Authors

Mohammad Taher Pilehvar is an Assistant Professor at Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS) and an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Taher’s research lies in lexical semantics, mainly focusing on semantic representation and similarity. In the past, he has co-instructed three tutorials on these topics (EMNLP 2015, ACL 2016, and EACL 2017) and co-organised three SemEval tasks and an EACL workshop on sense representations. He has also co-authored several conference papers (including two ACL best paper nominations, at 2013 and 2017).

Jose Camacho-Collados is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University (United Kingdom). Previously he was a Google Doctoral Fellow, completed his PhD at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and had pre-doctoral experience as a statistical research engineer in France. His background education includes an Erasmus Mundus Masters in Human Language Technology and a 5-year BSc degree in Mathematics (Spain). Jose's main area of expertise is Natural Language Processing (NLP) and in particular computational semantics or, in other words, how to make computers understand language. His research has pivoted around both scientific contributions through regular publications in top AI and NLP venues such as ACL, EMNLP, AAAI or IJCAI; and applications with direct impact in society, with a special focus on social media and multilinguality. He has also organised several international workshops, tutorials and open challenges with hundreds of participants across the world.