I'm a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, researching AI methodolgies for speech and language technologies.
My focus is on continual learning and meta-learning, "learning to learn", for multimodal systems with a focus on healthcare applications.
Hughes, A., Song, X. 2024, May.
Identifying and Aligning Medical Claims Made on Social Media with Medical Evidence Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).Dyer, L., Hughes, A., and Can, B., 2023, December.
Generative Byte-Level Models for Restoring Spaces, Punctuation, and Capitalization in Multiple Languages Practical Solutions for Diverse Real-World NLP Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. 37-57.All code available here: https://github.com/ljdyer/space-punc-cap-2
Li, X., Hughes, A., Llugiqi, M., Polat, F., Groth, P, and Ekaputra, F.J. 2023, November.
Knowledge-centric Prompt Composition for Knowledge Base Construction from Pre-trained Language Models. Challenge @ 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023).All code available here: https://github.com/effyli/lm-kbc
Dyer, L., Hughes, A., Shah, D. and Can, B., 2022, December.
Comparison of Token-and Character-Level Approaches to Restoration of Spaces, Punctuation, and Capitalization in Various Languages. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2022) (pp. 168-178).All code available here: https://ljdyer.github.io/Space-Punct-Cap-Restoration
I gave this talk in May 2024 for members of the Insigneo Instiute at the University of Sheffield
Distinction (85%)
Research title: Identifying and Aligning Medical Claims with Evidenced-based Medicine
First Class (71%)
Research title: Semantic Framework for Intelligent Classification and Search of Medical Articles
Working as a Lead Software Engineer delivering data and software solutions for a wide range of clients.
I built a mood disorder questionnaire for self-assessment of bipolar.
Crown required a mobile app for delivering specialised reports for meeting health and safety requirements.
Software development at Ontoba. Specialising in building semantic publishing systems and high performance delivery of content through ontology-based customer driven applications.