Cardiff NLP

Hi #NLP Bluesky, the Multilinguality track at #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social needs emergency reviewers. If you can complete one or two reviews before February 15, please reach out. Thank you!

Final Call for Papers: *SEM 2026

The Clock is Ticking! Submit your direct paper to *SEM 2026 now!
Direct submissions are due on February 13th, 2026 (AoE). Submit your papers to OpenReview using the link below.
openreview.net/group?id=acl...

Find more details in: starsem2026.github.io/calls/

- The event is aimed primarily at PhD students, early-career researchers, and those with an interest in NLP (+ NLP researchers & practitioners more broadly).
- We'll have speakers from industry and academia, along with tutorials, networking opportunities, & a poster session. 2/2

Cardiff NLP Cardiff NLP Group is organising an in-person workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP). It will take place on 22-23 June 2026 in Abacws, the School of Computer Science and Mathematics' building at...

Pleased to announce the 5th Cardiff #NLP Workshop!
📍Cardiff 📅 22–23 June 2026
🌐 More information (to be regularly updated): www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org
👉 If you’re interested in attending, please complete the EoI by 11 April: forms.gle/ypUBEpVhfoUh...
Registration is ✨free✨1/

@cardiffnlp.bsky.social is hiring PhD students!

🇬🇧🇪🇺 Full PhD scholarship open to UK/EU students
⏲️ Application deadline: February 13th

List of projects and supervisors below (FindAPhD for more details):

1️⃣ Interpretability-Guided Compression and Acceleration of Large Language Models (Taher Pilehvar)

Thanks so much for having me and for the warm welcome! My first visit to Wales didn't disappoint 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😊

Agostina Calabrese presenting at the Cardiff NLP seminar. Slide titled "who defines content moderation guidelines?"

This week at our Cardiff #NLP seminar, we had the pleasure of hosting @agostinacal.bsky.social, who presented her work on "Reframing Content Moderation: Guideline-Driven and Explainable Hate Speech Detection."
Thank you for the great talk, and thank you for visiting us!

If you missed the #ACL2026 #NLP deadline, you can still submit to *SEM2026 @starsem.bsky.social (co-located with @aclmeeting.bsky.social in San Diego).
📅 Submission deadline: 13 February.
- Links to CFP, blogpost & FAQs, and Programme Committee self-nomination form below 👇1/2

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...

Designing Reliable NLP Systems for Cross-Lingual Information Environments at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Designing Reliable NLP Systems for Cross-Lingual Information Environments at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨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!

EACL2026 Ethics Reviewing Questions and Feedback: If you have any questions or feedback, please contact Nedjma Ousidhoum OusidhoumN [at] Cardiff (dot) ac (dot) uk. About Ethics Reviewing: Ethics reviews typically require less ...

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!]

1️⃣1️⃣ DocMMIR: A Framework for Document Multi-modal Information Retrieval (Li et al.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
1️⃣2️⃣ Evaluating Cultural Knowledge and Reasoning in LLMs Through Persian Allusions (Nobakhtian et al.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.finding... 7/7

9️⃣ Grouping Entities with Shared Properties using Multi-Facet Prompting and Property Embeddings (Gajbhiye et al.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
📘 EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
🔟 Extracting Conceptual Spaces from LLMs Using Prototype Embeddings (Kumar et al.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.finding... 6/

7️⃣ Annotating Training Data for Conditional Semantic Textual Similarity Measurement using Large Language Models (Zhang et al.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
8️⃣ Less Is MuRE: Revisiting Shallow Knowledge Graph Embeddings (Charpenay et al.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... 5/

5️⃣ NormXLogit: The Head-on-Top Never Lies (Abbasi et al.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
6️⃣ Social Good or Scientific Curiosity? Uncovering the Research Framing Behind NLP Artefacts (Chamoun et al.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... 4/

3️⃣ UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment (Imperial et al.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
4️⃣ Blind Men and the Elephant: Diverse Perspectives on Gender Stereotypes in Benchmark Datasets (Zakizadeh et al.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... 3/

1️⃣ MORABLES: A Benchmark for Assessing Abstract Moral Reasoning in LLMs with Fables (Marcuzzo et al.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
2️⃣ Pun Unintended: LLMs and the Illusion of Humor Understanding (Zangari et al.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... 2/

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/

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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/

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...

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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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!