Ekaterina Shutova
Scholar

Ekaterina Shutova

Google Scholar ID: jqOFBGoAAAAJ
ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Computational linguisticsnatural language processingmachine learningmetaphorcognitive science
Citations & Impact
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Citations
5,657
 
H-index
34
 
i10-index
73
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
138
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Supported by personal grants from the ERC, Innovate UK, the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust (UK), as well as industrial funding from Google, Meta and Deloitte. Research has been covered in media outlets such as Wired magazine, New Scientist and The Economist. Program co-chair of ACL 2025. Awarded an ERC Consolidator grant for the project 'Towards globally accessible language technology and its alignment to cultural contexts'. Paper 'Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models' selected as a Finalist for Outstanding Certification by TMLR. Recent papers accepted at CVPR 2024, NAACL 2024 and ACL 2024. Received an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2023. Project 'AI clinics against hate speech' awarded an AI Democratization grant by the UvA RPA Human(e) AI (with Giovanni Sileno).
Research Experience
  • Currently an Associate Professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. Leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and the NLP & Digital Humanities research unit. Previously, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and a Research Scientist at the International Computer Science Institute and the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of California, Berkeley.
Education
  • PhD from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and Pembroke College.
Background
  • Research interests include: few-shot learning for NLP, multilingual NLP, joint modelling of language and vision, cognitive processing and semantic representation in the brain, modelling implied meanings and figurative language, computational social science and societal applications of NLP.
Miscellany
  • An ELLIS Scholar.