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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

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