Meet the current programme doctoral researchers who 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: Between Good and Evil: Analysing collective perceptions of right and wrong using NLPSupervisors: Björn Ross, Nadin Kokciyan Gautier DaganThesis defended: Learning to act from Multi-modal Interactions with Large Language ModelsSupervisors: Alex Lascarides, Frank KellerSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Steph DroopResearch Interests: Causal modelling, causal cognition, causal machine learningResearch Topic: Unifying inference and selection in singular causal explanationSupervisors: 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: Evaluating the Meta- and Object-Level Reasoning of Large Language Models for Multi-Hop Tabular Question AnsweringSupervisors: Kobby Nuamah, Alan Bundy, Mark Steedman, Liane Guillou Balint Gyevnar Thesis defended: Explaining Actions in Multi-Agent Systems via Counterfactual ReasoningSupervisors: Shay Cohen, Chris LucasSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Wenyu HuangResearch Interests: Knowledge graphs and knowledge representation learning; knowledge enhanced pre-trained language models, especially for response generation with conversational search queriesResearch Topic: Open Domain Conversational Search based on Knowledge-aware Language ModelsSupervisors: Jeff Pan, Ivan Titov Anna Kapron-KingThesis defended: Unidirectional semantic change in grammaticalisation: the role of cognition and communication Supervisors: Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith Oli LiuResearch Interests: Cognitive modeling with and interpretability for models of speech and languageResearch Topic: On the variability of phoneme encoding in self-supervised learning representationsSupervisors: Sharon Goldwater, Hao TangSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Aida TarighatThesis being defended: Written Disfluencies and Nonliteral Meaning in Natural Language Processing: Evidence from Behavioral and Computational StudiesSupervisors: Martin Corley, Patrick SturtSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Nicholas SandersThesis defended: Learning Expressive Representations for Speech GenerationSupervisors: Simon King, Korin RichmondSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Jonas WaldendorfResearch Interests: Low Resource Neural Machine Translation focussing on Data AugmentationResearch Topic: Challenges in Neural Machine Translation: Rare Vocabulary, Hallucina- tions, and Domain DriftSupervisors: Lexi Birch, Barry Haddow Mengyu WangResearch Interests: Natural language processing for finance, question answering and reasoningResearch Topic: Text-based Financial Market PredictionSupervisors: Tiejun Ma, Shay CohenSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Alumni - Graduates of our Programme This article was published on 2024-12-08
