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Dr Carla Perez Almendros
Teams and roles for Carla Perez Almendros
Lecturer
Academic and research staff
Overview
I am a lecturer and researcher at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Prior to my career in NLP I studied Public Relations and Social Responsibility and worked for 10+ years in communication, especially within the non-profit sector.
My PhD focused on the automatic detection of Patronizing and Condescending Langauge towards vulnerable communities. Since then, I have specialized in (subtle) bias, microaggressions and discrimination detection both through and within NLP models.
My main research topics are applications for Natural Language Processing (NLP), NLP for social impact and Responsible AI.
Publication
2024
- Myung, J. et al. 2024. BLEND: A benchmark for LLMs on everyday knowledge in diverse cultures and languages. Presented at: 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024) Track on Datasets and Benchmarks, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 9-15 December 2024 Presented at Globerson, A. et al. eds.NeurIPS Proceedings: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 37. Curran Associates, Inc. pp. 78104-78146.
- Antypas, D., Sen, I., Perez Almendros, C., Camacho Collados, J. and Barbieri, F. 2024. Sensitive content classification in social media: A holistic resource and evaluation. [Online]. arXiv. (10.48550/arXiv.2411.19832) Available at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.19832
- Antypas, D., Arnold, C., Camacho Collados, J., Ousidhoum, N. and Perez Almendros, C. 2024. Words as trigger points in social media discussions. [Online]. arXiv. (10.48550/arXiv.2405.10213) Available at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.10213
- Perez Almendros, C. and Camacho Collados, J. 2024. Do Large Language Models understand mansplaining? Well, actually... Presented at: LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, Torino, Itay, 20-25 May 2024 Presented at Calzolari, N. et al. eds.Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). ELRA and ICCL pp. 5235-5246.
2023
- Perez Almendros, C. 2023. Automatic detection of patronizing and condescending language towards vulnerable communities. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2022
- Perez Almendros, C. and Schockaert, S. 2022. Identifying condescending language: a tale of two distinct phenomena?. Presented at: Second Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid), 7 December 2022 Presented at Biester, L. et al. eds.Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI). Association for Computational Linguistics pp. 130–141., (10.18653/v1/2022.nlp4pi-1.15)
- Perez-Almendros, C., Espinosa-Anke, L. and Schockaert, S. 2022. SemEval-2022 task 4: patronizing and condescending language detection. Presented at: 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), Seattle, United States, July 2022 Presented at Emerson, G. et al. eds.Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022). Association for Computational Linguistics pp. 298–307., (10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.38)
- Perez Almendros, C., Espinosa-Anke, L. and Schockaert, S. 2022. Pre-training language models for identifying patronizing and condescending language: an analysis. Presented at: LREC 2022, Marseille; France, 20-25 June 2022Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022). European Language Resources Association pp. 3902-3911.
2020
- Perez Almendros, C., Espinosa-Anke, L. and Schockaert, S. 2020. Don’t patronize me! An annotated dataset with patronizing and condescending language towards vulnerable communities. Presented at: 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Barcelona, Spain, 13-18 December 2020 Presented at Scott, D., Bel, N. and Zong, C. eds.Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. International Committee on Computational Linguistics pp. 5891–5902., (10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.518)
2019
- Torres Valdés, R. M., Santa Soriano, A. and Pérez Almendros, C. 2019. The transference of theoretical models to productive transdisciplinary intersections in public relations management: Eight case studies addressing wicked problems. Public Relations Review 45(5), article number: 101799. (10.1016/j.pubrev.2019.101799)
- Perez Almendros, C., Espinosa-Anke, L. and Schockaert, S. 2019. Cardiff University at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Linguistic features for hyperpartisan news detection. Presented at: SemEval-2019: International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 6-7 June 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics pp. 929-933., (10.18653/v1/S19-2158)
Articles
- Torres Valdés, R. M., Santa Soriano, A. and Pérez Almendros, C. 2019. The transference of theoretical models to productive transdisciplinary intersections in public relations management: Eight case studies addressing wicked problems. Public Relations Review 45(5), article number: 101799. (10.1016/j.pubrev.2019.101799)
Conferences
- Myung, J. et al. 2024. BLEND: A benchmark for LLMs on everyday knowledge in diverse cultures and languages. Presented at: 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024) Track on Datasets and Benchmarks, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 9-15 December 2024 Presented at Globerson, A. et al. eds.NeurIPS Proceedings: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 37. Curran Associates, Inc. pp. 78104-78146.
- Perez Almendros, C. and Camacho Collados, J. 2024. Do Large Language Models understand mansplaining? Well, actually... Presented at: LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, Torino, Itay, 20-25 May 2024 Presented at Calzolari, N. et al. eds.Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). ELRA and ICCL pp. 5235-5246.
- Perez Almendros, C. and Schockaert, S. 2022. Identifying condescending language: a tale of two distinct phenomena?. Presented at: Second Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid), 7 December 2022 Presented at Biester, L. et al. eds.Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI). Association for Computational Linguistics pp. 130–141., (10.18653/v1/2022.nlp4pi-1.15)
- Perez-Almendros, C., Espinosa-Anke, L. and Schockaert, S. 2022. SemEval-2022 task 4: patronizing and condescending language detection. Presented at: 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), Seattle, United States, July 2022 Presented at Emerson, G. et al. eds.Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022). Association for Computational Linguistics pp. 298–307., (10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.38)
- Perez Almendros, C., Espinosa-Anke, L. and Schockaert, S. 2022. Pre-training language models for identifying patronizing and condescending language: an analysis. Presented at: LREC 2022, Marseille; France, 20-25 June 2022Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022). European Language Resources Association pp. 3902-3911.
- Perez Almendros, C., Espinosa-Anke, L. and Schockaert, S. 2020. Don’t patronize me! An annotated dataset with patronizing and condescending language towards vulnerable communities. Presented at: 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Barcelona, Spain, 13-18 December 2020 Presented at Scott, D., Bel, N. and Zong, C. eds.Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. International Committee on Computational Linguistics pp. 5891–5902., (10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.518)
- Perez Almendros, C., Espinosa-Anke, L. and Schockaert, S. 2019. Cardiff University at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Linguistic features for hyperpartisan news detection. Presented at: SemEval-2019: International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 6-7 June 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics pp. 929-933., (10.18653/v1/S19-2158)
Thesis
- Perez Almendros, C. 2023. Automatic detection of patronizing and condescending language towards vulnerable communities. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Websites
- Antypas, D., Sen, I., Perez Almendros, C., Camacho Collados, J. and Barbieri, F. 2024. Sensitive content classification in social media: A holistic resource and evaluation. [Online]. arXiv. (10.48550/arXiv.2411.19832) Available at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.19832
- Antypas, D., Arnold, C., Camacho Collados, J., Ousidhoum, N. and Perez Almendros, C. 2024. Words as trigger points in social media discussions. [Online]. arXiv. (10.48550/arXiv.2405.10213) Available at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.10213
Teaching
Computational Linguistics - Lecturer
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- Natural language processing
- AI Ethics
- Language Models
- bias in NLP
- Responsible AI