I am Elena (Lena) Voita, a Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh supervised by Ivan Titov and Rico Sennrich. Currently visiting Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon.

I'm supported by the Facebook PhD Fellowship (2020-2022).

Previously, I was a research scientist at Yandex Research and worked closely with the Yandex Translate team. I (still) teach NLP at the Yandex School of Data Analysis.

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News

2022

• Feb-... A visiting PhD student in André Martins's group at Instituto Superior Técnico.

2021

• Oct-Nov Invited talks at: Helsinki LT Seminar, "Shannon meets Turing" Colloquium, "Young Innovators" talks (Austria), Glasgow IR seminar.
• September Papers: NMT Training through the Lens of SMT is accepted to EMNLP 2021.
• August Keynote at: RepL4NLP workshop at ACL 2021.
• June Papers: Source and Target Contributions paper is accepted to ACL 2021.
• June Keynote at: DeeLIO workshop at NAACL 2021.
• March-June Invited talks at: Stanford NLP Seminar, CornellNLP, MT@UPC, CambridgeNLP.

2020

• Nov-Dec Invited talks at: CMU, USC ISI, ENS Paris, ML Street Talk.
• September Papers: 2 papers accepted to EMNLP 2020.
• June-Aug Invited talks at: MIT, DeepMind, Grammarly AI, Unbabel, NLP with Friends.
• April Papers: BPE-dropout is accepted to ACL 2020.
• January I'm awarded Facebook PhD Fellowship.
• January Keynote at: NLP track at Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL.
• January Invited talks at: NLP Highlights podcast, Rasa, Google Research Berlin, Naver Labs Europe.

2019

• September Papers: 2 papers accepted to EMNLP 2019, 1 at NeurIPS 2019.
• May Papers: 2 papers accepted to ACL 2019, one is oral.