Research
My research is in the area of natural language processing, with a specific focus on computational semantics and machine learning from linguistic and multimodal data. Current interests and projects include:
few-shot learning for NLP
modelling implied meanings and figurative language
multi-modal semantics and joint modelling of language and vision
multilingual NLP and linguistic typology
cognitive processing and semantic representation in the brain
computational social science and societal applications of NLP
My research has been supported by personal grants from Innovate UK, the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust (UK), as well as industrial funding from Google, Facebook and Deloitte. It has also been covered in media outlets such as the Wired magazine, the New Scientist and the Economist.