Professor Mirella Lapata FRSE

Personal Chair in Natural Language Processing, University of Edinburgh

Professor Mirella Lapata’s research interests focus on natural language processing, with an emphasis on natural language understanding and generation. She has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Computational Linguistics, and the Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics (TACL). She is the first recipient (2009) of the British Computer Society and Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS/IRSG) Karen Sparck Jones award. She has also received best paper awards in leading NLP conferences and financial support from the EPSRC (the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council). She currently holds a consolidator grant from the European Research Council.

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