SheffieldNLP
@sheffieldnlp.bsky.social
Established 1993, the University of Sheffield's #NLProc Group is one of the UK's largest natural language processing research centres.
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🎉 A warm welcome to Delvin Ce Zhang who recently joined us as a Lecturer!
His research applies Multi-Modal LLMs to real-world tasks like misinformation detection, recommender systems, and AI for science. Excited to have him on board and for many collaborations! 🌺🚀
sites.google.com/view/delvinc...
His research applies Multi-Modal LLMs to real-world tasks like misinformation detection, recommender systems, and AI for science. Excited to have him on board and for many collaborations! 🌺🚀
sites.google.com/view/delvinc...
Delvin Ce Zhang
Delvin Ce Zhang
sites.google.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🎉 A warm welcome to Delvin Ce Zhang who recently joined us as a Lecturer!
His research applies Multi-Modal LLMs to real-world tasks like misinformation detection, recommender systems, and AI for science. Excited to have him on board and for many collaborations! 🌺🚀
sites.google.com/view/delvinc...
His research applies Multi-Modal LLMs to real-world tasks like misinformation detection, recommender systems, and AI for science. Excited to have him on board and for many collaborations! 🌺🚀
sites.google.com/view/delvinc...
🚀 Thrilled to share SheffieldNLP’s accepted papers at @emnlpmeeting #EMNLP2025! 🎉
Here’s a poster with (most of) them, a few more will be added soon!
We’ll also highlight preprints in this thread as they appear ⬇️
Here’s a poster with (most of) them, a few more will be added soon!
We’ll also highlight preprints in this thread as they appear ⬇️
August 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🚀 Thrilled to share SheffieldNLP’s accepted papers at @emnlpmeeting #EMNLP2025! 🎉
Here’s a poster with (most of) them, a few more will be added soon!
We’ll also highlight preprints in this thread as they appear ⬇️
Here’s a poster with (most of) them, a few more will be added soon!
We’ll also highlight preprints in this thread as they appear ⬇️
Heading to #ACL2025NLP this weekend? Don’t miss the amazing work from SheffieldNLP!
Check them out & come chat with us in Vienna! 🇦🇹👋📰
Check them out & come chat with us in Vienna! 🇦🇹👋📰
July 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Heading to #ACL2025NLP this weekend? Don’t miss the amazing work from SheffieldNLP!
Check them out & come chat with us in Vienna! 🇦🇹👋📰
Check them out & come chat with us in Vienna! 🇦🇹👋📰
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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...
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...
May 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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...
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...
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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)!
May 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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!🌺
Inspiring talks, thoughtful discussions, and plenty of time to connect. Thanks to all who joined and made it special!🌺
May 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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!🌺
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!
Congrats to all authors, especially our first-time PhD presenters! 🎉
Thread coming soon with details on each paper!
May 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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!
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🤖📚
May 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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🤖📚
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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
** Apply now! Deadline: 13 Apr 2025 **
slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/apply
#speech #nlp #nlproc #research #sheffield
April 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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
** Apply now! Deadline: 13 Apr 2025 **
slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/apply
#speech #nlp #nlproc #research #sheffield
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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
Join us! Sept 2025 start!
** Apply now! Deadline: 13 Apr 2025 **
slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/apply
#speech #nlp #nlproc #research #sheffield
March 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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
Join us! Sept 2025 start!
** Apply now! Deadline: 13 Apr 2025 **
slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/apply
#speech #nlp #nlproc #research #sheffield
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😊🌺
scholar.google.co.uk/citations?us...
Welcome aboard😊🌺
scholar.google.co.uk/citations?us...
Zheng Yuan
Assistant Professor, King’s College London; Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge - Cited by 1,649 - NLP - EdTech - Educational NLP - CALL
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March 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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😊🌺
scholar.google.co.uk/citations?us...
Welcome aboard😊🌺
scholar.google.co.uk/citations?us...
🚀 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)
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)
🚀 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...
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...
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
www.jobs.ac.uk
February 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🚀 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)
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🔥🚀
February 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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🔥🚀
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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
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...
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February 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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
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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
arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05151
February 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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
arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05151
🚀 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...
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...
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
www.jobs.ac.uk
February 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🚀 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...
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! 😊✨
February 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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! 😊✨
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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...
#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...
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...
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February 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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...
#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! 👀
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! 👀
January 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🎉 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! 👀
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! 👀
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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-...
aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
January 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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-...
aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
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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
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
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...
arxiv.org
December 22, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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
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
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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...
Info and how to apply:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI664/l...
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...
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January 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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...
Info and how to apply:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI664/l...
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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!
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...
www.veraai.eu/posts/usfd-p...
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!
www.veraai.eu
January 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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!
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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...
www.veraai.eu/posts/usfd-p...
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!
www.veraai.eu
December 20, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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...
www.veraai.eu/posts/usfd-p...
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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...
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!
www.veraai.eu
December 9, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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...
www.veraai.eu/posts/projec...