UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications. Hosted by @shefcompsci, University of Sheffield, UK #sltcdt

Sheffield, England
Joined June 2019
Congrats to Miles Williams on passing his #PhD #viva on "Towards Efficient and Effective Language Model Compression". Thanks to supervisor Prof @nikaletras and viva examiners Dr @PontiEdoardo (Imperial College London) and Professor @EGVasilaki (Sheffield)!
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Could #AI technologies for processing #speech or #written #text / #language help your business? Want to leverage insights and value from existing documents or speech interactions? Our 'SLT Consultancy Hub' can help you - for FREE! Find out more: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/cons…
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CDT in Speech and Language Technologies retweeted
"An Empirical Study on Preference Tuning Generalization and Diversity Under Domain Shift" is accepted at EMNLP 2026! 🎉 See you in Budapest! 🇭🇺 Work with @Xingwei__Tan and @nikaletras (@SheffieldNLP ). Powered by @sltcdt!
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It's a wrap! Huge thanks to all our keynotes, student speakers, poster presenters, panel members, and audience for making our 2026 #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference interactive, insightful, and FUN! See you next year... if not before! #speech #nlproc #nlp #sheffield
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Final #PhD #talk of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference afternoon is Owen Cook with “Efficient Annotator Reliability Assessment with EffiARA”. slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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Penultimate #PhD #talk of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference afternoon is @afletcher53 with “Decision-Theoretic Stopping Rules for Document Screening”. slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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The afternoon #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference #panel discussion session on #vibe research is in full swing! Great discussions! slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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Next #PhD #talk is Misbah Farooq from @lborolondon with “Unveiling Emotional Universality in Speech: A Cross-Attention Transformer Framework for Cross-Linguistic Emotion Recognition”. slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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First afternoon #PhD #talk of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference afternoon is Wenjie Peng with “Difference in Task Performance on Sparse Speech Representations”. slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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Afternoon session of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference is underway! Kicking off with another exciting #keynote: @egrefen talking about “Open Problems and Interesting Directions for Open-Ended Agents” slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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The #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference #poster session is in full swing! Lots of interesting posters and great discussions! slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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Next #PhD #talk of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference is @_gucciiiii with "Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Target Language Adaptation of LLMs via Source-Shielded Updates". slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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We have our first #PhD #talk of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference! Now hearing from @HTelghazaly speaking about "Towards Fair Arabic ASR: A Multi-Demographic Evaluation Corpus". slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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It is great to welcome everyone to the 2026 #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference! It’s off to a great start with a #keynote from @wang_wenwu entitled “Large Audio-Language Models and Applications”. slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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We are all set to welcome delegates to our 2026 #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference! Really looking forward to a day of interesting #speech and #natural #language processing research discussions! #nlp #nlproc #sheffield #phd #research
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Just 2 days left to secure your place at our Annual #Conference! #Keynotes from @egrefen (@GoogleDeepMind) & @wang_wenwu (@cvssp_research). Talks and posters on our #AI, #ML, #speech, #NLProc research! Find out more and #register (by end of SUNDAY) at slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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1 week left to secure your place at our annual #conference! Join us on 8 June in #Sheffield to hear about our researchers’ #AI and #ML #speech and #NLProc #research! Cool keynote speakers too! Check out our website for more info! slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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Just 2 weeks left to secure your place at our annual #conference! Join us on 8 June in #Sheffield to hear about our researchers’ #AI and #ML #speech and #NLProc #research! Cool keynote speakers too! Check out our website for more info! slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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Just 1 month until our annual #conference! #Keynotes from @egrefen (@GoogleDeepMind) & @wang_wenwu (@cvssp_research). Talks and posters on our #AI, #ML, #speech, #NLProc research! Find out more and #register (by 31 May) at slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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