For this week's MilaNLP reading group, Janis Goldzycher presented 'Synthetic Data Generation with Large Language Models for Text Classification: Potential and Limitations' by Zhuoyan Li et al.

Paper: aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-mai…

#NLProc #ReadingGroup

Hiring a PhD student to work on representations of knowledge in multilingual language models. Position starts September 2024, and will be part of NCCR Evolving Language. Apply by January 4!

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Tenure-track assistant professor position on Natural Language Processing for Complexity Science and Societal Insight available at the TU Wien and the Complexity Science Hub. informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2504

Our group is hiring a researcher in language technology. The position is full-time and permanent!

The position is open until filled, but apply in the next few weeks for best chances!

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🚀 Join us at #ETHZurich on September 6, 2023, for an exhilarating #Hackathon on Detecting Online Hate Speech! 📷 Let's make the internet a safer space together. Don't miss out on this transformative event - Register now and be part of the change! latsis2023.ethz.ch/hackathon.html

I'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher to work on multitask/multilingual/multimodal NLP at the University of Zurich. Fully funded until July 2025. Apply by September 15!

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Had a lot of fun presenting our poster at the amazing Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms yesterday 😊

Next up: at 2pm local time I will present my submitted system for the SemEval task on sexism Detection: aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1…

✨ Dirk Hovy is giving an inspiring talk at the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms on the problems in data annotation in #NLProc , particularly in subjective tasks.

#WOAH2023 #ACL2023NLP

🚀 Ready to use your NLP skills for a greater cause? Join us at the Hackathon on Detecting Online Hate Speech on September 6, 2023, at ETH Zurich. Let's create safer, more inclusive online spaces together! #Hackathon #ETHZurich #OnlineSafety #aiforgood
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Congratulations to Chantal Amrhein , who just successfully defended her PhD on 'Manipulating Data Representations for Neural Machine Translation'!

Excited to share that our paper “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Natural Language Inference for Hate Speech Detection in Languages with Limited Labeled Data” has been accepted at Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms! 🥳

arxiv.org/abs/2306.03722

Work with Moritz Preisig, Chantal Amrhein, Text Crunching Center @UZH

Successfully defended my #thesis today! Thanks to everyone who supported me during my #phdlife ! I'm looking forward to new collaborations and projects as a #postdoc now. (photo credits go to Tammy, thanks!)

Unterstütze ein Forschungsprojekt zur Entwicklung von Massnahmen gegen Hassbilder, indem du innert 2 Minuten ein #Hassbild hochlädst. Jedes Bild zählt, um digitale Hassbilder in Zukunft besser zu erkennen und dagegen vorzugehen! #GegenDigitaleGewalt

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Eye-tracking based classification of dyslexia has been shown to work fairly well with SVM and random forest based approaches. But, could it work even better using neural sequence models and additionally integrating the linguistic stimulus?

#NewPost auf dem UFSP-Blog: Janis Goldzycher schreibt in seinem Beitrag über #HateSpeech , die automatische Erkennung mit Algorithmen und über Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik. 👉uzh.ch/blog/digitalre…