About

Anna Korhonen is a Professor of Natural Language Processing at the University of Cambridge where she co-directs the Language Technology Laboratory (LTL). She is also the director of the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) and the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity. She is a Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College, a Fellow of ACL and a Fellow of ELLIS. She is also a chair elect of EACL, the European Chapter of ACL, and previously served as a Turing Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.

Prior to starting her current position, she was a Royal Society University Research Fellow in this University, based in Computer Science and Linguistics. Before that, she was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow in Japan where she worked at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo. Previously, she was a researcher at University of Pennsylvania. Anna’s PhD is in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and she holds masters degrees in both Computer Science and Linguistics.

Research

Anna’s current research focuses on:

• the development of responsible and human-centric NLP / AI aimed at social and global good

• equitable, inclusive and culturally adapted NLP 

• human-centric NLP

• interpretability, explainability,  fairness and trustworthiness of NLP

• multilingual and low resource NLP

• dialogue systems and conversational AI 

• domain, task and language adaptation / transfer

• information extraction, text mining, knowledge discovery

• machine learning / deep learning 

• AI for data science (e.g., biomedical and cognitive sciences)

• NLP for health, climate and enviroment