Jose Camacho Collados

Jose Camacho Collados is a Professor at Cardiff University's School of Computer Science and Informatics, leading the Cardiff NLP group. He is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow since 2021 and has held roles including General Chair of *SEM 2024. His research focuses on NLP, particularly lexical semantics, distributional semantics, and social media analysis. Key contributions include the RelBERT model, the TweetNLP platform, and benchmarks like WiC and SuperTweetEval. He holds a PhD from Sapienza University of Rome and has worked at ATILF-CNRS. Notable awards include the AIJ 2023 Prominent Paper Award and the Welsh Chess Champion title. His work spans multilingual NLP, temporal language models (TimeLMs), and ethics in AI.

Education: Erasmus Mundus Master in Natural Language Processing, BSc in Mathematics (5-year), and a Google Doctoral Fellowship. Research emphasizes integrating knowledge resources (e.g., BabelNet) with NLP applications. Active in organizing challenges like SemEval and promoting open datasets. Supervises PhD students and advocates for reproducible research through platforms like TweetEval.

Awards highlight his scientific contributions, including the 2023 AIJ award and fellowship recognitions. His work on social media analysis addresses mental health, misinformation, and public health monitoring. A passionate advocate for NLP education, he teaches and publishes extensively on embeddings and their applications.