📢 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!
The *SEM 2026 deadline is in 4 days! If you missed the #ACL2026NLP deadline, you can still submit to *SEM 2026 (co-located with #ACL2026 #NLProc.
See links below 👇
(Many thanks to our publicity chair @hsuvas.bsky.social!)
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)
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!
🌐Website: starsem2026.github.io
🔗 CFP: starsem2026.github.io/calls/
📍Blogpost & FAQs: starsem2026.github.io/blog/
🚨Reviewers and AC self-nomination form: forms.gle/Aiv2Kv2eF3hj...
- General Chair: Mark Stevenson
- PCs Saif M. Mohammad & myself
- Publicity Chair @hsuvas.bsky.social 2/2
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...
🚨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...
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!]
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/
Just 1 day to go!
Join us tomorrow for the 1st Multilingual & Equitable Language Technologies (MELT) Workshop at @colmweb.org 2025.
📍 Room 520D
🕗 8:45am – 5:00pm
Check the full schedule 👉 melt-workshop.github.io/schedule/
We can’t wait to welcome you! 🌍✨
#MELTWorkshop2025 #COLM2025
Please note that #EMNLP2025 volunteer notifications have been sent. If you haven’t received yours, please check your spam folder or contact the chairs at emnlp2025-student-volunteer-chairs@googlegroups.com as some email addresses were entered incorrectly in the form
Shu-Kai Hsieh, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Pintu Lohar, Gareth Morlais, Rifki Afina Putri, Younes Samih, Nureman Sateemae, Johan Sjons, Bryan Tan, Asahi Ushio, Weihua Zheng, Liu Zhengyuan, Alice Oh, Jose Camacho-Collados 5/5
Co-organised with Junho Myung, Carla Perez-Almendros, Jiho Jin, Yi Zhou, Chenyang Lyu, Meriem Beloucif, Amr Keleg, Rodrigo Agerri, Vladimir Araujo, Naomi Baes, James Barry, Joanne Boisson, Nancy F. Chen, Christine de Kock, Aleksandra Edwards, Joseba Fernandez de Landa, Mohamed Fazli, Huda Hakami, 4/
💻 GitHub repo (for more information): github.com/BLEnD-SemEva...
**Important dates**
- Sample data ready: 8 Aug 2025
- Eval: ~10–31 Jan 2026
- Paper submission: ~Feb 2026
- Workshop: Summer 2026 3/
The task is evaluation-only & aims to assess models' ability to generalise to unseen loges contexts.
**Tracks**
1️⃣ SAQ: generate short answers in the target language.
2️⃣ MCQ: pick the culturally correct option for each region.
2/
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...
To everyone in the #EMNLP2025 community, we are aware of the issue regarding delays in responses to visa requests, and are actively working to find a viable solution to the visa invitation letter issue.
#EMNLP2025 is offering Virtual Registration Subsidies for those who would otherwise be unable to attend.
Note that these are only available for participants who are NOT registering any paper.
To apply, please read the details here, and fill out the linked form: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/virtua...
#EMNLP2025 is offering diversity and inclusion funds for registration, caregiving, bandwidth, travel and VPN subsidies.
To apply, please carefully read the requirements on this page, and follow the link that is provided there, by September 24, 2025: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/subsid...
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.**
Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
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!
