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David Mortensen<p>As a linguist in <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NLP</span></a> -land, I sometimes hear things like, “you must hate <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LLMs</span></a>!” or “don’t <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LLMs</span></a> prove linguistics wrong?” This reasoning is based on a couple of false premises:</p><p>1. Linguistics is a set of propositions.<br />2. These propositions are basically those articulated by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s.</p><p>Linguistics is a field of science—science as applied to the language domain—and cannot be falsified any more than biology could be falsified. And most linguists are not Chomskyans. 1/</p>
Abhilasha Ravichander<p>Exciting personal update!! I am thrilled to share that I defended my PhD 🎓 🥳 </p><p>Next steps: I recently started a new position at the Allen Institute for AI as a Young Investigator. </p><p>Excited to work with Yejin Choi and the Mosaic team at AI2, as well as to join the vibrant <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NLP</span></a> community in Seattle. Please DM me if you are here, and would like to chat about things research-related or otherwise! 🗻✨☕️</p>
Maria Ryskina<p>Got my library card today! The move to Cambridge is officially complete.</p>
Maria Ryskina<p>First human subject experiment! 🧠</p>
Maria Ryskina<p>Ambiguous construction of the day, East Coast edition</p>
Maria Antoniak<p>I&#39;m very excited for <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NormConf" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NormConf</span></a>, a conference &quot;about all the stuff that matters in data and machine learning, but doesn&#39;t get the spotlight.&quot;</p><p>Happening virtually this Thursday!</p><p>The talks look sooo good! 🤩 <br /><a href="https://normconf.com/#schedule" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">normconf.com/#schedule</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>✨ Julia Silge: How many folds is too many? Efficient simulation for everyday ML decisions</p><p>✨ Luca Belli: Geriatric data science: life after senior</p><p>✨ Lynn Cherny: NLP tips and tricks</p><p>✨ Sean Taylor: When not to use SQL</p><p>✨ Chris Albon: Don&#39;t do invisible work</p>
Robert Hawkins<p>🔔<a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/hiring" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hiring</span></a> alert: i will be recruiting PhD students to my new lab at <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/UWMadison" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UWMadison</span></a> this cycle! (tentatively: the Social Interaction Lab). We are an inclusive and interdisciplinary <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/CogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CogSci</span></a> group at the rich intersection of <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>language</span></a>, <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/socialcognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialcognition</span></a>, <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>neuroscience</span></a>, and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/computation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>computation</span></a>. Please boost and pass along to anyone who may be interested! </p><p>🗓️deadline: December 1</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://psych.wisc.edu/graduate-program/application-process/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">psych.wisc.edu/graduate-progra</span><span class="invisible">m/application-process/</span></a></p><p>👋 what we do: <a href="https://rxdhawkins.com/publications/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">rxdhawkins.com/publications/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Tiago Pimentel<p>The time we take to read a word depends on its predictability, i.e. its surprisal. However, we only know how surprising a word is after we see it. Our new paper investigates whether we anticipate words&#39; surprisals to allocate reading times in advance :)</p><p>Joint work with Clara Meister, Ethan Wilcox, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@roger_p_levy" class="u-url mention">@<span>roger_p_levy</span></a></span> , <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@rdc" class="u-url mention">@<span>rdc</span></a></span> <br />Paper: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14301" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2211.14301</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br />Code: <a href="https://github.com/rycolab/anticipation-on-reading-times" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/rycolab/anticipatio</span><span class="invisible">n-on-reading-times</span></a></p>
David Mortensen<p>Draft <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/course" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>course</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/outline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>outline</span></a>: <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Subword" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Subword</span></a> Units for <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Speech</span></a> and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Technologies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Technologies</span></a></p><p>Module 1: <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Morphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Morphology</span></a> </p><p>Formal and functional operations. Typology. IA. Morphological segmentation. Lexemes and WP analysis. Lemmatization, reinflection, paradigm completion.</p><p>Module 2: <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Orthography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orthography</span></a></p><p>Descriptive phonetics, IPA, and phonemes. Unicode. Typology of orthographies. Tokenization. G2P and P2G.</p><p>Module 3: <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Acoustic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Acoustic</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Phonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Phonetics</span></a></p><p>General acoustics. DSP. Acoustic analysis. Applications of phonetics.</p>
Anjalie Field<p>I will be looking for 1-2 PhD students this cycle in social/ethical NLP, more information here: <a href="https://anjalief.github.io/research_areas.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">anjalief.github.io/research_ar</span><span class="invisible">eas.html</span></a></p>
David Mortensen<p>Introduction: I&#39;m a language researcher at CMU&#39;s Language Technologies Institute operating at the intersection between computational linguistics and NLP.. I&#39;m interested in anything dealing with sounds, the structure of words, and change in language over time.</p>
benlipkin<p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>introduction</span></a> </p><p>Hi! I am a first-year PhD student at MIT working on the probabilistic relationship between language, structure, and meaning in the mind and brain. Towards this goal, I draw from interdisciplinary approaches spanning cognitive neuroscience, computational linguistics, and programming languages.</p>
Koustuv Sinha<p>📣Hey <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLProc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NLProc</span></a>! We are planning to organise a * <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ACL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ACL</span></a> workshop on <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/generalisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>generalisation</span></a> (benchmarking) in <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NLP</span></a>. Goals: provide a stage to discuss SOTA evaluation &amp; create+agree on a set of challenging generalisation tests for the near future. Interested? 💪🙌</p><p>Website: <a href="https://genbench.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">genbench.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br />Background Tweet: <a href="https://twitter.com/GenBench/status/1578375144967262208?s=20&amp;t=MHvGcpm8RBxq-sY7A8hmzw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/GenBench/status/15</span><span class="invisible">78375144967262208?s=20&amp;t=MHvGcpm8RBxq-sY7A8hmzw</span></a></p>
Aakanksha Naik<p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>introduction</span></a><br />Hi everyone! 👋</p><p>I am Aakanksha, a research scientist on the Semantic Scholar team at the Allen Institute for AI. I&#39;m interested in leveraging <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLProc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NLProc</span></a> to assist and improve rapid understanding of large document collections. My research covers <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/transferlearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>transferlearning</span></a>, information extraction, and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ClinicalNLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClinicalNLP</span></a>/AI for <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>healthcare</span></a>.</p><p>Still figuring out how Mastodon works, tips welcome!! 😀</p>
Abhilasha Ravichander<p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/tootorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tootorial</span></a> / <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/PaperThread" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PaperThread</span></a> / <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NewPaper" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewPaper</span></a>:</p><p>🚨Help <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLProc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NLProc</span></a> models process negation 🚨</p><p>Negation (e.g. when we talk about things *not* happening) is fundamental to how we use language and pretty crucial for NLU, but reasoning about negated language is not easy for machines. </p><p>Introducing CONDAQA, a new *contrastive* reading comprehension dataset that requires reasoning about negation.<br />w/ Matt Gardner &amp; <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@anamarasovic" class="u-url mention">@<span>anamarasovic</span></a></span> at <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/EMNLP2022" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EMNLP2022</span></a> </p><p>📝Paper: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00295" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2211.00295</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br />🚀Data: <a href="https://github.com/AbhilashaRavichander/CondaQA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/AbhilashaRavichande</span><span class="invisible">r/CondaQA</span></a></p><p>[1/N]</p>
Kanishka Misra 🐧<p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Introduction</span></a> toot time! </p><p>- I am a PhD candidate at Purdue University interested in <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/nlp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nlp</span></a> and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/cognitivescience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cognitivescience</span></a>! </p><p>- My research focuses on evaluating and analyzing AI systems by drawing on experimental paradigms and phenomena in Human Semantic Cognition. check out my work @ <a href="https://kanishka.website" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">kanishka.website</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>- I&#39;m currently wrapping up a research internship at Google AI (NYC).</p><p>- I guess now would be a good time to also declare that I am on the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/postdoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>postdoc</span></a> job market!!</p>
Chirag Raman<p>Hi hi sigmoid.social 👋 </p><p>I&#39;m a -1 month Ph.D. Candiate at TUDelft. I&#39;m currently working on forecasting, sensing, and analyzing social conversation dynamics in the wild. This work is inherently interdisciplinary, spanning generative / multimodal ML, computer vision / graphics, distributed systems, and affective computing. </p><p>In a previous life, I was a Senior Research Engineer at CMU, and worked at ProductionPro and Disney Research before that. I also love riding bikes!</p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>introduction</span></a></p>
Abhilasha Ravichander<p>Hi! 👋</p><p>I am Abhilasha, a PhD student at <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/CMU" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CMU</span></a>. I like to talk about Natural Language Processing (<a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLProc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NLProc</span></a>) and Machine Learning (<a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ML" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ML</span></a>). I work on problems in model evaluation, with a focus on making NLP systems more interpretable and robust.</p><p>Happy to try and figure out Mastadon together!</p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>introduction</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/introductions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>introductions</span></a></p>
M.L. Pacheco<p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Introduction</span></a> </p><p>👋 I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research NYC at the intersection of <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLProc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NLProc</span></a> and Computational Social Science. </p><p>I am interested in computational methods to model discourse at scale, and in the relationship between language and social systems. Most of my work focuses on (deep) statistical relational learning, and its application for analyzing public discourse, argumentation and narratives.</p><p>Next year, I will join the CS Dept. at CU Boulder as an Asst. Professor.</p>
Maria Ryskina<p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>introduction</span></a> </p><p>Hi! 👋 I&#39;m a postdoc at MIT doing interdisciplinary language research. I recently got my PhD from Carnegie Mellon&#39;s School of Computer Science, doing mostly computational <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linguistics</span></a> and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLProc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NLProc</span></a> (or is it <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NLP</span></a> now?). Now I work at a <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/cognitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cognitive</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>neuroscience</span></a> lab and I&#39;m excited to expand more into those fields!</p><p>I&#39;m also an organizer at <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/QueerInAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>QueerInAI</span></a>, where I help out with a program that helps queer folks apply to grad school 🏳️‍🌈</p><p>I&#39;m a big rodent enthusiast (ambiguity intended) 🐀</p>