Cohort 2022
Meet the CDT NLP's fourth cohort of Doctoral Researchers
Sydelle De Souza Research Interests: Acquiring and Processing Semi-transparent Verb-Argument Structures in the L1 and the L2. Research Topic: On the Edge of Productivity: Investigating the Acquisition, Processing, & Emergence of Semi-Productive Verb-Argument Structures Supervisors: Jenny Culbertson/Frank Mollica |
Christina Du Research Interests: Knowledge representation and reasoning; editing and updating knowledge in language models; interactive learning system. Research Topic: Reducing faithfulness hallucination in summarisation Supervisors: Pasquale Minervini / Ivan Titov |
Tekevwe Kwakpovwe
Research Interests: Computational models of cognitions, pragmatics, quantitative reasoning and language acquisition; in NLP; NLP for low-resourced languages and the philosophy of cognitive science and language. Research Topic: Computational Quantification of Quantifier Cognition Supervisors: Dan Lassiter/Frank Mollica |
Ella Markham
Research Interests: Semantics/pragmatics acquisition; Computational modelling of language acquisition. Research Topic: The Effect of Holistic and Analytic Thinking on Discourse Relations Supervisors: Hugh Rabagliati/Neil Bramley |
Nickil Maveli
Research Interests: Neuro-symbolic methods for NLP, compositional generalization, learning from weak supervision, and cross-lingual and multilingual representation learning. Research Topic: Towards an Efficient Cross-Domain and Cross-Lingual Latent Tree Induction with Weak Supervision Supervisors: Antonio Vergari/Shay Cohen |
Sean Memery
Research Interests: 3D scene generation from textual descriptions and physics-informed networks. Research Topic: Text2Sim: Physical simulations from text descriptions Supervisors: Kartic Subr / Mirella Lapata
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Piotr Nawrot
Research Interests: Multimodality, hierarchical language modelling, eliminating redundancies in neural networks. Research Topic: Conditional Compression for Efficient Neural Models Supervisors: Edo Ponti / Ivan Titov |
Opeyemi Osakuade Research Interests: Deep learning for Speech synthesis, Speech recognition, and Natural Language Understanding. Research Topic: Analysis of self-supervised speech representations for tone languages Supervisors: Simon King / Korin Richmond |
Argyrios Papoudakis
Research Interests: Multi-modal (language and vision) learning; reasoning and understanding of long temporal data; efficient representation learning. Research Topic: Understanding Long-form Narratives from Different Perspectives Supervisors: Frank Keller / Mirella Lapata / Ivan Titov |
Guillem Ramirez Santos
Research Interests: Finding out-of-the-box applications for prompting, such as data augmentation or creating synthetic examples. Making pre-trained language models more efficient. Cross-lingual NLP. Research Topic: Collaborations between LLMs with Privacy and Efficiency Constraints Supervisors: Ivan Titov/Lexi Birch |
Ivan Vegner
Research Interests: Neuro-symbolic learning of logical predicate structures, few-shot and zero-shot learning, out-of-domain generalization. Research Topic: Unsupervised Learning of Symbolic Logic Using Spiking Neural Networks Supervisors: Alex Doumas / Siddharth Narayanaswamy |
Danna Zheng
Research Interests: Multilingual semantic parsing, especially text-to-SQL. Research Topic: Cross-Domain and Cross-Lingual Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing Supervisors: Jeff Pan / Mirella Lapata |
Giulio Zhou
Research Interests: Machine Translation and Natural Language Generation/Understanding. Specifically, deep learning applications in NLP with focus on linguistically-informed and low-resourced systems. Research Topic: Prosody in Text: What is lost and How to retain it Supervisors: Barry Haddow / Lexi Birch |
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