the cohort

People

Current Members

PhD Student (co-advised with Javier Alfaro)

Since 2023

Matt Grenander

PhD Student (co-advised with Mark Steedman)

Since 2021

Balint Gyevnar

PhD Student (co-advised with Stefano Albrecht and Chris Lucas)

Since 2021

Nickil Maveli

PhD Student (NLP CDT; co-advised with Antonio Vergari)

Since 2022

Yifu Qiu

PhD Student (ELLIS student and Apple ML/AI scholar; co-advised with Anna Korhonen and Edoardo Ponti)

PhD Student (co-advised with Grzegorz Kudla)

Since 2023

Zheng Zhao

PhD Student (co-advised with Bonnie Webber)

Past Postdoctoral Researchers

Antonio Miceli

2022

now Researcher at Informatics, Edinburgh

Matthieu Labeau

2018 - 2019

now Assistant Professor at Telecom Paris

Maximin Coavoux

2018

Research Scientist at Naver Labs → CNRS Researcher

Shashi Narayan

2014 - 2019

now Research Scientist at Google

Past PhD Students

Chunchuan Lyu

2017-2021 (co-advised with Ivan Titov)

Thesis: Graph-based Broad-Coverage Semantic Parsing

Emily Scher

2016-2020 (co-advised with Guido Sanguinetti)

Postdoc at Edinburgh → Biotech start-up

Thesis: Human Genome Interaction: Models for Designing DNA Sequences

Esma Balkir

2016-2021

now a researcher at National Research Council Canada

Thesis: Tensors and Tensor Decompositions for Incorporating External Information in Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Fazl Barez

2023 (co-advised with Ioannis Konstas)

now a researcher at Oxford University

Thesis: Advancing Safety in Machine Learning Through Model Interpretability

Javad Hosseini

2017-2020 (co-advised with Mark Steedman)

now at Google

Thesis: Unsupervised Learning of Relational Entailment Graphs from Text

Jiangming Liu

2017-2021 (co-advised with Mirella Lapata)

Researcher at Tencent → Associate Professor at Yunnan University

Thesis: Understanding and Generating Language with Discourse Representation Structures

John Torr

2015-2019 (co-advised with Mark Steedman)

Wluper → Apple

Thesis: Wide-Coverage Statistical Parsing with Minimalist Grammars

Marco Damonte

2015-2019

now at Amazon

Thesis: Understanding and Generating Language with Abstract Meaning Representation

Nikos Papasarantopoulos

2016-2019

now at Princeline

Thesis: Multi-view Representation Learning for NLP Applications

Ronald Cardenas

2024 (co-advised with Matthias Galle)

Thesis: Cognitive Structures of Content for Controlled Summarization

Other Past Members and Visitors

Alexander Clarke

M.Sc. student (2015)

Anastasia Danilochkina

M.Sc. student (2019)

Anna Donohoe

M.Sc. student (2015)

Arturo Oncevay

Visitor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (2018)

now PhD student at Edinburgh

Bing Zheng

M.Sc. student (2019)

Chiraag Lala

M.Sc. student (2014)

now PhD student at Sheffield

Chris Doyle

M.Sc. student (2020)

Chunchuan Lyu

M.Sc. student (2016)

now PhD student at Edinburgh

DK Choe

Visitor, Brown University (2015)

now at Google

David Hodges

M.Sc. student (2017)

Dominique Osborne

Intern, University of Strathclyde (summer 2015)

Effy Li

M.Sc. student (2018)

now PhD student at UvA

Einat Minkov

Visitor, University of Haifa (2019)

Emilia Bogdanova

MInf student (2018)

now at Amazon

Finn Zhan

Undergraduate student (2019)

Fuad Issa

M.Sc. student (2016)

Gabriel Lehericy

Visitor, Universitè Paris Diderot (2018)

Gavin Peng

Undergraduate student (2021)

M.Sc. student at Cambridge

Hang Gao

M.Sc. student (2019)

Helen Jiang

Intern, Stanford (summer 2016)

now PhD student at CMU

Hongyan Deng

M.Sc. student (2022)

Hongyuan Lu

M.Sc. student (2020)

now PhD student at Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jake Browning

Undergraduate student (2017)

James Friel

Undergraduate student (2017)

Jason Chen

M.Sc. student (2016)

Joana Ribeiro

M.Phil student (2019)

Justin Grace

M.Sc. student (2018)

now at UniBuddy

Lingzhe Zhao

M.Sc. student (2016)

Lucas Torroba Hennigen

Undergraduate student (2019)

master's student at Cambridge → PhD student at MIT

Marcio Fonseca

M.Sc. student (2018)

Maria Luque anguita

M.Sc. student (2022)

Mateusz Pyla

Undergraduate student (2020)

Matt Maufe

M.Sc. student (2021)

Merce Vintro Ricart

M.Sc. student (2016)

Mohammad Khazali

Undergraduate student (2021)

Moy Yuan

Visitor, University of Edinburgh → master's, then PhD student at Cambridge (2018)

Neo Zhu

Undergraduate student (2022)

MSc student at Cambridge

Nickil Maveli

MRes student (2021)

Cookpad → PhD student at Edinburgh

Nicola Martocchia Diodati

Intern, Scuola Normale Superiore (2017)

Povilas Budrys

Undergraduate student (2019)

Ronald Cardenas

Visitor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (2017)

master's student at Prague/Malta → PhD student at Edinburgh

Sameer Khurana

M.Sc. student (2015)

now PhD student at MIT

Santiago Rivers Sottelo

M.Sc. student (2017)

Sean Memery

Intern, University of Edinburgh (2022)

now PhD student at Edinburgh

Shaojie Wu

M.Sc. student (2021)

Shihao Liu

M.Sc. student (2019)

Shucong Zhang

M.Sc. student (2017)

PhD student at Edinburgh → Toshiba, Cambridge

Shun Shao

MRes student (2022-2023)

Tao Meng

Intern, Tsinguha University (2017)

now PhD student at UCLA

Tommy Pan

M.Sc. student (2018)

Waylon Li

Undergraduate then MRes student (2022)

now PhD student at Edinburgh

Weijian Li

Visitor, University of Edinburgh (2018)

now master's student at Northwestern University

Xiaotong Jiang

M.Sc. student (2021)

Yi Ren

M.Sc. student (2019)

now Ph.D. student at UBC

Yichao Liang

Undergraduate student (2020)

now master's student at Oxford

Yifu Qiu

M.Sc. student (2021)

PhD student at Edinburgh

Yiming Guo

M.Sc. student (2018)

Yuan (Lawrence) He

Undergraduate student (2018)

now PhD student at Oxford

Yumo Xu

M.Sc. student (2017)

now PhD student at Edinburgh

Zein Ramadan

M.Sc. student (2021)

Zhifeng Hu

Visitor, Fudan University (2018)

Zhunxuan Wang

M.Sc. student (2019)

now at Amazon London

Datasets and Code

Links to github repositories can be found in the papers.

idswap

Data and code from our ACL 2023 Findings paper about identifier swaps in Python

sot

Data and code from our LRE 2023 paper about polarization of online reviews

sal

Data and code for our EACL (2023) and TACL (2023) papers

match

Data and code from our EACL 2023 paper about statement/proof matching

historical-events

Dataset for our ACL 2020 paper about machine reading of historical events.

stocknet

Dataset for our ACL 2018 paper about the stock market

csi

Dataset from our TACL 2018 paper

rainbow-parser

Code for spectrally training and parsing with L-PCFGs

amr-multilingual

AMR test data translated to Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese from our paper NAACL 2018 paper

split and rephrase

Split and rephrase dataset from our EMNLP 2017 paper

amr-evaluation

Code for evaluation of Abstract Meaning Representation structures from our EACL 2017 paper

lpcfg-models

Multilingual L-PCFG models from our ACL 2016 paper

eigen

Eigenword embeddings with prior knowledge from our TACL 2016 paper

cca-scenes

Dataset from our AAAI 2018 paper on captioning abstract scene images

recipe data

Preprocessed recipe data from our NAACL 2015 paper about event ordering in cooking recipes.

dageem

Code for unsupervised grammar induction using logistic normal prior

CTREES

Data from our EMNLP 2015 paper about conversation trees

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