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Our upcoming #EACL2024 tutorial “Transformer-specific Interpretability” will focus on the trending type of interpretability that makes use of specific features of transformers for understanding LLMs, and discuss their pros & cons! More info: projects.illc.uva.nl/indeep/tutoria… #NLProc #XAI

I have 2 openings for my VIDI project on modeling low-res morphologically rich languages, taking inspiration from child language acquisition insights! GroNLP University of Groningen 📢 a Postdoc (apply by 15 Feb) rug.nl/about-ug/work-… 📢 a PhD (apply by 11 Mar) rug.nl/about-ug/work-…

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Hosein will be on the road; don't miss it if you around these places.

Value Zeroing, a faithful approach for analyzing context mixing in Transformers, is now available on Inseq main branch for all Hugging Face text generation models! 🔀 🔍Paper introducing VZ: aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main… 🐛VZ in Inseq: tinyurl.com/inseq-vz

Sharing some great news today. My paper titled "Encoding of lexical tone in self-supervised models of spoken language" has been accepted to the main NAACL 2024 conference! Many thanks to my co-authors Michaela Watkins afra alishahi Arianna Bisazza Grzegorz Chrupała 🇪🇺🇺🇦 A brief 🧵below:

The moment for “Transformer-specific Interpretability” tutorial is very approaching! Check out our detailed program & an extensive suggested reading list here: projects.illc.uva.nl/indeep/tutoria… 🗓️ Thursday, 21 March ⏱️ 14:00-17:30 pm 📍 Radisson room #EACL2024 #NLProc #XAI

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If you're at EACL and still unsure how to spend your Thursday afternoon, consider attending the Transformer-specific Interpretability workshop at 14:00! Recommended for people with and without experience in interpretability, it will start with a gentle intro in interpretability!

Our pick of the week by Dennis Fucci: "Homophone Disambiguation Reveals Patterns of Context Mixing in Speech Transformers" by Hosein Mohebbi, Grzegorz Chrupała 🇪🇺🇺🇦, afra alishahi, et al., EMNLP 2023. #NLProc #NLP #EMNLP2023 #speech #transformer #contextmixing #homopohone #disambiguation

Our paper on lexical tone in spoken language models is now available as a preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2403.16865 One of our findings is shown in this figure: fine-tuning an English vs Mandarin model on ASR has the opposite effect on encoding of Mandarin tones.

If you're at #NAACL2024, check out Gaofei Shen's talk tomorrow (June 19). The talk is about lexical tone in spoken language models aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-lon…. Session "Speech recognition, text-to-speech and SLU", Don Alberto 2, 11:00-12:30.

Indeep consortium meeting in Groningen, with Arianna Bisazza @wzuidema Gabriele Sarti Hosein Mohebbi Jaap Jumelet Gaofei Shen Antske Fokkens Iris Hendrickx and several others. projects.illc.uva.nl/indeep/

Our latest paper is on disentanglement of representations in models of spoken language. ☟

And the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics does not go to physics...

We'll be hosting Interspeech 2025 in Rotterdam. The first call is out: send us your challenge proposals.

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📢 Call for Special Session Proposals for #Interspeech2025! 🗣️ Deadline: Nov 8, 2024 Explore interdisciplinary & emerging areas in speech communication Especially welcome: topics on Fair & Inclusive Speech Science & Tech! 🌍 Learn more: interspeech2025.org

📣 Call for Satellite Workshops for #Interspeech2025! 🌍 Plan your event to foster dialogue in speech & language research. Deadline for ISCA endorsement: Jan 8, 2025 Increase your workshop’s visibility as an Interspeech satellite event! Learn more: interspeech2025.org