Cohort 2023

Meet the CDT NLP's fifth cohort of Doctoral Researchers

Iona Carslaw

Research Interests:  Generalised compositionality, low-resource machine translation, syntax (parasitic gaps, ergativity, wh-movement/wh-questions), computational modelling of natural language syntax, computational linguistics.

Research Topic: Ergativity and Ditransitives

Supervisors:  Mark Steedman / Frank Keller

Artemis Deligianni

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

Research Topic: Understanding misogyny in human interaction

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: Modelling code-switching and language variation

Supervisors:  Peter Bell / Simon King 

Sivan Milton

Research Interests:  Knowledge representation; semantics/pragmatics; inference; SRL; cross-lingual NLP; machine translation

Research Topic: Investigating Diathesis Alternations

Supervisors:  Mark Steedman / Frank Keller

Nicolas Navarre

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

Research Topic: Inferences, judgements, and explanations from causal representations and back

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: Safe and Responsible Applications of Large Language Models for use in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Supervisors:  Kobi Gal / Henry Gouk

Alice Ross

Research Interests:  User experiences and evaluations of realistic synthesised voices; speech technology in language acquisition and development; multimodal communication; AI ethics

Research Topic: Inclusion matters when we speak to and through machines: exploring the experiences, attitudes, and concerns of people who have difficulty speaking

Supervisors:  Catherine Lai / Korin Richmond

Ariadna Sanchez Cervera

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

Research Topic: Text-to-speech and voice repair in pathological speech: Application of methods originally developed for healthy speech

Supervisors: Simon King / Korin Richmond

Yi Wang  

Research Interests: multi-modal low-resource ASR or speech translation and multi-modal learning; has previously worked on automatic Alzheimer's disease detection and medical NLP

Research Topic: Analysing Audio-visual Self-supervised Learned Speech Representations

Supervisors:  Peter Bell / Hao Tang

Yu Zhao

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

Research Topic: Optimising Language Model Pre-Training and Inference Efficiency

Supervisors: Pasquale Minervini / Mirella Lapata