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I was thrilled to join Carol Haney of Qualtrics to talk about text analysis for open-ended survey responses in UMD's Social Data Science Center workshop series. Hard to imagine a better co-presenter or audience for this topic! youtube.com/watch?v=RaN_uT… youtube.com/watch?v=iOQCtI…

Nice story in Univ of Maryland's Diamondback, the campus newspaper, where fellow CLIP Lab prof Hal Daumé and I talk about ChatGPT and its use in classrooms. UMD CLIP dbknews.com/2023/02/03/cha…

I am thrilled to announce that I will be the Director of Research (Foundations of AI) for the Johns Hopkins University AI-X Foundry, the new university-wide org for Artificial Intelligence. Johns Hopkins Engineering

Great question from Melanie Sage about using AI/chatbots for qualitative analysis. Haven't read the linked article, but makes me think about the work of Philip Resnik and Dr.Desmond Upton Patton. Cc: SSWR Dr. Johanna Creswell Báez lauri goldkind

The Outstanding Study Design Award for ICWSM 2023 goes to: "Mainstream News Articles Co-Shared with Fake News Buttress Misinformation Narratives" by @Pranav__Goel 🇺🇦 [email protected] Philip Resnik

Hey UnitedHealthcare @AskUHC, my 89yo dad is spending Father's Day in the hospital even though he's cleared for discharge because you're throwing clearly needless obstacles in the way of authorizing his rehab. Your appalling Managed Medicare reputation is well deserved.

Once again United Healthcare attempts to terminate rehab services for my post-stroke 89yo dad (now while he has COVID, no less!), and once again 3rd-party medical review supports our appeal. @AskUHC UnitedHealthcare, perhaps there's a message here for you?

We are proposing an ACL SIG-CLPsych special interest group for computational linguistics and clinical psychology. If interested please sign up saying you'd like to be a member if the group is approved -- no cost or obligations: forms.gle/aajsUvNRsGzhFq…. (And please share!)

Our new publication looks at how PAC donations connect to what gets talked about in the House of Representatives. Expect more great stuff from @Pranav__Goel's recently completed dissertation using NLP methods to better understand American politics. tinyurl.com/59en9333

CLPsych 2024 is collocated with EACL and the first CFP is out. We are looking forward to seeing your submissions clpsych.org

A valuable read for anyone interested in @CLPsych (and more broadly anyone interested in LLMs' connection with psychology and mental health). doi.org/10.1038/s44159… Hats off to Dora Demszky and colleagues.

Honored my paper with Philip Resnik was accepted to Findings of #EMNLP2023! Many psycholinguistics studies use LLMs to estimate the probability of words in context. But LLMs process statistically derived subword tokens, while human processing does not. Does the disconnect matter? 🧵

Great work led by UMD CLIP undergrad Sander Schulhoff, plus the video overview is fun.

I'm excited to be among the co-authors for this new article, which provides a tutorial introduction to the Eelbrain toolkit. Eelbrain is a *great* bridge for computational linguists interested in neuroscience. elifesciences.org/articles/85012

📢CLPsych Shared Task '24 🗓️Registration deadline: December 10th ℹ️If you are interested in working with LLMs for "explaining stuff" or in #NLProc for mental health, check out the CLPsych page! clpsych.org/shared-task-20… Team:Dana Atzil-Slonim @jennycwchim Dimitris Gkoumas Maria Liakata

I am beyond thrilled to report that my first PhD grad, Mona Diab, has been named a new Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, along with four other terrific scholars. Congratulations to Mona Diab!

Just out on arXiv: my paper arguing that harmful biases are an inherent consequence of the underlying assumptions in any large language model, as LLMs are currently formulated. To the extent this is true, those assumptions badly need to be revisited. arxiv.org/abs/2406.13138

About to do the Vanishing Gradients podcast to talk about LLMs and prompting! x.com/hugobowne/stat…

Looking for guidance on raising successful kids in a complicated world? Rebecca Resnik's new podcast is (objectively, even if I'm personally biased!) a great place to go. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cul…

Researchers Univ. of Maryland are examining how and why some misleading narratives proliferate via strategic use of certain mainstream news articles. The paper—coauthored by Pranav Goel, Jon Green, 🇺🇦 [email protected] & Philip Resnik—was published Nature Human Behaviour. nature.com/articles/s4156…