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/

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...

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/

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.**

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

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!

And our SemEval task won the best task award! 🥳 Co-led with Shamsuddeen Muhammad and Saif M. Mohammad. Thanks to all the team members!

Our ✨BRIGHTER✨ paper won the a best resource paper award at @aclmeeting.bsky.social #ACL2025! Big thanks to all the team members!

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 2/

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 1/

Loved giving my second tutorial on steering vectors at #CardiffNLPWorkshop Lots of enthusiastic participants! @cardiffnlp.bsky.social

🚨 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! 🌍

Looking forward to seeing many of you at our next edition and do say hi if you’re attending #ACL2025 in Vienna! 3/3

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

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! 1/3

#CardiffNLPWorkshop off to a flying start with talks from Jennifer Foster and Marianna Apidianaki @cardiffnlp.bsky.social

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

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!

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

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

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...

Hi #NLP BlueSky, I'm looking for 2 emergency reviewers for this ARR round (multilinguality/LLM evaluation). Please reach out if you can help. Thank you!

Don’t forget to register for our Cardiff #NLP Workshop **today**! 🗓️ Fill out the registration form here: forms.gle/EQDfwXv487tS... ✨Registration is free! ✨ We have: ✨ Amazing speakers and an interdisciplinary research session.✨ 💻A Tutorial 📍A poster session ☕🍪Networking, coffee, and Welsh cakes.

🚨 Call for Submissions – MELT Workshop @colmweb.org 2025 🌍 We invite papers on regionally grounded, culturally aware language technologies. 🛠️ Two tracks: — Workshop Track — Conference Track Details below ⬇️ #MeltWorkshop2025

🚨#ACL2025 position paper on key challenges in creating resources for mid- to low-resource lgges emphasising that data in #NLP is not merely a collection of tokens, but is rooted in cultural and social contexts. Based on 81 responses from researchers working on >70lgges 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2410.12691 1/🧵

Don't forget to register for our Cardiff #NLP Hackathon, organised by @zarasiddique.bsky.social, before June 1st! Register here: forms.gle/5k3joqckp6eW...

Pleased to say this has been accepted to ACL System Demos :)

Come to my hackathon! Last one was super fun I promise

Announcing... Cardiff NLP's second hackathon! Join us on the 10th and 11th of June for two days of code 💻, pizza 🍕and networking. Open to all! Register your interest here: forms.gle/dG6F2Pbuy4H7...

Check out our group's accepted papers at #ACL2025 and #KDD2025. Preprints available for the following papers 👇 1/

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06262 Docs: cardiffnlp.github.io/dialz/ Repo: github.com/cardiffnlp/d... A Python package to help you create, apply and visualise steering vectors for anything you want - from sycophancy to bias.

New friends! Old friends! Please register if you’d like 2 whole days packed with NLP fun

The registration for the Cardiff #NLP Workshop is open forms.gle/dEE6xucksdsc... 📅Deadline: 6 June. Priority will be given to those who completed the EoI, but we have a few additional places available! Check out the list of amazing speakers and find out more on our website www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org

I'm looking for a postdoctoral research associate to work on InteGraL (“Interpretable Graph-Based Machine Learning”), a three year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Deadline: 4th June Details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DMZ697/r... @cardiffnlp.bsky.social

And happy to share that our paper *WORLDCUISINES: A massive-scale benchmark for multilingual and multicultural visual question answering on global cuisines* won ✨ the Best Theme Paper Award ✨ at #NAACL2025. Thanks to @gentaiscool.bsky.social for leading this fun project! 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2410.12705

If you're attending #NAACL2025 in 2 days, check out the accepted papers from our Cardiff #NLP group members and collaborators!

Our @cardiffnlp.bsky.social team and collaborators have been releasing amazing NLP models and datasets over the last few years. We've now organised the content as @hf.co collections 🤗 A short thread summarising some of these NLP resources, in particular related to social media! 🧵

Check out the accepted papers from the Cardiff NLP group and collaborators at upcoming #NLProc and #ML conferences! We'll be presenting several papers at #NAACL2025 (main conference, demos, and workshops), #ICLR2025, and #CVPR2025. Preprints are available for the following papers 👇: 1/

Really cool event. Consider going! #sciencerocks

The deadline for the EoI is tomorrow (April 11th)! We have: ✨6 confirmed speakers. ✨A session on interdisciplinary research. ✨A tutorial. ✨A panel discussion. ✨Poster and networking sessions.

Join us in July for the Cardiff #NLP Workshop by completing this form: forms.gle/TvqnzAbKVYQn... (before 11 April): 5 confirmed speakers (& more to come!), a tutorial, short talks, and a poster session www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org The registration is ✨free✨ with some affordable accommodation options!

The website has four main functionalities : upload, download, search and label metaphor datasets.

Check out MetaphorShare! Over 25 metaphor datasets included so far - and an easy way to share your own datasets with the community! #NAACL2025

💫 We'll present our MetaphorShare website in a system demo paper at NAACL next month 🔷 MetaphorShare is a collaborative repository of open metaphor datasets done with my supervisor Jose Camacho Collados @camachocollados.bsky.social and Arif Mehmood @arifm16.bsky.social on the website development

Last week, we had the pleasure to host Jingxuan Chen who presented SPA-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for SmartPhone Agent Evaluation (accepted at #ICLR2025 [spotlight] arxiv.org/abs/2410.15164).

NEW PAPER 📜 Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vector Ensembles for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05371 GitHub: github.com/groovychoons... Extremely Unofficial Blog Post: zarasiddique.com/blog/shiftin...

Come join us at the 4th Cardiff NLP Workshop! 🤖 2 days with invited talks, tutorials, panels, poster presentations, networking and much more! Free registration and affordable accommodation options available. 🌐 Website: www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org ✍️ EoI form: forms.gle/AstZ4DHVLQB1...

Strongly encourage you to register for our free NLP workshop, previously had speakers from DeepMind, Microsoft, Amazon and top university NLP labs etc. and it’s looking like it’s going to be a great line up this year too. If you can’t make it, please share with others who may be interested!

The Cardiff #NLP workshop is happening this Summer! Free registration, speakers from academia and industry, and a poster session. For more information see 👇

The 4th Cardiff #NLP Workshop will take place on the 14-15 July 2025! 📍 Cardiff (Wales, UK) ✨Free registration and some accommodation options!✨ ℹ️ For more information: www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org 📝 Join us by completing the expression of interest form: forms.gle/rY1YCDgcjFDt...