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
΢ÃÜȦ
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
΢ÃÜȦ
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Nikos Aletras is a Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the Computer Science Department at the University of ΢ÃÜȦ, 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 University of ΢ÃÜȦ. 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