BathNLP

Official account of the University of Bath's (@UniofBath) NLP group led by @harish

[Joseph Imperial @josephimperial_]

Looks like I’m going to ICML 2026! 🇰🇷

📝 I’ll be presenting my work on Scaling Policy Reasoning Traces at the ICML Workshop on Technical AI Governance (@taig_icml)

I’m also grateful for the following recognition:
🏆 Gold Reviewer Awardee (@icmlconf)
💎 https://t.co/AgA45uKCvw Seoul Alignment Workshop Presentation Grant (@farairesearch)

See PRT paper: https://t.co/AztddAeUVF

[Joseph Imperial @josephimperial_]

I'm thrilled to have been awarded the Pivotal Research Fellowship 🩵

I'll be based at the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) office next year and will work with Noam Kolt on the compliance dynamics of frontier LLMs, which is a precondition for safer and aligned AI systems.

[BathNLP @BathNLP]

Huge congratulations to our Lab Head @harish for the promotion to Associate Professor @UniofBath Department of Computer Science! 🥳🎉

[Harish Tayyar Madabushi @harish]

Happy to share that I’ve been promoted to Senior Lecturer in AI at the University of Bath (equivalent to Associate Professor).

Grateful to colleagues, mentors, collaborators and students for all the support along the way.

@UniofBath @BathNLP

[Joseph Imperial @josephimperial_]

Thoroughly enjoyed my first-time poster presentation earlier at EMNLP. My past two primary papers (EMNLP2024 and 2023) were given oral but they were not as fulfilling as this one.

Many big plans ahead for UniversalCEFR (https://t.co/i3zHtuqiZX). Everyone seems very keen to work on more accessible language resources! 🌍

[Nedjma Ousidhoum نجمة أوسيدهم @nedjmaou]

Pleased to announce our #NLProc shared task @SemEvalWorkshop 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.]
https://t.co/0LlHzIL62F 1/

[Joseph Imperial @josephimperial_]

Exciting news. Both UniversalCEFR 🇪🇺 and FilBench 🇵🇭 were accepted at #EMNLP2025 Main 🥳

Grateful to my collaborators around the globe for making these projects possible. See you all in Suzhou and Shanghai!

[Harish Tayyar Madabushi @harish]

@HaritzPuerto @UKPLab @BathNLP @IGurevych We provide open access to our code, models, data, and results:

📽️Underline: https://t.co/fEbrjBXa9l
📄Paper: https://t.co/RNZbxSMPMX
💻 Code: https://t.co/MlmCFA40Rz
🤗 Models: https://t.co/6bDBxQT84O
📂 Data: https://t.co/XJoB8F1FXB
🌐 Website: https://t.co/gdUIWuK0om

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[Harish Tayyar Madabushi @harish]

At first I was not sure🤔, but on second thought, I knew what to do!!!💡😃

📢 Diverse Chains of Thought help LLMs refine their Reasoning!!

@haritzpuerto will be presenting our work at #ACL2025NLP 🇦🇹 on Wednesday 30th at 11:00

#NLProc

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[BathNLP @BathNLP]

We are excited to share that two long main conference papers from our lab have been accepted at ACL 2025 in Vienna! 🎉

We are incredibly grateful to collaborate with such an impressive group of researchers worldwide @UKPLab @seacrowd_ai 🤗

@harish @josephimperial_

[Fernando Alva-Manchego @feralvam]

The trial data has just been released to registered participants. There’s still time for your team to join! #emnlp2025 #nlproc

[BathNLP @BathNLP]

Join our small but highly productive lab! 👇

[Harish Tayyar Madabushi @harish]

📢Job Opportunity
Research Associate for Reasoning in LLMs, University of Bath, UK (Deadline 05 August 2025)

We are looking to hire a highly motivated researcher to work on analysing reasoning in LLMs

For more information, see: https://t.co/2bYI0RglSl

[Joseph Imperial @josephimperial_]

The CardiffNLP Workshop 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 is one of my favorite NLP events in the UK. Love the selection of topics this year, my favorites being Rethinking LLM Evals @mziizm, Responsible AI @c_christodoulop and Steering Vectors @TheZaraSiddique.

Amazingly organized as always @Cardiff_NLP @nedjmaou @feralvam @CamachoCollados et al. 🤗

[Cardiff NLP @Cardiff_NLP]

🎉 The Cardiff NLP Workshop kicks off this Monday (14 July)!
Check out the full schedule on our website 👉 https://t.co/MGPADLI5p9
We’ve got an exciting lineup:
✨ Talks by fantastic speakers
💻 A tutorial on steering vectors
🖼️ Poster session and networking opportunities
🔄 An interdisciplinary session
💬 A panel discussion
Looking forward to welcoming you to Cardiff!

[Fernando Alva-Manchego @feralvam]

📢 Call for Participation: TSAR 2025 Shared Task 📢
Simplify English paragraphs to a specified CEFR level
🔹 No training data
🔹 Eval: CEFR match, meaning preservation, ref similarity
🗓️ Starts July 16
🔗 Info + registration: https://t.co/ydfrHxrBHt
#EMNLP2025 #TextSimplification

[Joseph Imperial @josephimperial_]

🚨 New global collaboration & dataset paper!

UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment 🌍

We introduce UniversalCEFR, an initiative to build a growing, open, multilingual, and multidimensional resource for CEFR-based language proficiency assessment.

🌐 Project Website: https://t.co/i3zHtuqiZX
📄 Paper: https://t.co/xHVyJ0FLzZ
📀 HF Org & Data: https://t.co/D1GKD5cSle
📀 Github: https://t.co/vCLlpltw14

[Harish Tayyar Madabushi @harish]

Is In-Context Learning (ICL) in LLMs Memorisation? Emergence? Some Algorithmic Capability? 🤔

📢New work exploring ICL in LLMs: https://t.co/feWDmCfVdy

💡Key Finding:
ICL capabilities are linked to token frequency 🤨

Strap in for the unexpected 🤯

A 🧵👇 #NLProc #LLMs

[Joseph Imperial @josephimperial_]

This has been accepted to ACL2025 (Main) 🥳

Happy to have contributed so much to this project, along with my amazing collaborators at @seacrowd_ai !

[AIhub @aihuborg]

Great to hear from @josephimperial_, an @RealAAAI / @acm_sigai doctoral consortium participant and PhD student at @UniofBath. He told us about his research aligning generative AI with technical standards
https://t.co/BYK7yrgZ6h

[Joseph Imperial @josephimperial_]

In London attending the AI Standards Hub Global Summit organized by @turinginst.

I’m also excited to share that I joined the British Standards Institution (@BSI_UK) 🇬🇧—the UK’s national standards body—as a committee member for the AI working group ART/1 and will work with CEN-CENELEC’s Joint Task Force 21. This is the working group in-charge of developing standards for the EU AI Act.

[BathNLP @BathNLP]

One of the largest NLP meetups in Cardiff and UK! Open to all NLP researchers 📢

[Cardiff NLP @Cardiff_NLP]

Join our 4th Cardiff NLP Workshop! Expression of interest period now open 👇