Mirella Lapata

Mirella Lapata
FRSE
Alma mater
AwardsKaren Spärck Jones Award (2009)
ACL Fellow (2019)
Scientific career
Fields
WorkplacesUniversity of Edinburgh
University of Sheffield
ThesisAcquisition and modelling of lexical knowledge: a corpus-based investigation of systematic polysemy (2000)
Websitehomepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlap

Mirella Lapata is a computer scientist and Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.[3] Working on the general problem of extracting semantic information from large bodies of text, Lapata develops computer algorithms and models in the field of natural language processing (NLP).[1]

Education

Lapata obtained a Master of Arts (MA) degree from Carnegie Mellon University and subsequently earned a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.[4] Lapata's doctoral research investigated the acquisition of information from polysemous linguistic units using probabilistic methods supervised by Alex Lascarides, Chris Brew and Steve Finch.[2]

Career and research

After her doctorate, Lapata assumed academic positions at Saarland University and at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.[4][5] At the University of Edinburgh she became a reader in the School of Informatics where she is a full Professor and holds a personal chair in natural language processing.[6] Lapata is a member of the Human Communication Research Center and Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, both in Edinburgh.[7]

Between 2015 and 2017, Lapata served as a member of the Royal Society Machine Learning Working Group.[8] Recently Lapata was granted a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant worth €1.9M to fund five years of her project, TransModal: Translating from Multiple Modalities into Text.[9]

Awards and honours

References

  1. 1 2 Mirella Lapata publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. 1 2 3 4 Lapata, Maria (2000). The acquisition and modelling of lexical knowledge : a corpus-based investigation of systematic polysemy (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/22394. OCLC 1063499316. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.653681. Free access icon
  3. ↑ "people". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Stadium Speaker". stadium.open.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  5. ↑ "Image and Natural Language Processing for Multimedia Information Retrieval" (PDF). irsg.bcs.org. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  6. ↑ Anon. "Mirella Lapata". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  7. ↑ Mitchell, Jeff; Lapata, Mirella (2010). "Composition in Distributional Models of Semantics". Cognitive Science. 34 (8): 1388–1429. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01106.x. hdl:1842/4927. ISSN 0364-0213. PMID 21564253. S2CID 26901423.
  8. ↑ "Mirella Lapata". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  9. ↑ "TransModal success". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  10. ↑ "KSJ Award". irsg.bcs.org. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  11. ↑ "EMNLP-CoNLL 2012 – Best reviewers". emnlp-conll2012.unige.ch. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  12. ↑ "ACL 2018: Best Paper Honourable Mentions". acl2018.org. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  13. ↑ "Fellows". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  14. ↑ "Mirella Lapata". Member profiles. Academia Europaea. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  15. ↑ "BCS Announces 2025 Lovelace Medal winners". BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. 23 September 2025. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
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