Current

• Writing my thesis to finish late September 2019.
• Founded (2019) and organise the Lancaster NLP reading group.

Past

2019

• Finished co-organising both the UCREL CRS (started 2017) and the Data Science Group (started 2018) seminar serieses at Lancaster University. I really enjoyed hosting both seminars, learning form the wide range of talks (from more linguistic based to pure machine learning), as well as meeting the great speakers that made the seminar serieses possible.
• I attended ACL.
• Attended Future-proofing Your Research: Moving Towards Open and Reproducible Research Practices workshop at Lancaster University on the 4th of June.
• Co-Founded the Lancaster NLP group meetings, currently organised by Edward Dearden.

2018

• Attended the workshop Natural Language Processing in Financial Markets in November.
• I attended COLING in late August.
• Paper with Paul Rayson Bringing Replication and Reproduction Together with Generalisability in NLP: Three Reproduction Studies for Target Dependent Sentiment Analysis was accepted at COLING.
• I was the publication chair of the first Financial Narrative Processing (FNP 2018) workshop at LREC 2018.

2017

• I attended ACL in late July to the beginning of August.
• Best paper award at SemEval 2017 task 5 on “Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis on Financial Microblogs and News”, paper can be found here.
• Started co-organising the UCREL CRS seminar series with Mathew Gillings, Andressa Rodrigues Gomide, and Alexander Reinhold