Chris LucasSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Coleman HaleyResearch Interests: Morphological representations in NLP tasks; morphology induction; neurosymbolic methods and structured representations; deep learning systems as cognitive models and psycholinguistic subjectsResearch Topic: Self-supervised Models of Language Ground Cross-linguistic ConceptsSupervisors: Sharon Goldwater, Frank Mollica Wenyu HuangResearch Interests: Knowledge graphs and knowledge representation learning; knowledge enhanced pre-trained language models, especially for response generation with conversational search queriesResearch Topic: Knowledge Retrieval for Large Language ModelsSupervisors: Jeff Pan, Ivan Titov Anna Kapron-KingResearch Interests: Computational models of pragmatics and language evolutionResearch Topic: Experimental Investigations of Regularities in Semantic ChangeSupervisors: Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith Amr KelegResearch Interests: Arabic NLP, Multilingual/Multicultural NLP, dialectal variationsResearch Topic: Toward a Better Modeling of Arabic Dialects in NLPSupervisors: Walid Magdy, Sharon GoldwaterSocials: LinkedIn Personal Website Oli LiuResearch Interests: Cognitive modeling with and interpretability for models of speech and languageResearch Topic: Modeling Speech Perception with Self-supervised Learning Models: Encoding Structures of Phonetic, Speaker, and Context InformationSupervisors: Sharon Goldwater, Hao TangSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Aida TarighatResearch Interests: Verbal and nonverbal communication; disfluency; emotion analytics; cross-lingual NLPResearch Topic: Written Disfluencies and Nonliteral Meaning Interpretation in Natural Language ProcessingSupervisors: Martin Corley, Patrick SturtSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Nicholas SandersResearch Interests: Speech synthesis, self-supervised learning, speech prosody, affective computingResearch Topic: Interpretable and Controllable Expressive Speech Representations for SynthesisSupervisors: Simon King, Korin RichmondSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Jonas WaldendorfResearch Interests: Low Resource Neural Machine Translation focussing on Data AugmentationResearch Topic: Contrastive Decoding for Hallucination ReductionSupervisors: Lexi Birch, Barry Haddow Mengyu WangResearch Interests: Natural language processing for finance, question answering and reasoningResearch Topic: Text-based market prediction, domain-specific reasoningSupervisors: Tiejun Ma, Shay CohenSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Alumni - Graduates of our Programme This article was published on 2024-12-08