I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, where I lead the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab.

Previously, I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and a Research Scientist at the International Computer Science Institute and the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. I received my PhD from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and Pembroke College.

Research

My research is in the area of natural language processing, with a specific focus on computational semantics and machine learning from linguistic and multimodal data. Current interests and projects include:

• few-shot learning for NLP

• modelling implied meanings and figurative language

• multi-modal semantics and joint modelling of language and vision

• multilingual NLP and linguistic typology

• cognitive processing and semantic representation in the brain

• computational social science and societal applications of NLP

My research has been supported by personal grants from Innovate UK, the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust (UK), as well as industrial funding from Google and Facebook. It has also been covered in media outlets such as the Wired magazine, the New Scientist and the Economist.

News

• Our team Kingsterdam won a prize at NeuroIPS 2020 Hateful Memes Challenge. Very proud of my students: Nithin Holla, Phillip Lippe and Shantanu Chandra, who developed a novel multimodal framework for this task.

• My student Rochelle Choenni has been awarded the Amsterdam Data Science Award for her MSc thesis on probing multilingual models for typological properties.

• I joined the Editorial Board of Computational Linguistics.

• I was elected to ACL SIGLEX Executive Board.

• New papers on meta-learning for few-shot word sense disambiguation and lifelong language learning, and two papers on meta-learning for multilingual NLP to come out soon. Stay tuned!

• Recent papers from my group have been accepted at AAAI 2020, ACL 2020, TACL, CogSci 2020 and EMNLP 2020.

• I received a Facebook Research Award for my project on Tackling online abuse: A benchmark and evaluation framework for abusive language detection.

Contact

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)

Faculty of Science

University of Amsterdam

Science Park 107

1098 XG Amsterdam

Office: F2.46

Phone: +31 (0) 20 525 8334

Email: e.shutova @ uva.nl