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Are you attending #emnlp2022? Tomas Goldsack will be presenting his paper (with with Zhihao Zhang, Chenghua Lin, and Carolina Scarton) "Making Science Simple: Corpora for the Lay Summarisation of Scientific Literature" in Poster session 8, 9-10:30am on Saturday in the Atrium.

Excited to share that our long paper, "Domain-driven and Discourse-guided Scientific Summarisation", has been accepted to #ECIR2023! 🥳Collaboration with Zhihao Zhang, Chenghua Lin, and Carolina Scarton. See you in Dublin🇮🇪 #NLProc Sheffield NLP CDT in Speech and Language Technologies

BioNLP 2023 and shared tasks @ ACL 2023 aclweb.org/aclwiki/BioNLP… UoM Institute for Data Science & AI Digital Futures UoM NaCTeM @ManUni

Come join us for our launch event on March 9th! We have 10 lightning talks covering all areas of speech and language technology (SLT). There will be free pizza and an opportunity to meet others with a shared interest in SLT! Don't miss it, sign up here: forms.gle/oCEmboLWdkPCiv…

.Tomas Goldsack gave a great presentation on the findings of the BioLaySumm shared task at the BioNLP workshop. A lot of interesting questions from the audiences.

📢 We're happy to announce that our group has 12 papers accepted to #EMNLP2023 (6 main, 6 findings) 🧵⬇️ Congratulations to all our members and collaborators! 🥳 #NLProc

My group has 8 papers accepted to #EMNLP2023 (5 main and 3 findings), covering topics including abs./lay summarisation, context compression for LLM, distillation, contrastive learning, and human eval for esoteric languages (e.g. humor). Congrats to my students and collaborators!

If you are at #emnlp2023, check the presentations from two of my students: Tomas Goldsack: Enhancing Biomedical Lay Summarisation with External Knowledge Graphs (9/12 11am) Freddy Heppell: Analysing state-backed propaganda websites: a new dataset and linguistic study (10/12 9am)

I've a PhD project available on Learning Robust Representations for Speech and Text, co-supervised with Nancy F. Chen (Astar, I2R). You'll spend half of your PhD at Manchester and the other half at Astar in Singapore. Application deadline: 20 Mar. Project link: 👇

The third edition of the BioLaySumm shared task launches today with a new multi-modal track! Check it out if you're interested in using AI to broaden access to Biomedical articles and reports