Dr Nafise Sadat Moosavi

School of Computer Science

Lecturer in Natural Language Processing

Member of the Natural Language Processing research group

Deputy School Head of ED&I

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N.S.Moosavi@sheffield.ac.uk
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Dr Nafise Sadat Moosavi
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
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Dr. Nafise Sadat Moosavi is a Lecturer in  at the Computer Science Department of the University of Sheffield. Before joining the University of Sheffield, she was a postdoctoral researcher at  at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Before that, she got her PhD degree from Heidelberg University. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Alzahra University and the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran.

Research interests

She is interested in various areas of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning including end-to-end reasoning, robustness and generalization, coreference resolution, text generation, sustainability, and reliable evaluation.

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Journal articles

  • Elghazaly H, Mirheidari B, Moosavi NS & Christensen H (2025) Exploring Gender Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition Technology.. CoRR, abs/2502.18434.
  • Paun S, Yu J, Moosavi NS & Poesio M (2023) . Dialogue & Discourse, 14(2), 1-48.
  • Dhole K, Gangal V, Gehrmann S, Gupta A, Li Z, Mahamood S, Mahadiran A, Mille S, Shrivastava A, Tan S , Tongshang Wu et al () . Northern European Journal of Language Technology, 9(1).

Conference proceedings

  • Sivakumar JA & Moosavi NS (2025) How to leverage digit embeddings to represent numbers?. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp 7685-7697). Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 19 January 2025 - 19 January 2025.
  • Mi M, Villavicencio A & Moosavi NS (2025) . Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp 7314-7332), July 2025 - July 2025.
  • Shafiei M, Saffari H & Moosavi NS (2025) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025 (pp 10169-10187), July 2025 - July 2025.
  • Jiang G, Wang Y, Li Y, Moosavi NS & Hui P (2024) . Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (pp 1-8)
  • Delbari Z, Moosavi NS & Pilehvar MT (2024) . Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 38(16) (pp 17889-17897). Vancouver, Canada, 20 February 2024 - 20 February 2024.
  • Poesio M, Ogrodniczuk M, Ng V, Pradhan S, Yu J, Moosavi NS, Paun S, Zeldes A, Nedoluzhko A, Novák M , Popel M et al (2024) Universal Anaphora: The First Three Years. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics Language Resources and Evaluation Lrec Coling 2024 Main Conference Proceedings (pp 17087-17100)
  • Liu Y, Moosavi NS & Lin C (2024) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 (pp 12688-12701). Bangkok, Thailand, 11 August 2024 - 11 August 2024.
  • Jan-Christoph K, Lee J-U, Stowe K, Åžahin G, Moosavi NS, Bates L, Petrak D, Eckart De Castilho R & Gurevych I (2023) Lessons learned from a Citizen Science project for Natural Language Processing. Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp 3594-3608). Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2 May 2023 - 2 May 2023.
  • Fang H, Lee J-U, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2023) Transformers with learnable activation functions. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023 (pp 2382-2398). Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2 May 2023 - 2 May 2023.
  • Sivakumar J & Moosavi NS (2023) . Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Vol. 1 (pp 15026-15043). Toronto, Canada, 9 July 2023 - 9 July 2023.
  • Petrak D, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2023) . Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023), Vol. *SEM 2023 (pp 477-493). Toronto, Canada, 13 July 2023 - 13 July 2023.
  • Klie JC, Lee JU, Stowe K, Åžahin GG, Moosavi NS, Bates L, Petrak D, de Castilho RE & Gurevych I (2023) Lessons Learned from a Citizen Science Project for Natural Language Processing. Eacl 2023 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Conference (pp 3576-3590)
  • Fang H, Lee JU, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2023) Transformers with Learnable Activation Functions. Eacl 2023 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Findings of Eacl 2023 (pp 2337-2353)
  • Petrak D, Moosavi N, Tian Y, Rozanov N & Gurevych I (2023) . Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp 16259-16279), December 2023 - December 2023.
  • Vu DNL, Moosavi NS & Eger S (2022) Layer or representation space: what makes BERT-based evaluation metrics robust?. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Vol. 29(1) (pp 3401-3411). Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, 12 October 2022 - 12 October 2022.
  • Utama PA, Bambrick J, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2022) . Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp 2763-2776). Seattle, WA, USA, 10 July 2022 - 10 July 2022.
  • Moosavi NS, Delfosse Q, Kersting K & Gurevych I (2022) . Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp 3742-3753). Seattle, WA, USA, 10 July 2022 - 10 July 2022.
  • Yu J, Khosla S, Moosavi NS, Paun S, Pradhan S & Poesio M (2022) The Universal Anaphora Scorer. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 (pp 4873-4883). Marseille, France, 20 June 2022 - 20 June 2022.
  • Moosavi N, Rücklé A, Roth D & Gurevych I (2021) SciGen : a dataset for reasoning-aware text generation from scientific tables. Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks 1 (NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks 2021), 6 December 2021 - 6 December 2021.
  • Utama PA, Moosavi NS, Sanh V & Gurevych I (2021) . Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp 9063-9074). Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (Online), 7 November 2021 - 7 November 2021.
  • Wu M, Moosavi NS, Roth D & Gurevych I (2021) . Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Vol. 1 (pp 5768-5781). Bangkok, Thailand (Online), 1 August 2021 - 1 August 2021.
  • Yu J, Moosavi NS, Paun S & Poesio M (2021) . Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp 4174-4184). Online, 6 June 2021 - 6 June 2021.
  • Yu J, Moosavi NS, Paun S & Poesio M (2020) . Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp 6113-6125). Barcelona, Spain (Online), 8 December 2020 - 8 December 2020.
  • Wu M, Moosavi NS, Rücklé A & Gurevych I (2020) . Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 (pp 839-853). Online, 16 November 2020 - 16 November 2020.
  • Utama PA, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2020) . Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020) (pp 7597-7610). Online, 16 November 2020 - 16 November 2020.
  • Utama PA, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2020) . Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020) (pp 8717-8729). Online, 5 July 2020 - 5 July 2020.
  • Rücklé A, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2019) . Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) (pp 1607-1617). Hong Kong, China, 3 November 2019 - 3 November 2019.
  • Rücklé A, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2019) . Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 33 (pp 6932-6939). Honolulu, HI, USA, 27 January 2019 - 27 January 2019.
  • Moosavi NS, Born L, Poesio M & Strube M (2019) . Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019) (pp 4168-4178). Florence, Italy, 28 July 2019 - 28 July 2019.
  • Moosavi NS & Strube M (2018) . Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp 193-203). Brussels, Belgium, 31 October 2018 - 31 October 2018.
  • Poesio M, Grishina Y, Kolhatkar V, Moosavi N, Roesiger I, Roussel A, Simonjetz F, Uma A, Uryupina O, Yu J & Zinsmeister H (2018) . Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (pp 11-22). New Orleans, Louisiana, 6 June 2018 - 6 June 2018.
  • Heinzerling B, Moosavi NS & Strube M (2017) . Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp 1332-1339). Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 September 2017 - 9 September 2017.
  • Moosavi NS & Strube M (2017) . Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 2 (pp 14-19). Vancouver, Canada, 30 July 2017 - 30 July 2017.
  • Moosavi NS & Strube M (2017) . Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON 2017) (pp 1-7). Valencia, Spain, 4 April 2017 - 4 April 2017.
  • Moosavi NS & Strube M (2016) . Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 1 (pp 632-642). Berlin, Germany, 7 August 2016 - 7 August 2016.
  • Moosavi NS & Strube M (2016) . Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp 1005-1011). San Diego, California, 12 June 2016 - 12 June 2016.
  • Moosavi NS & GhassemSani G (2014) . Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, Vol. LNCS 8387 (pp 93-103). PoznaÅ„, Poland, 25 November 2011 - 25 November 2011.
  • Moosavi NS & Strube M (2014) Unsupervised coreference resolution by utilizing the most informative relations. Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers (pp 644-655). Dublin, Ireland, 23 August 2014 - 23 August 2014.
  • Rezaei M, Moosavi NS, Nemati H & Azmi R (2010) TCvisor: A hypervisor level secure storage. 2010 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions Icitst 2010

Preprints

  • Xue H, Moosavi NS & Aletras N (2025) Deconstructing Attention: Investigating Design Principles for Effective Language Modeling, arXiv.
  • Mi M, Villavicencio A & Moosavi NS (2025) , arXiv.
  • Mi M, Villavicencio A & Moosavi NS (2025) , arXiv.
  • Saffari H, Shafiei M, Zhang H, Harris L & Moosavi NS (2025) , arXiv.
  • Shafiei M, Saffari H & Moosavi NS (2025) , arXiv.
  • Shafiei M, Saffari H & Moosavi NS (2025) , arXiv.
  • Pastorino V & Moosavi NS (2025) , arXiv.
  • Wang X, Larionov D, Wu S, Liu Y, Eger S, Moosavi NS & Lin C (2025) , arXiv.
  • ElGhazaly H, Mirheidari B, Moosavi NS & Christensen H (2025) , arXiv.
  • Eger S, Cao Y, D'Souza J, Geiger A, Greisinger C, Gross S, Hou Y, Krenn B, Lauscher A, Li Y , Lin C et al (2025) , arXiv.
  • Pandya M, Moosavi NS & Maynard D (2024) , arXiv.
  • Sivakumar JA & Moosavi NS (2024) , arXiv.
  • Pastorino V, Sivakumar JA & Moosavi NS (2024) , arXiv.
  • Liu Y, Moosavi NS & Lin C (2023) , arXiv.
  • Petrak D, Moosavi NS, Tian Y, Rozanov N & Gurevych I (2023) , arXiv.
  • Sivakumar JA & Moosavi NS (2023) , arXiv.
  • Klie J-C, Lee J-U, Stowe K, Åžahin GG, Moosavi NS, Bates L, Petrak D, de Castilho RE & Gurevych I (2023) , arXiv.
  • Paun S, Yu J, Moosavi NS & Poesio M (2022) , arXiv.
  • Petrak D, Moosavi NS & Gurevych I (2022) , arXiv.
  • Dhole KD, Gangal V, Gehrmann S, Gupta A, Li Z, Mahamood S, Mahendiran A, Mille S, Shrivastava A, Tan S , Wu T et al (2021) , arXiv.
  • Moosavi NS, de Boer M, Utama PA & Gurevych I (2020) , arXiv.
  • Moosavi NS, Utama PA, Rücklé A & Gurevych I (2019) , arXiv.
Grants
  • Geometric Representations of Uncertainty for Foundation Models, Royal Society, 03/2025 - 03/2028, £193,560, as PI

Links

Natural Language Processing research group