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June 2025

Andreas Vlachos presented a talk titled Fact-checking as a Conversation at ELLIS Workshop on Misinformation 

 

Detection.

Ieva Raminta Staliunaite has been accepted for the Alan Turing Institute Enrichment Scheme. She will be participating 

 

 

in the programme from October 2025 to June 2026.

May 2025

Professor Andreas Vlachos gave a talk at the Pint of Science Festival on AI-driven fact-checking and the spread of

 

 

information, highlighting how artificial intelligence can support evidence-based public discourse.

April 2025

At the recent CST Ring event, the Publication of the Year award was presented to Pietro Lesci, Clara Meister, Thomas

 

 

Hofmann, Andreas Vlachos, and Tiago Pimentel for their paper, “Causal Estimation of Memorisation Profiles.” Chosen

 

 

from over 40 submissions in a Department-wide selection process, their work was recognised for its significant

 

 

contribution to a vital area of research.

March 2025

Yulong Chen and Andreas Vlachos have successfully secured funding for their project through the Language Sciences

 

 

Incubator.

We are organizing the 8th FEVER at ACL in Vienna.

We are organizing AthNLP2025 in Athens in September 2025.

Julius Cheng, Maike Züfle, Vilém Zouhar, and Andreas Vlachos are presenting a paper A Bayesian Optimization

 

 

 

Approach to Machine Translation Reranking at NAACL 2025.

Ieva Raminta Staliunaite and Andreas Vlachos are presenting a paper Dis2Dis: Explaining Ambiguity in Fact-Checking

 

 

at NAACL 2025, which will be published in April 2025.

January 2025

The papers PolyPythias: Stability and Outliers across Fifty Language Model Pre-Training Runs (first author) and Self-

 

 

Training Large Language Models for Tool-Use Without Demonstrations have been accepted, respectively, at ICLR 2025

 

 

and NAACL 2025 (Findings)

November 2024

 

 Ieva Raminta Staliunaite presented a paper published by the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 

 

 

 and won the Best Presentation Award.

 

 

We are organising the 7^th FEVER workshop and presenting The Automated Verification of Textual Claims (AVeriTeC)

 

 

 

Shared Task.

Pietro Lesci has been recognised as one of the Outstanding Reviewers for EMNLP 2024!

At EMNLP 2024 we presented our work spanning fact-checking, active learning, dialogue assessment and zero-shot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

verification.

Our “Large Language Model Memorization (L2M2)” workshop proposal has been accepted at ACL 2025 🎉 Jointly

 

 

proposed with Robin Jia, Verna Dankers, Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, Pratyush Maini, Yangsibo Huang, Eric Wallace,

 

 

and Tiago Pimentel.

During October and November 2024, Pietro Lesci was invited to present his research at several departments and

 

 

universities:

 

 

20 Nov 2024 Invited by Prof Anne Lauscher, the University of Hamburg. 

 

 

 

 

15 Nov 2024 Invited by Prof Qingyuan Zhao, University of Cambridge, Department of Pure Mathematics and




                      
                      Mathematical Statistics.

 

 

 

12 Nov 2024 Invited by Prof Mateja Jamnik, the University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and

                      

                      Technology.

 

 

06 Nov 2024 Invited by Xianda Sun, Ben Slater, and Isaac Reid, the Machine Learning Reading Group at CUED at the




                      
                      University of Cambridge.

 

 

 

14 Oct 2024 Invited by Ryan Chan, Giulia Occhini, and Federico Nanni, the Alan Turing Institute.

 

 

 
10 Oct 2024 Invited by Prof Nedjma Ousidhoum and Prof Jose Camacho Collados, Cardiff University, School of




                     
                     Computer Science and Informatics.

 

 

 
08 Oct 2024 Invited by Julius Cheng and Ieva Raminta Staliunaite, the NLIP Reading Group at the University of




                     
                     Cambridge.

 

 

 

   October 2024

In Cardiff NLP Seminar on October 10, 2024, Pietro Lesci presented a talk titled “Natural Experiments in NLP and

 

 

Where to Find Them.” This presentation was based on his recent work, “Causal Estimation of Memorisation Profiles,

 

 

which was awarded the Best Paper Award at #ACL2024NLP.

Our work studying the challenges of training small language models has been accepted at EMNLP 2024 (Findings)!

 

 

Joint work with @richarddm1 and Paula Buttery.

September 2024

Andreas Vlachos co-organized the Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School (AthNLP) in Athens. For more

 

 

details, please click here.

Julius Cheng delivered a keynote presentation at the MT Marathon, focusing on “Language Model Decoding Beyond

 

 

Beam Search.” For further details, please click here.

August 2024

The results of the FEVER shared task on the AVERITEC dataset have been announced. You can find the details here.

 

 

We look forward to seeing you at the upcoming workshop at EMNLP. 

Pietro Lesci and Andreas Vlachos won a best paper award at ACL 2024 in collaboration with researchers from ETH,

 

 

please click here for more details.