Seminar Lead: Dr Frédéric Blain
Here you will find details of our Research Seminars. If you would like to be sent the meeting link, please contact April Harper, who will be able to provide you with log on details. They provisionally take place on Wednesdays and Fridays.
The seminar series on Natural Language Processing will offer the opportunity to our students to hear from researchers and industry practitioners about the most recent developments in the field. Among the research areas relevant to NLP, the seminar series shall cover work on machine translation, text categorisation and summarization, sentiment analysis, as well as some of its application, such as in fake news detection, healthcare, etc.
— Upcoming Seminars in this series
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— Past Seminars in this series
If you would like to read about past research seminars, they are detailed on the Blog Archive.
| date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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| 23.11.21 | Valentina Pyatkin | Bar Ilan University | A Medley of Event-Based Modality and Role Question Generation |
| 25.10.21 | George Chrysostomou | University of Sheffield | Improving Explanations for Model Predictions |
| 14.06.21 | Dr Sheila Castilho | ADAPT Centre | Towards Document-Level Human MT Evaluation: what have we learned so far? |
| 07.06.21 | Dr Félix do Carmo | University of Surrey | Translation & technology: tension and interaction |
| 24.05.21 | Dr Eva Vanmassenhove | Tilburg University | Gender, Bias and Language Technology |
| 17.05.21 | Dr Loic Barrault | University of Sheffield | (Simultaneous) Multimodal Machine Translation |
| 08.03.21 | Dr Sanja Stajner | ReadableAI | Automatic Assessment of Conceptual Text Complexity Using Knowledge Graphs |
| 01.10.20 | Tharindu Ranasinghe | University of Wolverhampton | TransQuest: Translation Quality Estimation with Cross-lingual Transformers |
| 07.07.20 | Dr Emad Mohamed | University of Wolverhampton | Gender Profiling |
| 02.0.7.20 | Dr Richard Evans | University of Wolverhampton | Text Simplification |
| 25.06.20 | Dr Victoria Yaneva | NBME, USA & University of Wolverhampton | Applying Behavioural Data to NLP Models: The Case of Eye Tracking |
| 26.06.20 | Dr Marcos Zampieri | Rochester Institute of Technology | Offensive Language Detection |
| 18.06.20 | Dr Le An Ha | University of Wolverhampton | Statistical Significance Tests for NLP Applications |
| 15.06.20 | Prof Ruslan Mitkov | University of Wolverhampton | NLP for Generation of Multiple-Choice Tests |
| 11.06.20 | Hadeel Saadany | University of Wolverhampton | Fake News Detection |
| 09.06.20 | Zeeshan Sayed | Indiana University | Deep Learning for Language Generation |
| 19.11.18 | Dr Sheila Castilho | ADAPT Centre | Attaining the Unattainable? Reassessing Claims of Human Parity in Neural Machine Translation |