I enjoyed doing the Inside Angle podcast with Dr. Gordon Moore, where we discussed machine learning, natural language processing, health records, and mental health: 3mhisinsideangle.com/podcast-post/a…. Runs ~25min - have a listen!

Thank you for all the fun read on the latest sentence representation and the references to Sesame Street. But could the papers for these hyped-up pre-trained models be more like this people.cs.umass.edu/~miyyer/pubs/2… from Jordan Boyd-Graber, Hal Daumé III and colleagues? #nlproc

Our Vision-based Navigation with Language-based Assistance paper is appearing now @cvpr2019. Well done Khanh Nguyen! Microsoft Research

Congratulations to CLIP PhD students Denis Peskov and Michelle Yuan (Michelle Yuan) who have both been selected as semifinalists for the Fullbright U.S. Student Program!

10 years ago, I got my #PhD from UMD Department of Computer Science UMD CLIP. Doug Oard was a SUPER advisor and a SUPER mentor. Supported me A LOT during and after my PhD (and still to date!). Taught me how to be a researcher and (more importantly!) how to be an advisor and a mentor. GREAT Memories!

Dear World: These women represent an important part of the future of computing. At #umdcs, we learn so much from our students--especially how to question and challenge power structures to promote equality for university-aged women in computing. #InternationalWomensDay #futureofcs

Call for Postdoctoral Fellowships at UMD’s Center for Machine Learning. The application deadline is April 15. #umiacs #umdcs

The Univ. of Maryland Center for Machine Learning held a daylong workshop with featured talks from Cornell Engineering's Kilian Weinberger, Dr. Vanessa Frías Martínez, and others. The event was sponsored by UMD Year of Data Science. mla2019.umiacs.io UMD Science Ginger Snaps

.Univ. of Maryland machine learning experts Jordan Boyd-Graber (in photo) and Shi Feng are presenting their research next week at ACM IUI 2026. go.umd.edu/Uz3 #IUI2019 UMD Science Ginger Snaps UMD CLIP

Shi's paper on using human-computer collaboration to measure visualization effectiveness. users.umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/docs/2019…

Congratulations on your new job Sudha Rao!

Several of us wrote a blog post in memory of our dear friend and collaborator Jan Wiebe. Jan was a true NLP pioneer & started the area of opinion mining and analysis. Those who knew Jan well also remember her for her sense of humor and contagious laugh! naacl2019.org/blog/in-memory…

The CLIP talk today is by Oluwatobi Olabiyi from Capital One: "Toward an End-to-end Neural Generative Dialogue System" go.umd.edu/cliptalks

Want a #machinelearning/#ai postdoc, with freedom of topics, no abstruse required paperwork annoyances, a new building, and a fun city to live in? Check out the new postdoc fellow positions at UMIACS Center for Machine Learning! Ddl Apr 15. x.com/FeiziSoheil/st…

Thanks to Sameer Singh Matt Gardner Eric Wallace for hosting! It was great fun.

Got a first look at the new UMD CLIP lab in the #iribecenter yesterday with Joe Barrow. The view is really nice; I see trees, grass, sun, open space! Can't wait to move in Wednesday.

The CLIP talk today is on "Natural Language Processing and Text Mining with User Behavior Data" by Xiaozhong Liu from Indiana University Bloomington. Join us! go.umd.edu/cliptalks

we (UMD CLIP) have loved using @FigureEightInc (formerly CrowdFlower) for crowdsourcing for years. as others have heard, there apparently won't be any more free subs for academic insts & we can't afford $30k. what do folks use as alternatives (other than mturk, which is painful)?

The CLIP talk today is by Alan Ritter (Ohio State): "What’s So Hard About Natural Language Understanding?" Join us at 11am in IRB 4105! go.umd.edu/cliptalks

Roses are read Violets are blue Language variation is natural Your speech is a dialect too #AcademicValentines