Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Mohammad Taher Pilehvar is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University's School of Computer Science and an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge's Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. His research focuses on lexical semantics and semantic representation in NLP, particularly in word sense disambiguation and embedding space isotropy. He has held academic positions at Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS) and Sapienza University of Rome, where he completed his PhD under Dr. Roberto Navigli.

• Key Research Interests
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Lexical Semantics & Semantic Representation
  • Contextualized Embeddings & Word Sense Disambiguation
  • Knowledge-Infused Language Models

His recent publications (2021-2013) demonstrate expertise in semantic similarity frameworks, metonymy resolution, and biomedical NLP applications like PheneBank. He supervised PhD students including Jose Camacho-Collados and Costanza Conforti, now at top institutions.

• Awards
  • 2023 AIJ Prominent Paper Award
  • 2014 Sapienza Starting Grant
  • 2015 Best PhD Paper (Sapienza University)

He has collaborated with the University of Cambridge's Language Technology Lab on MRC-funded projects and co-organized SemEval tasks. Current roles include editorial board membership at JNLE and co-chairing ACL 2025.