Meet the current programme doctoral researchers that started in 2023 Iona CarslawResearch Interests: Generalised compositionality, low-resource machine translation, syntax (parasitic gaps, ergativity, wh-movement/wh-questions), computational modelling of natural language syntax, computational linguisticsResearch Topic: Ergativity and DitransitivesSupervisors: Mark Steedman, Itamar Kastner, András Bárány Artemis DeligianniResearch Interests: Hate speech, gender stereotypes, radicalisation, argument making and conversationsResearch Topic: Understanding Misogyny in Human InteractionSupervisors: Zachary Horne, Martin Pickering Emily GaughanResearch Interests: Low resource language and speech processing, multilingual speech processing, ethical and sustainable NLP and human interaction with speech systemsResearch Topic: Modelling Code-switching and Language VariationSupervisors: Peter Bell, Simon King Sivan MiltonResearch Interests: semantics, lexical semantics, syntax-semantics interface, argument structureResearch Topic: Investigating Diathesis AlternationsSupervisors: Mark Steedman, Frank KellerSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Nicolas NavarreResearch Interests: Semantics of explanations for causal inference and reasoning, concept learning, programme inductionResearch Topic: Inferences, Judgements, and Explanations from Causal Representations and NackSupervisors: Neil Bramley, Dan Lassiter Max NorrisResearch Interests: knowledge tracing algorithms and multimodal AI, investigating how enhanced knowledge representations can improve Intelligent Tutoring SystemsResearch Topic: Safe and Responsible Applications of Large Language Models for use in Intelligent Tutoring SystemsSupervisors: Kobi Gal, Henry Gouk Alice RossResearch Interests: human-computer interaction, speech and social identity, language acquisition and developmentResearch Topic: Speech technology and its Impacts on Diverse SpeakersSupervisors: Catherine Lai, Cara WilsonSocials: Google Scholar Personal Website Ariadna Sanchez CerveraResearch Interests: Deep learning for speech synthesis, specifically in the area of atypical speechResearch Topic: Text-to-speech and Voice Repair in Pathological Speech: Application of Methods Originally Developed for Healthy SpeechSupervisors: Simon King, Korin RichmondSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Yi WangResearch Interests: Multimodal learning for speech processing and spoken language understandingResearch Topic: Analysing Audio-visual Self-supervised Learned Speech RepresentationsSupervisors: Peter Bell, Hao TangSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Yu ZhaoResearch Interests: natural language generation; question answering and related knowledge-intensive NLP tasks; efficient NLPResearch Topic: Optimising Language Model Pre-Training and Inference EfficiencySupervisors: Pasquale Minervini, Mirella Lapata Alumni - Graduates of our Programme This article was published on 2024-12-08