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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

2 years

Congratulations to @shrutirij for being recognized in the Forbes 30-Under-30 in Science list!

Forbes 30 Under 30 2022: Science

Inventing the future from the atom up.

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4 years

It's with deep sadness that we announce that our founder and longtime director, Jaime Carbonell, has died. Dr. Carbonell was a pioneer in the field of language technologies and an inspiration to those who knew and worked with him.

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5 years

Today sees a major advance in the state of the art on English language understanding tasks by researchers at @LTIatCMU , @mldcmu , and @GoogleAI . The gains are due to a new permutation-based pre-training objective, and models that capture longer context than previous methods.

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@quocleix

5 years

XLNet: a new pretraining method for NLP that significantly improves upon BERT on 20 tasks (e.g., SQuAD, GLUE, RACE) arxiv: github (code + pretrained models): with Zhilin Yang, @ZihangDai , Yiming Yang, Jaime Carbonell, @rsalakhu

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

3 years

The LTI is happy to announce its second "Language Technology for All" internship program for Summer 2022: If you are a student interested in language+computers, come join us to help build more effective and inclusive language processing systems!

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4 years

Students from @SCSatCMU are offering feedback to potential applicants, particularly those from underrepresented groups on their applications to the PhD programs in SCS. Apply by Nov 9! Form: Learn more:

Graduate Application Support Program

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6 years

Big congratulations to @dkaushik96 and @zacharylipton on their Best Short Paper at #EMNLP2018 ! Their paper "How Much Reading Does Reading Comprehension Require? A Critical Investigation of Popular Benchmarks" can be found here:

How Much Reading Does Reading Comprehension Require? A Critical...

Many recent papers address reading comprehension, where examples consist of (question, passage, answer) tuples. Presumably, a model must combine information from both questions and passages to...

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

8 months

We're excited and honored today to announce the LTI's second full-time director, Mona Diab. Mona joins us after serving as lead responsible AI scientist at @Meta , and brings with her a vision for the future of AI guided by responsible thinking. Please join us in welcoming her!

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1 year

Congratulations to Shinji Watanabe for his selection as a 2023 IEEE Fellow!

Shinji's webpage

Shinji Watanabe Associate Professor Carnegie Mellon University shinjiw_at_ieee.org or swatanab_at_andrew.cmu.edu

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@LTIatCMU

5 years

For the fourth year in a row, @CarnegieMellon places first in a ranking of papers at high-profile publication venues in natural language processing and machine learning. Congratulations to all on the excellent work, and here's to a productive 2019! @mldcmu

Marek Rei

@MarekRei

5 years

Analysis of ML and NLP publication statistics from 2018. #machinelearning #nlproc

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@LTIatCMU

5 months

A big shout out to LTI PhD student @AdithyaPratapa , who received the EMNLP 20203 Outstanding Paper Award for Background Summarization of Event Timelines. . Congtratulations!

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@LTIatCMU

5 years

We're very excited that Emma Strubell ( @strubell ) will be joining us as an assistant professor starting in 2020! Please join us in welcoming her to @LTIatCMU and @SCSatCMU 🎊

Emma Strubell

@strubell

5 years

Exciting news! I'm very happy to announce that I'll be joining @LTIatCMU / @SCSatCMU as an assistant professor in Fall 2020! I'll be spending the intervening year as a visiting scientist at @facebookai in Seattle, following a short (567 mile) break to hike the Colorado Trail 🎉

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@LTIatCMU

1 year

🎉🌐 Join us on April fool’s day for an exciting event at the @LTIatCMU at @CMU on April 1st & 2nd! We're diving deep into the fascinating world of large language models and their transformative impact on academia, industry, and society at large. 🌐🎉

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3 years

Historically, people from underrepresented backgrounds have lacked access to guidance from people familiar with the higher degree application process. GASP matches applicants to LTI programs with grad students who provide feedback on their applications

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2 years

The LTI is holding an info-session for MLT and PhD applicants on Wednesday, November 9 from 11am-12pm, ET! Our faculty and students will be answering any questions about the application process. Register at the following link to attend:

LTI MLT/PhD Information Session RSVP

The LTI is holding an information and Q&A session for MLT and PhD applicants on Wednesday, Nov 9, 2022 from 11am – 12pm (Eastern Time - New York). This will be an informal session, and faculty and...

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3 years

New large-scale dataset of American Sign Language, How2sign () to be presented at #CVPR2021 . Significantly broader vocabulary and larger size than previous public ASL datasets!

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3 years

Data augmentation, automatically creating new data to effectively train models, is now an essential tool in NLP. Check out a new survey led by LTI members @stevenyfeng and @VarunGangal that breaks down the many, many existing techniques for you!

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4 years

🎉🎉 to Anjalie Field @anjalie_f for receiving a Google PhD Fellowship 👏👏👏

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5 years

This week's LTI Colloquium is Chris Manning ( @chrmanning ) of @stanfordnlp on "Multi-step reasoning for answering complex questions". Come 10/11 to learn more about methods to perform multi-step inference in neural networks!

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@LTIatCMU

3 years

Congrats to LTI members @stevenyfeng , Jessica Huynh, @neonatil , Eduard Hovy, and @VarunGangal on winning Best Long Paper at #INLG2021 ! Check out their poster tomorrow at @inlgmeeting from 1:40PM-2:40PM (UTC+1, Aberdeen time), or 8:40AM-9:40AM EST. Paper:

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@LTIatCMU

5 years

The first @LTIatCMU colloquium of the semester will be Omer Levy ( @omerlevy_ ) of @facebookai on "Towards Understanding Deep Learning For Natural Language Processing"! Discussing better mathematical understanding of deep neural models. Porter Hall 100, 2:30~ Fri. Jan 18th.

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5 years

This week's LTI colloquium is Emma Strubell ( @strubell ) of @umasscs on "Neural Network Architectures for Efficient and Robust NLP"! Covers new methods for efficient NLP including Iterated Dilated CNNs, and Linguistically Informed Self-attention. Porter Hall 100, 11/30 2:30PM

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@LTIatCMU

7 months

Save the Date! The LTI will hold an info-session for applicants to our PhD and MLT programs on Wednesday, November 8 from 12pm -1pm, ET. Faculty and students will answer questions about the application process. More information will be posted soon!

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@LTIatCMU

6 years

The LTI is well represented at #EMNLP2018 , with 27 papers by LTI authors. Congratulations everyone! We'll be posting/retweeting links to the papers as they come online.

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@LTIatCMU

2 years

In 2021, @CarnegieMellon was the university with the most #NLProc publications and @LTIatCMU professor @gneubig was among the top-5 most published NLP researchers.

Marek Rei

@MarekRei

2 years

Analysis of ML and NLP publication statistics from 2021. #machinelearning #NLProc

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@LTIatCMU

5 years

Today's LTI Colloquium will be Noah Smith ( @nlpnoah ) of @uwnlp on "Slouching Towards Understanding: Rational Recurrences and Neighbor-Based Neural Networks". Come learn about interpretable but powerful neural models for language! Porter Hall 100, 2:30PM.

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@LTIatCMU

8 months

Congrats to our own Daniel Fried on winning a 2023 Okawa Research Grant!

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@LTIatCMU

7 months

The LTI is hosting an information session for applicants to the MLT and PhD programs on Nov 8, 2023, 12-1 PM ET. If you would like to attend, please RSVP and send us your questions through this form:

LTI MLT/PhD Information Session RSVP

The LTI is holding an information and Q&A session for MLT and PhD applicants on Wednesday, Nov 8, 2023 from 12 noon – 1 pm (Eastern Time - New York). This will be an informal session, and faculty and...

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@LTIatCMU

3 years

Big congratulations to LTI Assistant Prof. Emma Strubell @strubell and colleagues for winning the Madrona Inaugural AI Impact Prize for work on the environmental impact of NLP models. It is "given to a paper that has had outsize impact on [AI]": 1/2

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5 years

This week's @LTIatCMU Colloquium will be Jure Leskovec ( @jure ) of @Stanford on "How Powerful Are Graph Neural Networks?" Learn methods that can encode graph structures into low dimensional embeddings, and what they can do. 4/5 2:30, DH2315.

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4 years

This week's LTI Colloquium is @MohitIyyer from @UMassAmherst on "Towards Story Generation"! Come learn how to train models that can efficiently generate more coherent and stylistically consistent stories:

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@LTIatCMU

4 years

Excited to see @Diyi_Yang , recent LTI graduate, on the list of "30 Influential Women Advancing AI in 2019" for her her work on modeling human communication to build better social systems: Congratulations Diyi, and keep up the great work!

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@LTIatCMU

4 years

LTI Colloquium: Two for one special! Shruti Rijhwani @shrutirij Zero-shot Neural Transfer for Cross-lingual Entity Linking & Zirui Wang @MrZiruiWang Cross-lingual Alignment vs Joint Training: A Comparative Study and A Simple Unified Framework #NLProc

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@LTIatCMU

4 years

Summer may have just ended, but it's never too early to start planning for next summer! The LTI is currently seeking candidates for our 2021 Summer Internships, which will focus on the topic of "Language Technology for All." Learn more & apply here:

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@LTIatCMU

5 years

We are very excited to have Yonatan Bisk ( @ybisk ) join us as an Assistant Professor from the Fall 2020 semester! Let's all welcome him to @LTIatCMU , @CMU_Robotics , and @SCSatCMU 🥳

Yonatan Bisk

@ybisk

5 years

Life update (it's that time of year): I'll be joining @SCSatCMU – @LTIatCMU & @CMU_Robotics – Fall 2020. So share the word with anyone interested in #RoboNLP and grounding. 🙃🙏🤖

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3 years

𝗟𝗧𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘂𝗺: @percyliang of @stanfordnlp discusses: Taming Deep Models and on Shaping their Development. "What properties of datasets drive modeling innovation?"

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@LTIatCMU

3 years

Congratulations to @lpmorency of @LTIatCMU for being awarded the Ten Year Technical Impact Award from the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction!

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5 years

This week's LTI Colloquium is @VeredShwartz of @allen_ai and @uwnlp on "What do I Know? Pushing the Boundaries of Existing World Knowledge": Come learn about how to actively query pre-trained language models to discover new truths they contain!

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@LTIatCMU

5 years

The CMU Language Technologies Institute is hiring! Please consider applying if you're interested in joining a world-class, vibrant environment for research in NLP, speech, or other pioneering directions of language technologies.

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@LTIatCMU

3 years

@LTIatCMU Graduate Application Support Program is holding an informal information and Q&A session for MLT and PhD applicants on Friday, Nov 5th at 8 am PT/11 am ET. Current faculty and students will be present to answer any questions about the upcoming applications.

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@LTIatCMU

5 years

Big news! Maxine Eskenazi and @jeffbigham , along with David Traum at USC have just received an NSF CRII award to expand the DialPort Ecosystem, a framework to allow researchers to perform easy evaluation of dialogue systems with real users:

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@LTIatCMU

3 years

Congrats to MLT student @kayo_yin on winning Best Theme Paper at #ACL2021 ! Read about Kayo's paper on incorporating signed languages into NLP research, and all of the other LTI researchers featured at this year's conference:

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@LTIatCMU

5 years

Today is the first day of #NAACL2019 , and the LTI will be well-represented with 26 presentations at the main conference (at least, hope we didn't miss any). Follow along with this thread if you want to learn more about some of the interesting research going on at @LTIatCMU !

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4 years

This week's LTI Colloquium will be Jason Eisner ( @adveisner ) of @jhuclsp on "Sequential Structure Meets Hierarchical Structure": Come to learn more about methods for considering both varieties of structure in modeling language!

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@LTIatCMU

2 years

Congratulations to Mukul Bhutani, @harsh_jhamtani , Naoki Otani, and @ShenQinlan on being named outstanding reviewers at #emnlp2021 !

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𝗟𝗧𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘂𝗺: Towards more Meaningful Benchmarks for Natural Language Understanding by @ChrisGPotts of @stanfordnlp "How will we get out of this rut?" & "This is the most exciting time in history to be doing NLU!"

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

3 years

Join us to honor the life of our founder and longtime director, Professor Jaime Carbonell. This virtual memorial celebration will take place Wednesday, March 3 from 5:30-7pm. For details, and to register, visit the event webpage:

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3 years

A group of alumni of @LTIatCMU have joined together to provide one of the most generous gifts in LTI history and create the Chinese Alumni Fellowship. This impressive group of friends are the epitome of what @LTIatCMU represents.

Language Technologies Institute Friends Unite To Create Chinese Alumni Fellowship

The alumni establishing the Language Technologies Institute Chinese Alumni Fellowship are: top row, from left, Xin Liu, Yan Liu, Rong Yan; middle row, from left, Wei Xu, Yi Zhang, Jiangbo 'Max' Miao;...

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"We're living in a world of proliferating AI and generative AI. There is so much at stake." Read about our new director, @MonaDiab77 , her background in building frameworks for the responsible use and development of AI, and her vision for the future:

New LTI Director To Usher in 'Responsible Thinking' at CMU

Mona Diab, who has been a research scientists at two of the largest tech companies in the world, takes the reins of the Language Technologies Institute this month.

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@LTIatCMU

7 years

Welcome to all the new students attending LTI orientation today!

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5 years

This week's LTI colloquium will be Emily Mower Provost ( @emilymprovost ) of @EECSatMI on "Human-Centered Computing: Using Speech to Understand Behavior" -- methods to predict how humans perceive signals that modulate spoken communication, e.g. emotion and mood. 2/22 2:30PM, DH2315

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@LTIatCMU

2 years

The admissions deadline for LTI was 11:59 AM today, but we realize some were confused by the AM deadline. If you missed submitting an application, *as soon as possible* submit your remaining application materials via this form: 1/2

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6 years

This week's LTI colloquium is Prof. Marine Carpuat of @umdcs on "Semantic and Style Divergences in Machine Translation"! Come hear about how subtle linguistic differences in training data for MT systems has major implications for accuracy. 9/28 2:30-4:00, Porter Hall 100.

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5 years

Congratulations to LTI PhD student Bhuwan Dhingra, winner of this year’s CMU Three Minute Thesis competition! Bhuwan’s talk, titled "Making machine reading comprehension more human-like," cake in first out of a field of 74 students from across the university. #3MTCMU

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3 years

𝗟𝗧𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘂𝗺: What is wrong with my model? Detection and analysis of bugs in NLP models by Marco Tulio Ribeiro of @MSFTResearch

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This week's @LTIatCMU colloquium is Ndapa Nakashole ( @nnakashole ) of @ucsd_cse on "Machine Reading for Everyone", methods to develop machine reading for new languages with few resources. Friday 11/16, 2:30 at Porter Hall 100!

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𝗟𝗧𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘂𝗺: Two speakers! @bonadossou on Neural Machine Translation and Speech Recognition for Fon @davlanade on MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

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@LTIatCMU

6 years

CMU's LTI is hiring tenure-track and teaching-track faculty in NLP, machine learning, IE, dialogue, speech processing, and related language technologies:

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4 years

This year's @aclmeeting may be going online, but it will still feature an abundance of LTI names and faces (including 28 accepted papers!) #ACL2020

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1 year

Congratulations to Florian Metze for his selection as a 2023 IEEE Fellow!

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5 years

This week's @LTIatCMU Colloquium is @LukeZettlemoyer of @uwnlp on "Labeling and Predicting Semantic Roles Directly From Text". Learn about how to predict "who did what to whom" accurately, including advances in models and data annotation! 2:30PM Fri. 25th, Porter Hall 100

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

2 years

LTI student Sang Keun Choe released Betty, a PyTorch library for generalized meta-learning (GML) and multilevel optimization (MLO). It provides an API for neural architecture search, few-shot learning, reinforcement learning, adversarial learning, & more!

GitHub - leopard-ai/betty: Betty: an automatic differentiation library for generalized meta-learn...

Betty: an automatic differentiation library for generalized meta-learning and multilevel optimization - leopard-ai/betty

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6 years

The doctoral class of 2018 is ready and waiting to be hooded. Congrats to all!

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5 months

Congratulations to Mona Diab for being named an ACM Fellow!

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6 years

Congratulations to Tiancheng Zhao and Maxine Eskenazi for their Best Paper award at the recent SIGDIAL 2108 conference! You can find the paper here: . Code and data are available at

GitHub - snakeztc/NeuralDialog-ZSDG: PyTorch codebase for zero-shot dialog generation SIGDIAL 2018,...

PyTorch codebase for zero-shot dialog generation SIGDIAL 2018, It is released by Tiancheng Zhao (Tony) from Dialog Research Center, LTI, CMU - snakeztc/NeuralDialog-ZSDG

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6 years

#NAACL2018 paper "Simple and Effective Semi-supervised QA" by LTI members Dhingra, Pruthi and Rajagopal shows how synthesizing data for training neural QA systems, then fine tuning on small labeled data gives good results with few training instances

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@LTIatCMU

6 years

"Looking at the publishing patterns of different organisations [in ML/NLP] in 2017, @CarnegieMellon is leading the charge with 126 publications..." Congrats to everyone on a productive 2017, and best wishes for a similarly successful 2018!

Marek Rei

@MarekRei

6 years

Analysis of ML and NLP publication statistics from 2017. #machinelearning #nlproc

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2 years

Come teach with us! We would like to announce that @LTIatCMU will be hiring in the teaching track this year.

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6 years

After a hiatus, the @LTICCMU colloquium is back today with @umasscs 's Brendan O'Connor ( @brendan642 ) on "Inferring social events from language, and social bias in language analysis" Interesting topics on the social implications of NLP technology!

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@LTIatCMU

2 years

Shruti's work on digitizing resources for endangered language research and revitalization adds immense value to the libraries of print resources that have been inaccessible to linguists, language activists, and community members.

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@LTIatCMU

4 years

LTI Interim Director Jamie Callan sent a message today to the LTI community acknowledging the gravity of this moment and affirming our shared responsibility to confront racism both within, and outside of, our institution. View the full message below, or at

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2 years

Congratulations to the USA team at the 2022 International Linguistics Olympiad () for winning gold, silver, and bronze medals, and a trophy for team with highest individual scores! And also to LTI prof Lori Levin, who helped coach the US and Canadian teams!

International Linguistics Olympiad

International Linguistics Olympiad official website

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@LTIatCMU

5 years

Congratulations to Dr. Tiancheng Zhao ( @snake_tianchez ), who last week successfully defended his thesis, "Learning to Converse with Latent Actions"!

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@LTIatCMU

3 years

LTI PhD student @shikibmehri made a game where you can guess the Elo rating of a game of chess that was featured by Chess Grandmaster @GMHikaru : Check it out if you're a chess fan: 1/2

Hikaru Nakamura

@GMHikaru

3 years

Hey @shikibmehri - my viewers really enjoyed your eloguessr but it seems to have stopped working. Any updates on when it might be working again? Let me know! I really love it!

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This week's LTI Colloquium is Prof. Nathan Schneider of @Georgetown , on "The Ins and Outs of Preposition Semantics". Come for a comprehensive discussion of the effect of prepositions on meaning representation. Porter Hall 100, 10/12 2:30.

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@LTIatCMU

6 years

This weekend’s #NAACL2018 conference features 15 papers and 2 tutorials from LTI folks! Check out their work, and the schedule of presentations, here:

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@LTIatCMU

6 years

This week's LTI Colloquium will be Yejin Choi of @uwnlp , on "From Naive Physics to Connotation: Learning about the World from Language"!

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@LTIatCMU

8 months

Our annual Student Research Symposium – happening now! – gives our students a chance to welcome each other back for a new academic year, share & compare their latest research, and brush up on those presentation skills. Great job to all participating!

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@LTIatCMU

3 years

LTI Prof. @gneubig chatted with @905wesa today about his work in expanding the reach of spoken-language translation systems and being named a finalist for the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists. See what he had to say here:

CMU Professor’s Work To Bridge Language Gaps Using Tech Earns National Recognition

A Carnegie Mellon University professor’s research into improving language processing used by apps like Siri and Google Translate has been nationally recognized.

www.wesa.fm

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@LTIatCMU

6 years

This week's @LTICMU colloquium will be Dirk Hovy ( @dirk_hovy ) on "The social and the neural network - why NLP is ultimately about people"!

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

4 years

Reminder: the final deadline to submit applications for master's and Ph.D. programs is tomorrow (Dec. 12) at 12:00pm EST!

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@LTIatCMU

2 years

Update: the admissions deadline for the School of Computer Science has been extended to December 13, 2021 (11:59 p.m. EST). Please finish applications through the official channel:

SCS Graduate Admissions Overview

www.cs.cmu.edu

Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

2 years

The admissions deadline for LTI was 11:59 AM today, but we realize some were confused by the AM deadline. If you missed submitting an application, *as soon as possible* submit your remaining application materials via this form: 1/2

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@LTIatCMU

3 years

Congratulations Divyansh on the award! Divyansh's has previously proposed "counterfactually augmented data," where annotators make minimal modifications to inputs to change the output label, as a method for studying models: Looking forward to what's next!

Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

3 years

Some personal/professional news. 🙂 Super excited that @AmazonScience will be supporting me as a Graduate Research Fellow and my research (w/ @zacharylipton ) on out of distribution robustness with humans in the loop going forward.

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

1 year

Congratulations to the LTI team for winning the NYC AI GPT hackathon!

Ankit

@ashah0052

1 year

(1/4) Our team won first place at the NYC AI GPT hackathon. Yesterday afternoon, we built FactGPT, a fact checker for language models conditioned on a knowledge base at NYC AI GPT Hackathon in @cornell_tech . Demo: Here’s how it works 📷

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

2 years

We would like to announce that @LTIatCMU will be hiring in the tenure track in the coming year. . Come work with us!

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

7 years

If there's anything better than CS profs talking about 19th-c gothic lit, we're not aware of it. Check out @jeffbigham 's panel next week!

CMU Libraries

@CMULibraries

7 years

Frankenstein Panel: “Creation and Consequence” ft. @jeffbigham , David Danks, Barry Luokkala. Moderated by @critrikk

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

6 years

New paper by LTI members (Yang, Dai, Salakhutdinov, Cohen) updates the state-of-the-art on the core NLP task of language modeling using a new modeling method call "mixture of softmaxes" . See a nice summary by @smerity here!

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

2 years

Congratulations to Juncheng “Billy’ Li, Xinjian Li, Po-Yao “Bernie” Huang, and Florian Metze on receiving the Best Student Paper Award at ICASSP 2022 for their paper “On Adversarial Robustness of Large-scale Audio Visual Learning.” @LTIatCMU is proud!

IEEE ICASSP

@ieeeICASSP

2 years

Best Student Paper Awards! Congratulations to all the award winning authors!! (1/2) #ICASSP2022

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

4 years

This week's LTI Colloquium will be @xiangrenNLP of @CSatUSC on "Fast Learning with Explanation and Background Knowledge", where he will talk about how to incorporate human supervision in knowledge to reduce the data hunger of neural models for NLP. Come see it on Friday!

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

6 years

The LTI is looking for excellent tenure-track candidates in core NLP computational linguistics, machine learning for NLP, social media, and application areas, as well as teaching-track faculty to teach lectures and capstones. Apply if you're on the market! #NLProc

CMU School of Computer Science

@SCSatCMU

6 years

We're still looking for outstanding computer scientists to join our faculty, all departments. Deadline is Dec. 15

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

3 years

Welcome! Super excited to have you!

Maarten Sap (he/him)

@MaartenSap

3 years

Exciting life update: I'll be joining Carnegie Mellon University's LTI department as an assistant prof 👨🏼‍🏫 in Fall '22, before which I'll spend a year as a postdoc at AI2 Mosaic 👨🏼‍🔬... That is, once I finish and defend my thesis first👨🏼‍🎓 @SCSatCMU @LTIatCMU @ai2_mosaic @allen_ai

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

6 years

The @CarnegieMellon Language Technologies Institute is hiring! We're looking for faculty candidates in natural language processing, computational linguistics, machine learning for natural language, social media, NLP applications, and more. Join us here:

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

6 years

Read about how the work done by LTI Research Professor Alex Hauptmann, @CMU_DietrichHSS 's @jaydaronson , and others is helping to reconstruct crime scenes and defend human rights, as told by @nytimes :

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

1 year

CMU's summer-long Generative AI Innovation Incubator kicks off tomorrow with an opening talk by Tom Mitchell. All are welcome. Join us see what the excitement is all about.

Generative AI Innovation Incubator

www.cs.cmu.edu

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@LTIatCMU

3 years

@shikibmehri @GMHikaru While on the topic of chess, LTI students @harsh_jhamtani and @VarunGangal have also previously done research on automatically generating commentary for chess games: 2/2

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

2 years

Congratulations to @SrijanBansal1 , @surajtripathii , @_sireesh , Aditya Srikanth, @Ritam_Dutt , Teruko Mitamura, and Eric Nyberg on placing first in the Multidoc2dial shared task! @LTIatCMU is proud!

Srijan Bansal

@SrijanBansal1

2 years

I am thrilled to share that our work on modeling dialogues grounded in multiple documents (Multidoc2dial shared task) has been awarded first prize in Unseen-setting at the Dialdoc workshop (ACL 2022). [1/4]

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@LTIatCMU

6 years

Today the @LTICMU colloquium features Zack Chase Lipton ( @zacharylipton ) on "Efficient Deep Learning with Humans in the Loop" Come see the talk at 2:30PM DH 2315!

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

6 years

This week's @LTICMU colloquium is Kyunghyun Cho ( @kchonyc ) on "Continuous representation of language and its implications -- In the case of neural machine translation": Come see it Friday 2:30-4:00, Doherty Hall 2315 (note the new location)!

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

8 months

Happy first day of classes to all. On Friday we all got together to welcome our new students and ring in a new academic year -- now it's time to get to work!

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

3 years

Congrats to James Fiacco, Ki-Won Haan, Anita Williams Woolley and Carolyn Rosé on their CSCL Best Paper Award! 𝑻𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑫𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑳𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍

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Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon

@LTIatCMU

6 years

This week's @LTICMU colloquium will be Dan Jurafsky ( @jurafsky ) of @stanfordnlp , titled "'Does This Vehicle Belong to You?' Processing the Language of Policing for Improving Police-Community Relations" Come to Porter Hall 100 2:30PM Friday to learn more!

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