📢 #EAMT2024 announcements!

1) Registration is open: eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/registration

Please check the instructions on how to register and let us know if you have any questions

#NLProc #MachineTranslation #MT #TranslationStudies #Multilinguality

Really enjoyed showcasing research that we've been doing the past few years at Sheffield. The main premise of the lecture was that LLMs are idiot savants with remarkable abilities, performing well under extreme or non-intuitive settings (e.g. pre-training, info loss etc.)

⁦Nikos Aletras⁩ giving his inaugural professorial lecture “Language Modelling for the sake of Language Modelling” ⁦Sheffield NLP⁩

ReAGent, a model-agnostic feature attribution method, is available in Inseq now, for both decoder-only and encoder-decoder. #ExplanableAI The paper is here: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.00794…

Fully funded placements available with the GATE (gate.ac.uk) team at @sheffieldnlp The University of Sheffield to work on applying NLP methods to archaeological data. We have tools and data available!

Delighted that “RLStop: A Reinforcement Learning Stopping Method for TAR” (Bin-Hezam and Stevenson) has been accepted for SIGIR 2024

Just present our paper ECIR2024. As I mentioned at the end of the talk, I am looking for PhD students who have a shared interest with me on the topic of Personalisation in Conversational AI to join Sheffield NLP. Feel free to get in touch with the details.

This afternoon ECIR2024, we are going to present our paper “Simulated Task Oriented Dialogues for Developing Versatile Conversational Agents” in the QA & Conversational session. We will share with you the insights we obtained in generating synthetic dialogues. #ecir2024

📢Two days for #EAMT2024 papers and tutorials deadline: 22/03☠️

🚨 Authors: create an account at openreview.net asap to avoid missing the deadline!

⭐️More info: eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-cal…

A pic of one of our many inner city parks to call attention!
#NLProc #MT

Carolina Scarton and Martin Hyben are representing #ExUproject at Voices!

If you are around tomorrow, we will be at the European Media & Information Fund booth from 2pm to 5pm.

Come and say hi!

#MediaLiteracy #Factchecking

Sheffield NLP KInIT

🚨 EAMT 2024 Final call for papers & tutorials 🚨
Given issues with OpenReview registration, we are extending the deadline for 1 extra week!
New ☠️ 22/03/2024

Spread the word!

eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-cal…

We are waiting for you in the Outdoor City!
#NLProc #MachineTranslation

Happy to share📢our paper on the model explanation of #Multilingual models got accepted in #NAACL2024 main conference. See you, Mexico City⛱️Huge shoutout to Nikos Aletras

TLDR: Model is the puppet, tokenizer is the boss behind in multilingual explanations
openreview.net/pdf?id=yNadDXe…

🚨 Deadline approaching!

We are 1 week away from the deadline: 15/03!

As an extra motivation for finishing your papers, we added more information about Sheffield and our Social events!

Check it out: eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk 🧵
#NLProc

Excited to present my recent work on Inseq and the #ICLR2024 PECoRe interpretability framework for the Sheffield NLP group this afternoon! Many thanks casszhao for inviting me! 🤗

🐛 Inseq: github.com/inseq-team/ins…
🐑🐑 PECoRe: openreview.net/forum?id=XTHfN…

#PhD studentship available in #LLMs at Sheffield NLP, one of the UK's largest #NLP research centres Sheffield Comp Sci
* 3.5yrs tuition waiver & stipend
* knowledge editing, model compression, or your proposal! DM for details!
Apply now: shorturl.at/xCM36
#PhD #AI #PhD position

Hello World!

ExU is a project funded by European Media & Information Fund, where Sheffield NLP and KInIT focus on multilingual stance classification and claim retrieval.

Follow us to keep up to date with our research and project outcomes.

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Great to see this story about Xutan Peng's work on language preservation

Project participants of Horizon Europe🇪🇺 projects AI4Media TITAN - AI Coaching to Fight Disinformation and #AI4Trust have written & published a White Paper entitled #GenerativeAI and #Disinformation : Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities. It was led by our Kalina Bontcheva 👇
veraai.eu/posts/white-pa…

Carolina Scarton visited the University of São Paulo (USP) recently under a Fellowship, to meet with students and academics, and to plan collaborations with researchers at USP.
Learn more about her visit: sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/news/dr-ca…

Sharing the last paper of my PhD thesis! 🌟 Work with Nikos Aletras and Daniel Preotiuc
'Improving Multimodal Classification of Social Media Posts by Leveraging Image-Text Auxiliary Tasks' to appear in #eacl24 findings. Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2309.07794