Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Natural Language Processing, generalization and reasoning in deep learning models, long-context understanding and generation, multimodal learning.
Qualifications
1998–2001, PhD, Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
Biography
I'm a professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. I'm affiliated with the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems and the Human Communication Research Centre.
My research focuses on probabilistic learning techniques for natural language understanding and generation. I am interested in the general problem of extracting semantic information from large volumes of text.
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Compositional generalisation for explainable hate speech detection
Calabrese, A., Sherborne, T., Ross, B. & Lapata, M., 9 Nov 2025, Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Christodoulopoulos, C., Chakraborty, T., Rose, C. & Peng, V. (eds.). Kerrville, TX, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 13932-13954 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Generating visual stories with grounded and coreferent characters
Liu, D., Lapata, M. & Keller, F., 9 Jul 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. p. 1-21 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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ScreenWriter: Automatic screenplay generation and movie summarisation
Mahon, L. & Lapata, M., 17 Oct 2024, ArXiv, p. 1-21, 21 p.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Generating visual stories with grounded and coreferent characters
Liu, D., Lapata, M. & Keller, F., 20 Sept 2024, ArXiv.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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PixT3: Pixel-based table-to-text generation
Alonso, I., Agirre, E. & Lapata, M., 1 Aug 2024, Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Ku, L.-W., Martins, A. & Srikumar, V. (eds.). Kerrville, TX, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 6721-6736 16 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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AI Hub in Generative Models
Williams, C. (Principal Investigator), Gutmann, M. (Co-investigator), Lapata, M. (Co-investigator), Minervini, P. (Co-investigator) & N, S. (Co-investigator)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/02/24 → 31/01/29
Project: Research
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2 NLP CDT Studentships, Open Domain Conversational Search
Lapata, M. (Principal Investigator) & Pan, J. (Co-investigator)
UK industry, commerce and public corporations
1/12/21 → 31/08/26
Project: Research
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2 NLP CDT Studentships, Open Domain Conversational Search
Lapata, M. (Principal Investigator) & Pan, J. (Co-investigator)
1/12/21 → 31/08/26
Project: Research
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TEAMER : Teaching Machines to Reason Like Humans
Lapata, M. (Principal Investigator)
UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities
1/10/21 → 30/09/26
Project: Research
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TEAMER : Teaching Machines to Reason Like Humans
Lapata, M. (Principal Investigator)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/10/21 → 30/09/26
Project: Research
Datasets
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XWikis Corpus
Lapata, M. (Creator) & Perez, L. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 10 Dec 2021
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3259, https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.742.pdf
Dataset
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multimodal TRIPOD
Papalampidi, P. (Creator), Keller, F. (Creator) & Lapata, M. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 18 Jan 2021
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2974, https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07536
Dataset
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WikiCatSum
Liu, Y. (Creator), Perez, L. (Creator) & Lapata, M. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 28 Jun 2019
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2582, https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04687
Dataset
Press/Media
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Did AI progress slow down? The “modest” advance of GPT-5 that turns on alerts
16/09/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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GPT-5's modest gains suggest AI progress is slowing down
13/08/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Braveheart fans tricked by AI into believing sequel coming this year.
27/01/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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