Neurips might have been a research conference at one point, but it is becoming something else entirely. Like a carnival/festival for people interested in AI/ML? Coachella for AI?

This is all great, but I feel like we should maybe separate the research part into a diff conf.

Thanks a lot for this post, I feel honored!! 🙏 ❤️ DH is a passion that comes up in my work again and again. Nowadays mostly triggered by great young researchers, who are passionate of DH. It's great to work with them, and to see how much NLP can bring DH further! #womoninDH

This #FemaleFollowFriday , meet Anette Frank, Professor of Computational Linguistics Uni Heidelberg & Leader of Heidelberg University NLP Group, researching discourse-oriented semantics for NLU tasks, especially interested in combining neural machine learning methods w/ linguistic modelling #womeninDH

ACLRollingReview Open Review can we remove the 'reviewer certification' field? i've heard from multiple parties that reviewers have accidentally deanonymized themselves through it

Let's be honest. For everyone in ML/NLP, it's a really exciting time but also very stressful with so many new papers, models, benchmarks, deadlines, reviews, talks, workshops, conferences...

How do you keep up and stay sane?

For me, the only solution is collaboration. 1/n

truly cursed timeline 😵‍💫

ACLRollingReview reviews due Mar 20
Conference on Language Modeling abstract deadline Mar 22
ACLRollingReview reviews released Mar 26
Conference on Language Modeling submission deadline Mar 29
ACLRollingReview rebuttal period closes Mar 30

While I couldn’t join #EACL2024 , Heidelberg University NLP Group was represented, i.a. by Frederick Riemenschneider Frederick Riemenschneider, who won the SIGTYP Shared Task, jointly with Kevin Krahn. Their character-aware hierarchical LM perfectly addresses low-resource Historical Languages. Well done, Frederick 🥳 👏

Orchestrated interactions between LLMs, humans, and tools show great promise.

Today, we introduce “Semantic Decoding' - a perspective that views these interactions as optimization and search in the space of semantic tokens (thoughts).

📄 arxiv.org/abs/2403.14562

Happy to announce that *SEM 2024 will be able to provide travel support upto USD 1500 for one student lead author with an accepted *SEM paper. *SEM 2024 sites.google.com/view/starsem20… #NLProc

The deadline for the *SEM 2024 ARR commitment is today! Submit your work here: openreview.net/group?id=aclwe…

Tomorrow, with Nicolas Baldwin, we'll be hosting the 'Learn to develop and customize AI workflows with Flows' workshop at the #AMLDEPFL2024 conference! Join us to learn about the new version of aiFlows (github.com/epfl-dlab/aifl…) coming out later today!

Bob West Maxime Peyrard

Great talk by Prof. Mirella Lapata on “Prompting is not all you need! Or why Structure and Representations still matter in NLP” @ #EACL2024

I will be presenting our paper REFINER @EACL2024 today at 11:00 CET in Malta 🇲🇹

🧐Can small specialized LMs improve the CoT generated by LLMs? --> Yes!

Paper Link: aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long…

Excited to be attending @EACL2024 this week! If you're keen to chat about LLMs, Reasoning, Feedback-based learning, or Planning, let's connect! 🚀 #NLProc #Malta 🇲🇹 #EACL2024

Great work! The idea of live evaluation is cool. In our work Flows, led by Martin Josifoski, we also observed a similar trend that there is a performance drop on LeetCode problems released after the models’ training date.

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2308.01285
Code:…

Cool work from our postdoc Debjit Paul at the intersection of NLP and causality! One thing that have me so excited about LLMs is that they allow us to study counterfactuals via simple interventions—rare in the real world, but possible with LLMs,which we can just reset as we wish

'LMs Don't Always Do What They Think!'

Check out our work on DiffuCOMET, our new method for generating context-grounded commonsense knowledge graphs using #diffusion ! Joint work with Sony Research