Andrew Caines

Andrew Caines is a Research Fellow at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a member of the NLIP Group and ALTA Institute. He works on computational linguistics, second language learning, and low-resource NLP with applications in educational technology and cybersecurity.

• Current projects include hate speech detection, LLM-based grammatical error correction, and machine translation for African languages
• Collaborations with Cambridge Cybercrime Centre and Cambridge Language Sciences interdisciplinary center
• Teaching roles: Co-lecturer for NLP courses, organizer of 'Non-standard NLP' and 'NLP & ML for Speech' topics

His work combines corpus linguistics with machine learning to develop tools for language assessment and educational technology. Recent publications focus on hate speech analysis, multilingual grammatical error correction, and language model bias mitigation.