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It's very nice that we have models with open weights and open training code. These are better than secret or proprietary weights by far. But we need to differentiate between open weights/training code and a truly *open source* model which absolutely should include training data

#clicit2023 vibes in Venice! DH Group at FBK & LanD together 🛶 Nicolò Penzo Alessio Palmero Aprosio Daniel Russo Camilla Casula #NLProc CLiC-it Conference

Last night celebrations! Alessio Palmero Aprosio successfully closing his tenure track and Elisa Leonardelli starting her maternity leave 🥳🥳 But we missed our PhD students Teresa Paccosi, Sid and Katarina enjoying their stay abroad

A PhD is neither a marathon nor a sprint. It's this:

Good news! Our paper "Don’t Augment, Rewrite? Assessing Abusive Language Detection with Synthetic Data" by Camilla Casula Elisa Leonardelli and Sara Tonelli accepted in #ACL2024NLP Findings 🥳 Kudos to this all-female line-up 💪💪💪 (arxiv link soon) #NLProc

#ACL2024NLP is approaching and our Camilla Casula is flying to Bangkok to present two papers: “Don’t Augment, Rewrite? Assessing Abusive Language Detection with Synthetic Data" and "VARIATIONIST: Exploring Multifaceted Variation and Bias in Written Language Data" (both 13 August)

Tiring but rewarding :) thanks to everyone who stopped by!

Excellent new essay by Ted Chiang, who gets to the heart of why language and art are inherently about conveying meaning and experience, not just form: newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

🚀 Tomorrow we kick off the first public talk of JRS III: Democracy Threats and Public Discourse Analysis! 🗓 9:00-11:00 💬 Corpora Analysis in Social & Humanistic Domains 🎤 Speaker: Camilla Casula (FBK) 🔗 Register: hybridsproject.eu/events/jrsiii/ #MSCAction #HorizonEurope

First talk from our group delivered by Nicolò Penzo at #EMNLP2024 👏👏👏 Next one will be on Thursday 10:45 in Brickell room, with Camilla Casula disclosing every you always wanted to know about synthetic data for hate speech detection #NLProc

Had an amazing time at yesterday's #HateSpeech research meetup! Great to see so many researchers joining, it's a clear sign of the importance of this issue! #EMNLP2024NLP #NLProc

The full annotated data for this paper is also freely available on Github if you'd like to check it out! github.com/dhfbk/delving

The Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK group at #EMNLP2024. Great conference, great papers and great awards! LanD MT Group at FBK DH Group at FBK MobS Group @ FBK

Are you interested in NLP applied to political discourse? Check our open call for a junior researcher and join us at Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK in Trento! Link here: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs_A… #NLProc

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Wishing everybody happy holidays before a well-deserved break! Greetings from our traditional Christmas lunch 🎄🧑‍🎄#NLProc #Digitalhumanities