Creating a toxicity detection classifier accounting for diverse annotator viewpoints involves exposing people to extensive harmful content. Our #ACL2023 Findings paper turns to active learning to reduce annotation requirements for such tasks. 🔗ctbaumler.github.io/files/DAAL.pdf [1/7]

My #ACL2023 highlight is this cool cross-affiliation lunch that we could manage haha! Loved meeting everyone! 🙌🏼 Navita Goyal Kundan Krishna Hua Shen✨ Rohan Pandey Hritik Bansal Manya Wadhwa Gaurav Verma Saurabh Shah

This talk is starting soon (in ~30 min). See you all there!! 🧭📍In-person participants, come to Pier 2&3 (on first floor right above the venue lobby) 👩‍💻🧑‍💻Virtual participants, find the zoom link here: underline.io/events/395/ses…

A few highlights from Hal Daumé III's keynote in Trustworthy NLP workshop: 📢 Trust in the Absence of Verifiability /1

I'm looking for students to join my group! We're studying representation learning, OoD generalization, in-context learning in large models and more from a causal perspective. Learn more on how to apply to Mila here: pulse.ly/62ldgu92bt The deadline to apply is Dec 1!

Can ChatGPT explanations better assist humans in fact-checking over reading retrieved passages? Can humans tell correct explanations from incorrect? How about when shown ChatGPT explanations *with* retrieved passages? Check out this amazing paper by CLS to find out.

AI workshop brings researchers together to discuss the rapid progression of large pre-trained models. Navita Goyal, a third-year CS PhD student, shared that it provided a platform to address ethical considerations associated with LPMs. Read more: go.umd.edu/AIworkshop

I'm not at #EMNLP2023 but students are! Navita Goyal: Effect of Background on Reliance Sandra Sandoval: Social Bias in Name Mistranslations Tin Nguyen: Impacts of Explanations on Moderators Lingjun Zhao: Hallucination Detection for Instruction Generation (remote ∵ visa) >

📣DIRO UMontréal & Mila - Institut québécois d'IA have 3 faculty positions in ML (groups.google.com/g/ml-news/c/49…). Deadline is Jan 5th! I can't say enough what a great ecosystem this is for ML research. Come join us!

Check out our latest IUI paper (details in the thread 👇)

ICYMI I'm looking for strong postdoc candidates in the space of human-AI interaction!

Excited to join the panel! See you @ #NAACL24

Big thanks to our lovely student researchers and panelists for joining today. Your input and energy made it a great event! #NAACL2024

I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Harvard in Fall 2025! (deadline Dec 15) If you are interested in solving problems at the intersection of reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and NLP, pls consider applying (bit.ly/4fnficx)! Harvard SEAS Kempner Institute at Harvard University