Lucia Specia is a British computer scientist, professor of natural language processing at Imperial College London and Chief Scientist at Contex.ai. [1] [2] [3] [4] She holds a joint position in language engineering at the University of Sheffield. [5] [6] Her research investigates data-driven approaches to natural language processing (NLP). [7] [8]
Specia earned her PhD in computer science at the University of São Paulo in 2007 supervised by Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes [9] from the Núcleo Interinstitucional de Linguística Computacional (NILC). [5] [10]
After earning her PhD, Specia moved to Xerox Research Centre Europe, where she worked as a research engineer. [10] In 2010 Specia joined the University of Wolverhampton as a senior lecturer. She moved to the University of Sheffield in 2012, and Imperial College London in 2018. [11] She took up a joint appointment at the ADAPT Centre at Dublin City University. [12]
Specia specialises in natural language processing using multi-modal input data, quality estimations in machine learning and the intersection of language and vision. She developed QuEst, an open source software tool used for quality estimation for machine translation. [13] Specia was awarded an Amazon Research Award in 2016, using which she investigated the quality of machine translation for product reviews. [14] In 2016 Specia was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant to use multi-modal information as an input for machine learning algorithms. [15]
This article needs additional or more specific
categories. (November 2023) |
Lucia Specia is a British computer scientist, professor of natural language processing at Imperial College London and Chief Scientist at Contex.ai. [1] [2] [3] [4] She holds a joint position in language engineering at the University of Sheffield. [5] [6] Her research investigates data-driven approaches to natural language processing (NLP). [7] [8]
Specia earned her PhD in computer science at the University of São Paulo in 2007 supervised by Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes [9] from the Núcleo Interinstitucional de Linguística Computacional (NILC). [5] [10]
After earning her PhD, Specia moved to Xerox Research Centre Europe, where she worked as a research engineer. [10] In 2010 Specia joined the University of Wolverhampton as a senior lecturer. She moved to the University of Sheffield in 2012, and Imperial College London in 2018. [11] She took up a joint appointment at the ADAPT Centre at Dublin City University. [12]
Specia specialises in natural language processing using multi-modal input data, quality estimations in machine learning and the intersection of language and vision. She developed QuEst, an open source software tool used for quality estimation for machine translation. [13] Specia was awarded an Amazon Research Award in 2016, using which she investigated the quality of machine translation for product reviews. [14] In 2016 Specia was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant to use multi-modal information as an input for machine learning algorithms. [15]
This article needs additional or more specific
categories. (November 2023) |