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Ann Copestake is a Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Cambridge's Department of Computer Science and Technology. She specializes in natural language processing, formal semantics, and grammar development, notably as the original developer of the LKB system. Her work spans applications in machine translation, AAC, and scientific text processing. She has held leadership roles, including Head of Department until September 2023, and contributes to initiatives like DELPH-IN and the Giving Voice to Digital Democracies project.
Education: BA in Natural Sciences (Cambridge), PhD in Computer Science (University of Sussex). Research focuses on semantic representation (MRS/RMRS/DMRS) and lexical acquisition. Current projects include DELPH-IN consortium work and advisory roles in scientific discovery programs.
Students: Advised PhD students including Huiyuan Xie, Paula Czarnowska, and Aurelie Herbelot, among others. Projects include semantic chunking, morphological competence in NLP, and visually grounded language evaluation.
Projects: Key roles in SciBorg (scientific text extraction), Deep Thought (hybrid NLP methods), and multiword expression research. Active in open-source NLP tool development and DELPH-IN's grammar frameworks.
Labs/Teams: Central member of DELPH-IN consortium, advancing open-source grammars and semantic representations. Collaborates on interdisciplinary projects linking computational linguistics with scientific domains.
