Nafise Sadat Moosavi

Nafise Sadat Moosavi

Lecturer in NLP at the Computer Science Department of the University of Sheffield

BesmAllah

I am a Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) in Natural Language Processing at the Computer Science Department of the University of Sheffield. Before joining the University of Sheffield, I was a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Iryna Gurevych at the UKP Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt. I got my PhD degree from Heidelberg University where I was supervised by Prof. Michael Strube. I have studied at Alzahra University and the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran for my BSc and MSc in computer science.

Reseach Interests

If you are a self-funded Ph.D. student and would like to work with me, I am interested to work on evaluating and improving (1) fairness & robustness, (2) accessibility, (3) reasoning skills, and (4) efficiency of language models. Apart from these, I am interested in coreference resolution and interesting psycholinguistic analyses of text ot multimodal inputs.

Academic Service

Senior Area Chair

  • EACL 2026: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
  • ACL 2025: Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
  • COLING 2025: Language Resources and Evaluation
  • EMNLP 2024: Special Theme: Efficiency in Model Algorithms, Training, and Inference
  • EACL 2023: Ethical and Sustainable NLP
  • NAACL 2022: Discourse and Pragmatics

Area Chair

  • ACL 2024 (Efficiency), LREC-COLING 2024 (Lexicon and Semantics)
  • EMNLP 2023 (Semantics: Lexical, Sentence Level, Document Level, Textual Inference), ACL 2023 (Discourse and Pragmatics)
  • EMNLP 2022 (Efficient Methods for NLP)

Workshop Organisation

Professional Service

  • EACl 2026: Demonstration co-chair
  • EMNLP 2024: Student volunteer teams co-chair
  • EACL 2024: Workshop co-chair
  • EMNLP 2023: Best paper award committee
  • Standing Reviewer for the Computational Linguistics Journal
  • Editorial Board Member for the Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT)

Invited Talks