
Mirella Lapata
planning
semantic parsing
summarization
discrete latent variables
attribution
data-to-text generation
text-to-sql
hate speech
compositional generalization
conversational semantic parsing
cross-lingual transfer
paraphrase generation
multimodal
explainability
cross-lingual
41
presentations
60
number of views
1
citations
SHORT BIO
I'm a professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. I'm affiliated with the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems and the Edinburgh Natural Language Processing Group.
Presentations

CHIRON: Rich Character Representations in Long-Form Narratives
Alexander Gurung and 1 other author

Less is More: Making Smaller Language Models Competent Subgraph Retrievers for Multi-hop KGQA
Wenyu Huang and 5 other authors

Hierarchical Indexing for Retrieval-Augmented Opinion Summarization
Tom Hosking and 2 other authors

BookWorm: A Dataset for Character Description and Analysis
Argyrios Papoudakis and 2 other authors

Evaluating LLMs for Targeted Concept Simplification for Domain-Specific Texts
Sumit Asthana and 4 other authors

Explainability and Hate Speech: Structured Explanations Make Social Media Moderators Faster
Agostina Calabrese and 6 other authors

A Modular Approach for Multimodal Summarization of TV Shows
Louis Mahon and 1 other author

Learning to Plan and Generate Text with Citations
Constanza Fierro and 6 other authors

PixT3: Pixel-based Table-To-Text Generation
Iñigo Alonso and 2 other authors

Low-Rank Adaptation for Multilingual Summarization: An Empirical Study
Chenxi Whitehouse and 5 other authors

Prompting is not all you need! Or why Structure and Representations still matter in NLP
Mirella Lapata

Archer: A Human-Labeled Text-to-SQL Dataset with Arithmetic, Commonsense and Hypothetical Reasoning
Danna Zheng and 2 other authors

Improving Generalization in Semantic Parsing by Increasing Natural Language Variation
Irina Saparina and 1 other author

µPLAN: Summarizing using a Content Plan as Cross-Lingual Bridge
Fantine Huot and 7 other authors

Compositional Generalization for Data-to-Text Generation
Xinnuo Xu and 2 other authors

Visual Storytelling with Question-Answer Plans
Danyang Liu and 2 other authors