Mirella Lapata
Professor
Develops natural language processing systems that reason, generalise and adapt, including summarisation, semantic parsing and question answering.
Mirella Lapata's lab at Edinburgh works on multilingual, translation & linguistics and knowledge, QA & retrieval. 44 papers since 2023, 22 at top venues, mostly ACL and Findings of EMNLP. 8 PhD students. 33 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 11/ year
- at T1 venues
- 50%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 33
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 14 papers2026 · T1 6 · collecting
- 14 papers2025 · T1 9
- 16 papers2024 · T1 7
- 0 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, Findings of EMNLP, TACL, EMNLP, Findings of ACL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval4 papers
- semantic parsing2 papers
- Multilingual, translation & linguistics1 paper
- reason1 paper
- adapt0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202614 papers
- Findings of EMNLPAction-Level Credit Assignment for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning
- TACL (T1)Generating Visual Stories with Grounded and Coreferent Characters
- EMNLP (T1)GraphLit: Learning Text-Enriched Dynamic Character Network Representations for Literary Study
- COLMLearning Steerable Clarification Policies with Collaborative Self-play
- TACL (T1)Lightweight Latent Reasoning for Narrative Tasks
- ACL (T1)Long-Context Reasoning Through Proxy-Based Chain-of-Thought Tuning
- ICLR (T1)Meta-Adaptive Prompt Distillation for Few-Shot Visual Question Answering
- COLMMT-PingEval: Evaluating Multi-Turn Collaboration with Private Information Games
- COLMMultimodal Latent Reasoning via Predictive Embeddings
- COLMReasoning about Intent for Ambiguous Requests
- COLMREFRAMED: Towards Realistic Audio Description Generation for Movies
- Findings of EMNLPStoryline Trees: Hierarchical Representations for Long-Form Narratives
202514 papers
- ICLR (T1)Agents' Room: Narrative Generation through Multi-step Collaboration
- EMNLP (T1)Compositional Generalisation for Explainable Hate Speech Detection
- Findings of ACLContext-Aware Hierarchical Merging for Long Document Summarization
- Findings of EMNLPDebating for Better Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
- Findings of ACLDecomposed Opinion Summarization with Verified Aspect-Aware Modules
- Findings of ACLDisambiguate First, Parse Later: Generating Interpretations for Ambiguity Resolution in Semantic Parsing
- TACL (T1)DOLOMITES: Domain-Specific Long-Form Methodical Tasks
- TACL (T1)Explanatory Summarization with Discourse-Driven Planning
- ACL (T1)Help Me Write a Story: Evaluating LLMs' Ability to Generate Writing Feedback
- COLMLearning to Reason for Long-Form Story Generation
- EMNLP (T1)Long-Form Information Alignment Evaluation Beyond Atomic Facts
- ACL (T1)Masking in Multi-hop QA: An Analysis of How Language Models Perform with Context Permutation
202416 papers
- ACL (T1)A Modular Approach for Multimodal Summarization of TV Shows
- NeurIPS (T1)AMBROSIA: A Benchmark for Parsing Ambiguous Questions into Database Queries
- EACLArcher: A Human-Labeled Text-to-SQL Dataset with Arithmetic, Commonsense and Hypothetical Reasoning
- Findings of EMNLPBookWorm: A Dataset for Character Description and Analysis
- Findings of EMNLPCHIRON: Rich Character Representations in Long-Form Narratives
- EMNLP (T1)Evaluating LLMs for Targeted Concept Simplification for Domain-Specific Texts
- ACL (T1)Explainability and Hate Speech: Structured Explanations Make Social Media Moderators Faster
- Finding the Right Moment Human-Assisted Trailer Creation via Task Decomposition IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 46:1, 292-304 Paper CodeFinding the Right Moment: Human-Assisted Trailer Creation via Task Decomposition
- ACL (T1)Generate Text with Citations
- TACL (T1)Hierarchical Indexing for Retrieval-Augmented Opinion Summarization
- EACLImproving Generalization in Semantic Parsing by Increasing Natural Language Variation
- Findings of EMNLPLess is More: Making Smaller Language Models Competent Subgraph Retrievers for Multi-hop KGQA
Where alumni went33 listed
Apply to EdinburghFall 2027
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Informatics PhD
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- Rolling (funding consideration)
- Opens
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- GRE
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- English
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- Fee
- none
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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