Viktor Schlegel

Senior Research Fellow with ICL, Imperial Global Singapore, Honorary Lecturer with University of Manchester

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Hi, I am Viktor, AI researcher. My research interests lie in the application of Language Technology (such as Large Language Models) to various specialist domains, such as healthcare.

I am concerned with questions such as

  • What are the specific challenges of different domains and which fundamental capabilities are required?
  • How can we adapt Language Technology solutions to address these challenges adequatly?
  • How can we robustly evaluate these adaptation capabilities and how representative are these evaluations of real-world scenarios?

Currently, I am based in Singapore where I work with Imperial College London on algorithms for security and privacy to address the challenges of confidentiality and data sharing in the context of healthcare.

Prior to that, I was working with with ASUS AICS in Singapore (2022-2024), where I was conducing research on data-driven intelligent hospital information systems. Before that, I was a lecturer at the University of Manchester (2020-2022). There, I also obtained my PhD in Computer Science, supervised by Dr Riza-Batista Navarro and Prof. Goran Nenadic (2018-2021). Prior to my PhD, I obtained my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Passau (2011-2017) and I worked at Siemens ProductCERT in Munich (2016-2017).

selected publications

2024

  1. M-QALM: A Benchmark to Assess Clinical Reading Comprehension and Knowledge Recall in Large Language Models via Question Answering
    Anand Subramanian, Viktor Schlegel, Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Vijay Prakash Dwivedi, Stefan Winkler
    In ACL Findings, 2024

2023

  1. Do You Hear The People Sing? Key Point Analysis via Iterative Clustering and Abstractive Summarisation
    Hao Li, Viktor Schlegel, Riza Batista-Navarro, Goran Nenadic
    In ACL, 2023

2022

  1. WLASL-LEX: a Dataset for Recognising Phonological Properties in American Sign Language
    Federico Tavella, Viktor Schlegel, Marta Romeo, Aphrodite Galata, Angelo Cangelosi
    In ACL, 2022
  2. Can Transformers Reason in Fragments of Natural Language?
    Viktor Schlegel, Kamen V Pavlov, Ian Pratt-Hartmann
    In EMNLP, 2022

2021

  1. Semantics Altering Modifications for Evaluating Comprehension in Machine Reading
    In AAAI, 2021