I’m looking for a Ph.D. research intern in Human-Centered NLP to come work at Apple MLR (Machine Learning Research team), in Cupertino, CA! ☀️
Application details in thread below!
🧵👇
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I am very happy to announce that I have joined Apple’s Machine Learning Research team led by Samy Bengio, in Cupertino, CA! 🎉☀️ I will continue to work with
@natschluter
,
@GrangierDavid
, et al. 😃 Very excited about this new chapter!
I just defended my PhD thesis, titled 'New Directions in Human-Centered Language Technology. Understanding and Improving NLP models' at
@UvA_Amsterdam
!🎉 Thanks to
@mdr
and
@julia_kiseleva
for their supervision, and
@tkipf
and
@MarieHendriksen
for their support as paranymphs! 🥳
Today I will present our paper 'CF-GNNExplainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Graph Neural Networks' at the Algorithmic Recourse Workshop at
#ICML2021
! From 15-16:30 CET. Hope to see you there! 😃
Joint work w/ amazing co-authors
@__alucic
,
@gtolomei
,
@mdr
and
@fabreetseo
🎉
MLR at Apple just opened an office in Copenhagen, Denmark 🎉🎉💃🇩🇰 And we are hiring!
Please reach out if you're interested! This office opening is pretty neat just on its own, if I do say so myself. 😊 1/
Happy to share a preprint of the work I did on Interactive Language Modeling during my internship at FAIR w/
@n0mad_0
,
@_dieuwke_
and Emmanuel Dupoux! 😃
Link:
This is pioneering work, so we are looking forward to your feedback!
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Very happy that our work “Conversations with Documents. An Exploration of Document-Centered Assistance” has been accepted as a full paper at CHIIR! Work done during my internship at MSR /w Rob Sim, Elnaz Nouri,
@adamfourney
,
@mdr
and Ryen White. Paper:
Very happy that our work "What Makes a Good and Useful Summary? Incorporating Users in Automatic Summarization Research" has been accepted to the special theme track of
#NAACL2022
!! 🎉😃
Joint work w/
@julia_kiseleva
and
@mdr
Read the paper here:
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Our paper based on my master thesis
@BlendleNL
is now available at - We designed LISTEN, a LISTwise ExplaiNer that can faithfully explain rankings to users. With
@anneschuth
,
@dodijk
and
@mdr
This year
#CHIIR2020
could not take place unfortunately. I recently wrote a blog post about our paper, 'Conversations with Documents. An Exploration of Document-Centered Assistance': Hope you enjoy!
@NandoDF
At the University of Amsterdam we've set up Inclusive AI (), which is a mentorship program where master students AI from underrepresented backgrounds can get (non-)academic help from more senior peers and so far we've been very happy with the results!
I was a guest in the latest Data Skeptic podcast! We talked about automatic summarization, our work in that area and how a background in Linguistics can help you in NLP! 😃You can find the episode in all your favourite podcast apps, for example here:
You can apply via:
Please also send an email to mlr-hcnlp-internship
@group
.apple.com to let me know you applied, incl. relevant details such as your CV, your scholar / website, short intro, etc.
You can use the same email address for questions 🙂
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Very much looking forward to
#chiir2020
! I will present our work on Conversations with Documents in the first paper session already, which starts at 10:05 PDT (19:05 CEST) tomorrow! Find the paper here: . Or the blog post: 😃
On my way to New Orleans for
#NeurIPS
! NeurIPS was the first ever conference I went to as a PhD student, so it seems like a good way to finish as well 😃
Excited to meet everyone again! Let me know if you’re there and want to grab a coffee! ☕️🍵
Also on my way to
#NeurIPS
! Let me know if you want to have a chat or grab a coffee! ☕️ DMs are open!
Check out all the research that Apple will present here:
Looking forward! 😃
I will be presenting our work on Conversations with Documents in the NLP session at
@DIR_2020
today as a lightning talk and as poster ⚡️ Looking forward to seeing you there!
Link to the paper:
Students from the FACT-AI course at
@UvA_Amsterdam
got 9 (!) papers accepted at the
@repro_challenge
this year and
@__alucic
wrote a great blogpost detailing the setup. Worth a read!
✨ A single MSc course produced 9 papers! ✨
Learn about their story and how the Reproducibility Challenge can boost your course in a post by
@__alucic
:
I will present our work ✨Towards Interactive Language Modeling ✨at
#NeurIPS2022
in the
#interNLP
workshop today:
LLMs perform really well, but what if we train them a bit more like how humans learn language?
w/
@n0mad_0
,
@_dieuwke_
& Emmanuel Dupoux
In two weeks from now I will present our work on 'Conversations with Documents' at the Conversational AI meetup in Amsterdam! Details can be found here: , paper can be found here:
🐘 Just migrated to
@maartje
@sigmoid
.social on Mastodon this morning -- so far the server is much faster and it's cool to see it take off!
Excited to see where this is this going!🪁
After 2 years of work by 442 contributors across 132 institutions, I am thrilled to announce that the paper is now live: . BIG-bench consists of 204 diverse tasks to measure and extrapolate the capabilities of large language models.
So exciting! 😃 The
#igluContest
has officially started!
If you are interested in interactive grounded language learning, definitely consider submitting!
We have two tracks, check them out below 👇
#NeurIPS2021
We are happy to announce that the submission system is up and running! So
#igluContest
has officially started:
Architect Task:
Builder Task:
Please register and try it out!
#NeurIPS2021
Very happy that our work "What Makes a Good and Useful Summary? Incorporating Users in Automatic Summarization Research" has been accepted to the special theme track of
#NAACL2022
!! 🎉😃
Joint work w/
@julia_kiseleva
and
@mdr
Read the paper here:
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🚨 New SEA alert!
With Thorsten Joachims from Cornell University and Raviteja Anantha from Apple.
All about ranking, a classic 😃
Open to everyone 🌎🌍🌏
See you there!
Excited to announce a new SEA -- all about ranking! 🔍😃With
@thorstenjoachim
from Cornell University on Fair Ranking with Biased Data and Raviteja Anantha from Apple on Learning to Rank Intents in Voice Assistants. Sign up here to receive the Zoom link:
The first SEA in 2021 will be about interactions between humans and machines! We have two great speakers lined up: He He from New York University and
@pnbennett
from Microsoft Research! Sign up here: See you! 😃🌎🌍🌏
Happy to announce that I will be presenting our paper 'Do Transformer Attention Heads Provide Transparency in Abstractive Summarization?' at
#SIGIR2019
's FACTS-IR workshop! With
@maartjeterhoeve
,
@GeekyMies
,
@anneschuth
and
@mdr
. Find it here: .
📢 Great SEA ahead this afternoon!
w/
@ewsheng
(University of Southern California) about reducing harms in language generation &
@em_dinan
(
@FacebookAI
) about safety for open-domain dialogue agents
It’s free and open for everyone! 🌎🌍🌏
Sign up to receive the zoom link! 👇
🚨Only a few hours till this month's SEA!
We will focus on preventing harmful language generation!
Open to everyone! 🌎🌍
Sign up here to receive the Zoom link in Advance:
See you! 😀
Vanavond besteden we in
#Nieuwsuur
uitgebreid aandacht aan Artificial Intelligence. We gingen op de Universiteit van Amsterdam kijken op de opleiding Kunstmatige Intelligentie hoe zij denken over de rol van Nederland op dit gebied.
#AI
Bekijk ook:
📢 Join us for the 3rd day of the
@NeurIPSConf
Competition Track today, where we will present the IGLU competition!
Thursday, from 8:45pm CET
IGLU website:
Apple ML Research in Paris has open research internship positions !
Looking for PhD students with background in ML / optimization.
Internships are onsite, should happen anytime from now until sep. 2023.
Please DM me if interested :)
Next
#CHIIR2020
paper is by
@maartjeterhoeve
on "conversations with documents". Her example is people who are e.g. driving and want to ask questions of whats in a document. Document-centred assistance.
Very much looking forward to this session of Search Engines Amsterdam 🔍 about interactions between humans and machines!
Speakers are He He from NYU and Paul Bennett from MSR.
Everyone can join! Just sign up via the link below to get access to the Zoom webinar in advance! 💻
The next edition of SEA is already this Friday! 🔍😃 Looking forward to seeing you there! Make sure to sign up via the Meetup page to receive the Zoom link in advance:
I will present our work ✨Towards Interactive Language Modeling ✨at
#NeurIPS2022
in the
#interNLP
workshop today:
LLMs perform really well, but what if we train them a bit more like how humans learn language?
w/
@n0mad_0
,
@_dieuwke_
& Emmanuel Dupoux
🥁🥁🥁
@IgluContest
is about to start! The focus is on building an interactive agent that can understand the instructions in natural language to build structures in the
#Minecraft
environment! In case of uncertainty, ask clarifying questions! Interested?
#SIGIR2022
#NAACL2022
Happy to share a preprint of the work I did on Interactive Language Modeling during my internship at FAIR w/
@n0mad_0
,
@_dieuwke_
and Emmanuel Dupoux! 😃
Link:
This is pioneering work, so we are looking forward to your feedback!
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Looking forward to being on the speaker side of SEA for once! 😃
Please join us October 28 for a SEA session on summarization! In person, in Amsterdam, or remote from anywhere! 🌍
(Ah and obviously didn’t invite myself 🙃 — thanks
@MauritsBleeker
for taking over!!)
📢 This month's edition of SEA will be devoted to summarization 🗒️.
W/
@maartjeterhoeve
(U. Amsterdam),
@natschluter
(Apple MLR), and
@abrazinskas_nlp
(Google).
This is a hybrid event, open to everyone 🌎🌍, so sign up now ✅:
Interested in grounded language understanding?
Join us at the poster sessions of the Human AI Collaboration Workshop and Reinforcement Learning for Real Life Workshop at
#ICML2021
and learn everything about the IGLU competition at
#NeurIPS2021
! 🎉
Do you want to know about the
#NeurIP2021
competition about Interactive Grounded Language Understanding in a Collaborative Environment (IGLU)? Stop by at our poster Human AI Collaboration Workshop at
#ICML2021
. Interested in participating? register here:
Very happy that our work "What Makes a Good and Useful Summary? Incorporating Users in Automatic Summarization Research" has been accepted to the special theme track of
#NAACL2022
!! 🎉😃
Joint work w/
@julia_kiseleva
and
@mdr
Read the paper here:
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Great talk by Thorsten Joachims on "Fair Ranking with Biased Data" at
@DIR_2020
just now! ⚡️ Missed it? Stay tuned for our 2021 Search Engines Amsterdam meetups… 🙃🎉
The second edition of the
@IgluContest
has started! 🎉
Interested in grounded language understanding? RL?
We are now accepting first submissions for the RL task 👇👇
#NeurIPS2022
#NLProc
Still wondering what the IGLU competition
@NeurIPSConf
really entails?
@artemZholus
did a great job explaining the details! 🎉
Definitely worth watching!
Looking forward to many great submissions! 😃
👉 Also have a look at for more details
More spots available for SEA!
This upcoming Friday, w/ Thorsten Joachims from Cornell University and Raviteja Anantha from Apple ⚡️
Sign up to receive the Zoom link in advance!
Happy to see that so many people are signing up for our upcoming SEA meetup! 🔍
We just increased the capacity, so everyone can sign up again! 📝 Please do so, to receive the Zoom link in advance:
Looking forward to seeing everyone! 😃
Just in time for the holidays, we are releasing some new software today from Apple machine learning research.
MLX is an efficient machine learning framework specifically designed for Apple silicon (i.e. your laptop!)
Code:
Docs:
Very much enjoyed the birds of a feather meetup on summarization
@aclmeeting
just now! Great way to meet new people with similar research interests and to simulate the hallway chats -- can definitely recommend joining one of them!
#acl2020nlp
Excited to announce our first SEA of the year, hosting two amazing speakers: Alexandra Olteanu (
@o_saja
) from Microsoft Research, New York and Svitlana Vakulenko (
@svakulenk0
) from ILPS, Amsterdam. Reserve your spot here:
#IGLUcontest
team is working hard to make everything available for the competition to start!
Planning to participate? It is time to register:
This way, you will not miss out on any important announcements!
#NeurIPS2021
📢 We are looking for mentors for the
@IgluContest
at
#NeurIPS2021
!
Mentors will help teams with general questions regarding the competition. More details in the thread below and the sign up form!
Please sign up!
🚨 Looking for mentorship opportunities?
The IGLU competition
@NeurIPSConf
is looking for mentors!
Mentors will help teams with general questions, between July 2 and Nov 1. More details in thread and sign up form!
Sign up here:
Deadline: June 12th
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@maartjeterhoeve
will present "Conversations with Documents: An Exploration of Document-Centered Assistance", published at
#CHIIR2020
; focused on document-centered assistance, they introduce machine learning models to detect and answer document-centered questions. 6/10
En in dit artikel in de Volkskrant legt
@mdr
uit waarom Nederland meer moet investeren in A.I.: "In Nederland hebben we genoeg scheidsrechters, maar we vergeten te investeren in het spel zelf."
@DIR_2020
has been one of the best online conference / workshop experiences I have had so far! ⚡️ Huge shout-out to the organizers for making this happen and to all participants for their active engagement! 😃
Very excited to introduce Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats!
In this series, I interview AI researchers to get to know them better as people.
Starting next week, I will release two interviews every week as videos and podcast episodes. (Link 👇)
Really interesting work presented at
#CHIIR2020
by
@CatherinChavula
, looking at intercomprehension in retrieval! Especially relevant for scarce resource languages -- amongst others, they looked into whether search results in closely related languages are relevant for users
Last paper of
#CHIIR2020
by Chavula and Suleman - focused on intercomprehension in search. In particular they are looking at results from lesser-spoken languages in africa.
We first present a road map towards interactive language modeling.
Then we take the very first steps on this road map.
We hope that this work will be the start of a larger research agenda on interactive language modeling!
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Looking forward to giving a SEA talk this afternoon, 5pm CEST!
I'll be talking about ✨a human-centered approach to automatic summarization✨
I'll discuss our recent work at
#NAACL2022
() and some of the follow-up work we did😃
Open to everyone!👇
📢Only a few more hours until our next SEA meetup.
W/
@maartjeterhoeve
(U. Amsterdam) and
@abrazinskas_nlp
(Google).
This month's topic is automatic summarization📚
Join (17:00 CET) online via Zoom💻 or in person at Lab42🏬, room L3.36!
Signup now ✅:
@tonylittlewine
@UvA_Amsterdam
You can find everything about inclusive AI at , and of course do not hesitate to contact me or any of the other mentors directly :-)
📢 Only three more hours until this month's SEA!
🩺 The topic of this edition is IR in the Medical Domain.
🌍 Open to everyone. Sign-up now to receive the Zoom link:
⏲️ Hope to see you all at 17:00 CET today!
We worked on interactive language modeling, inspired by the observation that we currently train LMs in a very unnatural way, from the perspective of human language acquisition.
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🚨 Looking for mentorship opportunities?
The IGLU competition
@NeurIPSConf
is looking for mentors!
Mentors will help teams with general questions, between July 2 and Nov 1. More details in thread and sign up form!
Sign up here:
Deadline: June 12th
1/6
📢 This Friday SEA is back. This edition is all about reproducibility in IR 🔎. /w
@le__gab
(U. Amsterdam/RTL) and Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei (
@naghiaei
, U. of Southern California). This will be the first hybrid edition of SEA.
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Here’s a free Machine Learning lecture series covering half of Bishop's PRML book! 🥳
Just made a page and Youtube channel w videos+pdfs I used in teaching "ML 1" to our fresh
#Master
#AI
@UvA_Amsterdam
students.
🧐🧐
📺📺
Introducing an early-release version of the Language Interpretability Tool (LIT), a visual, interactive, and extensible open-source tool for analyzing all sorts of NLP models 🔥
Code:
Paper:
#NLProc
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@HarrieOos
@osprangers
@dvdgrs
@arjenpdevries
Een recent artikel van
@SennayGhebreab
in VN is ook relevant hier: Meer voorbeelden en de conclusie dat AI onderzoekers meer 'sociaal-bewust te werk moeten gaan' en moeten 'investeren in een cultuur van inclusieve technologieontwikkeling- en toepassing'.
📢 SEA in the new year!
This edition is about fairness in IR. W/
B. Mitra
@UnderdogGeek
(Microsoft) and
Amifa Raj
(Boise State University).
🗓️ January the 20th, 17:00 CET, in-person at Lab42 or online 💻
Open to everyone 🌍!
Sign-up now ✅:
We also publish our survey, so that it can be reused to investigate the needs of different target groups. Looking forward to follow up work!
And.. Hope to see you in Seattle! 😃
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@denisparra
@matseinarsen
@IR_oldie
@anneschuth
Our findings from an algorithmic angle in the same domain support the findings of this paper by the way – we designed a method to faithfully explain recommendations and user behaviour was not affected: .