Scholar
Nikos Aletras
Google Scholar ID: uxRWFhoAAAAJ
University of Sheffield
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,360
H-index
29
i10-index
66
Publications
20
Co-authors
119
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Pioneered the first approach to model judicial decisions using NLP in 2016; Research has received wide media coverage from outlets such as BBC, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, New Scientist, and Communications of ACM; Research funded by EPSRC, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, EU, Amazon, Google, and AstraZeneca.
Research Experience
- Current: Leading the NLP Group at the School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield; Amazon Scholar within the Rufus Science team; Former: Applied Scientist at Amazon (Amazon ML and Alexa); Research Associate at UCL, Department of Computer Science.
Education
- PhD in Natural Language Processing from the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete.
Background
- Research Interests: Developing data and resource efficient methods for language modelling, model interpretability, and applications of language technology in computational social science and law. Bio: Professor of Natural Language Processing (NLP), currently leading the NLP Group at the School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield.
Miscellany
- Contact: n.aletras@sheffield.ac.uk
