🌱 We’re very excited that our work 'Aya Dataset: An Open-Access Collection for Multilingual Instruction Tuning' was also accepted! Congrats to authors Shivalika Singh, Freddie Vargus, Daniel D'souza , Börje Karlsson, Abinaya Mahendiran, Wei-Yin Ko, Herumb Shandilya, Jay Patel, David Mataciunas,

Going to give a fun talk today. Can I turn yet another talk into a plea to make people care about evals? Let's find out :)

LMdiff - Our (award winning :)) visualization demo to compare language model output is back online.

webpage: lmdiff.vizhub.ai
paper: arxiv.org/abs/2111.01582
video: vimeo.com/640945461

with Arvind Satyanarayan , Ben Hoover and Sebastian Gehrmann .

Tanmoy Mukherjee Cfp is out now. No abstract deadline, just ARR June. 2024.emnlp.org/calls/main_con…

I'm speaking ✨tomorrow✨ at Bloomberg London on Fairness/Bias/[INSERT NEW HOT TERM] for Women's Month. Come for drinks, a panel of *all* women (in ML 😱 where did you find them?!), and then drinks again.

🚨Summer AI Research Internships🚨
The Tech At Bloomberg office of the CTO is looking for summer AI research interns! ML, NLP, Vision, LLMs

Spread the word.

Interested candidates should apply here:
forms.gle/niB9ZU6eEi6iEz…

Today, we’re launching Aya, a new open-source, massively multilingual LLM & dataset to help support under-represented languages. Aya outperforms existing open-source models and covers 101 different languages – more than double covered by previous models.

cohere.com/research/aya

Hey a cool conference right outside my doorstep!

ACL announcement:
'The ACL Executive Committee has voted to significantly change ACL's approach to protecting anonymous peer review. The change is effective immediately. (1/4) #NLPRoc

Happy new year! Just a reminder to everyone who works on language modeling that COLM is a new conference that I am co-organizing with several esteemed colleagues from academia and industry. Abstract deadline is on March 22 followed by the paper deadline on March 29.

It's worth playing with Giant Language model Test Room (GLTR) if you haven't already. Developed in 2019 with GPT-2.

Demo: demo.gltr.io/client/index.h…

Here's a screenshot using their NYT article example.

Shout out to the resilient folks who stuck around till the end of the workshop, braving slow internet and frozen screens like seasoned warriors! 🛡️ Massive thanks to our speakers and audience! #TechGlitchesCantStopUs #EMNLP2023 Generation Evaluation & Metrics Workshop Sebastian Gehrmann

GEM logistics update: The venue has internet issues and we cannot get a stable zoom connection.

If you are scheduled to give a talk in the early session and have the ability to go this afternoon instead let us know and we will reshuffle things. We are continuing to try to join.

GEM workshop logistics: we are in LEO 2. Up two escalators and a bit of a walk.

We have a rocket chat channel #gem -workshop we will monitor for questions.

See you soon!

Arrived in Singapore! Will be at Generation Evaluation & Metrics Workshop tomorrow and then hang around the conference.

If this is your first time attending or you don't feel super comfortable yet, I am happy to help or make introductions :)

Excited🤩for the 3rd GEM Workshop EMNLP 2023! Here's the schedule for Dec 6! (in Singapore🇸🇬time)

9-10:30 Opening Remarks + 6 12min talks
10:30-11🧋Coffee Break
11-12:30🪧Poster Sess 1
12:30-14🍕Break
14-15:30 7 12min talks
15:30-16🧋Covfefe Break :P
16-17:30🪧Poster Sess 2
👇🏻

Looking forward to starting my new chapter at uclanlp in a year with the MARS Lab! saadia-gabriel.github.io/mars_lab.html

I am hiring NLP/ML PhD students at UWaterloo, home to 5 NLP professors! Apply by Dec 1

Strong consideration will be given to those who can tackle the below challenge: Can we use LM's hidden states to reason multiple problems simultaneously?

​​Retweets/shares appreciated🥰

Elated to share that I've been named a K&L Gates Presidential Fellow🔥
And..I’m on the academic job market!
I tackle problems in the intersection of NLP, AI Ethics, and computational social science. See my website for my CV, research statement, and more chan0park.github.io🧵

I'm on the faculty market!

My goal is to build language systems that we understand deeply through discovery and by design, so we can precisely control them and treat their failures.

Let's tackle this grand challenge of science and engineering together.

nlp.stanford.edu/~johnhew/