i do not think we should purée humanity into a gel that could fit in central park, this is too far for me

I am hiring a PhD candidate in ML for NLP to work on deep generative models of language. Fully funded 4-year position at the University of Amsterdam, Language Technology Lab. Apply by August 21. Details and link to call at vene.ro/jobs.html

Someone once told me I'm "not working class" because I'm disabled (by my chosen career of serving) and I don't work anymore? Like becoming disabled by my job suddenly rendered me "out of touch" with workers and working? I got "I'm disabled too and I work" which....yikes?

my laptop is fully closed and it still made the notification sound specific to work emails. i must’ve done something truly heinous in my past life fr

Y'all be MASKLESS in fat folks' faces talmbout some "I just care about your health"

This is NOT an extraordinary decision, Switter was removed without notice or a blog post. Do not let Matthew Prince 🌥 convince you otherwise.

and it's not that stuff is just NOW ableist, it's that disabled & neurodivergent folks have been hidden away in homes and institutions or on the streets for decades bc of social media, the conversations we were already having with each other in private are now on public display

Funding call! Utter project he-utter.eu has launched a call for small grants (up to €60k each) for European Univs. and SMEs working on multimodal technology and applications. Closes in October. See he-utter.eu/#events , FSTP (financial support for third parties)

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-…

📢 I will be at eaclmeeting next week presenting our work “On Measuring Context Utilization in Document-Level MT Systems” arxiv.org/abs/2402.01404 We propose an interpretable approach to evaluating context utilization by answering two questions: (1/4)

The Chat Shared Task (WMT2024) is live! 💥💥 Happy to announce this year’s Chat Shared Task which aims to translate a corpus composed of genuine bilingual conversations from the customer support domain!

Looking forward to AthNLP 2024! Thanks to the fantastic speakers who will join us: Antonis Anastasopoulos Raquel Fernández Ferenc Huszár Martin Krallinger Mirella Lapata Ryan McDonald Aida Nematzadeh 🦋 timorous bestie 😷 Barbara Plank Anna Rogers ! Deadline for applications 20th of June! athnlp.github.io/2024/cfp.html