Dr. Lucia Specia

Professor

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Biography

Lucia Specia's research focuses on data-driven approaches in natural language processing, with a particular interest in multimodal and multilingual context models. Her work lies at the intersection of language and vision, and it has practical applications in areas such as machine translation, image captioning, quality estimation, and text adaptation. Currently, she holds an ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant for her project on Multi-modal Context Modelling for Machine Translation. In addition to her role at Imperial College London, she is also a part-time Professor of Language Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

Research Interests

Requirements for Imperial College London

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.5
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:6.5
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:100
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:125
Overall
Required:125
Prerequisites
Materials Science Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering Chemical Engineering Physics Chemistry
Application Checklist
  • Personal statement
  • CV/resume
  • Official university transcripts
  • Two academic or professional references
  • Application fee (£90)
Specialization Notes

Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.