Recent & Upcoming Activites

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

2025

Seminar: "Incorporating Sociolinguistic Theories for a Better Modeling of the Arabic Varieties"
Talk by Amr Keleg (University of Edinburgh)
May 8, 2025 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Nedjma Ousidhoum
Seminar: "OmniBench, Towards The Future of Universal Omni-Language Models"
Talk by Yizhi Li (University of Manchester)
May 1, 2025 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Nedjma Ousidhoum
Seminar: "SPA-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for SmartPhone Agent Evaluation"
Talk by Jingxuan Chen (Huawei)
Mar 27, 2025 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Nedjma Ousidhoum
Seminar: "Making Complex Language Easier to Understand"
Talk by Matthew Shardlow (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Mar 13, 2025 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Fernando Alva-Manchego
Seminar: "NLP and CSS: Lessons from One for the Other"
Talk by Arnav Arora (University of Copenhagen)
Feb 20, 2025 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Nedjma Ousidhoum
Seminar: "Preference Alignment, with Reference Mismatch, and without Reference Models"
Talk by James Thorne (KAIST Graduate School of AI)
Feb 13, 2025 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Fernando Alva-Manchego
Seminar: "The Language of Standards: Aligning LLMs for Regulatory and Operational Compliance"
Talk by Joseph Marvin Imperial (University of Bath)
Jan 30, 2025 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Nedjma Ousidhoum
Seminar: "Prudent NLG Evaluation with Humans"
Talk by Vilém Zouhar (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Jan 16, 2025 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Fernando Alva-Manchego
Seminar: "NLP for Under-resourced African Languages"
Talk by Shamsuddeen Muhammad (Imperial College London)
Jan 9, 2025 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Nedjma Ousidhoum

2024

Seminar: "The 'BERT moment' for Music - MERT: Large-Scale Self-supervised Training for Acoustic Music Understanding "
Talk by Chenghua Lin (University of Manchester)
Nov 21, 2024 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Reading Group: "Puns, LLMs and Explainability"
Lead by Alessandro Zangari (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Nov 7, 2024 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them"
Talk by Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge)
Oct 10, 2024 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Atom-based Approaches to Creating Interpretable NLI Models"
Talk by Joe Stacey (Apple/Imperial College London)
Oct 3, 2024 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Nedjma Ousidhoum
Seminar: "Interpreting Transformer Decisions"
Talk by Mohammad Taher Pilehvar (Cardiff University)
Jun 6, 2024 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
Seminar: "Evaluating the Spatial Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models"
Talk by Anthony Cohn (University of Leeds)
May 23, 2024 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Steven Schockaert
Seminar: "Knowledge Representation and Large Language Models"
Talks by Zhiwei Hu () and Xiaoqi Han ()
May 16, 2024 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Misinformed by Visualisations: Countering with Explainable Fact-Checking over Real-World Chart Images"
Talk by Mubashara Akhtar (King’s College London, UK)
Mar 7, 2024 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Context Mixing in Transformers"
Talk by Hosein Mohebbi (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Feb 29, 2024 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Cross-lingual Transfer Learning with Multilingual Masked Language Models"
Talk by Mamoru Komachi (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Feb 23, 2024 11:00 — 12:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Mining and Modeling Perspectives in NLP"
Talk by Valerio Basile (University of Turin, Italy)
Feb 22, 2024 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Capture Cognitive Biases: Discount Model and Trustworthiness Evaluation"
Talk by Hanbyul Song (Cardiff University)
Feb 15, 2024 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "NLP at AMPLYFI: From Raw Text to Actionable Market Reports in One Click"
Talk by Henrijs Princis (AMPLYFI)
Feb 1, 2024 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Luis Espinosa-Anke

2023

Seminar: "Low-Resource Text Generation: Gaelic, Shared Tasks, and Multitask Learning"
Talk by David M. Howcroft (Edinburgh Napier University)
Dec 14, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Fernando Alva-Manchego
Mock Presentations for EMNLP 2023
Various CardiffNLP members
Nov 30, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Large Language Models and Tabular Data"
Talk by Jorge Osés (Graphext and University of Jaén, Spain)
Nov 23, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Taking Automated Fact-checking to the Real World"
Talk by Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge)
Nov 16, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Are Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models just In-Context Learning?"
Talk by Harish Tayyar Madabushi (University of Bath)
Nov 9, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Fernando Alva-Manchego
Seminar: "NLP for Corpus Linguistics in Minoritised Contexts: Past, Present and Future Research Projects and Opportunities"
Talk by Dawn Knight (Cardiff University - ENCAP)
Nov 2, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Jose Camacho-Collados
Reading Group: "Probing Pretrained Language Models for Lexical Semantics"
Lead by Kiamehr Rezaee (Cardiff University - COMSC)
Sep 28, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Kiamehr Rezaee
Reading Group: "Bias Benchmarks for Question Answering"
Lead by Yi Zhou (Cardiff University - COMSC)
Sep 21, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws
Yi Zhou (Jodie)
[Internal] Quaterly Group Meeting
Sep 14, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Jose Camacho-Collados
Seminar: "Social bias in Embeddings and Masked Language Models"
Talk by Yi Zhou (Cardiff University - COMSC)
Sep 7, 2023 13:00 — 14:00 Abacws and Online
Yi Zhou (Jodie)
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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