Irina Saparina

I am a final-year Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Prof. Mirella Lapata. I work on Natural Language Processing, developing AI systems with advanced reasoning capabilities that can handle real-world complexity: recognizing ambiguity, providing diverse responses, and adapting to language variation.

I am particularly interested in tasks that require complex multi-step reasoning, especially in text-to-SQL semantic parsing - generating executable database queries from natural language instructions. Through this work, I address key challenges in generalization and explainability in AI.