ART-AI student, Joseph Marvin Imperial, from Cohort 4, presented his first paper at a conference and also won one of the Best Reviewer Awards! He writes;
“I attended the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023), which is the premier A* conference for NLP and Computational Linguistics research, held in July 9-14, 2023, in Toronto, Canada.
At the conference, I virtually presented my first long paper entitled “Automatic Readability Assessment for Closely Related Languages” completed during my MRes year in collaboration with Prof. Ekaterina Kochmar from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (former Lecturer of the Computer Science Department at Bath). The paper, classified under the Linguistic Theories track, describes work on a novel theoretical crosslingual approach to improve the readability assessment of text in closely-related languages in the Philippines, such as Filipino, Cebuano, and Bikol. The findings presented in the paper can help boost readability assessment models in low-resource languages, which is an important tool in the development of reading materials for children speaking these languages.
As one of the highlights of the conference, I was very pleased to win one of the Best Reviewer Awards given during the conference night for being part of the Top 1% of the 4,490 pool of reviewers who have provided high-quality reviews and feedback to papers submitted at ACL 2023. It was truly an honour to obtain this award from such a prestigious community of esteemed experts in computational linguistics and NLP. I thank the Area Chairs and Program Committee of ACL 2023 for giving me this award.”
