Our team has reached a new milestone in speech synthesis with the release of ClariNet, the first fully end-to-end TTS model that directly converts text into waveform with a single neural network. It generates all samples of audio waveform in parallel. #AI bit.ly/2JCuJ0Y

Opening and closing necrophilia: From Jerome Chiu: (Source) Aside from the word "INFORMATION" at the top of the sign, there's no English to let us know how they might have understood the hanja / kanji 漢字 in the first and second lines, but they are real… dlvr.it/QcQ9wS

We are excited to announce STACL, the first simultaneous translation system w/ integrated anticipation & controllable latency. This is a major breakthrough in #NLP due to word order differences between languages and simultaneity requirement. Demo & paper: bit.ly/2yTCvjE

Seriously, I think Schmidhuber totally deserves it, if not more than some of these three.

Thank you to Kyunghyun Cho, Jiatao Gu @ ICML2025, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Graham Neubig and many others who did simultaneous translation before us!

Thank you Rada Mihalcea!

It turns out mRNA vaccine design (arguably the most promising direction to combat #COVID19) can be reduced to context-free grammar intersecting with a DFA, just like parsing lattice! Fascinating connection between computational linguistics and biology: arxiv.org/abs/2004.10177

They are NOT human beings.

I'm honored to receive the #NAACL2022 best demo paper award: 2022.naacl.org/blog/best-demo…. Code: github.com/PaddlePaddle/P…. Paper: aps.arxiv.org/pdf/2205.12007…. Session 6G, Tue 7/12, 16:15–17:45.

Join us tomorrow for the 3rd workshop on simultaneous translation (at #NAACL2022): autosimtrans.github.io/program. Invited speakers: Weiwei Wang, Wallace Chen, Trevor Cohn, and Juan Pino.

Help Dragomir Radev's family gofund.me/4e5cec26

How to rev up Covid mRNA vaccines to make 128-fold increase in antibodies, 5-fold increase in stability, and 3-fold increase in protein expression ? #AI nature nature.com/articles/s4158… also done w/ varicella foster virus mRNA vaccine

Our Nature paper reduces mRNA design to lattice parsing (and intersection of context-free and regular languages). Highly unexpected connection among RNA biology, computational linguistics, and theoretical computer science. Took us 3.5 years to publish! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Machine learning of disease-symptom graph from medical records of 273,174 ER patients rdcu.be/uklq MIT IMES MIT CSAIL BIDMC Emergency Med

Another successful Oregon State University alum. Congratulations! x.com/nvidia/status/…

LinearFold: Linear-Time Prediction of RNA Secondary Structures biorxiv.org/content/early/…

Memorial Service for Professor Aravind K. Joshi youtu.be/85qthqUmCp8 via YouTube

Announcing the world's fastest RNA secondary structure prediction server, powered by the first linear-time algorithm for this problem. Orders of magnitude faster than existing ones, with comparable or slightly higher accuracy. linearfold.eecs.oregonstate.edu biorxiv.org/content/early/… x.com/abentu0101/sta…

Here is my tribute to Aravind about this interdisciplinary direction (featured in the Joshi memorial): youtube.com/watch?time_con… x.com/earnmyturns/st…