This session will provide a tutorial on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Human-in-the-loop NLP. It will cover what LLMs are, LLM developments leading to the powerful LLMs we see today and what Human-in-the-loop NLP methodologies are available to use with them. Insights will then be reported from recent research into LLMs and Human-in-the-loop NLP focussing on critical application domains such as defence, law enforcement and mental health, where getting an answer right in a safe and trustworthy way really matters.
Large Language Models (LLMs) and Human-in-the-loop NLP: Tutorial and Research Insights
Dr Stuart E. Middleton
15 July 2025
1:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Please note that this event is part of the Safe & Trusted AI Summer School.
About the speaker
Dr Stuart Middleton is an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton. He has more than 60 peer reviewed publications, many inter-disciplinary in nature, focussing on the Natural Language Processing (NLP) areas of information extraction and human-in-the-loop NLP. His research interests are focussed on socio-technical NLP approaches, including Large Language Models (LLMs), few/zero-shot learning, rationale-based learning, adversarial training and argument mining. He has been an PI/CoI on grants valued over £47M total (£2.29M income for University of Southampton), leading inter-disciplinary multi-organisational projects in domains such as law enforcement, defence and security, mental health and environmental science. He is deputy director of the £5.8M MINDS Centre for Doctoral Training, visiting researcher at Northeastern University, Turing Fellow (2021 – 2023) and board member of the Centre for Machine Intelligence. He has served as an invited expert at various events including UK Cabinet Office Ministerial AI Roundtable 2019 on ‘Use of AI in Policing’