Lucia Specia
Professor
Studies multimodal and multilingual natural language processing, including machine translation, quality estimation, image captioning and text adaptation.
Lucia Specia's lab at Imperial works on multilingual, translation & linguistics, multimodal & grounded language and vision-language & multimodal. 101 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly Findings of ACL and Findings of EMNLP. 4 PhD students. 1 alumnus. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 26/ year
- at T1 venues
- 1%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 1
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 32 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 31 papers2025 · T1 0
- 16 papers2024 · T1 0
- 22 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Findings of ACL, Findings of EMNLP, ACL, Findings of NAACL, npj Climate Action Mar
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Vision-language & multimodal22 papers
- Multimodal & grounded language21 papers
- Multilingual, translation & linguistics12 papers
- multilingual7 papers
- adaptation1 paper
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202632 papers
- JulAFRILANGTUTOR: Advancing Language Tutoring and Culture Education in Low-Resource Languages with Large Language Models
- JunAfriScience-MT: Towards Decolonizing Science in Africa through Text Translation
- JulAfriSUD: A Dependency Treebank Collection for Evaluating Models on African Languages
- In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) JulAgentCoMa: A Compositional Benchmark Mixing Commonsense and Mathematical Reasoning in Real-World Scenarios
- In SD4H @ ICMLAutoregressive EHR Foundation Models with Multimodal Inputs
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics JulBeyond Majority Voting: Agreement-Based Clustering to Model Annotator Perspectives in Subjective NLP Tasks
- JulBias Redistribution in Visual Machine Unlearning: Does Forgetting One Group Harm Another?
- In Proceedings of the Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP ) MarBuilding a Conversational AI Assistant for African Travel Services with LLMs and RAG
- In Proceedings of the Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP ), co-located with EACL MayCan I Read My X-Ray Report? Towards Accessible Radiology Report in Low-Resource African Context
- In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) JulCommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data
- In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) JulDimABSA: Building Multilingual and Multidomain Datasets for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
- JunDimStance: Multilingual Datasets for Dimensional Stance Analysis
202531 papers
- KASU Journal of Computer Science DecA Comparative Study of Embedding Models for Offensive Language Detection in Nigeria
- In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing NovAFRIDOC-MT: Document-level MT Corpus for African Languages
- In Proceedings of the Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) AprAfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages
- Findings of EMNLPAfroXLMR-Social: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text
- npj Climate Action MarAssessing the effectiveness of interdependent corporate sustainability choices
- AugAutomatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for African Low-Resource Languages: A Systematic Literature Review
- In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP ) JulAutomatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions
- In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) JulBRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages
- ICLR WorkshopEnhancing LLM Robustness to Perturbed Instructions: An Empirical Study
- DecEvaluating Deep Learning Models for African Wildlife Image Classification: From DenseNet to Vision Transformers
- JulExploring Cultural Nuances in Emotion Perception Across 15 African Languages
- JulHausaMovieReview: A Benchmark Dataset for Sentiment Analysis in Low-Resource African Language
202416 papers
- In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) JunAfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages
- JunAnalyzing COVID-19 Vaccination Sentiments in Nigerian Cyberspace: Insights from a Manually Annotated Twitter Dataset
- In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing AprAtomic Inference for NLI with Generated Facts as Atoms
- In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems JunBLEnD: A Benchmark for LLMs on Everyday Knowledge in Diverse Cultures and Languages
- In In Proceedings of the Biomedical Natural Language Processing Workshop (BioNLP ) AprContinuous Predictive Modeling of Clinical Notes and ICD Codes in Patient Health Records
- In Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation NovCorrecting FLORES Evaluation Dataset for Four African Languages
- In The USENIX Security Symposium AprDid the Neurons Read your Book? Document-level Membership Inference for Large Language Models
- Findings of ACLDistilling Robustness into Natural Language Inference Models with Domain-Targeted Augmentation
- In Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation NovFindings of WMT2024 English-to-Low Resource Multimodal Translation Task
- In Proceedings of the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH ) JunHausaHate: An Expert Annotated Corpus for Hausa Hate Speech Detection
- WMT24 @ EMNLP2024 AugIsoChronoMeter: A simple and effective isochronic translation evaluation metric
- In Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING ) MayMitigating Translationese in Low-resource Languages: The Storyboard Approach
202322 papers
- In Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP ), at ICLR JulAdapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African Languages
- Findings of EMNLPAfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages
- In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing DecAfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages
- In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) JunAfriWOZ: Corpus for Exploiting Cross-Lingual Transfer for Dialogue Generation in Low-Resource, African Languages
- Findings of EACLAn Extended Sequence Tagging Vocabulary for Grammatical Error Correction
- JulCombining Symbolic and Deep Learning Approaches for Sentiment Analysis
- JunDomain-specific and Context-aware Approaches to Sentiment Analysis
- In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-) JulHausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Transfer Learning, Synthetic Data and Side-information for Multi-level Sexism Classification
- Findings of ACLHaVQA: A Dataset for Visual Question Answering and Multimodal Research in Hausa Language
- In Proceedings on "I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: Failure Modes in the Age of Foundation Models" at NeurIPS Workshops 16 decHow (not) to ensemble LVLMs for VQA
- EMNLP2023 DecLearning From Free-Text Human Feedback–Collect New Datasets Or Extend Existing Ones?
- JulLeveraging Closed-Access Multilingual Embedding for Automatic Sentence Alignment in Low Resource Languages
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