University of Edinburgh

Mirella Lapata is a Reader at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. She received an MA from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in Natural Language Processing from the University of Edinburgh. She has held appointments at the Department of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University (Saarbruecken) and at the Department of Computer Science in Sheffield. She has worked on various problems in natural language processing, mostly with an emphasis on statistical methods and generation applications. Her current research interests include the use of integer linear programming for summarization, topic models for image retrieval, automated story generation, and probabilistic models of semantic representation. She has published broadly in leading NLP and AI conferences and journals and was two times recipient of the best paper award at EMNLP. She has received an Advanced Research Fellowship and several project grants from EPSRC (the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and has served on the programme committee of major NLP, AI and machine learning conferences.