"Set-to-Sequence Methods in Machine Learning: a Review" - new paper covering this group of methods, w/ Mateusz Jurewicz and a help from Rasmus Pagh . -> arxiv.org/abs/2103.09656

Call for Problems for the 2021 ALTA Shared Task: ALTA is seeking problems to use for the 11th ALTA Shared Task. The closing date for submission of proposals is 4 June. For questions or to submit a proposal, please send an email to: shared.task at alta.asn.au Diego Molla

Website for the WNUT workshop at EMNLP 2021 is now live! noisy-text.github.io This is the 7th year we are running the Workshop on User-generated Text. We are glad to see this research community continues to grow. #nlproc EMNLP 2026 Please RT and submit your work!

Good luck to all participating in the 2021 ALTA shared task! Deadline: 22 September 2021. This year's topic: Automatic Grading of Evidence - 10 years later alta.asn.au/events/sharedt… Australasian Language Technology Association

First time ever a language model has been trained directly from raw audio: no text, no ASR. @facebookai's model has been trained on 8000 hours of audiobooks ( just the audio!). Given a short audio prompt, it can continue and generate new speech with its own voice.

Submit your NLP/CL/L papers to ALTA2021 (Australasian Language Technology Association), virtual and free for everyone (🙏to sponsors CSIRO Go1 Defence Science and Technology Group - Australia Google) Deadline 1 Oct., alta2021.alta.asn.au with fantastic Barbara Plank as one of the keynote speakers.

Class-imbalance and fairness are often studied separately, however, they're intertwined. See our paper and presentation at #EMNLP2021 #nlproc docs.google.com/presentation/d… arxiv.org/abs/2109.10444 a work with Shivashankar S Tim Baldwin Trevor Cohn Lea Frermann

alta2021.alta.asn.au/registration The 19th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, registration is free for anyone interested. Keynote speakers: @dirk_hovy Barbara Plank Ben Hutchinson Hands-on Tutorial: MT&Summarisation. All online #ALTA2021 #NLProc

Delighted to announce that the 8th iteration of WNUT will take place at #coling2022 in Gyeongju (dare I say at least partially in person?), co-organised with the inimitable Wei Xu Alan Ritter and Afshin Rahimi: noisy-text.github.io

ALTA 2021 is happening next week! If you are interested in NLP, want to hear some amazing talks and keynote speakers, or want to socialise with NLPers down under, registration is open! #NLProc #ALTA2021 Afshin Rahimi William Lane

Barbara Plank (2) Ben Hutchinson: "Putting NLP Ethics Into Context" and (3) Dirk Hovy @dirk_hovy : "More than words – Integrating social factors into language modeling" Register (free) at: trybooking.com/events/landing… #NLProc #ALTA2021

Working on social media data, medical records, student essays, customer reviews, etc.? #nlproc #socialmedia Consider submitting a paper (4 or 8 pages, due Aug 19) to the COLING 2022 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT) -- noisy-text.github.io/2022/

aaaand extended a couple of days until Aug 24 ... sorry, a last minute internal decision in light of other relevant #nlproc dates

Deadline extended to 24th August

Just published - congratulations team. Automatic Identification of 5C Vaccine Behaviour on Social Media (Sampath Kumar et al., WNUT 2022) Afshin Rahimi Aminath Shausan aclanthology.org/2022.wnut-1.15

🔥#ALTA2023 Extremely pleased to announce our first two keynote talks: 💫Heng Ji: "SmartBook: An AI Prophetess for Disaster Reporting and Forecasting" 💫Terrence Szymanski: "The Commoditisation of NLP in Industry" More details: alta2023.alta.asn.au/program/keynot… #NLProc #MelbourneNLP

🔥Excited to announce our third keynote talk: "Towards Effective NLP Systems: Cultural Norms, Explainability, and Reasoning Enhancement" by Reza Haffari🎇 More details: alta2023.alta.asn.au/program/keynot… Register for #ALTA2023: alta2023.alta.asn.au/registration/

Clearly LLMs must one day run in Space Step 1 we harden llm.c to pass the NASA code standards and style guides, certifying that the code is super safe, safe enough to run in Space. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power… (see the linked PDF) LLM training/inference in principle should be super

This is the coolest "application" of LLMs I have seen in a while: instead of using an LLM to solve a problem set, flip the table and ask the student to TEACH the LLM how to solve the problem set. Really lovely. Thx to Jordan Hoffmann for sharing this :-). youtube.com/watch?v=om7VpI…

It is time to act on Iran Donald J. Trump Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו. The Islamic regime is slaughtering the Iranians who want the regime gone and Reza Pahlavi to return and lead the transition. #IranMassacre #JavidShah