Zee Talat
Chancellor's Fellow in Responsible Machine Learning
Works between machine learning and science and technology studies, developing critiques of ML and content moderation methods such as abusive language detection.
Zee Talat's lab at Edinburgh works on recognition, detection & segmentation and social computing & responsible AI. 39 papers since 2023, 15 at top venues, mostly EACL and EMNLP.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 10/ year
- at T1 venues
- 38%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 12 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 4
- 10 papers2024 · T1 5
- 8 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: EACL, EMNLP, Interspeech, ACL, COLING
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Social computing & responsible AI6 papers
- Recognition, detection & segmentation5 papers
- content2 papers
- moderation1 paper
- content moderation1 paper
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202612 papers
- Interspeech (T1)Aligning Stuttered-Speech Research with End-User Needs: Scoping Review, Survey, and Guidelines
- FAccTBig AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity
- LRECCode-Switching in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review
- The Aesthetics of Machine Vision: Critical Terms and IdeasContent Moderation
- ACL (T1)FedMental: Federated Learning For Mental Health Detection
- BEAIncentives Of EdTech: A Systematic Review Of EduNLP Research
- EACLIYKYK: Using language models to decode extremist cryptolects
- Interspeech (T1)Personal Attribute Leakage in Federated Speech Models
- AAAI/ACM AIESSpeech in the Panaudikon: On the Relationship between Speech Processing Research and Surveillance
- CASUnrequited Emotions: Investigating the Gaps in Motivation and Practice in Speech Emotion Recognition Research
- ICML (T1)When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
- ICML (T1)Who Evaluates AI's Social Impacts? Mapping Coverage and Gaps in First and Third Party Evaluations
20259 papers
- Reference Collection in Social SciencesEthics and Bias in Natural Language Processing
- OUP Handbook of Generative AIEvaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society
- COLING (T1)Exploring the Limitations of Detecting Machine-Generated Text
- IJCNLP-AACLOnline Learning Defense against Iterative Jailbreak Attacks via Prompt Optimization
- WOAHPathways to Radicalisation: On Research for Online Radicalisation in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
- WOAHProceedings of the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2024)
- NAACL (T1)SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models
- COLING (T1)The Only Way is Ethics: A Guide to Ethical Research with Large Language Models
- CHI (T1)The Role of Expertise in Effectively Moderating Harmful Social Media Content
202410 papers
- Interspeech (T1)ARAOFFENSE: Detecting Offensive Speech Across Dialects in Arabic Media
- ACL (T1)Classist Tools: Social Class Correlates with Performance in NLP
- NEJLTDocumenting Geographically and Contextually Diverse Language Data Sources
- LRECImpoverished Language Technology: The Lack of (Social) Class in NLP
- EMNLP (T1)Metrics for What, Metrics for Whom: Assessing Actionability of Bias Evaluation Metrics in NLP
- WOAHProceedings of the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2024)
- IsmsSubjective Isms? On the Danger of Conflating Hate and Offence in Abusive Language Detection
- NAACL (T1)The Perspectivist Paradigm Shift: Assumptions and Challenges of Capturing Human Labels
- EMNLP (T1)Understanding 'Democratization' in NLP and ML Research
- EACLZero-shot Sentiment Analysis in Low-Resource Languages Using a Multilingual Sentiment Lexicon
20238 papers
- Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and SocietyBound by the Bounty: Collaboratively Shaping Evaluation Processes for Queer AI Harms
- EACLFederated Learning for Hate Speech Detection
- Challenges and Perspectives of Hate SpeechFutures for Research on Hate Speech in Online Social Media Platforms
- Handbook of Critical Studies of AIIt's Incomprehensible: On Machine Learning and Decoloniality
- EMNLP (T1)Mirages. On Anthropomorphism in Dialogue Systems
- WOAHProceedings of the 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2023)
- FAccTQueer In AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI
- Findings of EMNLPThorny Roses: Investigating the Dual Use Dilemma in Natural Language Processing
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Apply to EdinburghFall 2027
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Informatics PhD
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- Rolling (funding consideration)
- Opens
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- English
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- Fee
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Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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