Postdocs in multimodal / modular NLP, CV and NLP at UvA Amsterdam AmsterdamNLP. Deadline: May 31

illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/…

I am at ICLR 2024, connect if interested

#MemoryMonday #NLProc

'ferret: a Framework for Benchmarking Explainers on Transformers' by Attanasio et al. Introduces ferret, a Python library for easy and comparative use of XAI methods on transformer-based models.

aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-demo…

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

📚 Happy to share that our work 'AnchorAL: Computationally Efficient Active Learning for Large and Imbalanced Datasets' has been accepted to NAACL 2024 (main) 🎉

Joint work with my supervisor Andreas Vlachos. Details in 🧵

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#ThrowbackThursday #NLProc

'The Empty Signifier Problem: Towards Clearer Paradigms for Operationalising 'Alignment' in LLMs' by Rose Kirk et al. examines 'alignment' in LLMs and proposes a framework for operationalization and critical evaluation.

arxiv.org/abs/2310.02457

If you are working on AI alignment, you should really check out PRISM. It is hard to overstate how rich and exciting this dataset is.

What a great week to be a co-author of Hannah Rose Kirk!

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'Universal Joy: A data set and results for classifying emotions across languages' by Lamprinidis et al. We introduce a data set of over 530k anonymized public Facebook posts across 18 languages labeled with different emotions.

aclweb.org/anthology/2021…

📢 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

Interested in academic jobs in EE/CS? Apply for the Rising Stars workshop at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)! (deadline June 14)

risingstars-eecs.mit.edu

New ACL Rolling Review Data Collection (ARR-DC) protocol launched during April cycle. To read more about this visit this link: arr-data.aclweb.org
Consider donating your peer-review data! You can always revisit this decision as needed.

#MemoryMonday #NLProc

'Benchmarking Post-Hoc Interpretability Approaches for Transformer-based Misogyny Detection' by Attanasio et al. presents the first benchmark study on interpretability for hate speech detection.

aclanthology.org/2022.nlppower-…

Very pleased IndicGenBench is now out, lots of headroom for PhD students to start cracking 🙂

Particularly happy about the 29 languages coverage, including first-time generative evals (or any evals?) for many languages , eg, Garhwali, Konkani, Rajasthani, etc. Enjoy!

Google AI

Interested in fact-checking? Just announced: Next FEVERworkshop at EMNLP shared task: fever.ai/task.html aiming to evaluate systems verifying real-world claims with evidence from the Web, based on the AVERITEC dataset: arxiv.org/abs/2305.13117 With the amazing team:

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'Angry Men, Sad Women: LLMs Reflect Gendered Stereotypes in Emotion Attribution' by Plaza-del-Arco et al. presents the first study on gendered emotion attribution in LLMs, revealing stereotypes influenced by societal norms.

arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03121…

Very excited about this new initiative; please help get the message out ...

📣 In response to popular demand, we have now pushed back our deadline for direct submissions to May 6th, 2024! 🎉
Excited for all the great work coming our way!

Two. More. Weeks.

Looking forward to your submissions to the C3NLP workshop.

Personalised LLMs are great, but should there be limits to personalisation? If so, who should set these limits?

For answers to these questions and more, check out our paper on the risks and benefits of personalising LLMs, led by Hannah Rose Kirk 👇 out in Nature Machine Intelligence today!

#MemoryMonday #NLProc

''Beyond Digital 'Echo Chambers': The Role of Viewpoint Diversity in Political Discussion' by Hada et al. sheds light on real-world data to measure viewpoint diversity, revealing important dynamics in political conversations.

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

Last year at C3 NLP, we had the pleasure of hosting Steven Bird for his keynote on reflections on cross cultural, non-extractive language inclusivity, with a focus on indigenous communities.
We are delighted to share this talk more broadly now: youtu.be/iQ5aMQNowAU