Natural Language Processing

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 summarisation, sentiment analysis, as well as some of its application, such as in fake news detection, healthcare, etc.

Upcoming Talks

There are currently no future talks scheduled.

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Past Talks

☑ ❝Automatic Evaluation of Simplified Texts❞

by Dr Fernando Alva Manchego, Cardiff University | Feb 22nd 2022

☑ ❝A Medley of Event-Based Modality and Role Question Generation❞

by Valentina Pyatkin, Bar Ilan University (Israel) | Nov 23rd 2021

☑ ❝Improving Explanations for Model Predictions❞

by George Chrysostomou, University of Sheffield | Oct 25th 2021

☑ ❝Towards Document-Level Human MT Evaluation: what have we learned so far?❞

by Dr Sheila Castilho, ADAPT Centre | Jun 14th 2021

☑ ❝Translation & technology: tension and interaction❞

by Dr Félix do Carmo, University of Surrey | Jun 7th 2021

☑ ❝Gender, Bias and Language Technology❞

by Dr Eva Vanmassenhove, Tilburg University | May 24th 2021

☑ ❝(Simultaneous) Multimodal Machine Translation❞

by Dr Loïc Barrault, University of Sheffield | May 17th 2021

☑ ❝Automatic Assessment of Conceptual Text Complexity Using Knowledge Graphs❞

by Dr Sanja Štajner, ReadableAI | Mar 8th 2021

☑ ❝TransQuest: Translation Quality Estimation with Cross-lingual Transformers❞

by Tharindu Ranasinghe, University of Wolverhampton | Oct 1st 2020

☑ ❝Gender Profiling❞

by Dr Emad Mohamed, University of Wolverhampton | Jul 7th 2020

☑ ❝Text Simplification❞

by Dr Richard Evans, University of Wolverhampton | Jul 2nd 2020

☑ ❝Offensive Language Detection❞

by Dr Marcos Zampieri, Rochester Institute of Technology | Jun 26th 2020

☑ ❝Applying Behavioural Data to NLP Models: The Case of Eye Tracking❞

by Dr Victoria Yaneva, NBME, USA & University of Wolverhampton | Jun 25th 2020

☑ ❝Statistical Significance Tests for NLP Applications❞

by Dr Le An Ha, University of Wolverhampton | Jun 18th 2020

☑ ❝NLP for Generation of Multiple-Choice Tests❞

by Prof Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton | Jun 15th 2020

☑ ❝Fake News Detection❞

by Hadeel Saadany, University of Wolverhampton | Jun 11th 2020

☑ ❝ Deep Learning for Language Generation❞

by Zeeshan Sayed, Indiana University | Jun 9th 2020

☑ ❝Attaining the Unattainable? Reassessing Claims of Human Parity in Neural Machine Translation & Classifying nouns in Portuguese into gender categories: a deep learning approach❞

by Dr Sheila Castilho and Dr Natalia Resende, ADAPT Centre | Nov 19th 2018