Chief scientist at Contex.ai & Professor of Natural Language Processing, Imperial College
Joined October 2012
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Lucia Specia retweeted
3 Jun 2025
I personally tested this for hours and this AI assistant is amazing. For you non-coders this is a game changer. I built an entire match-3 game in minutes with this!
3 Jun 2025
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Lucia Specia retweeted
3 Jun 2025
Need a little help building your islands? The Epic Developer Assistant Beta is here to lend a hand!
This new AI-powered assistant helps you write Verse code for your UEFN projects, provides answers, workflow guidance, code snippets, and more.
Check it out now on the Epic Developer Community: dev.epicgames.com/community/…
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Lucia Specia retweeted
13 May 2022
The Department of Computing at Imperial College London is the top-rated Computer Science and Informatics department for research in the UK according to REF2021. 1/2
#computing #STEM
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Lucia Specia retweeted
21 Feb 2022
Great news! The workshop will run during NAACL 2022 and we have a call for papers up! The focus of this year's workshop will be on the online abuse in areas and languages that are underserved by language technology.
Find our CfP here: workshopononlineabuse.com/cf…
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Excited to announce our shared task on "Explainable Quality Estimation" (explainable reference-free evaluation metrics for MT) in the Eval4NLP workshop @ EMNLP 2021. The submission deadline is September 1, 2021. Please consider participating! eval4nlp.github.io/sharedtas…
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Lucia Specia retweeted
26 Feb 2021
Professor and founder @BjoernSchuller presents his work how machine learning can be used to detect COVID symptoms from speech. Join us on the livestream eventbrite.com/e/bjorn-schul…
#AI #DataScience #MachineLearning #ML #ArtificialIntelligence #NaturalLanguageProcessing #NLP #COVID19
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⚡️ Our Second Call for Papers is Out ⚡️
Submissions are due on February 8, 2021. Submit your exciting #NLProc work, and get a chance to hear our guest speakers @lspecia and @adinamwilliams
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9 Dec 2020
Congratulations to @feralvam and Chiraag Lala who had successful PhD vivas today and yesterday! My two last @SheffieldNLP students. Very proud!!!
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Listed as STEM influencer in Ireland :-)
14 Nov 2020
Considering adding some STEM influencers to your Twitter or LinkedIn feeds? We've got plenty, including @PaulaNeary1, @abigailruthf, @fjobrien, @BOGallachoir and @Flygirl_Joanie #ScienceWeek siliconrepublic.com/people/s…
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Lucia Specia retweeted
16 Nov 2020
Looking forward to presenting our work on unsupervised QE w/Shuo Sun, Lisa Yankovskaya @fblain @guzmanhe Mark Fishel @nikaletras @VishravC and @lspecia at #emnlp2020
We will be happy to chat at Q&A today 16Nov 16UTC
Paper: mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf…
Video: virtual.2020.emnlp.org/paper…
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Lucia Specia retweeted
12 Oct 2020
MLQE-PE: A Multilingual Quality Estimation and Post-Editing Dataset arxiv.org/abs/2010.04480
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Lucia Specia retweeted
1 Oct 2020
'I feel a combination of optimism and relief that AI will make us better translators but not obsolete,' says @KatyDerbyshire at the close of 'Translators: Robots in Disguise'. Big thank you to Katy, Duncan Large @bcltuea and @lspecia for their talk on #AI and #LiteraryTranslation
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Lucia Specia retweeted
23 Sep 2020
Does using #MachineTranslation reduce errors in literary #translation?
Expert @lspecia answered our questions about latest developments & current status of #AI in the field of translation! Check our website for a lot more on the topic: Goethe.de/uk/AITranslation
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Lucia Specia retweeted
14 Aug 2020
Throughout the heat wave we continue working on the final evaluations for the @ape_quest project. Stay tuned for the results! @sheffielduni @crosslang @lspecia
@feralvam #MachineTranslation #QualityEstimation
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Guest post on Neural MT Quality Estimation. Thanks @lspecia!
4 Jun 2020
Issue #84 of The Neural MT Weekly is now online! This week we are delighted to have a guest post from Prof. Lucia Specia. @lspecia takes a look at how quality estimation for machine translation is being applied in the context of Neural MT.
➡️ bit.ly/NMT-84
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22 May 2020
Our paper on Unsupervised QE is out!
22 May 2020
"Unsupervised Quality Estimation for Neural Machine Translation" accepted to TACL!
We explore model uncertainty for glass-box QE.
arxiv.org/abs/2005.10608
Joint work with Shuo Sun Lisa Yankovskaya @fblain @guzmanhe Mark Fishel @nikaletras @VishravC @lspecia
#NLProc #WMT2020
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Lucia Specia retweeted
12 May 2020
Excited to announce the Hateful Memes Challenge, a new dataset and competition for vision and language, focusing on multimodal understanding and reasoning:
arxiv.org/abs/2005.04790
"Mean" memes shown here as an illustration of the problem. Some highlights: (1/7)
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Lucia Specia retweeted
5 May 2020
We just released "ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations"
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2005.00481
Dataset: github.com/facebookresearch/…
Joint work with @feralvam @AntoineBordes @carolscarton @bensagot @lspecia
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Lucia Specia retweeted
17 Apr 2020
DCU is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof Lucia Specia, a leader in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Prof Specia has taken up a professional role at @dcucomputing & @DCUEngineering within our @AdaptCentre. Read here:bit.ly/2XKO6zM
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