Cohort 2021

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: The Coming of Age of a Collective Environmental Conscience: Tracing Back the Emergence and Normalisation of Environmental Activism using Natural Language Processing

Supervisors: Björn Ross, Nadin Kokciyan

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

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Steph Droop

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

Research Topic: Reasoning and Decision Models to Capture Unconstrained Social Explanations

Supervisors: Neil Bramley, Chris Lucas

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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: Building Human-Aligned Explanations which Take Advantage of Meta-Level Reasoning in AI Systems

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

Balint Gyevnar

Research Interests: Explainable reinforcement learning, AI safety, causality, human-computer interaction

Research Topic: Human-Centred Explainable Autonomous Agents

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: Self-supervised Models of Language Ground Cross-linguistic Concepts

Supervisors: Sharon Goldwater, Frank Mollica

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: Knowledge Retrieval for Large Language Models

Supervisors: Jeff Pan, Ivan Titov

Anna Kapron-King

Research Interests: Computational models of pragmatics and language evolution

Research Topic: Experimental Investigations of Regularities in Semantic Change

Supervisors:  Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Amr Keleg

Research Interests: Arabic NLP, Multilingual/Multicultural NLP, dialectal variations

Research Topic: Toward a Better Modeling of Arabic Dialects in NLP

Supervisors: Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater

Socials: LinkedIn Personal Website

Oli Liu

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

Research Topic: Modeling Speech Perception with Self-supervised Learning Models: Encoding Structures of Phonetic, Speaker, and Context Information

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: Interpretable and Controllable Expressive Speech Representations for Synthesis

Supervisors: Simon King, Korin Richmond

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Jonas Waldendorf

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

Research Topic: Contrastive Decoding for Hallucination Reduction

Supervisors:  Lexi Birch, Barry Haddow

Mengyu Wang

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

Research Topic: Text-based market prediction, domain-specific reasoning

Supervisors: Tiejun Ma, Shay Cohen

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