People

• Academic and senior research staff
• Administrative staff
• Research staff and postdocs
• PhD students
• Visitors and honorary members

Academic and senior research staff

These are the staff members who are primarily responsible for supervising Ph.D. students and overseeing research projects in ILCC.  Academic staff also have teaching responsibilities.

	Steve Renals, director: Speech recognition, speech synthesis, multimodal interaction, multiparty interaction, machine learning. Contact info. Personal page.
	Julian Bradfield: Modal and temporal logics, model-checking, concurrency, independence logics, descriptive complexity and set theory, UML and modelling languages, natural language phonology. Contact info. Personal page.
	Jean Carletta: Dialogue structure; small group interaction; organisational and technological effects on teamworking; methods and tools for corpus linguistics. Contact info. Personal Page.
	Rob Clark: Speech synthesis and intonation. Contact info. Personal page.
	Michael Fourman: Formal models of digital systems, system-design tools, proof assistants, categorical semantics, propositional planning. Contact info. Personal page.
	Sharon Goldwater: Probabilistic (esp. Bayesian) models of language acquisition, unsupervised learning for NLP, phonetics/phonology, morphology. Contact info. Personal page.
	Claire Grover: Text analytics (information extraction, text mining, bioinformatics), XML tools for text processing, text processing for cultural heritage, semantic web, methods and tools for corpus linguistics, computational linguistics (parsing, grammar engineering). Contact info. Personal Page.
	Frank Keller: Probabilistic models of cognition, parsing, language production, language acquisition, language-vision interface, eyetracking. Contact info. Personal page.
	Simon King: Speech synthesis; new acoustic models for speech recognition; the use of articulatory information for speech recognition and synthesis; phonological/acoustic/articulatory features for speech processing. Contact info. Personal page.
	Ewan Klein: Computational approaches to natural language semantics, syntax, prosody and phonology; spoken language processing; communicating with mobile robots and embodied devices; the Semantic Web and ontologies. Contact info. Personal page.
	Philipp Koehn: Statistical machine translation, machine learning methods to natural language texts, large-scale text processing. Contact info. Personal page.
	Mirella Lapata: Probabilistic learning for natural language understanding and generation, language grounding, models of vision and language. Contact info. Personal page.
	Alex Lascarides: Computational semantics and pragmatics, probabilistic modelling of semantics, discourse and dialogue processing, communication with non-verbal actions. Contact info. Personal page.
	Victor Lavrenko: Text search, image/video annotation, novelty detection, non-parametric estimation. Contact info. Personal page.
	John Lee: Multimodal dialogue, graphics in reasoning and learning, computing and cognition in design. Contact info. Personal page.
	Colin Matheson: Dialogue systems; implementations which take into account the social aspects of interactions. Contact info. Personal page.
	Johanna Moore: Computational linguistics (natural language generation, dialogue, and discourse), intelligent systems for education, personalised information presentation, multi-modal interaction, user modeling, knowledge representation. Contact info. Personal page.
	Jon Oberlander: Discourse generation, embodied multimodal interaction, human-robot dialogue, individual differences, social media. Contact info. Personal page.
	Miles Osborne: Machine Translation, Social Media, Machine Learning for Big Data. Contact info. Personal page.
	Helen Pain: Intelligent educational and assistive technology, supporting learners with complex communication needs, participatory design, embodied multi-modal interaction,  student modelling. Contact info. Personal page.
	Paul Schweizer: Philosophical logic, the computational paradigm and conceptual foundations of cognitive science and AI, philosophy of mind and language. Contact info.
	Richard Shillcock: Reading, cognitive modelling, language representation and processing, theory of modelling. Contact info. Personal page.
	Hiroshi Shimodaira: Trainable lifelike conversational agents, Acoustic models for automatic speech recognition, Handwriting recognition. Contact info. Personal page.
	Mark Steedman: Computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, formal grammar, spoken intonation, statistical parsing, spoken language processing, animated conversational agents, computational musical analysis. Contact info. Personal page.
	Charles Sutton: Machine learning for natural language, structured prediction, graphical modelling, information extraction, probabilistic models of programming languages. Contact info. Personal page.
	Henry Thompson: Markup languages (XML, SGML) and architectures (Standoff markup, Schema languages, pipelines); Web Architecture; Philosophy of the Web. Contact info. Personal page.
	Bonnie Webber: Discourse structure and its applications, question answering, biomedical informatics, domain adaptation. Contact info. Personal page.

Administrative staff

• Maria MacKenzie: Portfolio Manager. Contact info.
• Frederick Max-Lino: Portfolio Manager. Contact info.
• Avril Heron: Admin Office Supervisor. Contact info.
• Claire Edminson: Institute Secretary. Contact info.
• Nicola Drago Ferrante: Institute Administrative Secretary. Contact info.
• Julie Laidlaw: Institute Secretary. Contact info.
  

Research staff and postdocs

• Victoria Adams. Contact info.
• Beatrice Alex: Information extraction, English inclusion detection, mixed-lingual and multi-lingual text analysis, text mining. Contact info. Personal page.
• Peter Bell: Dynamic Bayesian networks for speech recognition, prosodic modelling. Contact info. Personal page.
• Alexandra Birch: Semi-supervised models, parsing, machine translation. Contact info. Personal page.
• Kate Byrne: Semantic web and ontologies, information extraction, text-to-rdf and rdb2rdf, language technology for cultural heritage, semantic computing. Contact info. Personal page.
• Alasdair Clarke. Contact info.
• Moreno Coco: Cross-modal referentiality. The coordination of vision and language. Contact info. Personal page.
• Tiphaine Dalmas. Contact info.
• Tejaswini Deoskar: Statistical parsing, semi-supervised learning, linguistically sophisticated statistical grammars, CCG. Contact info. Personal page.
• Amit Dubey. Contact info.
• Myroslava Dzikovska: Intelligent tutoring systems, dialogue systems, natural language interpretation, deep parsing. Contact info.  Personal page.
• Massimo Felici: Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Research, Dependability, Risk, Trust, Industrial Computer Systems, Software and System Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Requirements Evolution, Software Quality, Software Metrics, Empirical Analysis, Formal Methods, Computational Logic, Decidability Problems. Contact info. Personal page.
• Mark Galea. Contact info.
• Arnab Ghoshal: Speech recognition. Contact info.  Personal page.
  
• Kara Gibson. Contact info.
• Markus Guhe: Cognitive models of language; dialogue; conceptualisation; language production/generation; mathematical creativity; computational cognitive modelling

  Contact info. Personal page.

• Barry Haddow: Statistical machine translation. Contact info. Personal page.
• Mark Hartswood: Computer supported cooperative work, workplace studies, participatory design and professional vision. Contact info.
• Robin Hill. Contact info.
• Amy Isard: Natural language generation, dialogue systems, tutorial dialogue systems, personalization, corpus annotation. Contact info. Personal page.
• Vasilis Karaiskos: Annotation, speech synthesis evaluations. Contact info.
• Jonathan Kilgour. Contact info.
• Ioannis Konstas. Contact info. Personal page.
• Cassie Mayo. Contact info.
• Mark McConville. Contact info. Personal page.
• Fergus McInnes: Speech/non-speech segmentation, speaker diarization and speech recognition (in particular applying the AMI meeting recognition system to different types of data such as podcasts); language acquisition and unsupervised discovery of words from speech. Contact info. Personal page.
• Kira Mourao: Embodied cognition, cognitive robotics, relational learning, action models, planning under uncertainty. Contact info. Personal page.
• Ron Petrick: Planning, knowledge representation and reasoning, cognitive robotics, natural language dialogue. Contact info. Personal page.
• Korin Richmond: Speech synthesis and the relationship between the articulatory and acoustic domains. Contact info. Personal page.
• Herve Saint-Armand: Machine translation, extraction of parallel corpora from the web. Contact info. Personal page.
• Federico Sangati. Contact info.
• Christian Schlupp. Contact info.
• Richard Tobin: XML, including XML Schemas, data binding and the use of XML for marking up linguistic corpora. Contact info. Personal page.
• Christophe Veaux. Contact info.
• Mirjam Wester: Pronunciation variation modeling and progressing beyond phones in ASR. Contact info. Personal page.
• Oliver Wilson: Statistical Machine Translation, Large Scale Language Modelling. Contact info.
• Maria Wolters: Spoken dialogue systems, speech technology for older people, speech synthesis, prosody, and clinical phonetics. Contact info. Personal page.
• Kristian Woodsend: Natural language summarization, numerical optimization. Contact info. Personal page.
• Mark Wright: Identification, selection and evaluation of feasible grasping points from range data. Contact info.
• Junichi Yamagishi: Speech synthesis and recognition. Contact info. Personal page.

PhD Students

• Katya Alahverdzhieva: Grammar for Speech and Co-Speech Gesture. Contact info. Personal page.
• Bharat ram Ambati: Dependency Parsing, CCG. Contact info.
• Edward Baggs: Linguistic alignment with embodied agents. Contact info. 
• Michael Berger: Methods and systems for visual speech synthesis.  Contact info. Personal page.
• William Blacoe: Compositional semantics. Contact info. Personal page.
• David Braude: Automatic Animation. Contact info. Personal page.
• Christian Buck: Contact info.
• Christos Christodoulopolos: Analysing Syntactic Categories Across Languages To Extract Semantic Primitives. Contact info. Personal page.
• Aurora Constantin: EChoeS: Exploring e-Learning and Communication Tools for Improving Children's Language Usage in Social Interactions. Contact info.
• Greg Coppola: Unsupervised lexical acquisition. Contact info. Personal page.
• Rasmus Dall: Conversational speech synthesis. Contact info.
  
• Sara Dalzel-Job: using Second Life to investigate social interaction, specifically users' eye movements. Contact info.
• Loic Dugast: Contact info.
• Michal Dziemianko: Computational models of synchronous visual and linguistic processing. Contact info. Personal page.
• Desmond Elliott: Hierarchical Alignment Models for Synchronous Visual and Linguistic Processing. Contact info. Personal page.
• Aciel Eshky: Generative Probabilistic Models of Interlocutors in Task-Based Dialogs. Contact info. Personal page.
• Trevor Fountain: Natural Language Categorization. Contact info. Personal page.
• Stella Frank: Unsupervised syntax acquisition. Contact info.
• Diego Frassinelli: The Integration of Distributional and Experiential Data Representing Concepts in Context. Contact info.
• Mark Granroth-Wilding: Harmonic Analysis of Music with Combinatory Categorial Grammar. Contact info. Personal page.
• Eva Hasler: Training machine translation systems with millions of features. Contact info. Personal page.
• Qiong Hu: Deep architectures for statistical speech synthesis. Contact info.
  
• Karl B. Isaac: Intelligibility of Synthetic Speech in Noise. Contact info. 
• Bevan Jones: Synergies in Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Learning. Contact info. Personal page.
• Ioannis Konstas: Context-To-Text Generation: a Fully Statistical Approach. Contact info. Personal page.
  

• Mike Lewis: Textual Entailment. Contact info.
• Liang Lu: Subspace Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition. Contact info. Personal page.
• Sarah Luger: Assessing the Difficulty of Inverse Definition Multiple Choice Exam Questions using Web Queries. Contact info.  
• David Matthews: Nonparametric Bayesian Methods for Machine Translation. Contact info.
• K. Tamsin Maxwell: Semantic Markov Random Field for Information Retrieval. Contact info. Personal page.
• Alex Milowski: Contact info. Personal page.
  
• Sean Moran: Large-scale natural language processing (randomization and streaming algorithms in particular), machine learning and information retrieval. Contact info. Personal page.
  
• Maria Nadejde: Contact info.
  
• Silvia Pareti: The attribution of opinions: Analysis and classification of opinion sources. Contact info.
• John K. Pate: Incorporating Prosodic Cues into Grammar Induction. Contact info. Personal page.
• Philipp Petrenz: Cross-Language Genre Classification. Contact info.
• Sasa Petrovic: Randomised Algorithms for Fast Search in Social Media. Contact info. Personal page.
• Siva Reddy: Semantics using Grounded Supervision, Compositional Semantics Contact info. Personal page.
  
• Daniel Renshaw: Automatic Illustration of Semi-structured Documents Contact info.
  
• Luke Shrimpton: Streaming Algorithms, Coreference Resolution and Social media. Contact info.
• Carina Silberer: Contact info.
• Michael Sinclair: Speaker Diarization. Contact info. Personal page.
  
• Pawel Swietojanski: Working on deep architectures in automatic speech recognition. Contact info. Personal page.
• Cassia Valentini-Botinhao: Listener/Environment-adaptive HMM Speech Synthesis. Contact info. Personal page.
• Wolodja Wentland: Multilingual Information Extraction. Contact info.
• Philip Williams: Agreement Constraints for Statistical Machine Translation. Contact info.
• Erich Zwysigg: Speaker Diarisation in Meetings. Contact info. Personal page.

Visitors and honorary members

• Richard Cox. Contact info. Personal Page.
• Robin Lickley. Contact info.
• Katja Markert. Contact info. Personal page.
• Antje Nuthmann. Contact info. Personal page.
• Jong Park. Contact info.
• Jim Scobbie. Contact info. Personal page.
• Violeta Seretan. Contact info. Personal page.
• Paul Taylor. Contact info. Personal page.
• Rob Procter. Contact info. Personal page.
• Keith Stenning. Contact info.