SheffieldNLP

Heading to #ACL2025NLP this weekend? Don’t miss the amazing work from SheffieldNLP!

Check them out & come chat with us in Vienna! 🇦🇹👋📰

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...

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)!

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!🌺

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!

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🤖📚

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

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

Zheng Yuan ‪Assistant Professor, King’s College London; Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge‬ - ‪‪Cited by 1,649‬‬ - ‪NLP‬ - ‪EdTech‬ - ‪Educational NLP‬ - ‪CALL‬

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😊🌺
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🚀 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)

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🔥🚀

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...

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

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

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

🚀 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...

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! 😊✨

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...

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...

🎉 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! 👀

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-...

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...

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

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...

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...

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!

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!

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...

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!

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...

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!

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...

Computer-assisted screening in systematic evidence synthesis requires robust and well-evaluated stopping criteria
@mark-stevenson.bsky.social
systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

How to Leverage Digit Embeddings to Represent Numbers?
@jasivan.bsky.social
t.co/MtIaPnPGss

From Facts to Insights: A Study on the Generation and Evaluation of Analytical Reports for Deciphering Earnings Calls

arxiv.org/abs/2410.01039 @coling2025

🎉 Exciting news from SheffieldNLP! Check out our recent publications featured at COLING 2025 and in Systematic Reviews journal! 📚✨

Transnational Access Scheme Grants Facilitating access to digital research infrastructures and advancing frontier knowledge in the arts and humanities - across disciplines, languages and media.

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/

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! 🎄✨