Pleased to share our #ACL2026 #NLProc paper on W&C-Sent, a dataset of social perception toward individuals and social groups in text. Led by my MSc student Mutaz Ayesh and co-authored with Saif M. Mohammad, who will present it today (Poster Session E, Coronado 11:00–12:30) 📄 👇 1/

🚨 Hi #NLP #ACL community, The Resources and Evaluation track is looking for emergency reviewers for the ARR May round. If you've reviewed for ARR before and can complete a review by **6 July (AoE) **, please reach out. Thank you!

It has been an exciting few months for me as a PhD researcher!✨ 🏆 I received a Doctoral Recognition Award @uniofbath.bsky.social 🍺 Spoke at @pintofscience.uk 🇩🇪 Presented at the Construction Grammar, Creativity & AI Workshop 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Exchanged ideas at the Cardiff NLP Workshop @cardiffnlp.bsky.social

🚨 Registration is now open for the 5th Cardiff NLP Summer #NLP Workshop! 📝 forms.gle/GW4gZiijDusz... 📅 Deadline: 5 June 2026 Priority for EoI submissions, but a few extra places may be available. More info: www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org

Registration Form - 5th Cardiff NLP Workshop

Please register for the Cardiff NLP Workshop (22–23 June, in person only) by completing the form below so that we can tailor the workshop to provide the best possible experience. Free Registration is...

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We're looking for a postdoctoral research associate, to work on reasoning in multimodal generative models: Deadline for applications: 20th May Location: Cardiff, UK Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH404/r... @cardiffnlp.bsky.social

Research Associate at Cardiff University

Recruiting now: Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Final call: The ARR commitment deadline for *SEM 2026 (with #ACL2026) is today (10 April 23:59 AoE). You can submit your previously reviewed #NLP papers via ARR here: openreview.net/group?id=acl...

*SEM@starsem.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Direct ARR submission link for *SEM 2026 is now available! If you are submitting via ARR, please commit your papers to *SEM using the link below: openreview.net/group?id=acl... Find out more: starsem2026.github.io Contact the organizers: startsem-2026-pcs@googlegroups.com

New📄(accepted at #ACL2026NLP main): W&C-Sent: 1.6k+ English sentences from social media labeled for perceived warmth (trust, sociability) & competence toward individuals and target groups (key for studying stereotypes, biased lgge, & other #NLP and #CSS applications). arxiv.org/abs/2601.06316

Annotating Dimensions of Social Perception in Text: The First Sentence-Level Dataset of Warmth and Competence

Warmth (W) (often further broken down into Trust (T) and Sociability (S)) and Competence (C) are central dimensions along which people evaluate individuals and social groups (Fiske, 2018). While these...

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📢 Direct ARR submission link for *SEM 2026 is now available! If you are submitting via ARR, please commit your papers to *SEM using the link below: openreview.net/group?id=acl... Find out more: starsem2026.github.io Contact the organizers: startsem-2026-pcs@googlegroups.com

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/

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/

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...

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@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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😊

Cardiff NLP@cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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!

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...

*SEM@starsem.bsky.social · 8mo ago

*SEM IS BACK! Welcome to the 15th edition of *Sem, co-located with ACL-2026 in San Diego, CA, on July 6, 2026. The first call for papers for long and short papers with direct submissions is out! The deadline is Feb 13, 2026. Please check starsem2026.github.io/calls/. #nlproc #nlp #cl #NLP #MLSky

🚨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...

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

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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!

@nlperspectives.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Detailed programme now up on website. Looking forward to 14 research papers, results of the 3rd Shared Task on Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi), a talk from @camachocollados.bsky.social, and a panel discussion feat. Jose, Eve Fleisig, and @beiduo.bsky.social. See you in Room A305 or online!

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!]

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 ...

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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...

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...

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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.**

EMNLP@emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The Call for #EMNLP2025 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 CC @a-lauscher.bsky.social @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social

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!

Nedjma Ousidhoum@nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · last yr.

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

ACL@aclmeeting.bsky.social · last yr.

Best Resource Paper (1/2) #ACL2025NLP

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/