Academic & senior research staff
These are the staff members who are primarily responsible for supervising PhD students and overseeing research projects in ILCC. Academic staff also have teaching responsibilities.
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Beatrice Alex | Text mining, information extraction and geo-parsing | Personal page |
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Matthew Aylett | Characterful speech synthesis, personification and narrative. | Personal page |
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Benjamin Bach | Interactive data visualizations for networks and temporal data, storytelling, immersive analytics | |
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Peter Bell | Automatic speech recognition, speech technology for under-resourced languages, unsupervised training, sequence-to-sequence models | Personal page |
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Alexandra Birch | Semi-supervised models, parsing, machine translation | Personal page |
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Julian Bradfield | Modal and temporal logics, model-checking, concurrency, independence logics, descriptive complexity and set theory, UML and modelling languages, natural language phonology. | Personal page |
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Shay Cohen | Natural language parsing and machine learning, grammar learning, spectral learning. | Personal page |
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Michael Fourman | Formal models of digital systems, system-design tools, proof assistants, categorical semantics, propositional planning. | Personal page |
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Kobi Gal | Artificial Intelligence, multi-agent systems, human-computer decision-making, educational data mining, AI in education, learning analytics | Personal page |
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Dragan Gasevic | Learning analytics, learning technologies, Self-regulated and social learning, learning design, higher education policy, computational social science, language technologies | Personal page |
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Information retrieval and human-computer interaction | Personal page | |
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Sharon Goldwater | Probabilistic (esp. Bayesian) models of language acquisition, unsupervised learning for NLP, phonetics/phonology, morphology. | Personal page |
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Claire Grover | Text analytics (information extraction, text mining, bioinformatics), XML tools for text processing, text processing for cultural heritage, semantic web, methods and tools for corpus linguistics, computational linguistics (parsing, grammar engineering). | Personal page |
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Barry Haddow | Statistical machine translation | Personal page |
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Kenneth Heafield | Machine translation, language models, efficient algorithms, and distributed systems | Personal page |
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Robin Hill | Multimodal communication, visual cognition, eye tracking, cognitive science, psycholinguistics, human computer/robot interaction, gerontechnology and neuropolitics. | Personal Page |
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Frank Keller | Probabilistic models of cognition, parsing, language production, language acquisition, language-vision interface, eyetracking. | Personal page |
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Simon King | Speech synthesis; new acoustic models for speech recognition; the use of articulatory information for speech recognition and synthesis; phonological/acoustic/articulatory features for speech processing. | Personal page |
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Ewan Klein | Computational approaches to natural language semantics, syntax, prosody and phonology; spoken language processing; communicating with mobile robots and embodied devices; the Semantic Web and ontologies. | Personal page |
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Philipp Koehn | Statistical machine translation, machine learning methods to natural language texts, large-scale text processing. | Personal page |
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Catherine Lai | Speech prosody, discourse structure, affective computing, information extraction | Personal page |
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Mirella Lapata | Probabilistic learning for natural language understanding and generation, language grounding, models of vision and language. | Personal page |
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Alex Lascarides | Computational semantics, discourse and dialogue processing, symbol grounding, communication with non-verbal actions, interactive task learning, human robot interaction. | Personal page |
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John Lee | Multimodal dialogue, graphics in reasoning and learning, computing and cognition in design. | Personal page |
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Adam Lopez | Multilingual NLP, formal language theory, machine learning, and algorithms. | Personal page |
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Chris Lucas | Inductive learning, causal inference, cognitive development, Bayesian models. | Personal page |
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Walid Magdy | Information retrieval, Social computing, Social media, Data mining, Arabic NLP | Personal page |
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Johanna Moore | Computational linguistics (natural language generation, dialogue, and discourse), intelligent systems for education, personalised information presentation, multi-modal interaction, user modeling, knowledge representation. | Personal page |
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Helen Pain | Intelligent educational and assistive technology, supporting learners with complex communication needs, participatory design, embodied multi-modal interaction, student modelling. | Personal page |
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Steve Renals | Speech recognition, speech synthesis, multimodal interaction, multiparty interaction, machine learning. |
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Korin Richmond | Speech. | Personal page |
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Paul Schweizer | Philosophical logic, the computational paradigm and conceptual foundations of cognitive science and AI, philosophy of mind and language. | |
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Rico Sennrich | Machine translation, natural language processing, deep learning . | Personal page |
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Richard Shillcock | Reading, cognitive modelling, language representation and processing, theory of modelling. | Personal page |
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Hiroshi Shimodaira | Trainable lifelike conversational agents, Acoustic models for automatic speech recognition, Handwriting recognition. | Personal page |
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Mark Steedman | Computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, formal grammar, spoken intonation, statistical parsing, spoken language processing, animated conversational agents, computational musical analysis. | Personal page |
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Charles Sutton | Machine learning for natural language, structured prediction, graphical modelling, information extraction, probabilistic models of programming languages. | Personal page |
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Henry Thompson | Markup languages (XML, SGML) and architectures (Standoff markup, Schema languages, pipelines); Web Architecture; Philosophy of the Web. | Personal page |
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Ivan Titov | Statistical modeling for natural language understanding, syntactic and semantic parsing of natural language, machine learning for NLP, probabilistic models of graph-structured data, multilingual NLP | Personal page |
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Kami Vaniea | Human Computer Interaction, Security, Privacy. | Personal page |
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Bonnie Webber | Discourse structure and its applications, question answering, biomedical informatics, domain adaptation. | Personal page |
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Maria Wolters | eHealth for people with long term conditions, human-computer interaction, assistive technology | Personal page |
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Junichi Yamagishi | Spoken language processing, recognition and synthesis. | Personal page |
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(1962-2017) |
Discourse generation, embodied multimodal interaction, human-robot dialogue, individual differences, social media. |
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