I am Elena (Lena) Voita, a Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh supervised by Ivan Titov and Rico Sennrich. Currently visiting Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon.
I’m supported by the Facebook PhD Fellowship (2020-2022).
Previously, I was a research scientist at Yandex Research and worked closely with the Yandex Translate team. I (still) teach NLP at the Yandex School of Data Analysis.
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2022
- Feb-… A visiting PhD student in André Martins’s group at Instituto Superior Técnico.
2021
- Oct-Nov Invited talks at: Helsinki LT Seminar, “Shannon meets Turing” Colloquium, “Young Innovators” talks (Austria), Glasgow IR seminar.
- September Papers: NMT Training through the Lens of SMT is accepted to EMNLP 2021.
- August Keynote at: RepL4NLP workshop at ACL 2021.
- June Papers: Source and Target Contributions paper is accepted to ACL 2021.
- June Keynote at: DeeLIO workshop at NAACL 2021.
- March-June Invited talks at: Stanford NLP Seminar, CornellNLP, MT@UPC, CambridgeNLP.
2020
- Nov-Dec Invited talks at: CMU, USC ISI, ENS Paris, ML Street Talk.
- September Papers: 2 papers accepted to EMNLP 2020.
- June-Aug Invited talks at: MIT, DeepMind, Grammarly AI, Unbabel, NLP with Friends.
- April Papers: BPE-dropout is accepted to ACL 2020.
- January I’m awarded Facebook PhD Fellowship.
- January Keynote at: NLP track at Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL.
- January Invited talks at: NLP Highlights podcast, Rasa, Google Research Berlin, Naver Labs Europe.
2019
- September Papers: 2 papers accepted to EMNLP 2019, 1 at NeurIPS 2019.
- May Papers: 2 papers accepted to ACL 2019, one is oral.