Laura Perez-Beltrachini

Academic activities

Publication Chair for INLG 2020
Action Editor ACL Rolling Review
Senior Area Chair for ACL 2024
Area Chair for EACL 2026, INLG 2025, NAACL 2024, EACL 2024, ACL 2020, EACL 2021, NAACL 2021, ACL-IJCNLP 2021
Poster Session Chair NAACL 2018
Program committee member for: ICLR (2026, 2025), EMNLP (2025 2020, 2019, 2018 --Best Reviewer Award--) ACL (2025, 2019, 2018) NAACL (2025, 2019, 2018) AACL (2025) SIGDIAL (2020, 2018, 2017) CoNLL (2018) INLG (2017, 2016) IWCS (2017, 2015) ESWC (2017) ISWC (2017) COLM (2025) NeSy (2025) UncertaiNLP (2025)
Journals: Transactions of ACL (TACL), Transactions of Machine Learning Research
Organiser of The 💎 GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics (Spring 2021), with Sebastian Gehrmann (Google AI) and many other researchers from other universities and industry. Workshop at ACL 2021.
Member of the organising committee for the DeepLoria workgroup on applications of Deep Learning at the LORIA laboratory (2016).
Principal organiser of the workshop WebNLG 2016: 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web, Edinburgh (6 September 2016).
Principal organiser with Claire Gardent (CNRS / LORIA), Yassine Mrabet and Muriel Foulonneau (ITIS/LIST, Luxemburg), of the workshop WebNLG 2015: 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web in Nancy (12 June 2015) 6 .
Member of Synalp Seminar and Tutorial Organization Committee (2012).
Organisation committee 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2011), Nancy, France (2011).
Organisation committee VI Workshop on computer science research, Neuquén, Argentine (2004).

Talks

Addressing Hallucinations in Generative AI for customer service applications. May 2025, Innovate UK BridgeAI Regional Roadshow Series, Edinburgh.
Semantic Parsing for Conversational Question Answering over KG. April 2023, Huawei-Edinburgh Joint Lab.
Neural Text Generation: Challenges, Models, and Datasets. Sept 2021, S2A group, Telecom Paris.
Learning Embeddings to lexicalise RDF Properties. Nov 2016, ProbModels group, ILCC, University of Edinburgh.
Incremental Query Generation Synalp team meeting. May 2014, Nancy (France). [slides]
Natural langauge generation Talk to journalism students (Licence Professionnelle de Journalisme) about my research topics as Ph.D and Post-doc. November 2013, Nancy (France). [slides (in French)]
Generating from Knowledge bases Invited Talk, 3rd Symposium on Advances in KRDB Technologies (SAKT-2012), November 2012, Bolzano (Italy). [slides]
Verbalizing queries Invited Seminar, KRDB Research Center for Knowledge and Data, October 2011, Bolzano (Italy). [slides]
[2011] Natural Language Generation meets the Semantic Web. Invited Tutorial, Knowledge Capture (K-CAP), June 2011, Banff (Canada). [demo-script]. With Claire Gardent and Eva Banik [slides]

Contact

Office 3.38
Informatics Forum
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK
Phone: +44 (0)131 650 4418
email: lperez (at) ed.ac.uk

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