Mirella Lapata#
| Membership Number: | 5261 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlap |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 Visiting Professor, University of Washington
- 2013 Visiting Professor, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- 2012 Professor, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- 2007 Reader, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- 2005 Lecturer, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- 2003 Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
- 2002 AT&T Labs Research
- 2001 Research Fellow, Department of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University
Fields of Scholarship
- Natural language processing
- Machine learning
- Natural language understanding
- Computational linguistics
- Natural language generation
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)
- 2019 Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- 2018 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
- 2015 Transmodal: Translating from Multiple Modalities into Text, ERC Consolidator Grant (5 years tenure)
- 2010 Karen Spärck Jones Award, British Computer Society and Information Retrieval Specialist Group
- 2005 EPSRC Advanced Fellowship (5 years tenure)
