We are very excited to share the CFP for our first Special Issue in Journal of Documentation, "Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Materials", edited by @gworthey and J. Stephen Downie. See below for details, and visit our website for more information: aeolian-network.net/outcomes

#JCDL2021 Still considering attendance? We're looking for some last minute volunteers for Sept 27-30. Comped registration for 3hrs work (virtual only, no travel required). Reply here or DM JCDL Conference if you are interested.

Come work with me!!! We are looking for people in the broad area of information, data, and technology policy. jobs.illinois.edu/academic-job-b…

Insightful talk and Q&A!

Excited to present "Impact of OCR Quality on BERT Embeddings in the Domain Classification of Book Excerpts" #CHR2021 7:30am CST, Friday ceur-ws.org/Vol-2989/long_… Thanks to all fantastic collaborators! HT Research Center Yuerong Hu @gworthey Ryan C. Dubnicek @tedunderwood.me (is at 🦋, not here) J. Stephen Downie

I am looking for PhD students at UW-Madison in Fall 2022. If you’re interested in NLP/ML, especially on multilingual NLP, multimodal learning, and transfer learning for translation and healthcare, please apply! Check my website for more details!

Looking for opportunities to make structural change in #DigitalHumanities? We are seeking volunteers for a newly established Anti-racism Task Force to develop strategies that help ADHO fulfill its commitment to antiracism: adho.org/announcements/….

Many thanks to our teams, JCDL2022, HathiTrust, and iSchool at Illinois! Our papers on book reviews & books are available at disq.us/t/48bscl6 (complexities associated with online book reviews ) and disq.us/t/48bse2c (Gutenberg-HathiTrust sentence-level parallel corpus).

Join us at Text As Data (TADA 🪄) 2022 at Cornell Tech in NYC on Oct 6-7! In addition to a stellar lineup of talks and posters we will have keynote speaker [email protected]. Please RT!

Next up in #CUDAN Open Lab Seminar series: lab encounter w @tedunderwood.me (is at 🦋, not here) et al. from iSchool at Illinois, discussing "Reception and Cultural Change". 2022-09-26 2-4PM (Tallinn time, 6AM Illinois time, 1PM CET). Join us on Zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2022-09…

Foundation models are transforming society: in the past month alone, we've seen a flurry of releases! GPT-4, Claude, PaLM API, Alpaca, Dolly, Jurassic-2, PaLM-E, GPT4All, Cerebras-GPT, OpenFlamingo, ... We built Ecosystem Graphs to track their footprint: crfm.stanford.edu/ecosystem-grap…

New paper out today, asking: What books has ChatGPT/GPT-4 *memorized*? A LOT. Harry Potter, Pride & Prejudice, 1984, LotR, Hunger Games, GoT, 50 Shades of Grey, Dune. Memorization is linked to web popularity--lots of old classics + new sci-fi/fantasy. 1/6 arxiv.org/abs/2305.00118

Join the team! The #iSchoolUI invites applications for full-time, tenure-track faculty positions (open rank) in artificial intelligence (AI). Learn more and apply by December 15 ✍️: bit.ly/3QWjG7t

Excited to present my paper on role-playing LLM agents at #EMNLP2024! 🎉 Paper Title: “Beyond Demographics: Aligning Role-playing LLM-based Agents Using Human Belief Networks” Come say hi and let's chat about some exciting research! 🤖🧠✨ TL;DR: How can we make LLM agents

We are excited to share our latest work on benchmarking current LLM-based machine translation and traditional NMT on culture-specific concepts. Chat with us at 4-5:30pm on the poster session #EMNLP2024! Joint work w/ Binwei Yao Ming Jiang Diyi Yang

As a Chinese scholar, I’m shocked to see that the #NeurIPS2024 speaker showed this racist and inappropriate slide. This incident underscores the critical importance of promoting intercultural competence, not only in machines but, perhaps more importantly, among humans.