☺️📢🌐 A personal update: I'm very excited to share that I'll join the University of Munich (
@LMU_Muenchen
,
@CisLmu
) this spring as new Chair in AI & Computational Linguistics! A truly exciting opportunity!
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I'm excited to share that I was elected VP-elect for the ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) - This is a great honor and I expect also a challenge. I will try to do my best in the years to come. Looking fwd to join the board w/
@Yuki_arase
Incredibly honored & excited to receive an ERC Consolidator grant for DIALECT - Natural Language Understanding for non-standard languages and dialects.
Thanks to the
#ERC
, colleagues & friends for their support! 🇪🇺🌄
#NLProc
@ERC_Research
just got a grant rejection, right before the weekend
#academiclife
It's by far not the first. It took me a long while to land a grant, I started way too late. My advice for young academics: start early, start small, never take it personal and carry on
#AcademicTwitter
Come join us in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 I'm looking for
👉 PhD candidates in
#NLProc
w/ an interest in cross-lingual, cross-domain, transfer & weak supervision learning - More information here: - please help spread the word. Deadline: April 1, 2020 -
@ITUkbh
Honored & very excited that I have been awarded a Sapere Aude starting (forskningsleder) grant from the
@DFF_raad
(Danish research council) to work on multilingual Natural Language Understanding
#NLProc
#dkforsk
Come join us in Munich! 🌄
I'm looking for
👉 PhD & Postdocs in
#NLProc
w/ an interest in transfer & weak supervision, or learning from fortuitous data () and low-res NLP. More info & positions: - please help spread the word
@CisLmu
🌐🥳After several months' worth of detective work 🕵️♀️, we're excited to share our collection of 80+ Germanic datasets, with a focus on dialects and non-standardized varieties!
📰
📎
@MaiNLPlab
@CisLmu
#NLProc
#DIALECTERC
Whohoo - We're super happy to announce that MaChAmp received an outstanding paper award at EACL 2021 demo track 🎉🥰
Huge congrats to
@robvanderg
@_Sharraf
@alanramponi
@ahmetustun89
from ITU, Factmata, University of Trento and University of Groningen
#NLProc
Working on classification, seq labeling, parsing, generation, or all at once?
Check out our demo paper this afternoon 3pm:
Massive Choice, Ample Tasks (MaChAmp):A Toolkit for Multi-task Learning in NLP
@robvanderg
@_Sharraf
@alanramponi
@ahmetustun89
Lifetime achievement award of the Association for Computational Linguistics goes to Bonnie Webber, Edinburgh University 🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations!!
I'm infinitely thankful for having met Bonnie early in my career
🌄☀️🏄♀️🏔️❄️ Come join us in Munich!
We have several open positions at
@MaiNLPlab
, CIS, LMU Munich: PhD, Postdoc, scientific programmer, IT technician.
For details please check out our job post:
It's a wrap! Many congratulations to Professor
@barbara_plank
on her inaugural lecture advocating for NLP for Everyone: (1) more inclusive, (2) more efficient, and (3) more human-centered.
Thanks to all colleagues and friends present at the lecture for making it unforgettable.
Very excited to share our recent work with Alan
@alanramponi
: a survey in NLP on unsupervised adaptation - including an awesome repository
Paper:
Repository: ✍️🥳
Thx to
@Nils_Rethmeier
@seb_ruder
for feedback on the draft 😊
PhD opportunities!
The new Danish Data Science Academy (DDSA) invites applications for 10 fully-funded PhD research projects with a supervisor at a Danish university
#DataScience
#ML
#NLProc
Deadline: March 20
(1/3)
the 16th edition of EACL has come to its end. Thanks to everyone for a great event, w/ special thanks to
@PaolaMerlo20
@rtsarfaty
@TiedemannJoerg
and their team
#EACL2021NLP
EACL will be back now in a yearly fashion, next year jointly with ACL in Dublin
May 22-28th, 2022
Are you considering to apply for PhD positions in NLP?
There is a new NLP highlights series on NLP PhD applications: eg.
#nlphighlights
episodes 133 and 134 - thanks to
@alexisjross
and the
@allen_ai
team and
@complingy
, very happy for the opportunity to contribute to it ☺️
#nlphighlights
134: The 2nd episode in our PhD app series is on PhDs in Europe vs the US.
@barbara_plank
& Gonçalo Correia share faculty & student perspectives on things to consider when choosing. We also discuss the ELLIS program. Cohosted w/
@zhaofeng_wu
We are really excited to announce the first EurNLP Summit, an opportunity to foster collaboration between NLP researchers in and around Europe.
The first Call for Abstracts is out now. The event will take place on October 11 in London.
Super excited that this amazing team & global collaborator work (incl. dataset!) appears at
#NAACL2021
: "From Masked-Language Modeling to Translation: Non-English Auxiliary Tasks Improve Zero-shot Spoken Language Understanding"
#NLProc
@NLPnorth
@robvanderg
@_Sharraf
@aijanit
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Really cool stuff happening in the AI, machine learning, NLP summer school landscape in 🇪🇺:
🇵🇹LxMLS () - July
🇱🇻ESSLLI () - Aug
🇬🇷AthensNLP (
@AthensNlp
) - Sep
🇫🇷PRAIRIE AI summer school next week - Oct ()
The 16th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021) will be held in Kyiv, Ukraine from 19 to 23 April, 2021. More information now available on the website
#NLProc
#aclnlp
#eacl2021nlp
Happy to share that we have upcoming accepted EACL and LREC-COLING papers, which include work on NLP for Bavarian 🤩 🌄⛰️🥨
#dialects
#NLP
#lowresource
#NLProc
Curious to hear more? Follow
@MaiNLPlab
and
@CisLmu
to hear more soon about research updates from Munich
We just made it into the plane, and will be on our way to Singapore 🇸🇬 - luckily had a window, because in 2 hours MUC airport will be closed again due to the cold weather ☃️🥶❄️🌨
#MUC
@CisLmu
@MaiNLPlab
- see you soon at
#EMNLP2023
I'm honored that I got the chance to contribute to our main organization's publicity, together with my deputy. Even though we had bigger plans and did not manage to put all ideas in practice, given the pandemic and a vastly growing community. -Thanks for the trust and opportunity
We'd like to thank Prof Barbara Plank for over 3 years of serving as Publicity Chair of ACL! She mainstreamed all the social media channels to what we have now, including recent accounts created on Mastadon!
@barbara_plank
#NLPRoc
Adapt-NLP is happening exactly in a week! We've got a great set of papers, a panel (moderated by
@roireichart
) and keynotes by
@HinrichSchuetze
@IAugenstein
@jacobeisenstein
- I'm very much looking forward to this workshop (its first edition happened 11 years ago in Uppsala) :)
Just got funds w/
@natschluter
to support the First Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference in Copenhagen in 2019!! Thanks to the amazing Carlsberg foundation
@Carlsbergfondet
#dkforsk
#dkvid
- Book the date: April 16, 2019
Very proud moment for a supervisor: Last week, our PhD student Mike
@mjjzha
successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Computational Job Market Analysis with Natural Language Processing". Congrats, Mike!!
Thanks to
@DFF_raad
for funding the project and making this possible
Don’t call it
#disagreement
anymore but “Human Label Variation”. Nice point and super cool poster from
@barbara_plank
. Go and see it! She also provide a useful list of available datasets:
#EMNLP2022
I'm very honored that I had the opportunity to give the opening keynote today at
#insights
#negativeresults
#acl2022nlp
Having a space for such work, and discussing off-the-beaten-track research, is very important imho
#serendipity
Slides:
Happening now! Join us in Liffey A (1st floor). Upcoming: invited talk by
@barbara_plank
, starting at 9am
Title: Off the Beaten Track: On Serendipity and Turning "Failures" into Signal
Virtual attendees: join via zoom link listed here:
who would have guessed this? The biggest source in C4 is patents text..
need more such insightful data papers - now presented in the Resources & Eval track
@JesseDodge
et al. 📰
Trustworthiness in the Era of LLMs?
With LLMs, the traditional compartmentalized notion of language "tasks" is breaking down (dashed lines). What does it mean for trust or trustworthiness?
#EMNLP2023
w/ Robert Litschko, Max (
@mxmeij
), Rob (
@robvanderg
), Leon (
@weberple
)
The complete schedule of EurNLP 2019 is now available. We will have 12 high-quality talks + 1 keynote from amazing speakers, a poster session, and a panel discussion.
#clef2023
@barbara_plank
keynote on human-centric NLP and the shift from models to data, evaluation and people with a strong message “NLP that is not human-centric could be exclusive and even harmful”
@clef_initiative
In Munich this winter:
🥶❄️mid-December: very cold, snow
🎄end-December: no snow, cold
❓early-January: warmer than average, does the spring start already?
❄️☃️end-January and ACL deadline day: The snow is back
Below two pics showing the Bavarian "winter"
#Munich
#Bavaria
🥳🚵 We have several fully-funded PhD and Postdoc positions openings at
@CisLmu
available.
Come work with us in Munich 🌄
Apply by September 8th, 2022
Details:
We all too often still rely on a single aggregated "ground truth" in learning in
#NLProc
- key idea: let's use the full coders' label distributions, too. They encapsulate human uncertainty in labeling and help to make models stronger
#NAACL2021
Our paper “Beyond Black & White: Leveraging Annotator Disagreement via Soft-Label Multi-Task Learning” with Alexandra Uma,
@SilviuPaun
,
@barbara_plank
,
@dirk_hovy
and
@poesio
has been accepted at
#NAACL2021
!
Coders' disagreement is signal: it helps to regularise your models!
First Keynote now by Hinrich Schütze (
@HinrichSchuetze
, University of Munich - LMU): "Humans Learn From Task Descriptions and So Should Our Models"
#adaptNLP
Congratulations to
@timo_schick
from
@CisLmu
(supervised by
@HinrichSchuetze
) for an outstanding PhD defense, based on new contributions on two core challenges:
1⃣ solving new tasks - learning from instructions
2⃣ understanding new words - learning from contexts
#NLProc
#Munich
Grateful to see that my paper on the variety space inspired
@ssgrn
et al.'s
#acl2020nlp
paper on "Don’t Stop Pretraining: Adapt Language Models to Domains and Tasks"
- great work!
Paper: includes "But what’s in a domain?"
Finally, the Data Science Master will start next fall at
@ITUkbh
- thank you
@barbara_plank
for the leadership! We NERDS are also contributing to its development to have a strong and timely curriculum.
I'm hiring - 2y postdoc position on multi-task/multilingual learning (more broadly, transfer learning) for
#NLProc
available at
@ITUkbh
(
@NLPatITU
) - join us at ITU Copenhagen - deadline March 29, 2019 (extended) - mail me if you are interested
💡Back to the roots -
#NLProcHistory
Did you know that
#EACL
is approaching its 40th anniversary this year? I just found out, its first edition took place in Pisa in September 1983!
Official announcement
"With the Natural Language Processing Program, ELLIS now counts 12 Fellow programs"
directed by Iryna Gurevych
@iatitov
@andre_t_martins
🎉
it feels awkward to re-announce it in the current situation..
If you're looking for a PhD position in
#NLProc
(or know someone who is) with an interest in adaptation/transfer etc, please reach out and/or consider applying: - Deadline extended to April 8
Come join us in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 I'm looking for
👉 PhD candidates in
#NLProc
w/ an interest in cross-lingual, cross-domain, transfer & weak supervision learning - More information here: - please help spread the word. Deadline: April 1, 2020 -
@ITUkbh
In honor and memory of Drago, the ACL distinguished service award was just annouced to be renamed to Drago Radev distinguished service award
#memorial
#ACL2023NLP
BeeSL: Biomedical Event Extraction as Sequence Labeling 🐝 got accepted to
#emnlp2020
🎉🐝- w/
@alanramponi
@robvanderg
R.Lombardo
We recast event extraction as sequence labeling problem which makes it a fast and effective event extraction method. Paper & code follows soon :)
yay! "Beyond task success: A closer look at jointly learning to see, ask, and GuessWhat" w/ Shekhar, Venkatesh, Baumgärtner, Bruni, Raffaella Bernardi and
@raquelfdzrovira
accepted at
#naacl2019
#NLProc
:-)
📣Are you looking for a
#NLProc
PhD position? And are you interested in the intersection of NLP and cognitive science?
We're looking for a PhD candidate to join Raquel's lab in Amsterdam, with planned visits to ITU Copenhagen. 🥳
@AmsterdamNLP
@NLPnorth
#NLProc
Apply by March 15
I have an open PhD position in my research group at the
#ILLC
in Amsterdam, in collaboration with
@barbara_plank
in Copenhagen. Looking for candidates interested in using cognitive signals like human gaze for NLU tasks and interpretability in NLP/AI👇
@AmsterdamNLP
ACL announcement:
"The ACL Executive Committee has voted to significantly change ACL's approach to protecting anonymous peer review. The change is effective immediately. (1/4)
#NLPRoc
I'm happy to see that our community increasingly awards outstanding papers on resources and evaluation at *ACL conferences 🎉- Visually Grounded Reasoning across Languages and Cultures won the Best Long Paper at EMNLP 2021:
Announcing our third keynote for our sold out D3A 1.0 - Professor
@barbara_plank
. Uncover challenges in advancing NLP for trustworthy and inclusive technology. Explore language diversity with the AI & Computational Linguistics Chair. Watch the program👉
From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models
Shangbin Feng, Chan Young Park, Yuhan Liu and Yulia Tsvetkov
The ACL elections are open now 🗳️ You can vote until October 31st.
Our co-director,
@barbara_plank
, is running for VP elect. Check out her statement here:
Working on classification, seq labeling, parsing, generation, or all at once?
Check out our demo paper this afternoon 3pm:
Massive Choice, Ample Tasks (MaChAmp):A Toolkit for Multi-task Learning in NLP
@robvanderg
@_Sharraf
@alanramponi
@ahmetustun89
What the DAAM: Interpreting Stable Diffusion Using Cross Attention
Raphael Tang, Linqing Liu, Akshat Pandey, Zhiying Jiang, Gefei Yang, Karun Kumar, Pontus Stenetorp, Jimmy Lin and Ferhan Ture
Just found the EMNLP 2023 CFP is out at
#NLProc
Anonymity period begins -- May 23
Abstract deadline for direct submissions -- June 16
Direct paper submission deadline -- June 23
Are you interested in language variation and dialects?
Please join us tomorrow at 2pm foe the Birds-of-a-Feather Meetup at
#eacl2024
led by Verena Blaschke
Hope to see you there!
Excited to share that our paper "Psycholinguistics meets Continual Learning: Measuring Catastrophic Forgetting in Visual Question Answering" will be presented in Florence this summer
Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor “Understanding” Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest
Jack Hessel, Ana Marasovic, Jena D. Hwang, Lillian Lee, Jeff Da, Rowan Zellers, Robert Mankoff and Yejin Choi
I/We look very much forward to this new chapter. There will be job openings at various levels, if you know of people who'd like to join me in the new lab please let them know - for research interests & updates on positions:
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