Frank Keller is a professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He has also held visiting positions at MIT and the University of Washington. His research area is natural language processing, with a particular focus on language and vision tasks, such as image description, visual grounding, video summarization, and visual story telling. His second main research interest is computational narrative, where he works on modeling key narrative concepts such as characters, plot turning points, and suspense. This involves understanding or generating long-form texts such as movie scripts or books, which is challenging for LLMs.
Prof. Keller is part of the leadership team of the UKRI CDT in Natural Language Processing; he serves on the editorial board of the Transactions of the ACL, and he is an ELLIS fellow. In the past, he has held an ERC grant in the area of language and vision.