About

The Cohort is an informal research group that works on natural language processing and machine learning. We are part of the larger Edinburgh NLP group at the University of Edinburgh.

We are located in the Forum, which hosts the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation and the School of Informatics as a whole.

People

Current Members


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Ronald A. Cardenas
PhD Student (NLP CDT)
Since 2019
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Marcio Fonseca
PhD Student
Since 2020
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Nickil Maveli
MScR Student
Since 2020
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Zheng Zhao
PhD Student (co-advised with Bonnie Webber)
Since 2017
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Shay Cohen


Past Postdoctoral Researchers


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)
now a postdoc at Edinburgh
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
Javad Hosseini
2017-2020 (co-advised with Mark Steedman)
Jiangming Liu
2017-2021 (co-advised with Mirella Lapata)
Thesis: Understanding and Generating Language with Discourse Representation Structures
John Torr
2015-2019 (co-advised with Mark Steedman)
now at Wluper, London
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 Huawei Edinburgh
Thesis: Multi-view Representation Learning for NLP Applications

Other Past Members and Visitors


Alexander Clarke
M.Sc. student (2015)
Anastasiia 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)
now PhD student at Edinburgh
Dominique Osborne
Intern, University of Strathclyde (summer 2015)
Effy Li
M.Sc. student (2018)
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)
Hang Gao
M.Sc. student (2019)
Helen Jiang
Intern, Stanford (summer 2016)
now PhD student at CMU
Hongyuan Lu
M.Sc. student (2020)
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
Lawrence He
Undergraduate student (2018)
now PhD student at Oxford
Lingzhe Zhao
M.Sc. student (2016)
Lucas Torroba Hennigen
Undergraduate student (2019)
now master's student at Cambridge
Marcio Fonseca
M.Sc. student (2018)
Mateusz Pyla
Undergraduate student (2020)
Merce Vintro Ricart
M.Sc. student (2016)
Mohammad Khazali
Undergraduate student (2021)
Moy Yuan
Visitor, University of Edinburgh (2018)
Nicola Martocchia Diodati
Intern, Scuola Normale Superiore (2017)
Povilas Budrys
Undergraduate student (2019)
Ronald Acosta
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)
Shihao Liu
M.Sc. student (2019)
Shucong Zhang
M.Sc. student (2017)
now PhD student at Edinburgh
Tao Meng
Intern, Tsinguha University (2017)
now PhD student at UCLA
Tommy Pan
M.Sc. student (2018)
Waylon Li
Undergraduate student (2021)
Weijian Li
Visitor, University of Edinburgh (2018)
now master's student at Northwestern University
Yi Ren
M.Sc. student (2019)
Yichao Liang
Undergraduate student (2020)
Yiming Guo
M.Sc. student (2018)
Yumo Xu
M.Sc. student (2017)
now PhD student at Edinburgh
Zhifeng Hu
Visitor, Fudan University (2018)
Zhunxuan Wang
M.Sc. student (2019)
now at Amazon London

Demos

The goal of our demos is not to boast of our models, but instead to demonstrate how much progress we still need to make in order to make computers understand language.

Datasets and Code

Links to github repositories can be found in the papers.