Cohort 2021
Meet the CDT NLP's third cohort of Doctoral Researchers
 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 |
 Research Interests: Arising and interpreting compositional structure in neural models. Research Topic: Embodied learning from language and interaction Supervisors: Alex Lascarides; Frank Keller |
Research Interests: How people infer the intentions of others. Research Topic: Extending counterfactual reasoning models to capture unconstrained social explanations Supervisors: Neil Bramley; Chris Lucas |
 Research Interests: Knowledge representation, automated reasoning, hybrid & compositional AI; explainable AI; safe and legal use of AI. Research Topic: Explainable query answering with the FRANK system Supervisors: Kobby Nuamah; Alan Bundy/Mark Steedman/Liane Guillou |
 Research Interests: Interrogating AI decision making through natural language. Research Topic: Building trustworthy autonomous vehicles using human-centric explainable AI Supervisors: Stefano Albrecht: Chris Lucas / Shay Cohen |
 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: Morphology and meaning Supervisors: Sharon Goldwater; Frank Mollica |
 Research Interests: Knowledge graphs and knowledge representation learning; knowledge enhanced pre-trained language models, especially for response generation with conversational search queries. Research Topic: Open domain conversational search based on knowledge-aware pretrained language models Supervisors: Jeff Pan; Ivan Titov |
 Research Interests: Computational models of pragmatics and language evolution. Research Topic: Experimental investigations of regularities in semantic change Supervisors: Simon Kirby; Kenny Smith |
Research Interests: Handling of low resourced dialects; Arabic NLP. Research Topic: Democratizing NLP technologies for Arabic speakers Supervisors: Walid Magdy; Sharon Goldwater |
Research Interests: Computational models for unsupervised or minimally supervised learning of language from speech and/or text. Research Topic: Early phonetic learning as perceptual space learning: evaluating self-supervised learning speech models Supervisors: Sharon Goldwater; Hao Tang |
Research Interests: Verbal and nonverbal communication; disfluency; emotion analytics; cross-lingual NLP. Research Topic: Interpretation of non-literal meanings in humans and language models: The Role of Disfluencies Supervisors: Martin Corley; Patrick Sturt |
 Research Interests: Deep learning for speech synthesis, with a focus in personification and expressiveness; evaluation methods for speech synthesis; sequence to sequence modelling; contextual acoustic and phonetic feature representations. Research Topic: Personification and Controllable Speech Synthesis Supervisors: Simon King; Korin Richmond |
Research Interests: Low Resource Neural Machine Translation focussing on Data Augmentation. Research Topic: Contrastive Decoding for Hallucination Reduction Supervisors: Lexi Birch; Barry Haddow |
 Research Interests: Text-based financial prediction. Research Topic: Market attention-weighted and ranking-based news aggregation network (mana-net): a deep learning approach for stock prediction using news sentiments Supervisors: Tiejun Ma; Shay Cohen |