Two papers on metaphor detection accepted to the main conference of #EACL2023. Great work by @SWang58683316 and Yucheng Li . Co-supervision with Loic Barrault Sheffield NLP

The BERT moment for *music*: we propose MERT, an Acoustic Music Understanding Model that achieves overall SOTA performance on 14 MIR tasks. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2306.00107    Huggingface demo: huggingface.co/spaces/m-a-p/M…

Metaphor Detection via Explicit Basic Meanings Modelling, by Yucheng Li and SWang Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2305.17268 Schedule: 19:00 - 20:30, 10 July, Poster Session 2

My group has 8 papers accepted to #EMNLP2023 (5 main and 3 findings), covering topics including abs./lay summarisation, context compression for LLM, distillation, contrastive learning, and human eval for esoteric languages (e.g. humor). Congrats to my students and collaborators!

We’re pleased to share that the Manchester NLP Group will be presenting *11 papers* at #EMNLP2024. Feel free to drop by and chat with our students and colleagues during their poster sessions and presentations! 🐝🍻 Computer Science @ The University of Manchester @manchester_nlp

Another proud moment: Shun (SWang) has successfully defended his thesis “Interpretable Computational Metaphor Processing”! He produced an impressive body of work in *ACL during his PhD. Big thanks to co-supervisor Po Yang, and to panel members Rob Gaizauskas and Scott Piao🍻🥳