Lucia Specia is a British computer scientist, professor of natural language processingatImperial College London and Chief Scientist at Contex.ai.[1][2][3][4] She holds a joint position in language engineering at the University of Sheffield.[5][6] Her research investigates data-driven approaches to natural language processing (NLP).[7][8]
Specia earned her PhD in computer science at the University of São Paulo in 2007 supervised by Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes [pt][9] from the Núcleo Interinstitucional de Linguística Computacional (NILC).[5][10]
After earning her PhD, Specia moved to Xerox Research Centre Europe, where she worked as a research engineer.[10] In 2010 Specia joined the University of Wolverhampton as a senior lecturer. She moved to the University of Sheffield in 2012, and Imperial College London in 2018.[11] She took up a joint appointment at the ADAPT Centre at Dublin City University.[12]
Specia specialises in natural language processing using multi-modal input data, quality estimations in machine learning and the intersection of language and vision. She developed QuEst, an open source software tool used for quality estimation for machine translation.[13] Specia was awarded an Amazon Research Award in 2016, using which she investigated the quality of machine translation for product reviews.[14] In 2016 Specia was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant to use multi-modal information as an input for machine learning algorithms.[15]
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