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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 16d

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 · 19d

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...

Sign Up for the CardiffNLP Mailing List

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 · Aug 28

5️⃣DocMMIR: A Framework for Document Multi-modal Information Retrieval
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.19312 4/4

DocMMIR: A Framework for Document Multi-modal Information Retrieval

The rapid advancement of unsupervised representation learning and large-scale pre-trained vision-language models has significantly improved cross-modal retrieval tasks. However, existing multi-modal i...

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · Aug 28

3️⃣Social Good or Scientific Curiosity? Uncovering the Research Framing Behind NLP Artefacts
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.18677
4️⃣UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2506.01419 3/

Social Good or Scientific Curiosity? Uncovering the Research Framing Behind NLP Artefacts

Clarifying the research framing of NLP artefacts (e.g., models, datasets, etc.) is crucial to aligning research with practical applications. Recent studies manually analyzed NLP research across domain...

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · Aug 28

1️⃣Blind Men and the Elephant: Diverse Perspectives on Gender Stereotypes in Benchmark Datasets
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2501.01168
2️⃣NormXLogit: The Head-on-Top Never Lies
🔗https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16252
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Blind Men and the Elephant: Diverse Perspectives on Gender Stereotypes in Benchmark Datasets

The multifaceted challenge of accurately measuring gender stereotypical bias in language models is akin to discerning different segments of a broader, unseen entity. This short paper primarily focuses...

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · Aug 28

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 · Aug 25

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.**

EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Call for #EMNLP2025 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
CC @a-lauscher.bsky.social @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social

Call for Volunteers

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Aug 15

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

Call for Volunteers

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · Aug 8

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 · Aug 1

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 · Jul 30

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 · Jul 27

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
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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Jul 27

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
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · Jul 26

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 · Jul 25

🚨 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 · Jul 16

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 · Jul 16

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

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Jul 16

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!
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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thank you for visiting us!

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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · Jul 14

#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 · Jul 13

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 · Jul 10

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 · Jul 7

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

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stevenschockaert.bsky.social @stevenschockaert.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

Research Associate at Cardiff University

Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Jun 24

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...

MELT Workshop @meltworkshop.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚨 Deadline Extended 🚨
The MELT Workshop Track submission deadline is now June 30, 2025 (AoE).

We still welcome new & unpublished work:
abstracts (≤2 p) | shorts (≤5 p) | longs (≤9 p)

📌 Non-archival
🔗 Submit here → openreview.net/group?id=col...

#MELTWorkshop2025 #COLM2025

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