Current PhD research

Naveed Afzal - Unsupervised Relation Extraction for E-Learning Applications.
Supervisory team: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov and Dr. Viktor Pekar

Wilker Aziz - Modelling and Using Context Knowledge for Statistical Machine Translation
Supervisory team: Dr. Lucia Specia and Prof. Ruslan Mitkov

Miranda Chong - Investigating NLP-enhanced techniques for the use in automatic detection of plagiarism.
Supervisory team: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov and Dr. Lucia Specia

Iustin Dornescu - Collaborative encyclopedias for question answering.
Supervisory team: Dr. Constantin Orasan, Prof. Ruslan Mitkov and Dr. Roberto Navigli

Iustina Ilisei - Investigating the claims of translation universals: NLP-enhanced study spanning larger corpora.
Supervisory team: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, Prof. Gloria Corpas Pastor and Dr. Diana Inkpen

Bob Foster - Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) Generation system enhancement through disambiguation of source documents.
Supervisory team: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, Dr. Le An Ha, and Richard Evans

Natalia Konstantinova - Knowledge acqusition from Wikipedia for Interactive QA.
Supervisory team: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, Dr. Marco de Boni and Dr. Constantin Orasan

Andrea Mulloni - Multilingual cognate extraction from comparable corpora.
Supervisory team: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, Dr. Viktor Pekar and Prof. Gloria Pastor Corpas

Yvonne Skalban - Extraction of essential information for generation of multiple choice questions.
Supervisory team: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov and Dr. Le An Ha

Irina Temnikova - NLP approaches to text simplification.
Supervisory team: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, Dr. Le An Ha, and Richard Evans



Completed PhD theses

A list of completed PhD theses can be seen on our publications page.

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