Come work with Debora Nozza on an exciting project! Bonus: super nice group already included :)

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Come work with us MilaNLP!

Looking for 2 POSTDOCS (two-year positions w/extension) to work on personalized and subjective approaches to #NLProc .

Deadline: May 30 2024
Start date: from Sep 2024
Link: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?id=601

Many cultures don't follow the Anglo-Saxon standard of single last names (e.g. John Smith) and at the moment the ACL Anthology has issues assigning papers to people with two last names, leading some of us to have several profiles with our work scattered throughout them. 1/5

Finally sharing our #EMNLP2023 paper 'A Tale Of Pronouns' 🥳

tl;dr
Instruction fine-tuned translation models overlook lexical clues, e.g., pronouns, to inflect gender professions, and you can use interpretability to spot and fix that 😎

See you in #Singapore , #NLProc folks!

We are excited to share that WOAH 2024, our 8th edition, will take place at #NAACL2024 in Mexico City!

Our special theme this year will be 'Online Harms in the Age of LLMs', covering emerging risks as well as LLM-based countermeasures.

CfP and more details soon 🚀

For this week's MilaNLP reading group, Debora Nozza presented 'Do Multilingual Language Models Think Better in English?' by Julen Etxaniz et al.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2308.01223

#NLProc #ReadingGroup

For this week's MilaNLP reading group, Giuseppe Attanasio presented 'The Belebele Benchmark: a Parallel Reading Comprehension Dataset in 122 Language Variants' by Lucas Bandarkar et al.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2308.16884

#NLProc #ReadingGroup

📖For our weekly MilaNLP lab seminar, it was a pleasure to have @j_a_meaney for a talk about humor and offense detection.

#NLProc

This month I had the opportunity to talk about ethics and convAI at an event organised by AEDIA and Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (my first-ever talk in Spanish!).
I was part of an interdisciplinary panel with three amazing and insightful women: Claudia López Moncada, Gabriela Arriagada Bruneau (she/they), Ana María Castillo.

⏳ Only 3 days left to seize the opportunity to apply for this postdoc position.

Come work with us!

#hiring #postdocjobs #NLProc

📢 Exciting opportunity alert! 📢

We are looking for talented individuals to join us as Postdoctoral researchers in the field of #NLProc . Don’t miss out on this chance to work with us!

See details at this link milanlproc.github.io/open_positions…

#hiring #postdoc #NLProc #ACL2023NLP

📖For our weekly MilaNLP lab seminar, it was a pleasure to have Edoardo Ponti for a talk about 'Modular Deep Learning'.

#NLProc

During the MilaNLP reading group, we discovered that Llama 2 does understand German, but seems unable to generate it (?). Dirk Hovy Debora Nozza Giuseppe Attanasio Paul Röttger #NLProc

It's a wrap! Il nostro primo evento sociale è finito con un partecipazione *oltre ogni aspettativa* 🤗
E il caso di dire, alla prossima!

#ACL2023NLP

✨ Giuseppe Attanasio just presented the poster 'MilaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Ensembling Domain-Adapted and Regularized Pretrained Language Models for Robust Sexism Detection'

#ACL2023NLP #SemEval2023

The panel discussion with the invited speakers on the special theme 'subjectivity and disagreement in abusive language data' is happening now!

#ACL2023NLP #WOAH2023

We wrap up the special theme of the Workshop with our last speaker Lauren Klein | @laurenfklein.bsky.social and the talk 'Historical Data, Real World Damage.'

#ACL2023NLP #WOAH2023

Had a great time presenting my poster 'Respectful or Toxic? Using Zero-Shot Learning with Language Models to Detect Hate Speech' at Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms

Special thanks to Debora Nozza for the inspiring #betterposter design 🎨

Thanks to all who dropped by!

#ACL2023