Dr Carolina Scarton
BSc, MSc, PhD
Department of Computer Science
Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing
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Member of the Natural Language Processing research group
+44 114 222 1892
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Department of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Carolina Scarton is a Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK. She is a member of the Natural Language Processing group and part of the GATE team.
Previously, she worked as an Academic Fellow (from September 2019 to November 2021) and as a Research Associate for the WeVerify (from March 2019 to August 2019) and SIMPATICO (from July 2016 to February 2019) European projects.
- Qualifications
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In 2017, she was awarded a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield, under the supervision of Professor Lucia Specia. Her PhD was funded by the EXPERT project (a Marie Curie ITN network).
She also has a MSc and a BSc degree from the University of São Paulo, Brazil (awarded in 2013).
Her MSc supervisor was Dr. Sandra Aluísio and she was a member of the Interinstitutional Center for Computational Linguistics (NILC). Since 2018, she is the Secretary for the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT).
- Research interests
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Dr Scarton's research area is Natural Language Processing (NLP). She is particularly interested in text adaptation, machine translation, online misinformation detection and verification, evaluation of NLP task outputs, NLP applied to healthcare and robotics, and dialog systems.
- Publications
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- Grants
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Current Grants
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ExU: AI Models for Examining Multilingual Disinformation Narratives and Understanding their Spread, European Media and Information Fund, 11/2023 - 04/2025, €399,926, as PI
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VIGILANT: Vital IntelliGence to Investigate ILlegAl DisiNformaTion, Horizon Europe, 11/2022 - 10/2025, £476,955, as PI
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vera.ai: VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence, Horizon Europe, 09/2022 - 08/2025, £776,703, as Co-PI
- Modeling Idiomaticity in Human and Artificial Language Processing, EPSRC, 12/2020 - 11/2024, £446,163, as Co-PI
Previous Grants
- Modelling the link between working memory and language deficits in schizophrenia, Royal Society, 12/2020 - 11/2022, £74,000, as Co-PI
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