A visual demonstration of why it takes time to properly wash our hands.

My PhD defense was #zoombombed yesterday, so here are some suggestions for protecting your @zoom_us meetings. #virtualdefense #phdchat #ScienceTwitter 1/

Let's make this simple: Zoom is malware.

Our workshop on generation and translation WNGT2020 has a great line up of speakers(Claire Gardent, Shashi Narayan, He He, Jiatao Gu) research papers, efficient MT and paraphrased MT sites.google.com/view/wngt20/pr… ACL 2025 Duolingo

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Petition: Publish the Russia report petition.parliament.uk/petitions/3000…

hi i am going to be asst prof in the institute of informatics of UvA Amsterdam starting this fall, this makes me happy--

ACL review process is up for reform! If you haven't already seen the proposals, please do. * Short-term reform proposals: aclweb.org/adminwiki/inde… * Long-term reform proposals: aclweb.org/adminwiki/inde… /1

"[...] as lockdowns have increased domestic workloads – not just childcare, but homeschooling, shopping, cleaning and caring for elderly relatives – women have been landed with more tasks than men, and this has cut into their research time and exacerbated existing career hurdles"

New blog post on ACL review reform: hackingsemantics.xyz/2020/anonymity TLDR: so far reforms focused on reviewer load, but we also have a huge problem of "PR review" & deanonymization on arXiv. Matt Gardner has an alternative proposal enabling fairer&faster reviews. Need community support! /1

It blew my mind when someone said, “Stop thinking about this year as the warmest for the last 100 years, but the coolest one for the next 100.” 🤯🤯

⚠I am recruiting for a PhD position in ML for NLP⚠ Apply by Nov 19 here: ivi.uva.nl/shared/uva/en/… Extra context on my website: vene.ro/jobs.html. DM or email if you have any questions.

Shared tasks for #wmt21 are being prepared. The news translation task will this year have Icelandic-English and Hausa-English as guest lang. pairs. As last year, we will also have tasks for cs-en, de-en, ja-en, ru-en, zh-en and fr-de. Training and dev data available this month.

I'm recruiting for 3 Phd + 2 post-doc positions in #NLProc on multilingual neural machine translation at the University of Amsterdam. Apply by Feb 13. PhD positions: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po… Post-doc positions: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdo… For questions DM or email me. AmsterdamNLP

The #wmt21 proceedings are finally available in the ACL anthology. aclanthology.org/events/wmt-202…

We're back with more language resources: English-Ukrainian parallel corpus with aprox. 13M sentence pairs has been released. More info and downloads: paracrawl.eu/news/item/17-e… Please, spread the word and use it!

I am hiring a PhD candidate in ML for NLP to work on deep generative models of language. Fully funded 4-year position at the University of Amsterdam, Language Technology Lab. Apply by August 21. Details and link to call at vene.ro/jobs.html

⚡️JOB ALERT⚡️I’m looking for a postdoc to join our group! If you are interested in linguistic interaction / visual grounding / human-inspired model analysis and keen to join the NLP/AI community AmsterdamNLP, take a look: illc.uva.nl/raquel/ RTs appreciated! More info👇

Please retweet, Tsz Kin, a young MT researcher, soon-to-be-PhD needs your help. He is looking for a job in speech/text translation. A job he already had lined-up has been revoked due to the hiring freezes in the industry. Here's his linkedin profile: linkedin.com/in/tsz-kin-lam…

I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded an ERC consolidator grant. The NEON project investigates how we can develop artificially intelligent systems to infer social intentions from non-verbal behaviour. European Research Council (ERC) #ERCCoG…lnkd.in/ecv6PtC8