Last Friday I successfully defended my PhD thesis 🎓 I'm grateful to my advisor Dietrich Klakow, my committee members, Odette Scharenborg Odette Scharenborg, Bernd Möbius, Ingo Reich, Wei Xue as well as my family, friends, and specially my wonderful colleagues at LST @ Saarland University

And this is why all students should be required to take at least one linguistics course in schools

Please use this as an example in linguistics lectures instead of 'I saw a boy with a telescope'

lol

When knowledge is being produced at a rate whereby we can no longer process and comprehend, it is no longer knowledge

Academic incentives need to change

Each tutorial in #ICASSP2024 costs 160€!

How's is this cost justified?

my brain at 3am

Many wrongs in one map!

WTF?! 😅

Is Swedish just weird or Duolingo made a mistake?

Yet, and even for toy ML problems like MNIST digit classification, we still don't know what rules have been learned from the data. We can't write these rules in a human-readable format

Thus, ML models are deployed as stimulus-response systems, with ruled-based post-processing