糖心TV

The Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at 糖心TV is comprised of PhD and postdoctoral students, professors and others who are interested in solving computational problems related to the understanding of human language. This encompasses a wide range of topics including sentiment analysis, topic/event extraction, question answering, cross-modal retrieval, text illustration, social media analysis and many more, typically approached with machine learning.

News:

• November 2024: Chen presented 鈥溾�� in the Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR) at EMNLP 2024.
  Chen also presented the 鈥溾�� at the TSAR Workshop at EMNLP 2024.
• September 2024: Sahrish Khan's approach, developed with Gabriele Pergola and Arshad Jhumka (University of Leeds) ranked 1st and 2nd (Team: EquityExplorer) in Task 1 (English segment) of CLEF 2024 with their paper 鈥溾�� presented in the Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2024.
• July 2024: Gabriele and Arshad's STAR-funded project with the NPCC Forensic Capability Network, titled 鈥�Development of an NLP model to detect threatening and abusive language used in communication with victims鈥� was featured by several national news outlets: | | | | |
• May 2024: Our students collaborated on the development and presentation of 鈥溾�� a comprehensive multi-source data visualization platform for drug safety information, presented at .
• May 2024: Daniela Valdes , with Gabriele Pergola, Dimitrios Spyridonidis, and Rob Procter, presented a at the Workshop of LatinX in AI (LXAI) Research, ICML 2024.

• April 2024: 鈥溾�� was published in The Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research.

• March 2024: The team presented 鈥溾�� at the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).

• February 2024: The paper 鈥溾�� was accepted at NAACL 2024.

• January 2024: 鈥淟everaging ChatGPT in Pharmacovigilance Event Extraction: An Empirical Study鈥� was presented at the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL).

Past Years:

• August 2023: The team introduced 鈥淢emoChat: Tuning LLMs to Use Memos for Consistent Long-Range Open-Domain Conversation,鈥� available on arXiv.

• May 2023: Dr. Gabriele Pergola delivered a talk titled 鈥淭he not-so-silent AI revolution: Chatbots and their Impact on Engaging Education鈥� at the Department of Psychology, University of 糖心TV.

• March 2023: The paper 鈥淓vent-Centric Question Answering via Contrastive Learning and Invertible Event Transformation鈥� was presented at the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL).

• December 2022: The team presented 鈥淧HEE: A Dataset for Pharmacovigilance Event Extraction from Text鈥� at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

• August 2022, Yulan He will deliver in the Oxford Machine Learning Summer School.
• August 2022, a paper on is accepted by the journal.
• July 2022, Gabriele Pergola will take the Assistant Professor post in the department in September. Congratulations!
• June 2022, Jun Wang has a paper on accepted to .
• May 2022, Yulan He's NLP work was featured in on the Partnership for Conflict, Crime & Security Research () website.
• May 2022, Gabriele Pergola has been awarded the 2022 Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (SEM) Thesis Prize in Computer Science.
• May 2022, we have a paper accepted to .
• April 2022, 3 papers accepted to .
• March 2022, Yulan He was invited to give a talk on machine reasoning for natural language understanding in .
• February 2022, 2 papers accepted to .
• February 2022, Yulan He was invited to give a talk on hierarchical interpretation of text classification in the University of Cambridge.
• February 2022, Yulan He was invited to give a talk on event-centric text understanding in Google.
• January 2022, Yulan He was featured in , an online magazine, discussing her work on and offering guidance to young people interested in AI and NLP.
• January 2022, a paper accepted to .
• December 2021, Yulan He will serve as the General Chair for .
• December 2021, Yulan He gave an invited talk on Topic-Driven Sentiment Analysis in the .
• August 2021, Lin Gui has on understanding patient reviews accepted to Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
• August 2021, 4 papers accepted to (3 main, 1 Findings).
• August 2021, Wenjia Zhang has a paper on multimodal fake news detection accepted to .
• August 2021, Yulan He delivered in the .
• June 2021, Rilwan Adewoyin has accepted to the journal.
• May 2021, Lin Gui has been promoted to Senior Research Fellow.
• May 2021, 5 papers accepted to (3 main, 2 Findings).
• March 2021, we have accepted to .
• January 2021, we have a paper accepted to , in collaboration with Harbin Institute of Technology.
• January 2021, 2 papers accepted to .
• December 2020, 2 papers accepted to , in collaboration with Southeast University.
• November 2020, Yulan He was among 15 UK academics to win a .
• October 2020, Yulan He and her then PhD student Chenghua Lin won the  in for published in CIKM 2009,
• September 2020, 2 papers accepted to .
• June 2020, Lin Gui won the "The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine Post-Doctoral Research Prize". Congratulations, Lin!
• May 2020, Lin Gui has accepted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• April 2020, Lixing Zhu has accepted to Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).
• April 2020, 3 papers accepted to .