Mirella Lapata is a Professor of Natural Language Processing at the School of Informatics. Her work is centred on enabling computers to understand, reason with, and generate natural language. She is recognized for her contributions to the field, having received several prestigious accolades. Mirella was the inaugural recipient of the British Computer Society and Information Retrieval Specialist Group's Karen Sparck Jones award. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and Academia Europaea.Throughout her career, Mirella has earned multiple best paper awards at leading natural language processing conferences. She has contributed to the academic community by serving on the editorial boards of several respected journals, including the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, the Transactions of the ACL, and Computational Linguistics. In 2018, she served as president of SIGDAT, an association promoting the study of linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to natural language processing.Mirella has received many significant funding awards. She has received an ERC Consolidator Grant, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, and a UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship, affirming her status as a top-tier researcher in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. This article was published on 2024-10-10
