Dr Nafise Sadat Moosavi

School of Computer Science

Lecturer in Natural Language Processing

Member of the Natural Language Processing research group

Deputy School Head of ED&I

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Dr Nafise Sadat Moosavi
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
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Dr. Nafise Sadat Moosavi is a Lecturer in Natural Language Processing at the Computer Science Department of the ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Sheffield. Before joining the ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Sheffield, she was a postdoctoral researcher at  at the Technical ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Darmstadt. Before that, she got her PhD degree from Heidelberg ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Alzahra ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý and the Sharif ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Technology in Tehran, Iran.

Research interests

She is interested in various areas of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning including end-to-end reasoning, robustness and generalization, coreference resolution, text generation, sustainability, and reliable evaluation.

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Journal articles

  • Elghazaly H, Mirheidari B, Moosavi NS & Christensen H (2025) Exploring Gender Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition Technology.. CoRR, abs/2502.18434. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Paun S, Yu J, Moosavi NS & Poesio M () . Dialogue & Discourse, 14(2), 1-48. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dhole K, Gangal V, Gehrmann S, Gupta A, Li Z, Mahamood S, Mahadiran A, Mille S, Shrivastava A, Tan S , Tongshang Wu et al () . Northern European Journal of Language Technology, 9(1). RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Sivakumar JA & Moosavi NS (2025) How to Leverage Digit Embeddings to Represent Numbers?. Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING, Vol. Part F206484-1 (pp 7685-7697) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jiang G, Wang Y, Li Y, Moosavi NS & Hui P (2024) . Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (pp 1-8) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Poesio M, Ogrodniczuk M, Ng V, Pradhan S, Yu J, Moosavi NS, Paun S, Zeldes A, Nedoluzhko A, Novák M , Popel M et al (2024) Universal Anaphora: The First Three Years. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings (pp 17087-17100) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Liu Y, Moosavi NS & Lin C (2024) LLMs as Narcissistic Evaluators: When Ego Inflates Evaluation Scores. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp 12688-12701) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jan-Christoph K, Lee J-U, Stowe K, Åžahin G, Moosavi NS, Bates L, Petrak D, Eckart De Castilho R & Gurevych I (2023) Lessons Learned from a Citizen Science Project for Natural Language Processing. Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp 3594-3608), 2 May 2023 - 6 May 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fang H, Lee J-U, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2023) Transformers with Learnable Activation Functions. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, 2 May 2023 - 6 May 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sivakumar J & Moosavi NS (2023) . Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), July 2023 - July 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Petrak D, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2023) . Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023), July 2023 - July 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Klie JC, Lee JU, Stowe K, Åžahin GG, Moosavi NS, Bates L, Petrak D, de Castilho RE & Gurevych I (2023) Lessons Learned from a Citizen Science Project for Natural Language Processing. EACL 2023 - 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (pp 3576-3590) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fang H, Lee JU, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2023) Transformers with Learnable Activation Functions. EACL 2023 - 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of EACL 2023 (pp 2337-2353) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Petrak D, Moosavi N, Tian Y, Rozanov N & Gurevych I (2023) . Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, December 2023 - December 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vu DNL, Moosavi NS & Eger S (2022) Layer or representation space: what makes BERT-based evaluation metrics robust?. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Vol. 29(1) (pp 3401-3411). Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, 12 October 2022 - 12 October 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yu J, Khosla S, Moosavi NS, Paun S, Pradhan S & Poesio M (2022) The Universal Anaphora Scorer. 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 (pp 4873-4883) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moosavi NS, Rücklé A, Roth D & Gurevych I (2021) SciGen: a Dataset for Reasoning-Aware Text Generation from Scientific Tables. Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks 1, Vol. 1, 6 December 2021 - 11 December 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wu M, Moosavi NS, Roth D & Gurevych I (2021) . Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), August 2021 - August 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Utama P, Moosavi NS, Sanh V & Gurevych I (2021) . Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, November 2021 - November 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yu J, Moosavi NS, Paun S & Poesio M (2021) . Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, June 2021 - June 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Utama PA, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2020) . Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2020 - July 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wu M, Moosavi NS, Rücklé A & Gurevych I (2020) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, November 2020 - November 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Utama PA, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2020) . Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), November 2020 - November 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yu J, Moosavi NS, Paun S & Poesio M (2020) . Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, December 2020 - December 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rücklé A, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2019) . Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), November 2019 - November 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moosavi NS, Born L, Poesio M & Strube M (2019) . Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2019 - July 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Poesio M, Grishina Y, Kolhatkar V, Moosavi N, Roesiger I, Roussel A, Simonjetz F, Uma A, Uryupina O, Yu J & Zinsmeister H (2018) . Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference, June 2018 - June 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moosavi NS & Strube M (2018) . Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, October 2018 - November 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Heinzerling B, Moosavi NS & Strube M (2017) . Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, September 2017 - September 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moosavi NS & Strube M (2017) . Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), July 2017 - July 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moosavi NS & Strube M (2017) . Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON 2017), April 2017 - April 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moosavi NS & Strube M (2016) . Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), August 2016 - August 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moosavi NS & Strube M (2016) . Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, June 2016 - June 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moosavi NS & GhassemSani G (2014) . Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics (pp 93-103), 25 November 2011 - 27 November 2011. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moosavi NS & Strube M (2014) Unsupervised coreference resolution by utilizing the most informative relations. COLING 2014 - 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2014: Technical Papers (pp 644-655) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rezaei M, Moosavi NS, Nemati H & Azmi R (2010) TCvisor: A hypervisor level secure storage. 2010 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2010 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Delbari Z, Moosavi NS & Pilehvar MT () . Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 38(16) (pp 17889-17897) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Utama PA, Bambrick J, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I () Falsesum: Generating Document-level NLI Examples for Recognizing Factual Inconsistency in Summarization. Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moosavi NS, Delfosse Q, Kersting K & Iryna G () Adaptable Adapters. Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rücklé A, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I () . Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 33 (pp 6932-6939) RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Sivakumar JA & Moosavi NS (2024) How to Leverage Digit Embeddings to Represent Numbers?, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang H, Harris L & Moosavi NS (2024) Beyond Hate Speech: NLP's Challenges and Opportunities in Uncovering Dehumanizing Language, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pastorino V, Sivakumar JA & Moosavi NS (2024) Decoding News Narratives: A Critical Analysis of Large Language Models in Framing Bias Detection, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Liu Y, Moosavi NS & Lin C (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Petrak D, Moosavi NS, Tian Y, Rozanov N & Gurevych I (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sivakumar JA & Moosavi NS (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Klie J-C, Lee J-U, Stowe K, Åžahin GG, Moosavi NS, Bates L, Petrak D, de Castilho RE & Gurevych I (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vu DNL, Moosavi NS & Eger S (2022) Layer or Representation Space: What makes BERT-based Evaluation Metrics Robust?, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fang H, Lee J-U, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2022) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Paun S, Yu J, Moosavi NS & Poesio M (2022) Scoring Coreference Chains with Split-Antecedent Anaphors, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Petrak D, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2022) Improving the Numerical Reasoning Skills of Pretrained Language Models, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Utama PA, Bambrick J, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2022) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dhole KD, Gangal V, Gehrmann S, Gupta A, Li Z, Mahamood S, Mahendiran A, Mille S, Srivastava A, Tan S , Wu T et al (2021) NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moosavi NS, de Boer M, Utama PA & Gurevych I (2020) Improving Robustness by Augmenting Training Sentences with Predicate-Argument Structures, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moosavi NS, Utama PA, Rücklé A & Gurevych I (2019) Improving Generalization by Incorporating Coverage in Natural Language Inference, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
Grants

Research Grants

  • Geometric Representations of Uncertainty for Foundation Models, Royal Society, 03/2025 - 03/2028, £193,560, as PI