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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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 | Text generation, summarization, semantic and syntactic parsing, unsupervised learning, grammar learning, spectral learning. | 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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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 | Machine translation speech translation | Personal page |
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Helen Hastie | Human-robot interaction, multimodal interaction, trustworthy interaction for autonomous systems, transparency and explanations through natural language, evaluation | 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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Uta Hinrichs |
Data visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design. Special interest in digital humanities, visualizing cultural collections, visualization for public knowledge institutions, and visualization teaching and learning. |
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Frank Keller | Cognitive modeling, language processing, language and vision, parsing, unsupervised learning, eye-tracking | 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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Nadin Kökciyan | AI for Privacy, Argument Mining, Computational Argumentation, AI Ethics, Multiagent systems, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning | 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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Susan Lechelt |
Human-computer interaction, interaction design, responsible technology design, in particular around: sustainability and circular economy, data literacy, creativity, tangible and physical computing and children’s education
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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 | Natural language processing, machine learning. | Personal page |
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Chris Lucas | Inductive learning, causal inference, cognitive development, Bayesian models. | Personal page |
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Tiejun Ma | Research focuses on risk analysis and decision-making using quantitative modelling and data techniques applied to FinTech, and Cyber-Risk research fields, via state-of-the-art information retrieval, sentiment analysis and computing techniques (e.g. risk quantification using NLP); modelling human's risk taking and decisions are influenced by sentiments, news and online information. | |
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Walid Magdy | Information retrieval, Social computing, Social media, Data mining, Arabic NLP | Personal page |
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Fiona McNeill | Computing education and access to computing, especially for under-represented and disadvantaged groups; data matching and integration, especially during crisis management; language-aware matching and linguistic resources for minority languages, particularly Gaelic; Semantic Web, Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs | Personal page |
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Pasquale Minervini | Natural language processing and machine learning: relational and graph machine learning, question and query answering, hybrid neuro-symbolic models, compositional generalisation, data-efficient and robust deep learning models. | Personal page |
Brian Mitchell | Computer Science education, Human-Computer Interaction, accessibility, Language Engineering generally and Named Entity Classification especially, applying Machine Learning to Natural Language Processing, core corpus linguistics topics especially parsing | Personal page | |
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Cognitive models of language acquisition, language use/processing, language-concept interface, cognitive development | Personal page |
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Siddharth Narayanaswamy |
Explainable AI, interpretable ML, probabilistic programming, approximate inference, human-machine interaction, neural-symbolic systems, computer vision, NLP |
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Jeff Pan | Knowledge representation and artificial intelligence, knowledge based reasoning and learning, knowledge based natural language understanding and generation. | Personal page |
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Edoardo Ponti | Multilingual NLP; ML for language; language grounding; computational typology; few-shot learning; modular NNs. | Personal page |
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Steve Renals | Speech recognition, speech synthesis, multimodal interaction, multiparty interaction, machine learning. |
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Korin Richmond | All aspects of text-to-speech synthesis and speech generation, acquisition and modelling of articulatory data for speech technologies, pronunciation modelling, lexicography, technologies for child speech therapy and pronunciation training. | Personal page |
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Judy Robertson | Personal page | |
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Computational social science; social computing; information systems; social media analytics and communication; social network analysis, agent-based modelling and simulation, natural language processing and text classification for social media. |
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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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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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Hao Tang | Speech and language processing, machine learning. | 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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Human-computer interaction, interaction design, co-creation and participatory design, responsible technology design, digital social innovation, especially around: ageing and the lifecourse, personal and community finance, health and care, and civic and community action.
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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 |
EMERITUS MEMBERS
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Michael Fourman | Personal page | ||
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Ewan Klein | Personal page | ||
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Johanna Moore | |||
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Helen Pain | Personal page |