I am a professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. I am affiliated with EdinburghNLP, the Natural Language Processing Group at the University of Edinburgh.
My main research areas are natural language processing and cognitive science. In particular, I'm interested in language and vision tasks, such as image description, visual grounding, video summarization, and visual story telling. My second research focus is computational narrative, where I am working on modeling key narrative concepts such as characters, plot turning points, and suspense. This involves understanding or generating long-form texts such as movie scripts or books, which is challenging for LLMs.
| Invited talk at the International Multimodal Communication Centre, University of Oxford: | Keynote at the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, ACL 2004: |
| Papalampidi, Keller, Lapata. Finding the Right Moment: Human-Assisted Trailer Creation via Task Composition. TPAMI 2024. | Coco, Fernandes, Arai, Keller. The Crosslinguistic Coordination of Overt Attention and Speech Production as Evidence for a Language of Vision. 2024. |
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