Recent & Upcoming Activites

We host weekly meetings on Thursdays at 1pm (UK time). Most of them are open to external people.

2023

Seminar: "ChatArena: Multi-Agent Language Game Environments for Large Language Models"
Talk by Yuxiang Wu (University College London)
May 25, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Improving Service Quality and Ethnic Inequalities in Health and Social Care"
Talk by Seongsoo (Simon) Jang (Cardiff Business School)
May 4, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Analysing Adherence to Protective Behaviours over the COVID-19 Pandemic using Twitter and Sentiment Analysis"
Talk by Tristan Naidoo (Imperial College London)
Apr 27, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "NLP for Language Teaching and Assessment"
Talk by Mariano Felice (British Council)
Apr 20, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Discussion: "Impact of ChatGPT on NLP research"
Discussion around impact of technology powered by large language models in NLP research
Mar 30, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Idiom Processing in Transformer, a Translation Case Study"
Talk by Verna Dankers (University of Edinburgh)
Mar 23, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Representation Learning for Word Senses"
Talk by Yi Zhou (Cardiff University - COMSC)
Mar 16, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Yi Zhou (Jodie)
Seminar: "Polecat's NLP projects"
Talk by Alon Samuel and Chris Bowdon (Polecat)
Feb 23, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Associating Texts with Knowledge Graphs"
Talk by Hang Dong (University of Oxford)
Feb 16, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Towards compute efficient large language models"
Talk by Nikos Aletras (University of Sheffield)
Feb 9, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "What Is Needed Vs What is Built in NLP: Toxic Language Detection and Automated Fact-checking Models As Use Cases"
Talk by Nedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge)
Jan 26, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados

2022

Seminar: "Social Media and Crowdsourcing Platforms in Disaster Management"
Talk by Diana Contreras Mojica (Cardiff University - EARTH)
Dec 1, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "TempoWiC: An Evaluation Benchmark for Detecting Meaning Shift in Social Media"
Talk by Daniel Loureiro (Cardiff University)
Oct 13, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Daniel Loureiro
Seminar: "Federated Learning for Exploiting Annotator Disagreements in NLP"
Talk by Nuria Rodríguez Barroso (Universidad de Granada)
Oct 6, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Conference-like Presentations
Talks by authors of papers accepted to COLING 2022
Sep 29, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
[Internal] Quaterly Group Meeting
Sep 22, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
[Internal] Cardiff NLP Hackathon Organisation
Sep 8, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados, Zara Siddique
Conference-like Presentations
Talks by Carla Perez-Almendros (SemEval task) y Mark Anderson (*SEM paper)
Jul 5, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Carla Pérez-Almendros, Mark Anderson
[Internal] Cardiff NLP Workshop Organisation
Jun 23, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Textual Complexity is in the Eye of the Beholder"
Talk by Sian Gooding (University of Cambridge)
Jun 9, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Fernando Alva-Manchego
Seminar: "Quantifying Synthesis and Fusion and their Impact on Machine Translation"
Talk by Arturo Oncevay (University of Edinburgh)
May 19, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Fernando Alva-Manchego
Seminar: "Language Models for Social Media: Challenges and Applications"
Talk by Jose Camacho-Chollados and Luis Espinosa-Anke
May 12, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados, Luis Espinosa-Anke
[Internal] Cardiff NLP Workshop Organisation
Apr 28, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
[Internal] New NLP PhD/RA Office Allocations
Apr 21, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
5-minute Presentations
Apr 7, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Hands-on Class with 🤗: How to Build Machine Learning Collaboratively?
Talk by: Thomas Simonini (Machine Learning Engineer at HuggingFace)
Mar 31, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Hands-on Class with 🤗: How to Build Machine Learning Collaboratively?
[Internal] Cardiff NLP Workshop Organisation
Mar 24, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Morphological Regularities in English Word Formation: Perspectives for Further Development"
Talk by Kateryna Krykoniuk (School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University)
Mar 17, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
5-minute Presentations
Mar 3, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
[Internal] Quarterly Group Meeting
Feb 17, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Reading Group: "Sentiment Analysis and COVID-19"
We will discuss the paper Sentiment Analysis and Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic using College SubReddit Data.
Feb 10, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Dimosthenis Antypas
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[Internal] Staff Meeting
Feb 3, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Reading Group: "Interpretability in NLP"
We will discuss the ACL 2020 tutorial Interpretability and Analysis in Neural NLP.
Jan 27, 2022 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Kiamehr Rezaee
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