natural language processing, language and vision, computational narrative

Frank Keller is a professor in the School of Informatics at the
University of Edinburgh. He has also held visiting positions at MIT
and the University of Washington. His research area is natural
language processing, with a particular focus on language and vision
tasks, such as image description, visual grounding, video
summarization, and visual story telling. His second main research
interest is computational narrative, where he works on modeling key
narrative concepts such as characters, plot turning points, and
suspense. This involves understanding or generating long-form texts
such as movie scripts or books, which is challenging for LLMs.

Prof. Keller is part of the leadership team of the UKRI CDT in Natural
Language Processing; he serves on the editorial board of the
Transactions of the ACL, and he is an ELLIS fellow. In the past, he
has held an ERC grant in the area of language and vision.