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]
Mirella Lapata | |
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| Awards | Karen Spärck Jones Award (2009) ACL Fellow (2019) |
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| Institutions | University of Edinburgh University of Sheffield |
| Thesis | Acquisition and modeling of lexical knowledge: a corpus-based investigation of systematic polysemy (2000) |
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| Website | homepages |
Education edit
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 edit
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 edit
- In 2009 Lapata became the first recipient of the Microsoft British Computer Society (BCS)/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award.[10] The award recognizes achievement in furthering the progress in information retrieval and natural language processing; the award commemorates the life and work of Karen Spärck Jones.
- In 2012 Lapata won an Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)-CoNLL 2012 Best Reviewer Award.[11]
- In 2018 Lapata was awarded, alongside Li Dong, an Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Best Paper Honorable Mention.[12]
- In 2019 Lapata was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[13]
- In 2020 Lapata was elected to the Academia Europaea.[14]
References edit
- ^ a b Mirella Lapata publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b c d Lapata, Maria (2000). The acquisition and modelling of lexical knowledge : a corpus-based investigation of systematic polysemy. lib.ed.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/22394. OCLC 1063499316. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.653681.
- ^ "people". edinburghnlp.inf.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
- ^ a b "Stadium Speaker". stadium.open.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
- ^ "Image and Natural Language Processing for Multimedia Information Retrieval" (PDF). irsg.bcs.org. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
- ^ Anon. "Mirella Lapata". www.inf.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
- ^ Mitchell, Jeff; Lapata, Mirella (2010). "Composition in Distributional Models of Semantics". Cognitive Science. 34 (8): 1388–1429. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01106.x. hdl:1842/4927. ISSN 0364-0213. PMID 21564253. S2CID 26901423.
- ^ "Mirella Lapata". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
- ^ "TransModal success". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
- ^ "KSJ Award". irsg.bcs.org. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
- ^ "EMNLP-CoNLL 2012 - Best reviewers". emnlp-conll2012.unige.ch. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
- ^ "ACL 2018: Best Paper Honourable Mentions". acl2018.org. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
- ^ "Fellows". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ "Mirella Lapata". Member profiles. Academia Europaea. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
