Fernando Alva-Manchego

Fernando Alva-Manchego

Researcher in Natural Language Processing

Cardiff University

About Me

I am an NLP researcher and Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) at the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, and a member of the Cardiff NLP research group. My work focuses on text adaptation and readability: building systems that make language more accessible to different audiences, across different languages, and in real-world settings such as education, healthcare, and social care. Throughout, I prioritise human-centred evaluation and close collaboration with the practitioners and communities my tools are designed to serve.

Education

PhD in Computer Science

University of Sheffield

MSc in Computer Science

University of Sao Paulo

BSc in Informatics Engineering

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Interests

Text Simplification & Readability Assessment Language Proficiency Assessment (CEFR) Multilingual NLP & Welsh Language Technology NLP for Education, Healthcare & Social Care Evaluation of Natural Language Generation
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