Cohort 2023

Iona Carslaw

Research Interests:  Case Theory, Argument Structure, German Syntax, Ethical LLM usage in Linguistics, Decolonising Linguistics

Research Topic: Case, Applicatives, and Syncretism: a computational and theoretical approach to German case

Supervisors:  Mark Steedman, Itamar Kastner, András Bárány

Socials: https://ionacarslaw.github.io/ 

Artemis Deligianni

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

Research Topic: Technological and cognitive biases in misogyny detection

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: Speech Technology Informed by Language Change

Supervisors:  Peter Bell, Catherine Lai

Sivan Milton

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

Research Topic: A Theory of The Lexicon and Verbal Alternation

Supervisors: Mark Steedman, Frank Keller

Socials: LinkedIn Google Scholar

Nicolas Navarre

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

Research Topic: Judgment and Counterfactual Thought

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: Modelling Student Knowledge in Online Learning Environments with Large Language Models 

Supervisors:  Kobi Gal, Frank Keller

Alice Ross

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

Research Topic: Straight and Narrow: Design choices in speech technology can constrain gender expression and linguistic diversity

Supervisors: Catherine Lai, Lauren Hall-Lew

Socials: Google Scholar Personal Website

Ariadna Sanchez Cervera

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

Research Topic: No one left behind: Can voice reconstruction benefit from modern text-to-speech systems?s

Supervisors: Simon King, Korin Richmond

Socials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website

Yi Wang

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

Research Topic: Learning and Evaluating Audio-Visual Correspondence in Cross-Modal Representation Learning and Reasoning

Supervisors: Peter Bell, Hao Tang

Socials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website

Yu Zhao

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

Research Topic: Learning GUI Grounding with Spatial Reasoning from Visual Feedback

Supervisors:  Pasquale Minervini, Mirella Lapata