Dr Fernando Alva Manchego
Lecturer
- alvamanchegof@cardiff.ac.uk
- Room 4.64, Abacws, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am a Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) at the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University. My research focuses on technologies that apply Artificial Intelligence for information accessibility. In particular, my work employs Natural Language Processing approaches to facilitate reading and understanding. I am especially interested in studying the real capabilities of systems for several Natural Language Generartion tasks, such as Machine Translation, Summarisation and Text Simplification. In order to do that, my collaborators and I create language resources, design evaluation methodologies or metrics, and implement models using machine learning techniques.
My research interests include:
- Text-to-Text Generation (e.g. Text Simplification, Summarisation, Machine Translation, etc.)
- Evaluation of Natural Language Generation
- Writing Assistance
- Natural Language Processing for Education
Biography
I joined the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University in January 2022.
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sheffield and a member of the Natural Language Processing Group (2020-2021). I worked with Prof. Lucia Specia for the APE-QUEST (EU CEF Integration Project) and Bergamot (EU's Horizon 2020) projects on Quality Estimation for Machine Translation.
I hold a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield focused on Automatic Text Simplification. My thesis title was: "Automatic Sentence Simplification with Multiple Rewriting Transformations". I was supervised by Prof. Lucia Specia and Dr. Carolina Scarton.
Before that, I worked as Adjunct Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2013-2016), where I was a member of the Artificial Intelligence Group IA-PUCP. During my Masters, I was also a member of the Interinstitutional Center for Computational Linguistics at the University of São Paulo.
Publications
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I am interested in supervising PhD students in projects involving Natural Language Processing for Text Adaptation.
Please, check the relevant pages in FindAPhD for more information, depending on whether you are a self-funded student, or plan on applying to a School scholarhip. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!