Sharing knowledge and creating connections is a key element of the work U.S. Department of State | Science Diplomacy USA.  Today, Science Envoy Dr. Rumman Chowdhury is visiting  UBC Computer Science  in Vancouver to meet with Dr. Rachel Pottinger and Vered Shwartz.  Dr Chowdhury is a speaker TED Talks in Vancouver this

This was a fun workshop with interesting discussions about the present and future of NLP. It's great to see the Vector NLP community growing!

We are excited to host Maria Antoniak from
Allen Institute for AI for a talk titled 'Computational Approaches to Narratives'. Join us on Wednesday Mar 27 at 3 pm at ICICS X836! UBC Language Sciences Institute CAIDA_UBC

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

Distillation works well on tasks that require imitating the teacher's style, but less so for creative tasks like humor generation. This can be improved if the teacher also provides feedback on the student's performance. Work led by Sahithya Ravi during her internship at Meta.

Register to attend a UBC CS public lecture: 'Regulation in the Age of Cloud Computing & Generative AI,' featuring three panelists, including our own Vered Shwartz
April 9 UBC Robson Square
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#generativeAI @UBCScience Thomas Pasquier CAIDA_UBC

[New Preprint] Check out our new research on knowledge distillation in the context of humor generation:

'Small but Funny: A Feedback-Driven Approach to Humor Distillation'

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2402.18113

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We are excited to host Valentina Pyatkin from MOSAIC for a talk titled 'Underspecified Language in Context'. Join us on Wednesday Feb 28 at 3 pm at ICICS X836! UBC Language Sciences Institute CAIDA_UBC

I wrote an article for The Conversation Canada: Artificial intelligence needs to be trained on culturally diverse datasets to avoid bias theconversation.com/artificial-int…

Our own Dr. Vered Shwartz spoke to CBC News about understanding the world of AI and its limitations
youtu.be/vyk7j9zvt50?si…
UBC Media Relations UBC Science CAIDA_UBC Vered Shwartz

Will AI enable the three-day workweek? Canada CIFAR AI Chair Vered Shwartz doesn't think so.

“It will change our work, I don’t think it will make us work less,” she told The Globe and Mail.

Read more:
theglobeandmail.com/business/caree…

I’m super honored to give a keynote speech at SEM2024 (co-located with NAACL2024), not sure what to talk about yet but will aim to make it unconventional. Thanks Vered Shwartz for having me!

We are excited to host Yuntian Deng from MOSAIC for a talk titled 'Implicit Chain of Thought Reasoning via Knowledge Distillation'. Join us on Monday Jan 22 at 3 pm at ICICS X836!
UBC Language Sciences Institute CAIDA_UBC

Thrilled to announce my live appearance on Global BC yesterday, where I had an engaging conversation with Jennifer Palma on my work in diversifying representation and reasoning in AI! Huge thanks to Vered Shwartz and Alex Walls UBC Media Relations for this incredible opportunity!✨