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I am a Professor in the field of Natural Language Generation and the Programme Director at Utrecht University. My research primarily focuses on automatic generation of language from non-linguistic information. A crucial aspect of the systems I develop is enabling artificial agents to learn meaningful relationships between language and the non-linguistic, particularly in relation to the perceptual world. I employ machine learning methods, including neural networks, along with experimental psycholinguistic methods in my work. My research topics include Data-to-text generation and automatic summarisation of non-linguistic information to create outputs that are understandable to people. I also explore vision-language interfaces, particularly in the area of image captioning and grounded inference in multimodal neural models. I am interested in the production and generation of referring expressions, especially in how to include object descriptions of visual scenes and evaluating the quality of outputs from NLP models, especially generation models. Additionally, I have a long-standing interest in the development of tools and resources for under-resourced languages, including a focus on Maltese.
Department of Psychology