Due 4/30! Apply now! NAACL RAF is now accepting proposals for 2024--2025! Grants are available for NLP/CompLing initiatives across the Americas. forms.gle/gBDWyKv55L7JEQ…… Please help spread the word! #NLProc #ACL2024
NAACL HLT 2024
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Our repo has been re-available now:
github.com/XuezheMax/mega…

I had a great time chatting with ISI's Director of the AI division Adam Russell, sharing my thoughts on AI and what interests me in this rapidly changing field! Check out episodes of AI/nsiders to learn about people at ISI!

Wonderful collaborations with Xuezhe Ma (Max), Xiaomeng Yang, Wenhan Xiong, Beidi Chen, Lili Yu, Hao Zhang, Jon May, Luke Zettlemoyer and Omer Levy.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.08801

Thanks for sharing our work!

Next week Thursday on April 4th at 11AM-12PM PST, we have Kevin Knight from Threeven Labs giving us a talk on '30 Years of Perplexity.'

**This is an in-person only talk that will not be recorded, so join us at ISI if you're in LA!

Blog about a panel I was on with Hal Daumé III and Ece Kamar at AAAS last month

📢 Next week March 18 **Monday** 11AM-12PM PST, we have Sky CH. Wang from Columbia U give us a NLP seminar talk USC ISI CUTELABNAME (NLP @ ISI) on 'Do Androids Know They're only Dreaming of Electric Sheep?'

Note that this is different from our regular time on Thursdays.

The NAACL Regional Americas Fund is now accepting proposals for 2024--2025! Grants are available for NLP/CompLing initiatives across the Americas. Apply here by April 30: forms.gle/gBDWyKv55L7JEQ… Please help spread the word! #NLProc #ACL2024 NAACL HLT 2024 @naacl

AI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell.

In this epsiode, Jon May , who works as a Principal Scientist at ISI, shares how his interests in acting and comedy connect to his current work as a professor.

Listen now: bit.ly/42DHSAQ

yes! the vote passed!

We're still inviting speakers! This is a great opportunity to publicize your work and to meet the rapidly growing presence of NLP research at USC NLP! Email us at [email protected].

'Daddy, Daddy, I made an ourobouros!' -- stuff my son says

🌟Thrilled to share that our paper 'Look-back Decoding for Open-Ended Text Generation' won the Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP2023! Immense gratitude to anonymous reviewers and to my incredible collaborators Chunting Zhou , Asli Celikyilmaz and Xuezhe Ma (Max).

#EMNLP2023

We're hiring! USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science is growing fast, with multiple openings for tenure-track and tenured positions.

🔍Security/privacy, AI, machine learning, data science, HCI, but exceptional candidates in all areas considered.

📅Deadline: Jan 5
🔗Details: tinyurl.com/5e99bmb8

🚨Now hiring full-time teaching faculty!🚨

Apply now to join our fast-growing, collaborative department, with a brand new building opening this spring.

Find out more about our open faculty positions
(teaching, tenured, tenure track): cs.usc.edu/about/open-fac…

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Join the workshop on language technologies for indigenous languages, to be held in Santiago, Chile, in January 2024 (partially sponsored by the NAACL Regional Americas Fund)!

ws.dcc.uchile.cl/en/ (eng version)
ws.dcc.uchile.cl (spa version)

First work at Softly AI with Jihyung Moon Sungjoon Park joint collaboration with Justin Cho 조현동 Woojeong Jin Chan Young Park Jon May jay_mlr
Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2305.10731

Culver City Councilmember scolds parents for allowing their kids to bike in a PROTECTED bike lane:

'My god, parents! You should not have your kids there! I should never ever have my kids bike on those streets... you really shouldn't encourage your young to bike'

Just got a desk reject, post-rebuttals, for a paper being submitted to arxiv <30 min late for the anonymity deadline. I talk about how the ACL embargo policy hurts junior researchers and makes ACL venues less desirable for NLP work. I don’t talk about the pointless NOISE it adds.