Activities
My professional activities include the organisation of conferences, workshops and shared tasks, editorial service, reviewing and area chairing, and invited academic talks and tutorials.
Conference and Workshop Organisation
- LoResLM Workshop Series — Founding co-organiser of the Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages.
- EAMT 2023 — Research Track Chair, 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation.
Shared Task Organisation
I have co-organised shared tasks covering offensive language identification and multilingual lexical simplification.
- HASOC (2021–2023) — Co-organiser of the shared task on Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in English and Indo-Aryan Languages.
- Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline (MLSP), BEA 2024 — Co-organiser of a multilingual shared task that brings multiple stages of the lexical simplification pipeline together within a single evaluation setting.
Area Chairing and Reviewing
I regularly serve as an Area Chair for major NLP conferences through ACL Rolling Review (ARR) cycles.
Editorial Service
- Editorial Board Member, Natural Language Engineering.
- Guest Editorial Board, Special Issue on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages, Natural Language Engineering.
- Guest Editorial Board, Special Issue on NLP Approaches to Offensive Content Online, Natural Language Engineering.
Keynotes
- Machine Translation Quality Estimation in the Era of Large Language Models — Promoting Machine Translation and GenAI Translation Literacy: An Approach towards Professional Translation and Interpreting Labour Market, Granada, Spain, May 2026.
- Responsible Machine Learning: Challenges and Way Forward? — International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Varna, Bulgaria, September 2023.
- Towards Responsible Machine Translation with Quality Estimation — HiT-IT 2023: Human-informed Translation and Interpreting Technology, Naples, Italy, July 2023.
- Translation Quality Estimation: Past, Present and Future with Multi-word Units — 5th Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology (MUMTTT 2022), Málaga, Spain, September 2022.
Tutorials
- Hate or not Hate? Beyond Binary Hate Speech Detection — International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Varna, Bulgaria, September 2023.
- Translation Quality Estimation — 5th Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology (MUMTTT 2022), Málaga, Spain, September 2022.
- Multilingual MT Quality Estimation — TRITON: Forum for Recent Advances in Technologies for Translation and Interpreting and More, online, July 2021.
Invited Talks
- Introduction to NLP — University of Granada, Spain, September 2023.
- Word Embeddings — RANLP Deep Learning Summer School, Varna, Bulgaria, September 2023.
- Translation Quality Estimation — George Mason University, USA, April 2023.
- Introducing Seq2seq Models — NeTTT Summer School: New Trends in Translation and Technology, Rhodes, Greece, July 2022.
- Introduction to Translation Quality Estimation — Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, July 2021.
- TransQuest: Cross-lingual Transformers for Quality Estimation — National Languages Processing Centre, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, July 2021.
- Semantic Textual Similarity based on Deep Learning: Can it improve matching and retrieval for Translation Memory tools? — EMTTI Seminar Series, University of Wolverhampton, UK, January 2021.
- Introduction to REST — IMPETUS 2017, Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka, April 2017.
- Artificial Intelligence for the End User — SLASSCOM CONCLAVE, Sri Lanka, November 2016.
Panels and Roundtables
- 1st NLP Roundtable for Luxembourgish — University of Luxembourg, February 2024.
- Detecting Safeguarding Concerns in Schoolchildren’s Online Conversations — Birmingham City University, February 2024.
- Trust & Safety Research — Google, December 2023.
- Future of Natural Language Processing with LLMs — RANLP Deep Learning Summer School, Bulgaria, August 2023.
