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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Are claims like *we are helping underserved communities* actually provable and justified? Our #EMNLP2026 main paper asks: When does the framing of multilingual and low-resource #NLP become a caricature? 🧵 1/6

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Pleased to share our #ACL2026 #NLProc paper on W&C-Sent, a dataset of social perception toward individuals and social groups in text. Led by my MSc student Mutaz Ayesh and co-authored with Saif M. Mohammad, who will present it today (Poster Session E, Coronado 11:00–12:30) 📄 👇 1/

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

🚨 Hi #NLP #ACL community, The Resources and Evaluation track is looking for emergency reviewers for the ARR May round. If you've reviewed for ARR before and can complete a review by **6 July (AoE) **, please reach out. Thank you!

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Melissa Torgbi @melissatorgbi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It has been an exciting few months for me as a PhD researcher!✨ 🏆 I received a Doctoral Recognition Award @uniofbath.bsky.social 🍺 Spoke at @pintofscience.uk 🇩🇪 Presented at the Construction Grammar, Creativity & AI Workshop 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Exchanged ideas at the Cardiff NLP Workshop @cardiffnlp.bsky.social

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🚨 Registration is now open for the 5th Cardiff NLP Summer #NLP Workshop! 📝 forms.gle/GW4gZiijDusz... 📅 Deadline: 5 June 2026 Priority for EoI submissions, but a few extra places may be available. More info: www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org

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Registration Form - 5th Cardiff NLP Workshop

Please register for the Cardiff NLP Workshop (22–23 June, in person only) by completing the form below so that we can tailor the workshop to provide the best possible experience. Free Registration is...

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stevenschockaert.bsky.social @stevenschockaert.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

We're looking for a postdoctoral research associate, to work on reasoning in multimodal generative models: Deadline for applications: 20th May Location: Cardiff, UK Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH404/r... @cardiffnlp.bsky.social

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Final call: The ARR commitment deadline for *SEM 2026 (with #ACL2026) is today (10 April 23:59 AoE). You can submit your previously reviewed #NLP papers via ARR here: openreview.net/group?id=acl...

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StarSEM 2026 Conference

Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for StarSEM 2026 Conference

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

New📄(accepted at #ACL2026NLP main): W&C-Sent: 1.6k+ English sentences from social media labeled for perceived warmth (trust, sociability) & competence toward individuals and target groups (key for studying stereotypes, biased lgge, & other #NLP and #CSS applications). arxiv.org/abs/2601.06316

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Annotating Dimensions of Social Perception in Text: The First Sentence-Level Dataset of Warmth and Competence

Warmth (W) (often further broken down into Trust (T) and Sociability (S)) and Competence (C) are central dimensions along which people evaluate individuals and social groups (Fiske, 2018). While these...

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*SEM @starsem.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

📢 Direct ARR submission link for *SEM 2026 is now available! If you are submitting via ARR, please commit your papers to *SEM using the link below: openreview.net/group?id=acl... Find out more: starsem2026.github.io Contact the organizers: startsem-2026-pcs@googlegroups.com

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Hi #NLP Bluesky, the Multilinguality track at #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social needs emergency reviewers. If you can complete one or two reviews before February 15, please reach out. Thank you!

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*SEM @starsem.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Final Call for Papers: *SEM 2026 The Clock is Ticking! Submit your direct paper to *SEM 2026 now! Direct submissions are due on February 13th, 2026 (AoE). Submit your papers to OpenReview using the link below. openreview.net/group?id=acl... Find more details in: starsem2026.github.io/calls/

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Pleased to announce the 5th Cardiff #NLP Workshop! 📍Cardiff 📅 22–23 June 2026 🌐 More information (to be regularly updated): www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org 👉 If you’re interested in attending, please complete the EoI by 11 April: forms.gle/ypUBEpVhfoUh... Registration is ✨free✨1/

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Cardiff NLP Group is organising an in-person workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP). It will take place on 22-23 June 2026 in Abacws, the School of Computer Science and Mathematics' building at...

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Jose Camacho Collados @camachocollados.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

@cardiffnlp.bsky.social is hiring PhD students! 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Full PhD scholarship open to UK/EU students ⏲️ Application deadline: February 13th List of projects and supervisors below (FindAPhD for more details): 1️⃣ Interpretability-Guided Compression and Acceleration of Large Language Models (Taher Pilehvar)

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Agostina Calabrese @agostinacal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Thanks so much for having me and for the warm welcome! My first visit to Wales didn't disappoint 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😊

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This week at our Cardiff #NLP seminar, we had the pleasure of hosting @agostinacal.bsky.social, who presented her work on "Reframing Content Moderation: Guideline-Driven and Explainable Hate Speech Detection." Thank you for the great talk, and thank you for visiting us!

Agostina Calabrese presenting at the Cardiff NLP seminar.
Slide titled "who defines content moderation guidelines?"

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If you missed the #ACL2026 #NLP deadline, you can still submit to *SEM2026 @starsem.bsky.social (co-located with @aclmeeting.bsky.social in San Diego). 📅 Submission deadline: 13 February. - Links to CFP, blogpost & FAQs, and Programme Committee self-nomination form below 👇1/2

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The 1st CFP for *SEM2026 is out (co-located with #ACL2026 #NLP)! -CFP starsem2026.github.io/calls/ -Blogpost on what's new & FAQs (by PCs [Saif M. Mohammad and me]) starsem2026.github.io/blog/ -Please fill out this form if you would like to serve as a reviewer or AC: forms.gle/9V4FaP5HqNJb...

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

🚨I'm recruiting a fully funded EPSRC PhD student (start 2026/27) to work with me and Mohammad Taher Pilehvar on multilingual misinformation and online harms in #NLP. (the position is open to UK and international students.) Details and contact information 👇: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Designing Reliable NLP Systems for Cross-Lingual Information Environments at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Designing Reliable NLP Systems for Cross-Lingual Information Environments at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Jose Camacho Collados @camachocollados.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I'll be at the NLPerspectives workshop tomorrow, giving a talk on "Cultural Awareness in Multilingual LLMs" in the morning and then being part of a panel discussion in the afternoon. Come join and share your perspectives on the topic!

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

If you're an #NLP researcher willing to do an ethics review for @eaclmeeting.bsky.social (ARR Oct2025 cycle, please fill out this form: forms.gle/bPTqTRQnkFZJ... [You may or may not get an assignment by the end of Nov/early Dec, but your volunteering is very much appreciated!]

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EACL2026 Ethics Reviewing

Questions and Feedback: If you have any questions or feedback, please contact Nedjma Ousidhoum OusidhoumN [at] Cardiff (dot) ac (dot) uk. About Ethics Reviewing: Ethics reviews typically require less ...

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Our Cardiff #NLProc group members and collaborators have had several papers accepted at #EMNLP2025 and #NeurIPS2025! If you're attending #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou or online, check out our posters. Links to the accepted papers are below:👇 📘 EMNLP 2025 (Main) 1/

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Pleased to announce our #NLP SemEval Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages & Cultures. We extend the BLEnD Benchmark to >30 language-culture pairs. [Our task is Junior-friendly, with live Q&A & tutorials.] 1/

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

We've opened our Cardiff NLP mailing list, where we share weekly seminar and event announcements, research updates, job adverts, etc, to the wider #NLP community. You can sign up here: forms.gle/RudQ1N1uLyQU...

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We (the CardiffNLP group) have a mailing list where we share weekly seminar and other event announcements, updates, job adverts, and more. People from other groups and institutions are welcome to join...

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Our Cardiff #NLP group members and collaborators have several papers accepted at #EMNLP2025!🎉 Check out the list of accepted papers, with preprints now available for 👇🧵1/

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Congratulations on your #EMNLP2025 paper acceptances! You may apply for student volunteering opportunities until 20 Sep 2025. **Please note that you can edit your previous response or submit a new one. We will consider your most recent submission when reviewing applications.**

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The Call for #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social student volunteers is out: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/volunt... Please fill out the form by 20 Sep 2026 : forms.gle/qfTkVGyDitXi... For questions, you can contact emnlp2025-student-volunteer-chairs [at] googlegroups [dot] com

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Call for Volunteers

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This week, we had the pleasure of hosting @christinenlp.bsky.social , who presented her work on 'Modelling the Language of Extremist Groups.' Thank you for visiting us!

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

And our SemEval task won the best task award! 🥳 Co-led with Shamsuddeen Muhammad and Saif M. Mohammad. Thanks to all the team members!

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Our ✨BRIGHTER✨ paper won the a best resource paper award at @aclmeeting.bsky.social #ACL2025! Big thanks to all the team members!

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Also presenting: 📄BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages 🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon... 📍 Session 9: IP-Orals – Resources and Evaluation 2 🗓️ Tue, July 29 🕑 14:00–15:30📍 Hall B 2/

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

At #ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP In Vienna this week! I’ll be presenting: 📄 Building Better: Avoiding Pitfalls in Developing Language Resources when Data is Scarce 🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon... 📍 Panel 5: Multilinguality & Language Diversity 🗓️ Wed, July 30 🕘 09:00–10:30📍 Hall N.2 1/

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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Loved giving my second tutorial on steering vectors at #CardiffNLPWorkshop Lots of enthusiastic participants! @cardiffnlp.bsky.social

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🚨 Check out the Cardiff NLP group and collaborators' accepted papers at #ACL2025NLP #ACL2025 (Main, Findings, Demo, Workshops) and #CoNLL2025! 🎉📄 See you in Vienna next week! We're looking forward to connecting and sharing ideas with the #NLP community! 🌍

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Looking forward to seeing many of you at our next edition and do say hi if you’re attending #ACL2025 in Vienna! 3/3

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

We hope you also enjoyed the tutorial and the poster session! 2/3

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Thank you to everyone who came along to our @cardiffnlp.bsky.social #NLP workshop, it was a pleasure to have you all! A big thank you to our amazing speakers, and panelists! 1/3

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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

#CardiffNLPWorkshop off to a flying start with talks from Jennifer Foster and Marianna Apidianaki @cardiffnlp.bsky.social

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The 4th Cardiff #NLProc Summer Workshop starts tomorrow! We'll have two full days of insightful talks, hands-on sessions, and networking. 📅 Check out the full schedule here: cardiffnlpworkshop.org/schedule

4th Cardiff NLP Workshop Day 1
MONDAY, JULY 14
10:00–10:15
Welcome reception + Registration
Abacws ground floor (registration) and room 0.34 (reception and coffee/pastries)
10:15–10:30
Opening session
Cardiff NLP team, Lecture theatre 0.01
10:30–11:30
Jennifer Foster
Worth the effort? Large Language Models for claim verification, syntactic analysis and taxonomy creation
11:30–12:30
Marianna Apidianaki
Semantic and Perceptual Knowledge in Large Language Models' Embedding Space: Insights, Challenges and Perspectives
Lunch break 12:30-13:30
13:30–14:30
Marzieh Fadaee
Rethinking Evaluation for the Future of Language Models
Coffee break 14:30-15:00
15:00–16:00
Tutorial (Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors)
Where: 1.34/1.39 Windows lab
Presented by Zara Siddique (Cardiff NLP)
16:00–17:30
Poster presentation + refreshments
All participants.
Where: Abacws main hall

4th Cardiff NLP Summer Workshop
TUESDAY, JULY 15 Day 2 (Schedule)
Late registration open 9:00 and during reception (Abacws ground floor)
9:15–9:30
Reception and late registration
Abacws main hall
9:30–10:30
Christos Christodoulopoulos
With great power... My journey in Responsible AI
Coffee break 10:30-11:00
11:00–12:00
Alexander Shvets
Challenges in Curating Data for Building a Multilingual LLM
12:00–13:00
Edoardo M. Ponti
A blueprint for adaptive and tokenizer-free foundation models
Lunch break 13:00-14:00
14:00–15:00
Interdisciplinary NLP Session
Speakers:
Dawn Knight: "Applying Corpus Linguistics and NLP in a Minoritised Language Context"
Christian Arnold: "Research between NLP and Political Science: The Triggerpoint Project as a Use Case"
Verity Bennett: "Multi-agency safeguarding, evaluation research and NLP"
Coffee break 15:00-15:30
15:30–15:40
Sponsor talk: Short overview of the Digital Transformation Innovation Institute (DTII) and Hartree Centre Cardiff Hub
Presented by Yulia Cherdantseva
15:40–16:30
Panel on "Interdisciplinarity and NLP"
Panel members:
Carla Pérez Almendros (Cardiff NLP)
Christian Arnold (School of Government, University of Birmingham)
Christos Christodoulopoulos (Information Commissioner's Office)
Moderated by Steven Schockaert
16:30–16:40
Closing remarks
Cardiff NLP team

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The Cardiff #NLP Workshop kicks off this Monday (14 July)! Full schedule www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org/schedule ✨ Talks, a tutorial, poster session and networking opportunities, an interdisciplinary session, and a panel discussion✨ Confirmations were sent. Looking forward to welcoming you to Cardiff!

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Joanne Boisson @joanneboisson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

A Lyon pour suivre quelques cours de Taigi et parler de métaphores 😋

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stevenschockaert.bsky.social @stevenschockaert.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I am looking for a postdoctoral research associate to work on (LLM-based and neurosymbolic) reasoning for story understanding, as part of the EPSRC-funded ReStoRe project. Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS820/r... (deadline 21st July) @cardiffnlp.bsky.social

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Consider sending your work on multilinguality/low-resource/culturally grounded #NLP to our @meltworkshop.bsky.social at @colmweb.org‬ 👇🏻 🗓️ Deadline: 30 June We’re also looking for reviewers, please fill out this form if you're interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Hi #NLP BlueSky, I'm looking for 2 emergency reviewers for this ARR round (multilinguality/LLM evaluation). Please reach out if you can help. Thank you!

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Don’t forget to register for our Cardiff #NLP Workshop **today**! 🗓️ Fill out the registration form here: forms.gle/EQDfwXv487tS... ✨Registration is free! ✨ We have: ✨ Amazing speakers and an interdisciplinary research session.✨ 💻A Tutorial 📍A poster session ☕🍪Networking, coffee, and Welsh cakes.

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MELT Workshop @meltworkshop.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🚨 Call for Submissions – MELT Workshop @colmweb.org 2025 🌍 We invite papers on regionally grounded, culturally aware language technologies. 🛠️ Two tracks: — Workshop Track — Conference Track Details below ⬇️ #MeltWorkshop2025

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🚨#ACL2025 position paper on key challenges in creating resources for mid- to low-resource lgges emphasising that data in #NLP is not merely a collection of tokens, but is rooted in cultural and social contexts. Based on 81 responses from researchers working on >70lgges 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2410.12691 1/🧵

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Don't forget to register for our Cardiff #NLP Hackathon, organised by @zarasiddique.bsky.social, before June 1st! Register here: forms.gle/5k3joqckp6eW...

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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Pleased to say this has been accepted to ACL System Demos :)

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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Come to my hackathon! Last one was super fun I promise

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Announcing... Cardiff NLP's second hackathon! Join us on the 10th and 11th of June for two days of code 💻, pizza 🍕and networking. Open to all! Register your interest here: forms.gle/dG6F2Pbuy4H7...

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