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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

2 years

It's official now! I'm feeling very honoured to have been appointed full professor at @DIKU_Institut @koebenhavns_uni , making me the youngest female full professor in Denmark ever.

Denmark's youngest female professor appointed at the University of Copenhagen

Her research investigates how to combat fake news through automated online fact-checking and the portrayal of women in digital language. 33-year-old Isabelle Augenstein from the Department of...

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3 years

Good research comes from a place of calm, and from dedicated, prolongued focus. If you're constantly panicking and trying to jump on every small research trend, you have already lost. The best researchers I've worked with seemed to have all the time in the world to discuss ideas.

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@bayesianboy

3 years

Academics: What is a piece of advice that you never received from a mentor that you want to be certain your students hear?

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Isabelle Augenstein

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4 years

I'm happy to now officially share that I'll be a (tenured) associate professor in #NLProc @DIKU_Institut from next month onwards 🎉🥳 Thanks to my wonderful collaborators, students & mentors over the years who've helped me get this far -- here's to more good work in the future 😃

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3 years

I’m pleased to announce my new role as head of the newly established #NLProc section at @DIKU_Institut @uni_copenhagen Want to work with us? We have several open PhD positions:

The University of Copenhagen establishes a dedicated NLP section

The Department of Computer Science has become one of the top places for NLP research in Europe.

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@IAugenstein

4 years

Have you ever wondered how you could increase your happiness and well-being as an academic? I certainly have. I've written a blog post with some suggestions, backed up by psychology research. #wellbeing #mentalhealth #academiclife Comments welcome 🙂

Increasing Well-Being in Academia

Academia is far from the best work environment from a mental health perspective. From reports on high suicide rates among PhD students to…

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@IAugenstein

3 years

Having a #Wikipedia bio is often seen as a measure for notability despite well-known biases in Wikipedia bios. In my new blog post, I examine the relationship between notability, research impact, gender & institutional affiliations of #NLProc researchers

Who is ‘Wikipedia famous’ within Natural Language Processing?

Having a Wikipedia article as a researcher is one of many measuring sticks that may be applied to gauge how notable a researcher is…

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

2 years

I successfully defended my higher doctoral thesis on Monday, earning the title of Doctor Scientiarum 🎉🎓 You can read the thesis "Towards Explainable Fact Checking" here: Many thanks to the committee members @lspecia & Iryna Gyrevych @christian_igel !

DIKU - Department of Computer Science, UCPH

@DIKU_Institut

2 years

Big congratulations to Associate Professor @IAugenstein who defended her doctoral thesis this week on explainable fact checking👏 We don't quite understand how you found the time to do this on top of everything else😲 What an achievement! @CopeNLU #NLP #FactCheck #misinformation

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Isabelle Augenstein

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4 years

📢I'm currently looking for paid PhD interns in the areas of fact checking and explainability 📢 Distance or on-site internships both possible. Minimum length 2 months, 3 months preferred. Email me for further details if interested 🙂📧 @CopeNLU #NLProc #ML #misinformation #XAI

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@IAugenstein

2 years

📣 Looking for a PhD position? 10 PhD fellowships are available via the Danish Data Science Academy Caveat: applicants need to have graduated from a 2-year MSc programme by the time of application Deadline: 20 March 2022 Get in touch if you're interested!

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3 years

📜I've just completed my #acl2021nlp paper reading marathon (main conference, findings, and workshop proceedings) -- here are my personal (highly subjective) highlights: #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

5 years

Big news — I finally set up my own #NLProc research group at @uni_copenhagen ! It has a Twitter account ( @CopeNLU ) and a website: If you’re curious about joining us, you can read more about why and how to in this blog post:

CopeNLU

@CopeNLU

5 years

Hello, world! We're a Natural Language Understanding research group lead by @IAugenstein , at @DIKU_Institut @uni_copenhagen We're interested in #ML research on learning with limited data, and #NLProc tasks such as fact checking, knowledge base population & question answering.

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8 years

Brainstorming at @uclmr : how to recommend "what method works best for NLP task X"? Our baseline is ready #NLProc

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3 years

I am looking for 2 PhD students to join @CopeNLU to work on explainability & stance detection, funded by a @DFF_raad Sapere Aude fellowship. Deadline: 31 Jan 2021 Start date: 1 Sept 2021 Project info: Job ad: #NLProc #ML #XAI

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1 year

I'm absolutely thrilled to have been awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant on 'Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking (ExplainYourself)'! Read more about the project & how to join the team here: @ERC_Research #ERCStG #factchecking #XAI @CopeNLU

Positions available in context of ERC Starting Grant project ExplainYourself | CopeNLU

Three PhD fellowships and two postdoc positions on explainable stance detection are available in CopeNLU. The positions are offered in the context of an ERC Starting Grant on ‘Explainable and Robust...

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@ERC_Research

1 year

📢 The ERC's 2022 Starting Grant competition results are now revealed. Over €636 million to fund the best ideas of younger scientists. Find out who, where and why 👉 🇪🇺 #EUfunded @HorizonEU #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

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3 years

Would you like to work on blue-skies research in natural language understanding in a top-ranking NLP research group in one of the happiest countries in the world? @CopeNLU is looking for prospective PhD students and postdoc for a start in autumn 2021. #emnlp2020 #NLProc

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5 years

I'm super happy to announce that I've received basic research funding from @DFF_raad to work on the relationship between gender bias & stance detection across languages I'll be hiring a PhD in Copenhagen @CopeNLU , co-supervised by @ryandcotterell #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

4 years

"Generating Fact Checking Explanations" was accepted to #acl2020nlp -- big congrats to @atanasovapepa for getting her first paper as a PhD student published! #NLProc #factchecking #XAI #acl2020

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@IAugenstein

3 years

Super happy that "Multi-Hop Fact Checking of Political Claims" was accepted to #ijcai2021 ! 🥳 Well done to Wojciech Ostrowski, whose MSc thesis this paper is based on, as well as to @rnav_arora and @atanasovapepa Preprint: #NLProc #ML

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@IAugenstein

2 years

📢Looking for a PhD fellowship in #XAI #ML #NLProc #IR ? We have a position available for a start in Spring 2023. The successful candidate will be supervised by my colleague Christina Lioma and me @DIKU_Institut Read more & apply: #PhDposition

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@IAugenstein

3 years

PhD student post conference deadline: how nice, I can finally sleep.😴 PI post deadline: I have four more deadlines this week. Also, I have to organise exams this week and my inbox is a war zone. 😅 Hang in there, everyone! #ACL2021NLP #NLProc

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

3 years

Really happy to have been admitted as a member of the Young Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 🔬📝😊 Looking forward to interesting discussions about research (+politics) with other young researchers from different areas #dkforsk

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@DetUngeAkademi

3 years

I Det Unge Akademi er vi glade for at kunne byde velkommen til 8 nye medlemmer. Alle er fremragende forskere indenfor deres fagområde. Læs mere her:

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Would you like to do a PhD with me @uni_copenhagen ? 28 Marie Curie PhD fellowships are available at our faculty. Apply by 1 October & name me as advisor: Master's degree or equivalent qualifications needed. Informal enquiries welcome! #NLProc @coastalcph

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@IAugenstein

3 years

Interested in a PhD position in #NLProc ? I'm still looking to hire one student on my @DFF_raad Sapere Aude project on explainable stance detection. Deadline: 9 May 2021 Start date: 1 Sept 2021 Project info: Job ad: #NLProc #ML #XAI

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

3 years

It's Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 I've never owned a car and honestly wouldn't know what to do with one. Broad, dedicated bicycle lanes mean it's pleasant to cycle everywhere in the city (including to the airport, which I have on occasion) & there's a well-functioning public transport network.

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

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"In a quality city, a person should be able to live their entire life without a car, and not feel deprived." —Paul Bedford

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2 years

🗣️📜 I'll be defending my habilitation thesis / doktordisputats on "Towards Explainable Fact Checking" on 6 December from 13. Everyone is welcome to attend, in person or remotely 🙂 Preprint: #NLProc #dkforsk @DIKU_Institut

Towards Explainable Fact Checking

The past decade has seen a substantial rise in the amount of mis- and disinformation online, from targeted disinformation campaigns to influence politics, to the unintentional spreading of...

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4 years

I am so proud of all my advisees and collaborators for preserving their passion for research during a pandemic and producing such high-quality write-ups of their research projects. Thanks for putting your trust in me as an advisor, it means a lot. 🤗 #NLProc #emnlp2020 @CopeNLU

CopeNLU

@CopeNLU

4 years

Massive congrats to all lab members on their #emnlp2020 papers! 7 out of 11 submissions were accepted; a lab record 🥳 The papers are on #factchecking , #XAI , domain adaptation, transfer learning, QA and improving peer review. #NLProc ⤵️

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@IAugenstein

3 years

Is there anyone in my network who'd be interested in relocating to Denmark for a faculty position (asst/assoc/full prof) in #NLProc (ideally #BioNLP )? We'll likely have upcoming opportunities, for which I'm compiling a list of potential candidates. If so, send me an intro email.

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@IAugenstein

5 years

Extremely well-written article discussing limitations of deep learning and why common-sense reasoning is hard, featuring @GaryMarcus @etzioni @YejinChoinka @egrefen @ylecun & more #AI #dlearn #ML #NLProc

WIRED

@WIRED

5 years

For years, deep learning has been the dominant way to help machines sense and perceive the world around them. But some argue that deep learning is hitting a wall. Why? Because it lacks everyday common sense.

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1 year

Thanks to everyone who came to my #AAAI2023 keynote "Beyond Fact Checking — Modelling Information Change in Scientific Communication" I've uploaded the slides here: Shoutout also to my collaborators @dustin_wright37 @jiaxin_pei @david__jurgens #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

2 years

Thanks to everyone who came to my #ECIR2022 keynote on "Accountable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking"! If you missed it, you can find the (extended) slide deck here: #factchecking #XAI #NLProc

Accountable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking

Accountable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking - Download as a PDF or view online for free

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@IAugenstein

3 years

"Reasons to accept: The study is novel and interesting. Reasons to reject: The work presented is not really novel." I'm not normally one to rant about reviews, but this takes the biscuit. Thanks, #acl2021nlp reviewers.

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@IAugenstein

2 years

I'm happy to share that I will serve as a SIGDAT* officer for the next three years, initially as Vice President-Elect. Thanks to everyone who voted for me! *the ACL special interest group which organises @emnlpmeeting #NLProc

Officers & Organizing Committee

SIGDAT officers & organizing committee.

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@IAugenstein

3 years

I feel truly honoured to have received a @DFF_raad Sapere Aude Research Leader fellowship on 'Learning to Explain Attitudes on Social Media', which will allow me to do blue-skies research & expand my research group @CopeNLU Want to join the team? See

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@IAugenstein

5 years

COST Action accepted as main proposer! A truly multi-national project with 23 partners. "We are happy to inform you that proposal Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation was approved by the COST Committee of Senior Officials." #NLProc #ML 🇪🇺

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@IAugenstein

4 years

Is starting a PhD in #NLProc #ML on your list of New Year's resolutions? You can now apply for an open-topic Marie Curie TALENT scholarship again, deadline 13 Feb, start date 1 Aug. Feel free to contact me if you're interested in a PhD with me as advisor.

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@IAugenstein

4 years

I don't know who still needs to hear this, but putting in more hours at work != more output. Here's a plot of how productivity declines for additional time spent at work. So, working longer hours -> dimishing or even negative returns. Source:

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@IAugenstein

6 months

Happy to share that there's now also a Wikipedia page about me ☺️ 📰 #NLProc #XAI

Isabelle Augenstein - Wikipedia

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@IAugenstein

1 year

Massive congrats to @dustin_wright37 for successfully defending his PhD on “Machine Understanding of Scientific Text”. So proud of you ☺️👏 Thanks to @SergeBelongie @vlachos_nlp @SmaraMuresanNLP for serving on the committee & @daniel_hers for moderating #NLProc #factchecking

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@IAugenstein

7 years

New paper on learning what to share in multi-task learning @seb_ruder @joabingel @soegaarducph #dlearn #ML #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

7 months

I will be recruiting PhD students for a start in autumn 2024 via the @ELLISforEurope PhD call; application deadline: 15 November. Successful candidates will join @CopeNLU as well as @AiCentreDK More information about the PhD programme: #NLProc #XAI

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@IAugenstein

3 years

I'm looking for 2 postdocs to join @CopeNLU , one in the area of computational social science funded by my @DFF_raad Sapere Aude project; one on explainable #NLProc for #EdTech Application deadline: 28 Feb, start date: 1 Sep #XAI #dlearn @DIKU_Institut

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@IAugenstein

6 years

Check out @seb_ruder 's poster on "Universal Language Model Fine-Tuning for Text Classification" #acl2018 #NLProc @jeremyphoward

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@IAugenstein

6 years

I am really excited to announce that I have been awarded a small grant by the Copenhagen Centre for Communication and Computing to restart the Copenhagen #NLProc meetup, covering expenses for 6 speakers this autumn and winter. Stay tuned for updates!

Natural Language Processing Copenhagen Meetup | Meetup

We are people from academia and industry that are passionate about Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Language Technology and Computational Linguistics.The group is intended to keep each...

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@IAugenstein

2 years

I've been relatively silent about the war in the Ukraine so far, because I've found it hard to find the right words to express my feelings. This should go without saying: I deeply condemn Putin's action -- there is no excuse for invading a sovereign democratic country. 🧵

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@IAugenstein

3 years

Re-posting this due to popular demand. Do not aim to work 90 hours a week. I repeat, do not aim to work 90 hours a week. #AI #ML #dlearn #NLProc (if you've not seen it yet, check out this thread: )

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@IAugenstein

4 years

I don't know who still needs to hear this, but putting in more hours at work != more output. Here's a plot of how productivity declines for additional time spent at work. So, working longer hours -> dimishing or even negative returns. Source:

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@IAugenstein

7 years

I'm starting as tenure-track assistant prof @uni_copenhagen - absolutely thrilled to join @lowlandscph ! Visit me at #emnlp2017 :-) #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

5 years

Dear mobile phone manufacturers, Please stop increasing the size of your devices. This systematically disadvantages women, who tend to have small hands, and have to put up with trousers with tiny pockets. Sincerely, A busy professor who just wants to type with one hand #feminism

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@IAugenstein

3 years

📣 Reminder that I'm looking for two postdocs to join my research group @CopeNLU in beautiful Copenhagen. If you have a background in computational social science and/or explainability, please check the call below. #NLProc #socialscience #soctwitter #sociology #postdocjobs #CPH

Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

3 years

I'm looking for 2 postdocs to join @CopeNLU , one in the area of computational social science funded by my @DFF_raad Sapere Aude project; one on explainable #NLProc for #EdTech Application deadline: 28 Feb, start date: 1 Sep #XAI #dlearn @DIKU_Institut

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#naacl2018 paper "Multi-task Learning of Pairwise Sequence Classification Tasks Over Disparate Label Spaces" (IA, @seb_ruder , @soegaarducph ) preview: we investigate MTL and label transfer for sharing between different strongly related NLU tasks #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

6 years

We're excited to announce the first #AKBC *conference*, Amherst, MA, 20-22 May 2019. Submit your papers on knowledge gathering, representation and reasoning by 16 Nov 2018! @andrewmccallum @sameer_ @xiangrenUSC @riedelcastro #ML #AI #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

1 year

Massive congrats to @atanasovapepa for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Accountable and Explainable Methods for Complex Reasoning over Text”! 🎉🍾🎊 Proud to have been your supervisor. Thanks to @christian_igel @iatitov @kbontcheva for serving on the committee. @CopeNLU

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We are looking for a PhD student with interest in explainable NLU to join @CopeNLU and the @ERC_Research project ExplainYourself Application deadline: 1 Feb 2024, start: autumn 2024 More info: Apply here: #NLProc #XAI #factchecking

PhD position available in context of ERC Starting Grant project ExplainYourself | CopeNLU

A PhD fellowship on explainable natural language understanding is available in CopeNLU. The successful candidate will be supervised by Isabelle Augenstein and Pepa Atanasova. The positions are...

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1 year

I'm extremely grateful to the Hartmann Foundation for honouring me with the Hartmann Diploma Prize. The prize is awarded to younger people who are expected to make a valuable contribution to Danish society.

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4 years

A preprint of this #emnlp2020 paper by @atanasovapepa et al. is now available: #XAI #ML #NLProc

CopeNLU

@CopeNLU

4 years

"A Diagnostic Study of Explainability Techniques for Text Classification" ( @atanasovapepa J Grue Simonsen, C Lioma @IAugenstein ) presents a framework for evaluating explainability methods. Findings: gradient-based explanations perform best across tasks & architectures #emnlp2020

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Main #acl2017nlp take-away: well-known #NLProc researchers have spoken out for building linguistically-informed models again, which is great

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1 year

📣 Interested in joining my research group @CopeNLU ? Several positions available: - 1 PhD & 1 postdoc on explainable fact checking - 2 PhD positions on bias detection (1 with me as main, 1 as co-supervisor) - Further PhD & postdoc positions in an open call Details ⤵️ #NLProc #ML

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Making my way through the #acl2021nlp proceedings, one Americanism that really rubs me the wrong way is to say that a paper introduces a method to "solve" a #NLProc task (at an accuracy of well below 100%). I guess we can all stop doing NLP research then if you've solved it?

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@IAugenstein

5 years

Happy to hear at the ACL business meeting that CL journal will adopt a strategy similar to TACL. There'll be a standing reviewer pool, a 7-8 week reviewing turn-around for short vs. long papers, and optional ACL conference presentation. #acl2019 #acl2019nlp #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

3 years

I am so sick of application portals. Why do you need to know the postal code of my place of birth? Why are you telling me I've "not filled in all required fields" even though I have? Just let me send you a PDF as an email attachment, please. It's been a long year.

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@IAugenstein

4 years

Who else has been procrastinating on recording their #acl2020nlp talks? I find the prospect of recording a 45 minute invited talk in one go (no pause button, no way to edit the recording afterwards) pretty daunting -- especially as it will be publicly available afterwards.

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Excited about our new preprint, presenting an efficient, effective & inherently interpretable framework for content flagging. This is the result of @zzz2aaa 's internship @checkstep & work w. @didizlatkova @mhardalov Yoan Dinkov @preslav_nakov #NLProc

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New #NLProc paper preprint 📝, in which we present MoLE (Mixture-of-Experts w. Label Embeddings) 👷unsupervised out-of-domain prediction of user-defined labels 🔧parameter-efficient 🚀sizable performance gains in an eval on 16 stance detection datasets

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@IAugenstein

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#eacl2021 people: would you like to see a never-before-seen* talk on adaptation to unseen domains & labels**? Then come to my #AdaptNLP WS invited talk tomorrow, 20 April 11:30 CET! *apart from by my cat, who was not impressed **pun fully intended #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

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Presenting our TACL paper on cross-lingual content flagging, work w. @zzz2aaa @didizlatkova @mhardalov Yoan Dinkov @preslav_nakov @checkstep #NLProc #acl2022nlp

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📣 Looking for a PhD or postdoc position in #ML #NLProc #XAI for autumn 2023? 2 positions still available, deadline 24 May: - PD in Human-Centered Explainable Fact Checking: - PhD in Fair & Accountable #NLProc : @quillis @piaingold

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@IAugenstein

6 years

More excellent news: team Copenhagen (Yova Kementchedjhieva, @johannesbjerva , myself) has won the @conll2018 -- @sigmorphon shared task T2 on morphological inflection in context. All credit goes to first-year PhD student Yova who took the lead on this! #NLProc #conll2018 #emnlp2018

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4 years

A preprint of this paper is now available: #NLProc #acl2020nlp #factchecking #XAI

Generating Fact Checking Explanations

Most existing work on automated fact checking is concerned with predicting the veracity of claims based on metadata, social network spread, language used in claims, and, more recently, evidence...

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

4 years

"Generating Fact Checking Explanations" was accepted to #acl2020nlp -- big congrats to @atanasovapepa for getting her first paper as a PhD student published! #NLProc #factchecking #XAI #acl2020

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Preprint of our #naacl2018 paper on multi-task learning with label transfer now online: #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

6 years

#naacl2018 paper "Multi-task Learning of Pairwise Sequence Classification Tasks Over Disparate Label Spaces" (IA, @seb_ruder , @soegaarducph ) preview: we investigate MTL and label transfer for sharing between different strongly related NLU tasks #NLProc

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I'm looking forward to serving as #emnlp2020 Diversity & Inclusions co-chair. Given the new virtual conference format, this won't be easy. If you have any ideas for how *ACL D&I could be improved, what worked or didn't work well at #acl2020nlp , please share (publicly or via DM).

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@IAugenstein

6 years

Slides of my @jhuclsp invited talk on "Learning with limited labelled data in NLP: multi-task learning and beyond" are available online: #NLProc #ML #dlearn

Learning with limited labelled data in NLP: multi-task learning and...

Learning with limited labelled data in NLP: multi-task learning and beyond - Download as a PDF or view online for free

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@IAugenstein

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Thanks to @egrefen for his great #eacl2023 keynote! Some take-aways: - LLMs struggle to grasp pragmatics - data quality and diversity are key to LLM performance - open-ended RL can help with automatic data selection #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

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Happy to finally reveal that #emnlp2024 will be in Miami, Florida, and take place from 12-16 November 2024! #NLProc

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

4 years

How to stand out as a professor 👩‍🎓Say yes to all supervision requests 📊Author 1+ paper a week 🤑Get all the research grants, even outside your area 🐦Build a personality cult around yourself rivalling Elon Musk's 🤐Don't talk to your PhD students, after all, you already pay them

Emma Bostian

@EmmaBostian

4 years

How to stand out as a developer 🌳 Have a GitHub profile with a solid green contribution chart 💻 Write your own programming language 😴 Stop taking breaks, they're a waste of time 📚 Learn every programming language 🗣️ Don't focus on soft skills, you talk to computers not humans

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A bit over a week left to apply for PhD positions in #ML #IR #NLProc @DIKU_Institut for a start in autumn 2022. PhD topics include: interpretability, overparameterisation & generalisation, Web & Information Retrieval Apply here by 19 May:

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

5 years

Feeling very honoured that my university is highlighting our research on gender bias detection with a video on its front page now. Thank you, @uni_copenhagen ! Paper: @miserlis_ @lwolfsonkin @hannawallach @ryandcotterell #NLProc

Unsupervised Discovery of Gendered Language through Latent-Variable Modeling

Alexander Miserlis Hoyle, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Hanna Wallach, Isabelle Augenstein, Ryan Cotterell. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2019.

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@IAugenstein

3 years

This tweet makes me think @PHDcomics ought to create a variant of this popular comic about promoting one's research on social media.

Geoffrey Hinton

@geoffreyhinton

3 years

I have a new paper on how to represent part-whole hierarchies in neural networks.

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

5 years

Interested in joining my research group @CopeNLU ? The Marie-Curie TALENT PhD program welcomes applicants for a start in Spring 2020 -- 25 open-topic fellowships at the @uni_copenhagen Science Faculty available. Read more: Deadline: 1 Oct 2019 #NLProc

25 Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD Fellowships Available | CopeNLU

25 Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD fellowships are available at the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Science via the TALENT program. The fellowship offers applicants employment as PhD fellows for a...

www.copenlu.com

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

6 years

The list of accepted #emnlp2018 is now online: Looks like a great program! As usual, some creative naming going on there. I'm particularly intrigued by the paper with the title (I kid you not): ** #NLProc

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

3 years

Looking forward to the opening of the new #AI Pioneer Centre, to be headed by @SergeBelongie and based at @DIKU_Institut . With a DKK 352,4 million (approx. €47 million) investment for basic research, this is the largest funded AI project in Denmark so far

Leading American researcher and DKK 350 million will take Danish artificial intelligence research...

A new pioneer centre for artificial intelligence research is expected to open in Copenhagen at the end of 2021. Headed by world-leading American AI researcher, Serge Belongie, and with a good DKK...

di.ku.dk

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

5 years

"MultiFC: A Real-World Multi-Domain Dataset for Evidence-Based Fact Checking of Claims" accepted to appear at #emnlp2019 ! Super happy that this joint work with the IR lab at my department made it in. See some of you in Hong Kong 🙌 #NLProc @DIKU_Institut @CopeNLU

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

8 years

Our emoji2vec wins best paper award at #socialNLP2016 #emnlp2016 #NLProc @BenAEisner @_rockt @riedelcastro

emoji2vec: Learning Emoji Representations from their Description

Many current natural language processing applications for social media rely on representation learning and utilize pre-trained word embeddings. There currently exist several publicly-available,...

arxiv.org

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

5 years

The @aclmeeting deadline has been announced, and it's quite soon: Get your long + short papers ready for 9 December! #NLProc #acl2020 #acl2020nlp

The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

acl2020.org

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

5 years

If you missed my talk at the Typ-NLP workshop on language representations vs. typological KBs today, you can check out the slides here: A huge thanks to my collaborators! #acl2019 #acl2019nlp #NLProc

What can typological knowledge bases and language representations...

What can typological knowledge bases and language representations tell us about linguistic properties? - Download as a PDF or view online for free

www.slideshare.net

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

6 years

Good morning, #naacl2018 ! @haldaume3 and I are creating a directory of members of underrepresented groups + supporters in #NLProc as part of the #BIG initiative to broaden participation within ACL. Add your information to join here: #WiNLP #WiNLP2018

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@IAugenstein

3 years

🚨 Reminder that I'm still looking for a PhD student within #NLProc #ML #XAI -- the deadline is in a bit over two weeks. If you're attending #eacl2021 and have questions about the position or just want to say hi, feel free to ping me on 🙂👩‍💻

Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

3 years

Interested in a PhD position in #NLProc ? I'm still looking to hire one student on my @DFF_raad Sapere Aude project on explainable stance detection. Deadline: 9 May 2021 Start date: 1 Sept 2021 Project info: Job ad: #NLProc #ML #XAI

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Are you looking for a faculty position in #ML ? @DIKU_Institut is hiring on all levels: tenure-track (), associate () and full professor (), no restrictions on ML sub-field. Come join us in beautiful Copenhagen!

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@IAugenstein

7 years

Paper documenting our simple #fakenewschallenge approach that put us in 3rd place #NLProc

A simple but tough-to-beat baseline for the Fake News Challenge...

Identifying public misinformation is a complicated and challenging task. An important part of checking the veracity of a specific claim is to evaluate the stance different news sources take...

arxiv.org

UCL Natural Language Processing

@ucl_nlp

7 years

We came 3rd/50 in #fakenewschallenge w/ TF-IDF & MLP - almost on par w/ more involved models in 1+2 place #NLProc

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

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In Seoul for #GlobalFact10 🇰🇷🐯 Looking forward listening to interesting talks and mingling with fellow #factchecking enthusiasts. Come say hi if you’re around ☺️

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

1 year

That’s a wrap for #eacl2023 ! Thanks to @vlachos_nlp and conference cat (secret programme chair #3 ) for the excellent collaboration. Was nice to see so many attendees enjoying the conference this week, and have some time to do the same. #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

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Welcome to #eacl2023 ! The main conference programme is about to kick off with the opening session followed by the first keynote by @egrefen on “Going beyond the benefits of scale by reasoning about data” #NLProc @vlachos_nlp @amoschitti1

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

2 years

We are happy to finally be able to announce details regarding the upcoming #EACL2023 conference ⤵️

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

5 years

Good morning, #AKBC2019 ! Yes, the conference venue is the university chapel.

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@IAugenstein

4 years

As part of #emnlp2020 , we (the Diversity & Inclusion chairs) would like to call for expressions of interest to host affinity group socials. Please fill in the following form to express your interest: #NLProc @emnlp2020 @cbrew

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

4 years

I've always regretted not having attended LxMLS as a PhD student, since it's a very high-quality and probably the most established #ML #NLProc summer school in Europe. I'm super happy that I've been invited to attend as a speaker instead this year 😃

Ramon Astudillo

@RamonAstudill12

4 years

10 years of LxMLS and with some new ideas this year to celebrate spread the word, paste-friendly call for participation here

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

5 months

On my way to Singapore for #EMNLP2023 -- looking forward to seeing many of you there! Come find me if you want to chat about research, positions @CopeNLU , food, 🥋, and more ☺️ #NLProc

CopeNLU

@CopeNLU

5 months

We're happy to be presenting 5 papers at #EMNLP2023 , on topics ranging from explainability to language modelling. Come talk to us there ☺️ @sagnikrayc @frimelle @rnav_arora @NadavBorenstein @indiiigosky @IAugenstein #NLProc

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@IAugenstein

3 years

Lots of new #NLProc papers to read ⤵️ #emnlp2020 #CoNLL2020

ACL Anthology

@aclanthology

3 years

The 2020 proceedings of EMNLP, its workshops, CoNLL, and the new Findings of ACL are now available on the Anthology:

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

3 years

📣 Last reminder: one week left to apply to do a postdoc with me in @CopeNLU ! I'm particularly looking for candidates with a background in computational social science. #NLProc #socialscience #soctwitter #sociology #postdocjobs #CPH

Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

3 years

I'm looking for 2 postdocs to join @CopeNLU , one in the area of computational social science funded by my @DFF_raad Sapere Aude project; one on explainable #NLProc for #EdTech Application deadline: 28 Feb, start date: 1 Sep #XAI #dlearn @DIKU_Institut

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Periodic reminder: I maintain the BIG #NLProc Directory. Consider signing up, or use it as a resource for hiring, finding invited speakers and more! #Coling2018

Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

6 years

The first version of the BIG Directory of members of underrepresented groups and supporters in #NLProc if finally live! Check it out + join here: Thanks to @haldaume3 , @WiNLPWorkshop and many others for helping to make this happen! #acl2018

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New #NLProc paper: quantifying gender bias towards politicians in X-ling language models tl;dr: 🗣️gender bias is highly lang-dependent 🤔larger models are not significantly more gender-biased #NLProc @karstanczak @sagnikrayc @tpimentelms @ryandcotterell

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Isabelle Augenstein

@IAugenstein

4 years

Very happy to be part of the new @ELLISforEurope #NLProc program led by Iryna Gurevych @iatitov @andre_t_martins List of affiliated faculty: Want to work with us? Apply to the ELLIS PhD program:

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of...

ellis.eu

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