Great seeing the launch of Scotland's leading AI startup - Alana @alanathebot spinning out from Heriot-Watt University and the development of their Conversational AI Interfaces Congrats to Oliver Lemon and Verena Rieser and team on the launch digit.fyi/ai-technology-…

The border between Geneva and France. I feel safer already.

We stand by Italy during these trying times. Share your Support for our Italian friends, They are our colleagues, friends and family. Cari amici, siamo con voi. #COVID19 #WeStandWithItaly

We have great new SoTA syntactic parsing results with RNG Transformer: Recursive Non-Autoregressive Graph-to-Graph Transformer for Dependency Parsing with Iterative Refinement, arxiv.org/abs/2003.13118. Retrains BERT to correct syntactic structures, graph2graph.

A Postdoc and multiple PhD positions are available in my Natural Language Understanding group at Idiap, Switzerland @idiap_ch (idiap.ch/en/join-us/job…). Good salaries, beautiful location, and a world-class AI research community. #NCCR_EvolvingLanguage

I am excited to share that our paper, "End-to-End Bias Mitigation by Modelling Biases in Corpora", is accepted to #acl2020 #acl2020nlp #nlproc Joint work with Yonatan Belinkov and James Henderson

Grateful that my #acl2020nlp theme paper "The Unstoppable Rise of Computational Linguistics in Deep Learning" was accepted. Traces how the nature of language has and will impact neural network architectures, including variable binding in Transformer. arxiv.org/abs/2005.06420

Senior postdoctoral position open in my group (3+years). Some French required. You'll be involved in a visible computational linguistics group and in the new exciting Evolving language project! Check us out. For all information see announcement at unige.ch/lettres/lingui…

The announcent and call for papers for EACL 2021 is now online. Plan to submit, plan to attend!! See you there.

2. "Multilevel text alignment with cross-document attention" (w/ Xuhui Zhou, Noah A. Smith). 3. "Plug and play autoencoders for controlled text generation" (w/, 福元麻衣子, Ivan Montero, Noah A. Smith, James Henderson). More details coming soon. (2/2)

Our paper (w/ James Henderson) titled 'Graph-to-Graph Transformer for Transition-based Dependency Parsing' has been accepted as a long paper in Findings of emnlp2020 . #emnlp2020 updated preprint and code will be available soon.

Our Findings of emnlp2020 paper “Graph-to-Graph Transformer for Transition-based Dependency Parsing” (w/ James Henderson) is now available: Idiap Research Institute EPFL Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/1911.03561 Presentation: github.com/alirezamshi/G2… Code: github.com/alirezamshi/G2…

Come and work with us! We have seven permanent jobs and one postdoc! Check us out!

Our new paper (w/ James Henderson): A novel way of encoding syntactic structure for SRL task by inputting graph relations directly into the attention mechanism of Transformer: Syntax-Aware Graph-to-Graph Transformer for Semantic Role Labelling, publications.idiap.ch/index.php/publ… Idiap Research Institute

Idiap Research Institute has several attractive open positions to head research groups in AI, with a preference for cross-disciplinary and industry-driven research. Consideration of applications will start soon. : idiap.ch/webapps/jobs/o…

I'm really excited about our new work on modelling the latent space of Transformers as nonparametric mixture distributions, and defining a Nonparametric Variational AutoEncoder with a Transformer encoder-decoder. Paper to be presented at #ICLR: lnkd.in/eVCg89x8

Multiple PhD positions in deep learning for NLP and neuroscience are available in my Natural Language Understanding group at Idiap, Switzerland @idiap_ch (idiap.ch/en/careers). Good salaries, beautiful location, and a world-class AI research community. #NCCR_EvolvingLanguage