Prof Shalom Lappin
Professor of Natural Language Processing
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Models of Human Cognition
Interests
My work focusses on the application of deep learning models to problems in computational linguistics, natural language processing, and related areas in AI.
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamentals of AI and Computational Theory
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamentals of AI and Computational Theory
2026
Predicting Sentence Acceptability Judgments in Multimodal ContextsJang H Ilinykh N Loáiciga S Lau JH Lappin S
In
Arxiv 24-02-2026
Research Group
PhD Students
- Roksana Goworek
Mutlilingual Polysemy Disambiguation and Other Language Variation - Dina Pisarevskaya
Detection of Previously Fact-Checked Claims - Zhiyuan Xu
Vocal Tract-Based Human Voice Synthesis
News
March 2026
19 March 2026
A new paper, "Predicting Sentence Acceptability Judgments in Multimodal Contexts", by a team including Shalom Lappin from the Centre for Fundamental AI and Computational Theory, explores the effect of images on the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to predict the ratings humans give to sentences over how acceptable they ... [more]
