Bio
Aline Villavicencio is the Director of the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Exeter, and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the University of Exeter, and in the University of Sheffield. Aline's research interests centre around the design of cognitively inspired computational models of language, combining machine learning methods for investigating language acquisition and evolution in typical and clinical conditions, as well as developing language technology for multilingual and low resource scenarios, domain specific terminology, idiomatic and figurative language. She has served as a Program Co-Chair for ACL 2022 and CoNLL 2019, as well as the General Chair for PROPOR 2018, Book Review Editor for Computational Linguistics and member of the editorial board of journals like the Transactions of the ACL and Natural Language Engineering, among others. Aline obtained her PhD degree from the University of Cambridge.