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Mirella Lapata

Professor @ School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh

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

43

presentations

61

number of views

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citations

SHORT BIO

Mirella Lapata is professor of natural language processing in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on getting computers to understand, reason with, and generate natural language. She is the first recipient (2009) of the British Computer Society and Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS/IRSG) Karen Sparck Jones award and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the ACL, and Academia Europaea. Mirella has also received best paper awards in leading NLP conferences and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, the Transactions of the ACL, and Computational Linguistics. She was president of SIGDAT (the group that organizes EMNLP) in 2018. She has been awarded an ERC consolidator grant, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, and a UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship.

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

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