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Cardiff NLP
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Natural Language Processing group at @CardiffUni #NLProc #NLP


🚨 New paper alert! 🇯🇵🤔 Why are all LLMs Obsessed with Japanese Culture? On the Hidden Cultural and Regional Biases of LLMs 🇯🇵🤔 👉 We find that LLMs show strong regional preferences, often disproportionately favoring certain countries, such as Japan. 🇯🇵


📢 Direct ARR submission link for *SEM 2026 is now available! If you are submitting via ARR, please commit your papers to *SEM using the link below: openreview.net/group?id=aclwe… Find out more: starsem2026.github.io #NLProc #ComputationalLinguistics #ACL2026 #starsem



⏳ Only two days until #WASSA2026 on March 29 at #EACL2026! 📜 The program is now available. See the full schedule, including the invited talk by @CamachoCollados: “Social Media Analysis in the Language Model Era: An Interdisciplinary Perspective” 🔗 workshop-wassa.github.io/2026/schedule/

New results at #EACL2026 🎉 RAG is effective for reducing hallucinations — but it’s not all roses. We show that RAG can amplify social bias when retrieved documents are stereotyped, even if the base LLM is relatively unbiased. Evaluating RAG ≠ evaluating the LLM alone.



📢 Direct ARR submission link for *SEM 2026 is now available! If you are submitting via ARR, please commit your papers to *SEM using the link below: openreview.net/group?id=aclwe… Find out more: starsem2026.github.io #NLProc #ComputationalLinguistics #ACL2026 #starsem


🚀Final Call for Papers: *SEM 2026🚀 The Clock is Ticking! Submit your paper(s) to *SEM 2026 now! Direct submissions are due on February 13th, 2026 (AoE), using the link below: openreview.net/group?id=aclwe… Learn more: starsem2026.github.io/calls/ [1/2]



New results at #EACL2026 🎉 RAG is effective for reducing hallucinations — but it’s not all roses. We show that RAG can amplify social bias when retrieved documents are stereotyped, even if the base LLM is relatively unbiased. Evaluating RAG ≠ evaluating the LLM alone.

Pleased to announce the 5th Cardiff #NLProc Workshop! 📍Cardiff 📅 22–23 June 2026 🌐 More information (to be regularly updated): cardiffnlpworkshop.org 👉 If you’re interested in attending, please complete the EoI by 11 April: forms.gle/ypUBEpVhfoUhSg… Registration is ✨free✨1/




