I’m excited to announce an ambitious project: ✨Universal NER ✨. Multilingual NLP is missing a gold standard multilingual NER dataset, and this project aims to fill that gap. This is a community effort: I need your help! See: universalner.org Or read more in the 🧵

Preview #1: multi-topic assignment on a token level Had a lot of fun developing this upcoming feature in BERTopic. It can be used to approximate the topic distributions in a document after having generated the topics. #machinelearning #datascience #nlp #naturallanguageprocessing

An optimal language model with 30B parameters can achieve better results than Davinci 175B, while being ~5x cheaper to host and ~2x cheaper to train [1]. I built a calculator so that you can avoid the mistake that cost OpenAI millions👇

Happy to share that I started working on Neural Machine Translation as a PhD student at the University of Maastricht.

Abderrahmane was the lead author on our work on the first summarization model for Moroccan Darija. Can't wait to see what you will accomplish during your PhD! 👏👏👏

Today we release LLaMA, 4 foundation models ranging from 7B to 65B parameters. LLaMA-13B outperforms OPT and GPT-3 175B on most benchmarks. LLaMA-65B is competitive with Chinchilla 70B and PaLM 540B. The weights for all models are open and available at research.facebook.com/publications/l… 1/n

3/ Abderrahmane Issam (who just started) presenting his ideas for improving machine translation for non-native speakers. How knowledge distillation 🚰can be used and what can we learn from linguistic differences/similarities among languages? Also w/ Yusuf Can Semerci within VOXReality

🙂 ✨ Check the latest post from Abderrahmane Issam detailing the latest developments in speech recognition (#ASR) and #Machinetranslation (#MT). 🙌 UM Department of Advanced Computing Sciences work in VOXReality will focus on how 🖼️ & 📝context can help in real-world #ASR and #MT esp. in a low-resource setup

Last week's first Generative AI hackathon in Morocco was a success thanks to 1337AI and Math&Maroc. Despite limited compute power and scarce data, ~75 hackers showed ingenuity and adaptability. 🧵of cool things that happened thinkai.ma #GenerativeAI #Hackathon

Do you use LM APIs like ChatGPT in non-English languages? You might be overpaying and your in-context learning performance may also be negatively impacted. tinyurl.com/y6hakyc8 🧵⬇️

Another lovely meeting of the Maastricht NLP Reading Group (master students, PhDs and UDs). This time we discussed MetaFormer (from Computer Vision) and the simple but powerful pooling i/o self-attention Justus-Jonas Erker 🇪🇺 @ ACL2024 🇹🇭 Abderrahmane Issam UM Department of Advanced Computing Sciences

#VOXReality VOXReality 3rd GA finished in Amsterdam. On behalf of UM Department of Advanced Computing Sciences Yusuf Can Semerci Abderrahmane Issam Paweł Mąka shared updates on contextual machine translation & non-native ASR and together preparing 3 use cases (theater 🎭, virtual conference 🧑‍🏫, training agent 🧑‍🚒).

A big hello from UM Department of Advanced Computing Sciences XR project teams VOXReality XR2Learn #itw2023 #immersivetechweek Yusuf Can Semerci Abderrahmane Issam Paweł Mąka Bulat Khaertdinov— we apply latest AI techniques in XR environments

Goodmorning from Karlsruhe! We will spend the day presenting VOXReality project and UM Department of Advanced Computing Sciences contributions in #NLProc (Yusuf Can Semerci Paweł Mąka Abderrahmane Issam) and exchange knowledge with AI4LT @KIT group of Jan Niehues

.VOXReality PhDs Abderrahmane Issam and Paweł Mąka present their latest research at UM Department of Advanced Computing Sciences annual PHDday 🖼️ 💡If you are interested in how latest #NLProc technologies can be efficiently applied in AR/VR environments contact us ✌🏼

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#acl2024nlp #iwslt2024 Abderrahmane Issam UM Department of Advanced Computing Sciences uses adapters 🧩 to balance ⚖️ latency & translation quality. Our method supports multiple latency levels in one model. Work part of VOXReality project, 🤝 with Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2407.13469 >>

👋 folks attending #ACL2024NLP! Wanna chat about #nlproc in 🧑‍⚖️,📱,MT, or 🌡️in Bangkok? HMU! Also, don’t miss Justus-Jonas Erker 🇪🇺 @ ACL2024 🇹🇭 (PS4, Tue 10:30) & Abderrahmane Issam (IWSLT, Fri 09:00). More info ⬇️

Happening now 🎤 Abderrahmane Issam on stage of IWSLT #nlproc #acl2024nlp VOXReality

We have a new open position for a PhD student to work on Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Security! Check out vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht… for details, and feel free to contact me for any info as well. Application deadline: May 11 RTs much appreciated.