New paper accepted to #aaai2020 AAAI! With Zied Bouraoui (1st author), Jose Camacho Collados and Steven Schockaert. We define soft regions as categories in vector spaces to learn conceptual neighbourhood, which then can be used to better predict instance-of relations.

Great to see Dr Irene Anthi and Amir Javed running a Capture the Flag competition for MSc Cybersecurity students today Cardiff Uni Computer Science and Informatics

Having competed against 67 teams from universities all over the world, we #CardiffUni managed to finish 14th (2nd in UK) and gone through to the Finals! I m really excited about this achievement as it was one of the hardest CTF competitions! Baskoro Adi Pratomo

Our #AAAI2020 preprint “Inducing Relational Knowledge from BERT” (w/ Z. Bouraoui and S. Schockaert) is now out: arxiv.org/abs/1911.12753 In this paper, our aim is to understand to what extent pre-trained language models like BERT capture relational knowledge. A short thread 👇

Personal update! I have been awarded an ELEXIS EU travel grant🧳👨‍🔬! I will spend the next two weeks at the Spanish Royal Academy in Madrid RAE The project? Building word-level semantic models for improving the dictionary writing process! ✍️📚

Dr Kathryn Jones, Senior Lecturer at our National Software Academy, and the Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching for our School, discusses what led her to a career in STEM. businessnewswales.com/how-a-passion-…

Very proud of Jacob Allen running his first half marathon tomorrow to raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust who looked after him fantastically in 2020 justgiving.com/fundraising/ja…

Job done - 1:40! justgiving.com/fundraising/ja…

📣 ONE WEEK TO GO before Hack The Diff! Hack The Diff is our new annual hackathon, and our biggest event yet! Don't worry if you don't have a team, as we can organise teams on the day. 🎟 Book your FREE ticket NOW: eventbrite.com/e/cybersoc-hac…

We are happy to officially announce the 1st Cardiff NLP summer workshop on June 30 and July 1! This workshop will be an opportunity for participants to interact and attend talks/tutorials from high-profile NLP researchers from industry and academia.

A proposal to establish a Cyber Innovation Hub has attracted commitments of funding from Welsh Government and the Cardiff Capital Region City Deal, CCRCityDeal. buff.ly/3KZDu4S

Hugely proud of the School’s achievement and particularly the massive contribution to our success from our fantastic cohort of early career researchers!

#CyberSecurity Career Awareness Day for GCSE, A-level and FE College students. Join us online on 27th June 2022 to learn more about careers in cyber security! Cardiff Uni Computer Science and Informatics, @TarianROCU, Cyber Resilience Centre for Wales, @AirbusintheUK , PwC UK Register Today: eventbrite.co.uk/e/cyber-securi…

The first Cardiff NLP Workshop starts tomorrow! 🙀

Breakout one and hearing from Dr Natasha Edwards from Cardiff Uni Computer Science and Informatics about using digital tools to enhance student engagement

📢The good news in the group continue📢 The work by our PhD student Joe Singleton Joe Singleton on Truth-Tracking with Non-Expert Information Sources gets the best student paper award at NMR FLoC2022🏆🏆 - under the brilliant supervision of Richard Booth! Richard Booth

Postdoc (Research Associate) position for 18 months starting early 2023 (flexible). This position is associated with my #UKRIFLF and offers flexibility for an independent research agenda. 📅Application deadline: September 4th More info 👉 krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

Join us on Saturday 8th of October for our QR Code Treasure Hunt! Meet us outside Abacws at 1PM. You'll be completing challenges and hunting for QR codes in teams. The top teams will win Amazon vouchers and hoodies. 😍 Grab your tickets here⌛️ eventbrite.com/e/qr-code-trea…