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I will be presenting our paper "OSLAT: Open Set Label Attention Transformer for Medical Entity Retrieval and Span Extraction" (virtually) ML4H. Our work tackles the problem of open set entity extraction and linking in colloquial language without span-level annotation.

The slides for my talk "Everything you wanted to know about ChatGPT (Except for what OpenAI doesn't tell us)" are available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1DbyuDK…. I used it for both a guest lecture in an applied ML class and for a talk for non-CS audience.

🎓 Congratulations to Dr Wen Xiao Wen Xiao for successfully defending her thesis, "Exploration on the Synergy between Discourse and Neural Summarizers"🎉🎉 Her research has contributed immensely to UBC NLP lab and the #NLProc community🌟 #PhDThesisDefense #StudentSuccess

When people speak of the benefits of workplace diversity, they never mention you can have a potluck with tasty dishes from different countries 😋

Introducing COLM (colmweb.org) the Conference on Language Modeling. A new research venue dedicated to the theory, practice, and applications of language models. Submissions: March 15 (it's pronounced "collum" 🕊️)

At least your post about such an issue is visible to the community. Earlier I tweeted the disappointing meta-review we got and the system marked it as sensitive content and hide it 😅

📢 Check out the accepted EMNLP'23 papers from our UBC NLP group! Congratulations to all the authors and stay tuned for the camera-ready preprints! 🎉 #EMNLP2023 #ubcnlp #NLProc

We carved some pumpkins 🎃🎃🎃

Exciting news! 🌟 Our highly anticipated workshop on summarization is just a day away! Join us to hear from 5 distinguished keynote speakers and discover cutting-edge insights from our workshop and findings papers. Don’t miss out! #EMNLP #EMNLP2023

Congrats to Samir Farhan (@Samir9Sm) and Miikka Silfverberg - their paper about an information theoretic analysis of data augmentation in morphological inflection (arxiv.org/abs/2305.13658) was recognized as an outstanding paper at #EMNLP2023!!! 👏🏻👏🏻🎉🎉

It seems that we are only allowed to submit responses to the LREC-COLING comments no more that 300 words… Is it for a single review or all reviews? LREC COLING 2024 #NLProc #LREC2024 #COLING2024

🚀 Excited about the future of NLP? Join us for the Future of NLP Workshop! 📅 Date: Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024 ⏰ Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 📍 Location: UBC Robson Square, Theatre C300 👉 RSVP by Dec 3 to secure your spot: docs.google.com/forms/d/1rhVnI… Organized by UBC NLP Group & Vector Institute

I'm recruiting for two fully-funded positions for an NLP project in the legal domain: - MSc/PhD student: Apply here by Dec 15 - cs.ubc.ca/students/grad/… - Postdoc: Apply here: forms.gle/CvrdRu7684Sijn… (no strict deadline but I will review applications as soon as they come in)

I'm shocked to see racism happening in academia again, at the best AI conference NeurIPS Conference. Targeting specific ethnic groups to describe misconduct is inappropriate and unacceptable. NeurIPS Conference must take a stand. We call on Rosalind Picard Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) MIT Media Lab to retract and

How ironic that a professor specializing in AI ethics turns out to be a racist. What a shame… 👎

Postdoc Position(s) in NLP with a focus on HealthCare to address key limitations of V/LLMs when applied to large text corpora (e.g., clinical data) Partnerships with BC Ministry of Health and Provincial Health Services Authority If interested contact: [email protected]

The ARR policy requiring a qualified author (3 main *CL papers) to review 4 papers per submission makes it impossible for junior faculty to submit papers. I have 9 students, only 2 are qualified reviewers. I will need to review 16 papers in this cycle to avoid desk rejects. 1/2