Simon Šuster


I'm an Natural Language Processing (NLP) Scientist at Textgain, currently based in Slovenia. In my previous position, I worked as a research fellow for the ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies at the University of Melbourne, together with Karin Verspoor and Tim Baldwin. Prior to that, I was a postdoc at the Computational Linguistics & Psycholinguistics Research Center (CLiPS) of the University of Antwerp, headed by Walter Daelemans. I completed my PhD at the University of Groningen, advised by Gertjan van Noord and Ivan Titov. In a distant past, I was a master student in the LCT program and obtained my university degree in translation studies in Slovenia.

My professional interests include real-world NLP applications in specialised domains, such as medicine, and in multilingual contexts. I'm also particularly drawn to exploring the intersection of NLP/AI with the humanities and ethics. I co-advised (to completion) two MSc students (Siyang Wang and Fan Ye, both medical NLP at the University of Melbourne) and two PhD students (University of Antwerp): Madhumita Sushil on interpretability and document representation learning, and Pieter Fivez on lexical normalization and modeling of lexical variability. I'm currently supervising a student at the University of Ljubljana on detecting misleading reporting in scientific literature using LLMs.

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