Matthew Shardlow

29 papers · 2013–2025 · 6 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🏃 Academic Marathon (12) 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (48) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (9) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (6) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (10) 👥 Mega-Team (22) 🧬 Topic Evolution 💎 Century Club (29) ⚡ Prolific Year (5) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (95) 🔥 Unstoppable (8) ❓ The Questioner

Conferences

ACL (11) EMNLP (6) SEMEVAL (4) COLING (3) IJCNLP (3) NAACL (2)

Top co-authors

Marcos Zampieri (10) Kai North (7) Piotr Przybyła (6) Sophia Ananiadou (5) Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez (4) Tharindu Ranasinghe (4) Horacio Saggion (3) Richard Evans (3) Gustavo Henrique Paetzold (3) Robert Flynn (3)

Research topics

Linguistics (1)

Keywords

lexical simplification (7) text simplification (6) multilingual nlp (5) large language model (5) complexity prediction (4) lexical complexity (4) multi-word expression (3) word embedding (3) convolutional neural network (3) character embedding (3) natural language processing (3) complex word identification (2) lay summary (2) text classification (2) biomedical text (2) sentiment analysis (2) zero-shot learning (2) text complexity (2) pearson correlation (2) substitute generation (2)

Papers

Efficient On-Device Text Simplification for Firefox with Synthetic Data Fine-Tuning EMNLP 2025

Are You Sure You’re Positive? Consolidating Chain-of-Thought Agents with Uncertainty Quantification for Aspect-Category Sentiment Analysis ACL 2025

Exploring Supervised Approaches to the Detection of Anthropomorphic Language in the Reporting of NLP Venues ACL 2025

The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline NAACL 2024

MultiLS: An End-to-End Lexical Simplification Framework EMNLP 2024

Multilingual Resources for Lexical Complexity Prediction: A Review COLING 2024

An Extensible Massively Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline Dataset using the MultiLS Framework COLING 2024

Overview of the BioLaySumm 2024 Shared Task on the Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles ACL 2024

BLESS: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Sentence Simplification EMNLP 2023

ALEXSIS+: Improving Substitute Generation and Selection for Lexical Simplification with Information Retrieval ACL 2023

Overview of the BioLaySumm 2023 Shared Task on Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles ACL 2023

UoM&MMU at TSAR-2022 Shared Task: Prompt Learning for Lexical Simplification EMNLP 2022

Using NLP to quantify the environmental cost and diversity benefits of in-person NLP conferences ACL 2022

An Evaluation of Binary Comparative Lexical Complexity Models NAACL 2022

An Investigation into the Effect of Control Tokens on Text Simplification EMNLP 2022

Findings of the TSAR-2022 Shared Task on Multilingual Lexical Simplification EMNLP 2022

Manchester Metropolitan at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Convolutional Networks for Complex Word Identification SEMEVAL 2021

Investigating Text Simplification Evaluation ACL 2021

SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction ACL 2021

Manchester Metropolitan at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Convolutional Networks for Complex Word Identification ACL 2021

Investigating Text Simplification Evaluation IJCNLP 2021

SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction IJCNLP 2021

Manchester Metropolitan at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Convolutional Networks for Complex Word Identification IJCNLP 2021

SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction SEMEVAL 2021

Multi-Word Lexical Simplification COLING 2020

Neural Text Simplification of Clinical Letters with a Domain Specific Phrase Table ACL 2019

Manchester Metropolitan at SemEval-2018 Task 2: Random Forest with an Ensemble of Features for Predicting Emoji in Tweets SEMEVAL 2018

NaCTeM at SemEval-2016 Task 1: Inferring sentence-level semantic similarity from an ensemble of complementary lexical and sentence-level features SEMEVAL 2016

A Comparison of Techniques to Automatically Identify Complex Words. ACL 2013