UNSW-NLP

UNSW-NLP is the natural language processing research group at UNSW Sydney.
Our work spans foundational
  • Language model evaluation
  • Efficient architectures
  • Language generation
  • Safety and alignment
, applied
  • Health
  • Law
  • Defence
  • Speech and multimodal systems
, and inclusive
  • Dialects and language varieties
  • Underrepresented communities
  • Language learners
 NLP.
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Recent News

Amrita Singh has been selected as a DAAD AInet Fellow. Congratulations, Amrita! ๐ŸŽ‰

Five papers published at EMNLP 2026. In the main conference: a benchmark framework for specialist domains by Bao Gia Doan, DiaLLM by Jordan Painter, and From Triage to Discharge by Dipankar Srirag. In Findings: IndicKLAR by Debajyoti Mazumder and SAPS by Sharath Naganna.

Our workshop on Community-Based and Socially Aware Approaches to Natural Language Processing, has been accepted at COLING 2026. The co-organisers are Lia Draetta, Chiara Ferrando, Adriana S. Pagano and Viviana Patti from University of Turin (Lia, Chiara and Viviana) and Federal University of Minas Gerais (Adriana).

Two papers published at INLG 2026: Retell, Reward, Repeat by David Liu, on reinforcement learning for narrative theory-informed story retelling, and In Vino Veritas and Vulnerabilities by Anudeex Shetty, on LLM safety under “drunk” language.

Our tutorial, Emergency Department: A Real-World Edge Case for Clinical NLP, has been accepted at AJCAI 2026. It runs on 27 November 2026.

Our research on getting AI “drunk” to expose new security risks in chatbots was featured on ABC News, news.com.au and the UNSW Newsroom Aditya Joshi speaking on ABC News about the research. Find out more about the paper here.

Co-organising the ALTA 2026 Shared Task on sentiment and sarcasm classification for Australian and British English, built on our BESSTIE dataset.

ResPL, on reasoning-based pseudo-labels for sarcasm detection in low-resource Arabic dialects by Ali Almutairi, accepted to ICNLSP 2026.

Two papers accepted at Interspeech 2026: stuttering detection in paediatric speech and TriageSim.

Suhan Karaca, co-supervised by Amrita Singh and Aditya Joshi, published a paper at Customizable NLP workshop @ ACL 2026

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Funding

NHMRC Ideas Grant
The TRIBOT Study
Aditya JoshiCI
Defence Trailblazer
Comprehensive Defence Data Platform
Aditya JoshiLead CI
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Google Research Scholar Program
BESSTIE
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