The Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at Warwick 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.

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• August 2022, Yulan He will deliver a tutorial on sentiment analysis in the Oxford Machine Learning Summer School.
• August 2022, a paper on hierarchical interpretable neural text classification is accepted by the Computational Linguistics 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 radiology report generation accepted to ECCV 2022.
• May 2022, Yulan He's NLP work was featured in a blog article on the Partnership for Conflict, Crime & Security Research (PaCCS) 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 UAI 2022.
• April 2022, 3 papers accepted to NAACL 2022.
• March 2022, Yulan He was invited to give a talk on machine reasoning for natural language understanding in AI UK 2022.
• February 2022, 2 papers accepted to ACL 2022.
• 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 Futurum, an online magazine, discussing her work on teaching computers to understand human language and offering guidance to young people interested in AI and NLP.
• January 2022, a paper accepted to WWW 2022.
• December 2021, Yulan He will serve as the General Chair for AACL-IJCNLP 2022.
• December 2021, Yulan He gave an invited talk on Topic-Driven Sentiment Analysis in the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2021.
• August 2021, Lin Gui has a paper on understanding patient reviews accepted to Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
• August 2021, 4 papers accepted to EMNLP 2021 (3 main, 1 Findings).
• August 2021, Wenjia Zhang has a paper on multimodal fake news detection accepted to CIKM 2021.
• August 2021, Yulan He delivered a tutorial on recent developments in sentiment analysis in the Oxford Machine Learning Summer School.
• June 2021, Rilwan Adewoyin has a paper accepted to the Machine Learning journal.
• May 2021, Lin Gui has been promoted to Senior Research Fellow.
• May 2021, 5 papers accepted to ACL 2021 (3 main, 2 Findings).
• March 2021, we have a paper accepted to NAACL 2021.
• January 2021, we have a paper accepted to WWW 2021, in collaboration with Harbin Institute of Technology.
• January 2021, 2 papers accepted to EACL 2021.
• December 2020, 2 papers accepted to AAAI 2021, in collaboration with Southeast University.
• November 2020, Yulan He was among 15 UK academics to win a Turing AI Acceleration Fellowship.
• October 2020, Yulan He and her then PhD student Chenghua Lin won the Test of Time Award in CIKM 2020 for their paper on sentiment analysis published in CIKM 2009,
• September 2020, 2 papers accepted to COLING 2020.
• June 2020, Lin Gui won the "The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine Post-Doctoral Research Prize". Congratulations, Lin!
• May 2020, Lin Gui has a paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• April 2020, Lixing Zhu has a paper accepted to Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).
• April 2020, 3 papers accepted to ACL 2020.