Cohort 2023

Iona Carslaw

Research Interests:  Generalised compositionality, low-resource machine translation, syntax (parasitic gaps, ergativity, wh-movement/wh-questions), computational modelling of natural language syntax, computational linguistics

Research Topic: Ergativity and Ditransitives

Supervisors:  Mark Steedman, Itamar Kastner, András Bárány

Artemis Deligianni

Research Interests: Hate speech, gender stereotypes, radicalisation, argument making and conversations

Research Topic: Understanding Misogyny in Human Interaction

Supervisors: Zachary Horne, Martin Pickering

Emily Gaughan

Research Interests: Low resource language and speech processing, multilingual speech processing, ethical and sustainable NLP and human interaction with speech systems

Research Topic: Modelling Code-switching and Language Variation

Supervisors:  Peter Bell, Simon King 

Sivan Milton

Research Interests: semantics, lexical semantics, syntax-semantics interface, argument structure

Research Topic: Investigating Diathesis Alternations

Supervisors: Mark Steedman, Frank Keller

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Nicolas Navarre

Research Interests: Semantics of explanations for causal inference and reasoning, concept learning, programme induction

Research Topic: Inferences, Judgements, and Explanations from Causal Representations and Nack

Supervisors: Neil Bramley, Dan Lassiter

Max Norris

Research Interests: knowledge tracing algorithms and multimodal AI, investigating how enhanced knowledge representations can improve Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Research Topic: Safe and Responsible Applications of Large Language Models for use in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Supervisors:  Kobi Gal, Henry Gouk

Alice Ross

Research Interests: human-computer interaction, speech and social identity, language acquisition and development

Research Topic: Speech technology and its Impacts on Diverse Speakers

Supervisors: Catherine Lai, Cara Wilson

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Ariadna Sanchez Cervera

Research Interests: Deep learning for speech synthesis, specifically in the area of atypical speech

Research Topic: Text-to-speech and Voice Repair in Pathological Speech: Application of Methods Originally Developed for Healthy Speech

Supervisors: Simon King, Korin Richmond

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Yi Wang

Research Interests: Multimodal learning for speech processing and spoken language understanding

Research Topic: Analysing Audio-visual Self-supervised Learned Speech Representations

Supervisors: Peter Bell, Hao Tang

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Yu Zhao

Research Interests: natural language generation; question answering and related knowledge-intensive NLP tasks; efficient NLP

Research Topic: Optimising Language Model Pre-Training and Inference Efficiency

Supervisors:  Pasquale Minervini, Mirella Lapata