The 1st CFP for *SEM2026 is out (co-located with #ACL2026 #NLP)! -CFP starsem2026.github.io/calls/ -Blogpost on what's new & FAQs (by PCs [Saif M. Mohammad and me]) starsem2026.github.io/blog/ -Please fill out this form if you would like to serve as a reviewer or AC: forms.gle/9V4FaP5HqNJb...

🚨I'm recruiting a fully funded EPSRC PhD student (start 2026/27) to work with me and Mohammad Taher Pilehvar on multilingual misinformation and online harms in #NLP. (the position is open to UK and international students.) Details and contact information 👇: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I'll be at the NLPerspectives workshop tomorrow, giving a talk on "Cultural Awareness in Multilingual LLMs" in the morning and then being part of a panel discussion in the afternoon. Come join and share your perspectives on the topic!

If you're an #NLP researcher willing to do an ethics review for @eaclmeeting.bsky.social (ARR Oct2025 cycle, please fill out this form: forms.gle/bPTqTRQnkFZJ... [You may or may not get an assignment by the end of Nov/early Dec, but your volunteering is very much appreciated!]

Our Cardiff #NLProc group members and collaborators have had several papers accepted at #EMNLP2025 and #NeurIPS2025! If you're attending #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou or online, check out our posters. Links to the accepted papers are below:👇 📘 EMNLP 2025 (Main) 1/

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).