Project Partners
Management
Carolina Scarton
Project Coordinator
Carolina is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, UK, and Scientific Lead of the VIGILANT project.
Previously, she worked as an Academic Fellow at The University of Sheffield (from September 2019 to November 2021) and as a Research Associate for the WeVerify (from March 2019 to August 2019) and SIMPATICO (from July 2016 to February 2019) projects.
She is interested in Natural Language Processing topics, more specifically in online content verification (disinformation detection), personalised NLP, text simplification, machine translation, quality estimation of machine translation, document-level evaluation of NLP tasks outputs, and readability assessment.
She is the Secretary for the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) (since 2018, re-elected in 2020). Since 2019, Carolina is also the Secretary for the International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT).
Martin Hyben
Senior Researcher
Martin is a senior researcher at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies focusing on natural language processing, machine learning and general artificial intelligence.
Martin obtained a Doctoral degree in Applied Informatics in 2013 from University of Žilina. After graduation, Martin participated in a R&D project for the Centre of Excellence on monitoring and rating of diabetic patients’ health condition through the telemedicine services.
In 2015, he joined GoodAI in an effort to push the state of the art of General Artificial Intelligence, a general problem solving agent that can perceive, learn and adapt to the environment while improving its own structure to become a super-human intelligence.
Researchers
Cass Zhixue Zhao
Lecturer in NLP
Jake Vasilakes
Research Associate
Michal Gregor
Researcher
Partners
The University of Sheffield is a public research university in the UK, formed of 50 departments organised into 5 faculties. Its Department of Computer Science was founded in 1982 and 99% of research output was rated "world-leading" or "internationally excellent" in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. The Natural Language Processing research group is one of the largest in Europe with over sixty members, and has an extensive track record in social media analytics, NLP infrastructure, and machine learning, including the long-running GATE project.
The Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT) is an independent nonprofit research institute dedicated to intelligent technology research. Bringing together experts in AI and other disciplines, it aims to achieve greater active cooperation between the public and private sectors, encourage responsible innovation and support evidence-based decision making.
