Day 6: My father is still in ICU and battling COVID. It has been 12 days since he has tested positive. Please keep him in your prayers today. I know my dad is a fighter! 💪
Waheguru. God bless all! 🙏
Conquered my nerves and delivered my first talk as a lecture for a graduate-level CS course at UBC! Huge thanks to
@VeredShwartz
for the opportunity to share my insights with the class.
Life Update: Ecstatic to share that I'll be joining
@UBC_CS
for my thesis-based MSc in CS this Fall! I'll be working with Prof.
@VeredShwartz
and others at
@UBC_NLP
+ other amazing depts. Super excited to embark on this journey and witness beautiful Vancouver! ☀️🌧️🏞️🏔️🏖️☃️ (1/n)
Lately I've noticed that everybody seems to be okay until you eventually have a deeper conversation with them. Then you realise that this is a sad generation of people struggling to survive with a smiling face and pretty pictures.
Thrilled to announce my live appearance on
@GlobalBC
yesterday, where I had an engaging conversation with
@JenPalmaGlobal
on my work in diversifying representation and reasoning in AI! Huge thanks to
@VeredShwartz
and
@Alex_Walls_
@UBCNews
for this incredible opportunity!✨
Day 24: I AM FINALLY TAKING MY DAD BACK HOME!!!! 30 days of trauma but I can't express enough gratitude to everyone who supported us in this tough time. I won't ever forget any of u. 💕
Please take care of ur family. I still can't digest everything I've been though.
#blessed
📢 Check out the accepted EMNLP'23 papers from our UBC NLP group!
Congratulations to all the authors and stay tuned for the camera-ready preprints! 🎉
#EMNLP2023
#ubcnlp
#NLProc
Exactly 2 months to go before I enter my graduate program in 🇨🇦
It's funny how hard you've pushed yourself all this time to bag ur dream admit, but now? Now is the most difficult part, realising that you'll be leaving everything behind, & everyone who shaped you.
#NotaCountdown
Please please consider hiring my friend! He’s an amazing NLP researcher and will be a great fit in your company! He grinds so hard, submitted two papers this year already!!! Give him the interview opportunity and learn more! ✨
Just submitted my 2nd paper for the year. I guess now is a good time to take a break from "Research, coz I enjoy doing it" and start doubling down on my job hunt! 🥲
PS: I am looking for AI/ML opportunities. Feel free to reach out if you are hiring!🫣
#NLProc
#AI
#ML
Day 14: Dad has finally shifted from the ICU to a room and will be home in a day or two! It took 22 days but with everyone's blessings, he was able to fight this!
Thank you Twitter family for keeping my family in your prayers. I am forever grateful!🙏🌸
Words of Wisdom✨
My parents tested positive today and I've been feeling quite overwhelmed with the huge pile of sudden responsibilities + taking care of my old grandparents. If you're in this situation as well, try this and create that loving atmosphere. This is just a phase💛
Finally, got to attend a live talk by
@nasrinmmm
at NAACL! Her work during her Ph.D. at University of Rochester has inspired me throughout my undergraduate research journey. This was a true fangirl moment!☺️🤩
Another phase of adulthood and I already feel like I’m set for all that’s to come. Let’s do this, 23! Blessed to celebrate with family after 5 years! 🥂❤️💫
Unfortunately, I couldn't make it to Singapore for
#EMNLP23
. However, please stop by to Central 1 at 2:00pm today for the Commonsense Reasoning Oral Track. I will be presenting my paper GD-COMET, virtually! Looking forward to meeting you!
@VeredShwartz
@UBC_NLP
🎉🎉🎉 Surreal! Never ever did I imagine being a part of an impactful startup.
@NeuralSpace
has raised USD $1.7M in seed round! Cheers to my amazing team and the founders who have given me the opportunity!
📰 Read the full story on
@VentureBeat
:
An extremely fun session today at
@NeuralSpace
. We kickstarted our online NLP Research panel discussion series with some amazing researchers onboard! Thank you to all those who attended, we are overwhelmed with the turnout and the feedback🤗. Looking forward to organizing more!
Absolutely thrilled to host three incredibly inspiring researchers in
#nlproc
, Shruti Rijhwani, Ivan Vulic and Jonas Pfeiffer at
@NeuralSpace
this Thursday for our platform launch event!
I can't wait!😍
Register now to indulge in an interactive session all about
#LowResouceNLP
!
.
@UBC_CS
prof Dr. Vered Shwartz (
@VeredShwartz
) and masters student Mehar Bhatia (
@bhatia_mehar
) explain why reasoning could be the next step in
#AI
—and why it’s important to train these models using diverse datasets from different cultures.
Most Canadian thing ever:
Friday night, I was making aloo paranthas for dinner with my flatmates. So the fire alarm turns on 🚨 and my entire building (18 floors) had to be evacuated. Firemen 🚒 arrived in minutes, checked my apartment to declare that everything was safe. 😭🙈
Finally uploaded my first preprint! Yayyy!🎉
Title: Calling Out Bluff: Attacking the Robustness of Automatic Scoring Systems with Simple Adversarial Testing.
Link:
Day 9: My dad is feeling better, all vitals are normal, but still in ICU, on oxygen support. It has been 15 days now since he tested positive. Doctors say they will gradually decrease the external oxygen levels and we must be patient.
Please keep praying for his quick recovery!
Overwhelmed with the incredible response last Thursday! 🤩Thank you to everyone who attended! In case you missed it, we will be uploading the entire event on YT soon!
Here is my amazing team
@NeuralSpace
who all make work so fun, every day!
#nsrelease
#startupculture
#nlproc
Three cheers for my wonderful friend
@RamanDutt4
, who is all set to fly to University of Edinburgh tomorrow and begin his PhD journey.🥂 Just got off the call with him, and it was so difficult to say goodbye! Until we meet again! 🍻
I am in tears. The empathy that doctors can perform in the midst of the worst crisis they have seen. The heart-wrenching agony of a distant goodbye. The song.
Today, towards the end of my shift, I video called the relatives of a patient who is not going to make it. We usually do that in my hospital if it’s something they want. This patient’s son asked for a few minutes of my time. He then sang a song for his dying mother.
Thanks to
@NeuralSpace
, I published my first article on Medium, summarising 2 recent papers about the
#StateAndFateofLinguisticDiversity
. Do give it a read & share!
Title, "2021: How far have we, together, come to provide equal language technology performance around the world?"
Hot off the press!
Given the rapid rate of technology adoption globally, there is a pressing need for measuring and understanding NLP performance inequalities across the world’s languages.
Women no longer have an ‘if I can’ mindset. Now it’s more about ‘how I can’—be in tech, start something in tech, fund something in tech. That shift is exciting! And it happened because we created a network where we show, daily, that women are innovating & inspiring!
#BreakTheBias
People tend to make new resolutions on New Year or write notes to younger self, but this 22nd birthday, I promise to stay positive n happy in every situation. I promise to work hard, not loose hope and be open to criticism and keep learning. Hoping for a beautiful year ahead. 🥂
Been following
@mtlaiethics
for some time now which is how I got to know about
@SymposiumAi
held today. A wonderful panel discussion on Fairness, Algorithmic Bias and Ethics in AI also a talk by
@zacharylipton
on fairness from a non-ideal perspective.
It is June 2022 and we are thrilled to enter this month at
@NeuralSpace
! We have a lot in store for this month, so follow us now on our socials, if you haven't already. We are so excited to share with you all, very very soon!😍🥳🎉
#NeuralSpace
#NLProc
#lowresouce
#excitingmonth
Vered Shwartz (
@VeredShwartz
) will give a talk in the workshop of narrative understanding, titled "Narrative Understanding Beyond the Text", at 11 am ET at Dockside 2.
A good day for NLP✨🚀 I have learnt so much from Prof.
@YejinChoinka
work, her papers have really helped me carve my research interests! Let's not forget her recent keynotes at ACL & ICLR, oh boy best I've ever watched. Praying to for an opportunity to work with her team soon🙈
Computer Scientist
@YejinChoinka
uses natural language processing to develop AI systems that can understand language and make inferences about the world.
Learn more about the 2022 MacArthur Fellow
#MacFellow
Hello
#NLProc
twitter! We are NLP with Friends, a friendly online NLP seminar series where students present ongoing work.
Join us to meet our amazing speakers, learn about cool research, and collectively think about what’s next:
See you soon! ❤️
It's been a long, tiring journey but now as I introspect, I might not like to do it differently
Alot of people to thank - I'm immensely grateful to Prof.
@RatnRajiv
, my most inspirational presence, who shaped my research development & tirelessly supported me for many years (2/n)
Blessed to be a part of
@NeuralSpace
family. Thank you
@felix_laumann
@mysoulisahippie
@JupyterAI
and my wonderful colleagues for mentoring me, motivating me to work outside my comfort zone, embracing my learning curve (& errors) and accompanying you in bold initiatives. (4/n)
Check out
@NeuralSpace
’s latest article on Medium.
Title, "Challenges in using NLP for low-resource languages and how NeuralSpace solves them!"
Do give it a read & share.
Using our platform you can train and deploy your own NLP models in 80+ languages! Public release vv soon!🥳
In the article below written by our Applied Research Scientist Tenzin Singhay Bhotia (
@10_zin_
), we describe the challenges in using NLP for low-resource languages and delineate how we at
@NeuralSpace
are tackling them. (1/3)
So excited to be attending my first
@aclmeeting
conference this year!✨I'll be actively participating as a microblogger volunteer and aim to use this space to highlight and journal my favourite findings!
Cheers to a fun upcoming week!🍻
#ACL2021NLP
Have you registered at
#ACL2021NLP
? Have you received your credentials to enter
@underlineio
? Then you are ready for the conference! We start on August 1st with several workshops and tutorials!
#NLProc
The
#WiML2020
Student Program and Funding Co-Chairs are Xenia Miscouridou (
@xenia_mis
), incoming Research Associate at Imperial College London (
@imperialcollege
) and Judy Hanwen Shen (
@judyhshen
), PhD Student at Stanford University (
@Stanford
). Huge thank you from
#WiML
board!
📢📢 We are back with Episode 2 after the wonderful response from the first episode!
NeuralSpace presents NLP Panel Discussion on Low Resource - Arabic NLP! Our panelists are
@wissam_antoun
and
@tareknaous
.
Register now!
Announcing a new multilingual NLU dataset on the domain of citizen services on
@huggingface
. We at
@NeuralSpace
, target 9 Indian languages i.e, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu.
We are honored and excited to have Sebastian Ruder (
@seb_ruder
) at NeuralSpace for our upcoming NLP Panel Discussion.✨🥳
Sebastian will be joining us for a discussion with Mehar Bhatia (
@bhatia_mehar
) on “Scaling NLP Systems to the next 1000 languages”.
Paper3: Nice Try Kiddo: Investigating Ad Hominems in Dialogue Responses by
@ewsheng
et al.
Authors study ad-hominems across Twitter interactions & highlight 1)higher presence around marginalized communities 2)novel ways to reduce them in dialogue responses. Hope to discuss more.
You just have to take that leap of faith. Yes, it is frightening, but that's the beauty of it, isn't it? Without that leap, we will never know what could be, we will never know what we are capable of.
Taken from - The Bold Type.
I entered my father's ICU ward 3 times since the past 2 weeks, but things I have witnessed is no less than a nightmare. The miseries, the bodies that I have seen have affected me so much. Hats off to the doctors and nurses who are taking care to so many patients, like my dad!
Though I wish to be a NeuralSpacer forever, thank you for pushing me to pursue my dreams✨
My special gratitude to
@deepanwayghosal
for fun brainstorming sessions & keeping up my morale. I promise to be back to it soon
Lastly, thank you Mom Dad, my sister & all my friends (n/n)
Hey, IIIT-Delhi folks! 📢📢
On November 17th, make sure to catch our CTO Ayushman Dash (
@mysoulisahippie
) deliver an insightful lecture on the theme "AI Projects that have had an impact on our society."
Super fun event coming up, the first of many NLP Research talks organized by
@NeuralSpace
.
Join us & our first set of amazing panelists as we discuss recent research directions in low resource languages and challenges of the future. Lots of learnings and insightful discussions!
Hear up!📢
NeuralSpace is organizing the first of many NLP Panel Discussions on NLP Research for Low-Resource Languages with renowned researchers Bonaventure Dossou (
@bonadossou
), Mohamed Ahmed (
@m_0_a
) & Monojit Choudhury (
@monojitchou
).
Register now:
Super exciting opportunity! Do consider applying.
@midasIIITD
was the place where my NLP Research journey began and I am very thankful to Prof.
@RatnRajiv
and my mentors + colleagues for their constant guidance and encouragement which helped me pave my way.
Wonderful opportunity to apply and develop NLP for legal language. Just as an example statistic, while English Wiki has an avg sentence length of 20-25, legal docs have 40-50, most of them legal kwds. NLP approaches suck for anything larger than a few paragraph long txt
My team at
@NeuralSpace
is hiring for a Research Intern.
Why you will love working with us:
1. Work closely with AI and NLP experts
2. Agile work environment where we encourage max productivity and good work-life balance
3. A self-organized diverse team culture
Apply now!
I am teaching a new discussion-based class this semester called Conversation AI. Here is my course's reading list with all the wonderful slides made by my students at Columbia.
This could serve as a good readinglist for people who want to get into ConvAI.
This is actually a wonderful initiative by Finland's government, though I wonder on what grounds was a 16 year old, high school student selected for this.
#YouGoGirl
#GirlsTakeOver
Please don't be surprised if some journalists including Mr Goswami start taking drugs infront of the police so that they can be arrested and stay updated about all activities of Rhea inside the jail.
Rhea in breakfast mei kya khaaya? Seriously
@IndiaToday
??
It's definitely a feeling of pride to be given an opportunity to be a part of such an amazing research group
@midasIIITD
, all thanks to
@RatnRajiv
Sir for his mentorship and guidance.
Summer bye bye! Hello Fall! 🍂 It really does take a whole season for the review process at conferences. The anticipation is building!
@emnlpmeeting
#AcademicLife
@RatnRajiv
Same here Professor. I am facing this difficulty as well. My heart aches to see the situation outside, while my family and I are privileged to receive all our necessities without any hassle.
Today, I donated half of my salary to a beautiful NGO. That warmed my heart a bit.
Presenting an open-source web-based annotation tool for audio and speech dataset curation. The tool improves upon the previously available tools in project management, labelling flexibility, collaboration, data security, setup etc.
@koiRitwikHai
@ProfJainendra
@aclmeeting
@CitImmCanada
Hi Ritwik. This is very unfortunate. Did you also add the letter of explanation to your application? This is usually very important when applying for a Canadian visa (at least for a study permit, should be the same for other cases).
@josephdviviano
@Mila_Quebec
@UMontreal
This is very disheartening! However, as an applicant and an admitted student myself, I can say and prove that both MILA and UdeM had clearly specified this point in bold print in every email they sent. So I don't really think that it was unfair, though I am aware of past cases.
@monojitchou
Interesting summaries. At
@NeuralSpace
we are currently working to improve our translation API to tackle some of the points you have mentioned like named entity ambiguation. We will have the updated feature live in a week.
We've got BIG news! 🥰
We are in seventh heaven to be sharing with you that
@Forbes
features NeuralSpace in their recent article "A Wave Of Billion-Dollar Language AI Startups Is Coming" 🚀 alongside
@OpenAI
,
@huggingface
,
@LiltHQ
,
@CohereAI
and more.
Highly recommend the weekly summary to keep up with the field of ML. They're using AI to identify the top publications and breakthroughs, it's a game-changer.
Paper2: The Importance of Modeling Social Factors of Language: Theory and Practice by
@dirk_hovy
&
@Diyi_Yang
They demonstrate an interesting perspective on language from a social standpoint thru 7 factors and show implications on
#NLProc
tasks i.e, generation & conversational AI