Scholar
Laura Perez-Beltrachini
Google Scholar ID: j5MmPEMAAAAJ
University of Edinburgh
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,876
H-index
17
i10-index
20
Publications
20
Co-authors
4
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- August 2025: Paper on uncertainty estimation in retrieval-augmented QA accepted by TMLR; May 2024: Huajian's paper on cross-lingual hallucination detection accepted at ACL 2024 Findings; February 2024: Senior Area Chair, Summarisation, ACL 2024; January 2024: Huajian's paper on making fine-grained language inference to detect hallucinations accepted at EACL 2024.
Research Experience
- Currently a member of the Edinburgh NLP Group, working with Mirella Lapata; previously a Postdoc at Synalp Team, LORIA, working with Claire Gardent; and a Postdoc at KRDB Research Centre, working with Enrico Franconi.
Education
- PhD: Computer Science, Université de Lorraine; MSc: Language and Communication Technologies, Université Nancy 2 and University of Bolzano; MSc: Computer Science, University of Comahue (Mathematics by FaEA, Computer Science by FI). MSc advisors: Alejandra Cechich, Agustina Buccella.
Background
- Research interests include developing machines with language skills to assist humans in tasks such as searching, summarizing, and translating content, and communicating directly with humans in natural language. Focuses on enabling machines with natural language understanding and generation capabilities. Research areas include data-to-text generation, text summarization, cross- and multi-lingual summarization, and semantic parsing.
Miscellany
- Contact: Office 3.38, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK; Phone: +44 (0)131 650 4418; Email: lperez (at) ed.ac.uk; Links to Google Scholar and GitHub.
