Head of the Research Group
Professor Ruslan Mitkov
Professor in Computational Linguistics
Interests: Anaphora resolution, automatic summarisation, centering, machine translation.
Room: MC138
Academic Staff
Professor Gloria Corpas Pastor
Professor (Visiting Professor)
Interests: Corpus-based translation studies, translation technologies, translator training, phraseology, lexicography, terminology, e-resources and virtual learning environments (VLE).
Room: MC139
Professor Patrick Hanks
Professor in Lexicography (Part Time)
Interests: Lexicography and lexicology, corpus-driven lexical analysis, mapping meaning onto word use, textual entailment, distributional semantics, creative and innovative use of language, similes, metaphors, metonymy, and all kinds of figurative language, also personal names: origin and history of family names.
Room: MC133
Dr Michael Oakes
Head of Teaching
Reader in Computational Linguistics
Interests: Statistics for corpus linguistics, information retrieval, authorship attribution.
Room: MC137
Dr Burcu Can
Deputy Head of RGCL
Reader in Computational Linguistics
Interests: Computational linguistics (morphology, syntax, semantics), machine learning models for natural language processing (unsupervised learning, Bayesian models, neural networks, joint learning), representation learning, natural language processing for resource-scarce and agglutinative languages (e.g. Turkish).
Room: MC139
Dr Le An Ha
Head of External Funding
Senior Lecturer
Interests: Automatic terminology processing, word segmentation.
Room: MC134
Dr Emad Mohamed
Senior Lecturer of Computational Linguistics
Interests: Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, Translation Technology, Corpus Linguistics, Arabic (Computational & Corpus) Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Cultural Analytics.
Room: MC137
Dr Frédéric Blain
Lecturer of Translation Technology
Interests: Quality Estimation and Evaluation, Translation Technology (especially Machine Translation and Computer Aided Translation), Natural Language Processing, Lifelong Learning and Deep Learning.
Room: MC133
Dr Sara Moze
Head of Teaching
Lecturer in Computational Lexicology
Interests: Corpus linguistics, mono- and bilingual lexicology and lexicography, contrastive grammar, cognitive linguistics, Frame Semantics, morphosyntactic and syntactic annotation, semantic role labeling.
Room: MC133
Dr Raheem Sarwar
Lecturer in NLP
Interests: Information Retrieval, Text Mining, Authorship Attribution, Author Profiling, Scientometrics, and Altmetrics.
Room: MC134
Dr Richard Evans
Lecturer in Computational Linguistics
Interests: Syntactic simplification, information extraction and named entity recognition.
Room: MC134
Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe
RIGHT Lecturer in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning for Digital Humanities
Interests: Machine Translation, Offensive Language Identification, Information Extraction, Low-resource Languages, Translation Memories
Room: MC133
Dr Emma Franklin
RIGHT Lecturer in Corpus-based Digital Humanities
Interests: corpus linguistics, corpus lexicography, digital (post)humanities, data-driven narrative strategy.
Room: MC133
Dr Victoria Yaneva
Honorary Fellow
Interests: Language disorders, psycholinguistics, readability assessment.
Admin Staff
Suman Hira
PA to Professor Mitkov
Research Administrator
Room: MC135
Dr Amanda Bloore
Operations Manager
Room: MC135
Kate Wilson
Project Officer
Room: MC135
PhD Students
Our current PhD Students and their research projects are listed here.