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Established 1993, the University of Sheffield's #NLProc Group is one of the UK's largest natural language processing research centres. t.co/D8c2TQcavj

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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🚨 Happy to share some recently accepted papers from our group. They cover a range of topics, from reasoning and hallucination mitigation to dialogue evaluation, bias, humour generation, and more 📚✨ If you’d like to take a look, the arXiv links are in the poster.
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Diana Maynard @dianamaynard.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Funded PhD position available with me (and other supervisors) based in the School of Biosciences, looking at measuring impact of food systems chemicals on health. @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social @shefcmi.bsky.social findaphd.com/phds/project...
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ECOSOLUTIONS DFA - IMEMRE: Development of an impact measurement (Immune, Emergence, Resistance) for food systems chemicals on human immune disease, infection and AMR at University of Sheffield on Find...
PhD Project - ECOSOLUTIONS DFA - IMEMRE: Development of an impact measurement (Immune, Emergence, Resistance) for food systems chemicals on human immune disease, infection and AMR at University of She...
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vera.ai @vera-ai.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Great news!! Our scientific director Professor Kalina Bontcheva @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social at @sheffielduni.bsky.social has been appointed Chair of Working Group 1 for the new Code of Practice on the #Transparency of #AI -Generated Content. www.veraai.eu/posts/kalina...
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Kalina Bontcheva Appointed Chair of EU Working Group on AI Transparency
VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🎉 A warm welcome to Delvin Ce Zhang who recently joined us as a Lecturer! His research applies Multi-Modal LLMs to real-world tasks like misinformation detection, recommender systems, and AI for science. Excited to have him on board and for many collaborations! 🌺🚀 sites.google.com/view/delvinc...
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Comparing Apples to Oranges: A Dataset & Analysis of LLM Humour Understanding from Traditional Puns to Topical Jokes Tyler Loakman, William Thorne, Chenghua Lin arxiv.org/abs/2507.13335 #EMNLP2025 Findings
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Comparing Apples to Oranges: A Dataset & Analysis of LLM Humour Understanding from Traditional Puns to Topical Jokes
Humour, as a complex language form, is derived from myriad aspects of life, whilst existing work on computational humour has focussed almost exclusively on short pun-based jokes. In this work, we inve...
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
GreekBarBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Free-Text Legal Reasoning and Citations Odysseas Chlapanis, Dimitrios Galanis, Nikos Aletras, Ion Androutsopoulos arxiv.org/abs/2505.17267 #EMNLP2025 Findings
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GreekBarBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Free-Text Legal Reasoning and Citations
We introduce GreekBarBench, a benchmark that evaluates LLMs on legal questions across five different legal areas from the Greek Bar exams, requiring citations to statutory articles and case facts. To ...
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Enhancing Logical Reasoning in Language Models via Symbolically-Guided Monte Carlo Process Supervision Xingwei Tan, Marco Valentino, Mahmud Elahi Akhter, Maria Liakata, Nikos Aletras arxiv.org/abs/2505.20415 #EMNLP2025 Main
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Enhancing Logical Reasoning in Language Models via Symbolically-Guided Monte Carlo Process Supervision
Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in mathematical and logical reasoning benchmarks. However, recent studies have pointed to memorization, rather than generalization, as one...
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
How Private are Language Models in Abstractive Summarization? Anthony Hughes, Ning Ma, Nikos Aletras arxiv.org/abs/2412.12040 #EMNLP2025 Main
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How Private are Language Models in Abstractive Summarization?
In sensitive domains such as medical and legal, protecting sensitive information is critical, with protective laws strictly prohibiting the disclosure of personal data. This poses challenges for shari...
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Beyond Hate Speech: NLP’s Challenges and Opportunities in Uncovering Dehumanizing Language Hamidreza Saffari, Mohammadamin Shafiei, Hezhao Zhang, Lasana T. Harris, Nafise Sadat Moosavi arxiv.org/abs/2402.13818 #EMNLP2025 Main
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Beyond Hate Speech: NLP's Challenges and Opportunities in Uncovering Dehumanizing Language
Dehumanization, i.e., denying human qualities to individuals or groups, is a particularly harmful form of hate speech that can normalize violence against marginalized communities. Despite advances in ...
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Does Multimodal Large Language Model Truly Unlearn? Stealthy MLLM Unlearning Attack Xianren Zhang, Hui Liu, Delvin Ce Zhang, Xianfeng Tang, Qi He, Dongwon Lee, Suhang Wang www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.17265 #EMNLP2025 Main
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Does Multimodal Large Language Model Truly Unlearn? Stealthy MLLM Unlearning Attack
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) trained on massive data may memorize sensitive personal information and photos, posing serious privacy risks. To mitigate this, MLLM unlearning methods are pro...
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Label Set Optimization via Activation Distribution Kurtosis for Zero-Shot Classification with Generative Models Yue Li, Zhixue Zhao, Carolina Scarton arxiv.org/abs/2410.19195 #EMNLP2025 Main
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Label Set Optimization via Activation Distribution Kurtosis for Zero-shot Classification with Generative Models
In-context learning (ICL) performance is known to be sensitive to the prompt design, yet the impact of class label options in zero-shot classification has been largely overlooked. This study presents ...
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Beyond the Score: Uncertainty-Calibrated LLMs for Automated Essay Assessment Ahmed Karim, Qiao Wang, Zheng Yuan openreview.net/forum?id=UiW... #EMNLP2025 Main
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Beyond the Score: Uncertainty-Calibrated LLMs for Automated Essay...
Automated Essay Scoring (AES) systems now attain near–human agreement on public benchmarks, yet real-world adoption—especially in high-stakes examinations—remains limited. A principal obstacle is...
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Formalizing Complex Mathematical Statements with LLMs: A Study on Mathematical Definitions Lan Zhang, Marco Valentino (our upcoming Lecturer), Andre Freitas arxiv.org/abs/2502.12065 #EMNLP2025 Main
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Formalizing Complex Mathematical Statements with LLMs: A Study on Mathematical Definitions
Thanks to their linguistic capabilities, LLMs offer an opportunity to bridge the gap between informal mathematics and formal languages through autoformalization. However, it is still unclear how well ...
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🚀 Thrilled to share SheffieldNLP’s accepted papers at @emnlpmeeting #EMNLP2025! 🎉 Here’s a poster with (most of) them, a few more will be added soon! We’ll also highlight preprints in this thread as they appear ⬇️
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Heading to #ACL2025NLP this weekend? Don’t miss the amazing work from SheffieldNLP! Check them out & come chat with us in Vienna! 🇦🇹👋📰
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CDT in Speech and Language Technologies @sltcdt.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Our annual #conference is now less than 5 weeks away! Join us on 23 June in sunny #Sheffield to hear about our #PhD students’ #AI and #ML #speech and #NLProc research! Check out our website for more info! slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confe...
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CDT in Speech and Language Technologies @sltcdt.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Congratulations to Edward Gow-Smith on passing his #PhD #viva with minor corrections! Huge thanks to his supervisor @alinevillav.bsky.social and his viva examiners Professor Dr Hinrich Schütze (@cislmu.bsky.social) and Dr Nafise Sadat Moosavi (University of Sheffield)!
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Great day out in the Peaks for our Research Away Day just outside Sheffield! 🚍☕🌲 Inspiring talks, thoughtful discussions, and plenty of time to connect. Thanks to all who joined and made it special!🌺
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Excited to share the list of SheffieldNLP accepted papers at @aclmeeting.bsky.social @icmlconf.bsky.social @SIGIRlist.idf.social.ap.brid.gy Congrats to all authors, especially our first-time PhD presenters! 🎉 Thread coming soon with details on each paper!
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
We're delighted to host Prof. Steffen Eger for an insightful talk on "Multimodal Scientific Content Generation with LLMs", covering tools like AutomaTikz, DeTikZify, and ScImage that aim to automate and enhance scientific figure generation🤖📚
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CDT in Speech and Language Technologies @sltcdt.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Last few days to get your application in for one of our two fully-funded 3.5 year #AI #PhD studentships in #spoken #language #technologies available for Sept 2025 start! ** Apply now! Deadline: 13 Apr 2025 ** slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/apply #speech #nlp #nlproc #research #sheffield
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CDT in Speech and Language Technologies @sltcdt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Applications for two affiliated fully-funded 3.5 year #spoken #language #technologies #AI #PhD studentships open! Join us! Sept 2025 start! ** Apply now! Deadline: 13 Apr 2025 ** slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/apply #speech #nlp #nlproc #research #sheffield
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
We are thrilled to welcome Zheng Yuan (raise your hand Zheng if you are here :) to our group as the new Senior Lecturer in NLP! We are very much looking forward to learning from and collaborating with her😊 Welcome aboard😊🌺 scholar.google.co.uk/citations?us...
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Zheng Yuan
‪Assistant Professor, King’s College London; Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge‬ - ‪‪Cited by 1,649‬‬ - ‪NLP‬ - ‪EdTech‬ - ‪Educational NLP‬ - ‪CALL‬
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🚀 Reminder! 🚀 The deadline for the Postdoc in Uncertainty Quantification for Foundation Models at SheffieldNLP with Nafise, Benjamin, and Kentaro is March 2nd—just a few days left! 🗓️ 📆 Initial contract: 12 months (with a possibility of an additional 2-year extension)
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We were honored to host @ekdeepl.bsky.social at the SheffieldNLP seminar for an exciting talk on the Dynamics of Concept Learning & Emergent Abilities in Neural Networks😊Great insights on how scaling impacts sudden capability learning, structured representations & in-context learning🔥🚀
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Diana Maynard @dianamaynard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Come and work with us! We have a part-time RA post on Computational Social Science / Journalism looking at data on abuse against journalists. Please share widely. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU035/r... @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social
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Research Associate in Quantitative and Computational Social Science Methods at University of Sheffield
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Associate in Quantitative and Computational Social Science Methods opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs...
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Andreas Geiger @andreasgeiger.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
As many areas, science itself will be transformed by AI. We have now released a state-of-the-art survey on this emerging field. We discuss methods and tools for AI-enhanced search, ideation, experimentation, content generation and peer review. arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05151
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚀 Postdoc Opportunity! 🚀 Nafise Sadat Moosavi, with Benjamin Heinzerling (@RIKEN) & Kentaro Inui, are hiring a Postdoc for Uncertainty Quantification in Foundation Models—primarily in Sheffield, with a chance to visit RIKEN, Japan! Deadline: 2 March More info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLS026/r...
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Research Associate in Uncertainty Quantification for Foundation Models at University of Sheffield
Recruiting now: Research Associate in Uncertainty Quantification for Foundation Models on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Our colleague @xiwang-sch.bsky.social was on leave, and we missed his papers in our original list! Now, here’s the full, updated set of SheffieldNLP’s accepted papers at NAACL, ICLR, ECIR, and WWW! 😊✨
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Diana Maynard @dianamaynard.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A lovely report from our latest @atrium-eu.bsky.social #TNA visitor Tenia about her research visit to our GATE team @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social to study NLP applications in food research. gate4ugc.blogspot.com/2025/02/expl...
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Exploring NLP Applications in Food Research: my ATRIUM TNA visit to the GATE group
By Tenia Panagiotou As a postdoctoral researcher at the Consumer and Sensory Lab of the Department of Food Science and Nutrition of the Univ...
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🎉 Belated Happy New Year 2025 & Happy Lunar New Year! 🐉✨ We’re kicking off the year with SheffieldNLP's latest research, accepted at NAACL, ICLR & ECIR! Stay tuned for a thread summarizing our published work! 👀
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jasivan.bsky.social @jasivan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Today, I'll be presenting my #COLING2025 paper "How to Leverage Digit Embeddings to Represent Numbers?", come and find me in room A at 2pm aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
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Anthony Hughes @antjhughes.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Wrote up my first piece of PhD work last week! 🧵 Summarization via LMs is great at extracting info from documents, but how does summarization look in sensitive settings where privacy-preservation is essential? Short answer: LMs are poor privacy preservers. Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2412.12040
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How Private are Language Models in Abstractive Summarization?
Language models (LMs) have shown outstanding performance in text summarization including sensitive domains such as medicine and law. In these settings, it is important that personally identifying info...
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Nikos Aletras @naletras.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We're hiring! Looking for a Lecturer (~Assistant Prof.) at the intersection of #NLProc and computational social media analysis (i.e. computational social science) Info and how to apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI664/l...
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Lecturer in Computational Social Media Analysis and Natural Language Processing at University of Sheffield
An academic position as a Lecturer in Computational Social Media Analysis and Natural Language Processing is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional acade...
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vera.ai @vera-ai.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
In case you missed this webinar organised by @ebu.bsky.social : it’s available to view any time. Watch our @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social team in action!
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vera.ai @vera-ai.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Interested in #synthetic text detection, #credibility signals and #ObjectCharacterRecognition (OCR)? Then this webinar may be of interest. It's the third in our series organized by @ebu.bsky.social. In it, @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social researchers dive deep! Happy viewing! www.veraai.eu/posts/usfd-p...
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University of Sheffield presents work on synthetic text detection, credibility signals and OCR in EBU webinar series no. 3
VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!
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vera.ai @vera-ai.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Summary of talks held by veraAI project team members from CERTH-ITI, Ontotext and @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social held at the Sofia Information Integrity Forum. www.veraai.eu/posts/projec...
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Work of vera.ai that contributes to the domain of information integrity
VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!
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vera.ai @vera-ai.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Report about our contributions to the Sofia Information Integrity Forum (SIIF). We were represented by Olga Papadopoulou (CERTH-ITI / MeVer Team), Olesya Razuvayevskaya (University of Sheffield / @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social) and Andrey Tagarev (Ontotext). www.veraai.eu/posts/projec...
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Work of vera.ai that contributes to the domain of information integrity
VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Computer-assisted screening in systematic evidence synthesis requires robust and well-evaluated stopping criteria @mark-stevenson.bsky.social systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
How to Leverage Digit Embeddings to Represent Numbers? @jasivan.bsky.social t.co/MtIaPnPGss
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
From Facts to Insights: A Study on the Generation and Evaluation of Analytical Reports for Deciphering Earnings Calls arxiv.org/abs/2410.01039 @coling2025
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🎉 Exciting news from SheffieldNLP! Check out our recent publications featured at COLING 2025 and in Systematic Reviews journal! 📚✨
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Diana Maynard @dianamaynard.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
There's still a couple of weeks to apply for a fully funded research visit to our team in Sheffield, working on a project combining NLP and social sciences/digital humanities. @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social atrium-research.eu/travel-grants/
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Transnational Access Scheme Grants
Facilitating access to digital research infrastructures and advancing frontier knowledge in the arts and humanities - across disciplines, languages and media.
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SheffieldNLP @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Great to have Joe Stacey today for his talk on atomic inference for interpretable NLI! 🚀🌺 Breaking tasks into atoms for transparency + outperforming baselines was inspiring. Loved his insights on robustness—and a fun trip to the Christmas Market after! 🎄✨
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Xi Wang @xiwang-sch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
📢 We are seeking #PhD students for a fully funded research project (open to local & international applicants) @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social . This project is supported by a cross-discipline supervision team and opportunities. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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User Simulation-Grounded Automatic Conversational Depression Diagnosis Support (C3.5-COM-Wang) at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - User Simulation-Grounded Automatic Conversational Depression Diagnosis Support (C3.5-COM-Wang) at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Nikos Aletras @naletras.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Cass and I are looking for a #PhD student to work on multimodal LLMs @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social. This is a fully-funded scholarhsip (including stipend), open to home and international candidates. Deadline: 29/1/2025 Please spread the work! #nlproc www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Finding the needle in the ocean: multimodal retrieval systems for unstructured data (S3.5-COM-Zhao) at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Finding the needle in the ocean: multimodal retrieval systems for unstructured data (S3.5-COM-Zhao) at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
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vera.ai @vera-ai.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Happening today! You can still join - just register and get the link to the live session webinar run by @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social, facilitated by @ebu.bsky.social
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CDT in Speech and Language Technologies @sltcdt.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hello friends, colleagues, and 🦋! We're excited to be joining the speech processing and NLProc communities here! We'll be promoting the fantastic work of the PhD students in the @ukri.org AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Speech and Language Technologies (SLT) and their Applications!
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vera.ai @vera-ai.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Webinar reminder: on 26 November 2024 from 11-12 am CET the @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social team (led by K Bontcheva) will showcase veraAI work on text mining and analysis, and how this can support #factchecking. Register here for access (it's organized by @ebu.bsky.social). tech.ebu.ch/events/2024/...
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VeraAI text analysis tools for fact-checking
A webinar series on innovative AI-based fact-checking tools from the veraAI project
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Xi Wang @xiwang-sch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Start gathering people working on conversational AI. DM/reply if you want to be added to this starter pack. go.bsky.app/Nz6zoJD
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