Zeerak Talat

Area Chairing & Conference Service

  • Workshop Chair | EACL (2023 & 2024)
  • Area Chair (Ethics) | EMNLP (2023)
  • Ethics Chair | EACL (2023)
  • Area Chair (Ethics and NLP) | ACL (2022, 2023)
  • Area Chair (Offensive and non-inclusive language detection and analysis) | COLING (2022)
  • Action Editor | ARR (2021--)

Board & Committees

  • Board Member, Widening NLP Advisory Board (2019-2023)
  • Board Member, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Board, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield (2019-2020)
  • Committee Member, University Research Ethics Committee, University of Sheffield (2018-2020)
  • Committee Member, NAACL Diversity & Inclusion Committee (2018)
  • ARR Communication Committee, ACL Rolling Review (2021-present)

Events Organised

  • [CRAFT Session] Assessing the Impacts of Generative AI Systems Across Modalities and Society (2023) | Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparancy
  • [Roundtable] Assessing Social Impact of General Purpose AI Systems (2022) | Independent
  • [Workshop] The Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (2017-2023) | Co-located with ACL conferences | WOAH
  • [Special Session] Safety for E2E Conversational AI (2021) | SIGDIAL
  • [Tutorial] You Just Don’t Understand Me! From Prediction to Understanding in Machine Learning (2020) | REAL-ML
  • [Tutorial] Two computer scientists and a cultural scientist get hit by a driver-less car: a method for situating knowledge in the cross-disciplinary study of FAT in ML (2020) | Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparancy
  • [Workshop] The Workshop on Widening NLP (2018-2019) | Co-located with ACL conferences | WiNLP
  • [Panel] The Challenge of Online Hate (2021) | Davos Labs Dialogues
  • [Panel] The Challenge of Online Harms: Can AI moderate Hate Speech (2021) | UN, Internet Governance Forum
  • [Panel] Tackling Online Abuse: Bridging the Gap Between Human Rights and Computer Science (2020) | RightsCon
  • [Panel] Online Platforms and Automated Content Moderation (2019) | Privacy Camp

Reviewing

Journal

Springer Nature · Minds and Machines · First Monday · International Journal for Cyberbullying · Language Resources and Evaluation · Language in Society · Journal of Information Processing and Management · JCLC Special Issue on Hate Speech · Big Data and Society · Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing · Transactions on the Web · Transactions on Social Computing · GeoJournal

Conference

Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparancy (FAccT, 2023) · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP, 2016, 2018-2022) · Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL, 2018-2022) · Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL, 2021-2023) · International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP, 2022) · Meeting of the Americas Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL, 2018-2023) · International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING, 2020-2022) · ACM Web Science Conference (WebScience, 2020-2022) · International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM, 2019-2022) · Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL, 2017)

Workshop

Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems (NEATClass, 2022-2023) · Perspectivist Approaches to Natural Language Processing (NLPerspectives, 2022) · User-centered Natural Language Processing Workshop (UserNLP, 2022) · Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP, 2021-2022) · Queer in AI Workshop (2022) · Workshop on Multi-Word Expressions (MWE, 2020-2022) · Workshop on Noisy User-Generated Text (W-NUT, 2019-2022) · Workshop on Trolling, Aggression, and Cyberbullying (TRAC, 2018-2022) · Text Analytics for Cybersecurity and Online Safety (TA-COS, 2018) · Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS, 2016, 2017, 2019) · Natural Language Processing for Positive Impact (NLP4PI, 2021-2023) · Workshop on Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER, 2018-2020) · EACL Student Research Workshop (EACL-SRW, 2021) · ACL Student Research Workshop (ACL-SRW, 2019,2021) · Workshop on Causal Inference & Natural Language Processing (CI+NLP, 2021)

Ethics Review

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS, 2021-2022) · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP, 2021-2022) · ACL Rolling Review (ARR, 2022-2023)

Awards & Grants

Best Paper: Queer In AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI | 2023
FAccT

Best Reviewer | 2019
ICWSM

Named Researcher | Responsible AI for Inclusive, Democratic Societies: A Cross-disciplinary Approach to Detecting and Countering Abusive Language Online., 2020-2022
UKRC-SSHRC

Named Researcher | The Data Fluencies Project, 2022-2025
Mellon Foundation

Co-PI | Dynamically Generated Datasets to Improve Online Hate Detection, 2020
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