UCREL NLP Research Centre

Hindi Reading Comprehension: Do Large Language Models Exhibit Semantic Understanding? Daisy Monika Lal, Paul Rayson and Mo El-Haj
The Nakba Lexicon: Building a Comprehensive Dataset from Palestinian Literature. Izza AbuHaija, Salim Al Mandhari, Mo El-Haj, Jonas Sibony and Paul Rayson

W21: The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) (online) (wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/)

Papers:
LENS: Learning Entities from Narratives of Skin Cancer. Daisy Monika Lal, Paul Rayson, Christopher Peter, Ignatius Ezeani, Mo El-Haj, Yafei Zhu and Yufeng Liu

W16: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (@loreslm.bsky.social) (loreslm.github.io)
W17: The 1st International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources (Nakba-NLP 2025) (online) (sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp/)

W10: The Joint Workshop of the 9th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP), the 6th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP), and the 1st Workshop on Large Language Models for Finance and Legal (LLMFinLegal) (sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu...)

Workshops:
W1: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2025) (wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/)
W15: IndoNLP: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages (indonlp-workshop.github.io/IndoNLP-Work...)

The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics Abu Dhabi, UAE

It's a busy week for many members of the UCREL NLP group who are leading workshops and involved in other papers at the COLING2025 conference (coling2025.org), including the following: 🧵

Hello world, from the UCREL group at Lancaster University!