What happens when students in an intro programming class get access to GPT-4? A trade-off: “positive benefits on exam performance for adopters” but “an average decrease in participation in several class elements” for most but an increase for those from less-developed countries.

Congratulations to dr. Mahfuz ibn Alam, the first PhD our of my lab, who defended his PhD yesterday! 🎉 Mahfuz has contributed to Machine Translation for under-served varieties, starting with translation of non-native English (best paper at WNUT'20 -- published before we ... 1/3

We have seen the usual man:doctor🧑‍⚕️ and woman:nurse👩‍⚕️ stereotypes. But guess what? VLMs are also throwing out wild associations like blonde:dumb🤦‍♀️, old person:dinosaur🦕, or college student:broke. 🧑‍🎓💸 BiasDora, our #EMNLP2024 Findings Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2407.02066, explores

Thank you to those who participated in our recent all-member vote regarding our name change. The change is happening! We are: The Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics! Announcement 👉 naacl.org/posts/2024-10-…

Have you ever thought of trajectories as sentences? See the figure, it's not too weird a thought! Turns out we can use language modeling ideas to do trajectory modeling! Paper (arxiv.org/pdf/2409.15366) to be presented later today at ACM SIGSPATIAL. See 🧵for more details 👇

Check out our award-winning work from #SIGSPATIAL24! Come for the synthetic travel survey data generation, stay for the thorough evaluation on this super tricky setting! Details in 🧵👇

As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>

search engines like google cuts off the serendipity discovery allowed by library shelves / google maps cuts off the user's spatial understanding of their surrounding / automatic differentiation of deep nets cuts off your deep understanding of gradient flows / calculators cuts ...

On my way to MIAMI, to attend EMNLP! We will be presenting our paper on the poster session D. If you are attending and want to catch up, DM me. Also, feel free to drop by and talk NLP.

When is using grammars for producing translation systems beneficial? In our work with Jonathan Hus we answer this question. Find us tomorrow Tue at 4pm by our poster! Paper: aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-mai… 1/2

🌴 We'll be presenting our work at #EMNLP2024 Wednesday (Nov 13th) from 10:30am-12:00pm in Riverfront Hall!! Stop by to hear about it and discuss!👋 EMNLP 2025 w/ Sabrina Akter Antonis Anastasopoulos