James Henderson

Dr James Henderson is a Senior Researcher at the Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland, where he heads the Natural Language Understanding group. He is currently an Action Editor for the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL). He worked previously at University of Geneva, Xerox Research Centre Europe, University of Edinburgh, and University of Exeter, and received his PhD from University of Pennsylvania. His research is in the area of machine learning methods for natural language processing, including the earliest successful work on neural networks for syntactic parsing, recent graph-to-graph versions of Transformers, and current work on variational-Bayesian attention-based representation learning for entity disentanglement.