Mirella Lapata

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Mirella Lapata

Alma mater
Awards Karen Spärck Jones Award (2009)
ACL Fellow (2019)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions University of Edinburgh
University of Sheffield
Thesis Acquisition and modeling of lexical knowledge: a corpus-based investigation of systematic polysemy  (2000)
Doctoral advisors
Website homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlap

Mirella Lapata FRSE is a computer scientist and Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. [3] Working on the general problem of extracting semantic information from large bodies of text, Lapata develops computer algorithms and models in the field of natural language processing (NLP). [1]

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Education

Lapata obtained an Master of Arts (MA) degree from Carnegie Mellon University and subsequently earned a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. [4] Lapata's doctoral research investigated the acquisition of information from polysemous linguistic units using probabilistic methods supervised by Alex Lascarides, Chris Brew and Steve Finch. [2]

Career and research

After her doctorate, Lapata assumed academic positions at Saarland University and at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. [4] [5] At the University of Edinburgh she became a reader in the School of Informatics where she is a full Professor and holds a personal chair in natural language processing. [6] Lapata is a member of the Human Communication Research Center and Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, both in Edinburgh. [7]

Between 2015 and 2017, Lapata served as a member of the Royal Society Machine Learning Working Group. [8] Recently[ when? ] Lapata was granted a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant worth €1.9M to fund five years of her project, TransModal: Translating from Multiple Modalities into Text. [9]

Awards and honors

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