Cohort 2021

Meet the current programme doctoral researchers who started in 2021

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Sandrine Chausson

Research 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 Politics

Research Topic: Between Good and Evil: Analysing collective perceptions of right and wrong using NLP

Supervisors: Björn Ross, Nadin Kokciyan

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Gautier Dagan

Research Interests: Multi-modal agents, planning, large language models, code-generation, tokenizers

Research Topic: Learning from Interactions in Multi-modal Interactive Environments

Supervisors: Alex Lascarides, Frank Keller

Socials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website

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Steph Droop

Research Interests: Causal modelling, causal cognition, causal machine learning

Research Topic: Unifying inference and selection in singular causal explanation

Supervisors: Neil Bramley, Chris Lucas

Socials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website

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Nick Ferguson

Research Interests: Knowledge representation, automated reasoning, hybrid & compositional AI; explainable AI; safe and legal use of AI

Research Topic: Evaluating the Meta- and Object-Level Reasoning of Large Language Models for Multi-Hop Tabular Question Answering

Supervisors: Kobby Nuamah, Alan Bundy, Mark Steedman, Liane Guillou

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Balint Gyevnar

 

Thesis being defended: Explaining Actions in Multi-Agent Systems via Counterfactual Reasoning

Supervisors: Shay Cohen, Chris Lucas

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Coleman Haley

Research Interests: Morphological representations in NLP tasks; morphology induction; neurosymbolic methods and structured representations; deep learning systems as cognitive models and psycholinguistic subjects

Research Topic: Rethinking "universal" grammatical categories: a computationally grounded approach

Supervisors: Sharon Goldwater, Frank Mollica

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Wenyu Huang

Research Interests: Knowledge graphs and knowledge representation learning; knowledge enhanced pre-trained language models, especially for response generation with conversational search queries

Research Topic: Open Domain Conversational Search based on Knowledge-aware Language Models

Supervisors: Jeff Pan, Ivan Titov

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Anna Kapron-King

Thesis being defended: Unidirectional semantic change in grammaticalisation: the role of cognition and communication  

Supervisors:  Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

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Amr Keleg

Thesis being defended: Improving the Modeling of Arabic Varieties in NLP

Supervisors: Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater

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Oli Liu

Research Interests: Cognitive modeling with and interpretability for models of speech and language

Research TopicOn the variability of phoneme encoding in self-supervised learning representations

Supervisors: Sharon Goldwater, Hao Tang

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Aida Tarighat

Research Interests: Verbal and nonverbal communication; disfluency; emotion analytics; cross-lingual NLP

Research Topic: Written Disfluencies and Nonliteral Meaning Interpretation in Natural Language Processing

Supervisors: Martin Corley, Patrick Sturt

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Nicholas Sanders

Research Interests: Speech synthesis, self-supervised learning, speech prosody, affective computing

Research Topic: Learning Expressive Representations for Speech Generation

Supervisors: Simon King, Korin Richmond

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Jonas Waldendorf

Research Interests: Low Resource Neural Machine Translation focussing on Data Augmentation

Research Topic: Challenges in Neural Machine Translation: Rare Vocabulary, Hallucina- tions, and Domain Drift

Supervisors:  Lexi Birch, Barry Haddow

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Mengyu Wang

Research Interests: Natural language processing for finance, question answering and reasoning

Research Topic: Text-based Financial Market Prediction

Supervisors: Tiejun Ma, Shay Cohen

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