Excellent #acl2024 keynote by Barbara Plank on how to work with the inherent (and beautiful) variation in languages that leads to uncertainty in LLMs and other AI models. Exactly what NLP needs to hear.

@[email protected] on Mastodon ACL 2025 So happy to see this statement! #ACL2024NLP

What ACL is: #ACL2024NLP

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#ACL2024 was great. But very few papers were asking hard scientific questions. A lot of “LLM engineering”. In particular, university labs should really defocus on this type of engineering as industry labs, though not publishing every minute detail, are doing way more advanced

I agree with much of both @[email protected] on Mastodon’s #ACL2024 presidential talk and (((ل()(ل() 'yoav))))👾’s rejoinder, but I want to comment on just one aspect where I disagree with both: the definition and domain of CL vs NLP. 🧵👇

Instead of saying, "ACL is not X," let's frame it as: "ACL is an interdisciplinary conf. that welcomes researchers from all backgrounds. It's a space where AI and language technology intersect, fostering collaboration and innovation." This is what makes ACL unique.

So I was present in person at @[email protected] on Mastodon's #ACL2024 thought provoking presidential address. As the past president of @realaaai, I did feel compelled to say something in Q&A. I actually got up from my seat intending to grab the mic, but decided to sit down thinking that it

ICYMI, here is a video of my #ACL2024 keynote "Can LLMs Reason & Plan?" 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=0E9BbA… #ACL2024NLP

It's back-to-school time and so here's the Fall '24 release of draft chapters for Speech and Language Processing! web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

Thank you all, here are finally the slides of my keynotes at ACL 2024 and the HuCLLM workshop: bplank.github.io/talks/ACL-2024… bplank.github.io/talks/2024-HuC…

Help: how can I search conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology by *track*? Like how the orals and posters are nicely organized at the physical conference? ACL Anthology

I am excited to share that I've joined DIKU - Department of Computer Science, UCPH, Københavns Uni as a TT Assistant Professor! Looking forward to continuing my work on explainable AI and contributing to the amazing research and educational initiatives here.

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📣 I am looking for a new Ph.D. student! 📣 The position is part of a DASHH Interdisciplinary Helmholtz Graduate School project on (multimodal) #LLMs for laser operations with me (Data Science Hamburg Lab Universität Hamburg) and Henrik Tünnermann from DESY (Deutsch). Deadline: October 20th! Feel free to reach out! 🚀🛸💥 dashh.org/application/ph…

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What a fantastic experience with CopeNLU group in Sweden!🥳 Really appreciate Isabelle Augenstein for the invitation, and so happy to know everyone at the lab!

🥳 Thrilled to see amazing work at EMNLP 2024 that merges my love for soccer ⚽️ and NLP 🤖! With AI & LLMs advancing rapidly, dreams are becoming reality. So fortunate to witness and even get involved in this. Excited for what's next! 🥰 #EMNLP2024