Professor Nikos Aletras
School of Computer Science
Professor of Natural Language Processing
Head of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) research group


n.aletras@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (DCS)
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Professor Nikos Aletras
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Nikos Aletras is a Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the Computer Science Department at the СŷÊÓÆµ of Sheffield, co-affiliated with the Machine Learning (ML) group. Previously, he was a research scientist at Amazon (Core ML and Alexa) and a research associate at UCL, Department of Computer Science, Media Futures Group. He completed a PhD in NLP at the СŷÊÓÆµ of Sheffield. His research interests are in NLP, Machine Learning and Data Science. He develops text analysis methods to solve problems in other scientific areas such as (computational) social and legal science.
- Research interests
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- NLP
- Computational Social Science
- Legal NLP
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
- Publications
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Journal articles
Conference proceedings papers
Preprints
- Grants
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- Efficient Deployment of Large Language Models for Industrial Applications, Industrial, 07/2024 - 07/2025, £30,360, as PI
- AdSoLve: , RAI (EPSRC), 05/2024 - 03/2028, £3,498,789, as Co-PI
- ESPERANTO: , Horizon 2020, 01/2021 - 12/2025, £38,070, as co-PI
- , EPSRC, 04/2019 - 09/2027, £5,508,850, as Co-PI
- SAI: , EPSRC, 02/2021 - 01/2024, £366,348, as PI
- Understanding online political advertising: perceptions, uses and regulation, Leverhulme, 01/2021 - 07/2024, £395,011, as Co-PI
- Responsible AI for Inclusive, Democratic Societies: , ESRC, 02/2020 - 01/2024, £508,135, as Co-PI
- Bergamot: , EC H2020, 01/2019 - 12/2021, £473,113, as Co-PI
- , ESRC, 12/2018 - 11/2020, £284,926, as Co-PI
- Journalist-in-the-Loop Machine Learning as a Service for Rumour Analysis, Industrial, 11/2018 - 12/2019, £44,642, as Co-PI
- Alexa Fellowship, Amazon, 08/2018 - 08/2021, £73,000, as PI