Iona Carslaw

About

I’m a PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh, currently being supervised by Mark Steedman, Itamar Kastner, and András Bárány.

My research interests include the following:

Publications

Carslaw, I., Bárány, A., Kastner, I. & Steedman, M., (2026) “An LLM Investigation into Inherent and Structural Case Representation: a German Case Study”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/scil.4161

Carslaw, I., Milton, S., Navarre, N., Qing, C. & Uegaki, W., (2025) “Automatic Extraction of Clausal Embedding Based on Large-Scale English Text Data”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 8(1): 12. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/scil.3151

Talks

“LLMs hinder Linguistic Decolonisation” at LELPGC (the University of Edinburgh - June 2026)

“LLMs and Reflexive Binding” at North East Syntax Seminar (the University of Aberdeen - June, 2024)

Posters

“The Inherent-Structural Case Divide: An investigation into German morphological case representation” at LELPGC (the University of Edinburgh - June, 2025)

“LLMs and Reflexive Binding Intuitions: Do LLMs encode native speakers’ reflexive binding intuitions?” at the Form-meaning Mismatches in Spoken and Visual Communication Summer School (the University of Göttingen - August, 2024)

Education

PhD - CDT in NLP at the University of Edinburgh (Current)

1st class MSc - Speech and Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh (2021-2022). Dissertation: “Low resource neural machine translation and generalised compositionality”

1st class BA (Hons) - Linguistics at UCL (2017-2021). Dissertation: “Parasitic Gaps: can they really be accounted for by sideward movement?”

Teaching and Academic Volunteering

I tutor on the following courses taught at the University of Edinburgh:

I also ran CLING (a computational linguistics reading group) from 2024-2025, and was on the organising committee for Language Lunch (an informal poster session for language related research by the postgrad community at Edinburgh) from 2023-2024.

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