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After nearly ten years it is time for change and a new sky 👋
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MaiNLP works on dialects presented this week at COLING #NLProc 🥳 - A new cross-dialect IR benchmark (presented Wed, first session) - testing PIXEL models on non-standard languages (Thu first session) - Multi-dialectal Bavarian slot and intent detection and our participation in the Norwegian dialect shared task (VarDial) see more in the 🧵
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📝Evaluating Pixel Language Models on Non-Standardized Languages 🔎We trained a German PIXEL model -- which performs strongly on dialect data 👥Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz, Verena Blaschke, @barbara_plank 🔗arxiv.org/abs/2412.09084 📁Main - Short
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Barbara Plank retweeted
🥳 We are happy to share that CIS will be presenting 7 papers at @coling2025 #coling2025! Find out about each of them below in the 📷🧵
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Barbara Plank retweeted
💎Call for Sponsors — the ACL 2025 Conference will take place in Vienna, Austria, Jul 27 — Aug 1 2025. If you are interested in sponsoring the event, we have opportunities at various levels. All details: 📖2025.aclweb.org/sponsors/. ⏰Deadline June 10th, 2025. #ACL2025NLP #NLProc
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Language and vision models exhibit significant overconfidence when faced with referential ambiguity - very happy to share the results of this great collaboration with @alberto_testoni & @raquel_dmg from @AmsterdamNLP 🚴🚵🌤️ - 🧵:
1/4 Excited to share our latest paper “🏓 RAcQUEt: Unveiling the Dangers of Overlooked Referential Ambiguity in Visual LLMs”. arxiv.org/abs/2412.13835 Joint work with @barbara_plank and @raquel_dmg. #NLProc 🧵
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👏 CliC-it 2024 Best Student Paper Mention of Honor Award today to our MSc thesis student Federica Manzi for her thesis work on sexism detection in Italian newspaper text 📎 Paper: lnkd.in/dyDEpv7s Huge congrats, Federica! 👏 @weberple @MaiNLPlab @CisLmu @LMU_Muenchen
A special mention in the #CLiCit2024 Best Student Paper category: Federica Manzi! 🎖 @AILC_NLP #NLProc
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To work on this topic was all Federica's idea! So happy to see this being awarded
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Federica Manzi with @weberple @barbara_plank brings to us "Fine-grained Sexism Detection in Italian Newspapers" #CLiCit2024 @AILC_NLP #NLProc
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Greetings from Bozen-Bolzano
🚉 On my way to Bozen-Bolzano for this exciting event 🚃 In strada per Bolzano per questo evento speciale 🚆 Auf dem Weg nach Bozen für dieses speziale Event 🌄 *last but not least:* Afn Weg ins Lond eini für a gonz an extrigs Event AI and languages, multilingualism, low-resource and dialects 😍🥳 @unibz_news aixia2024.events.unibz.it/pu… Looking forward to see #NLProc colleagues and friends there! 🥳
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And before the sunset
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🚉 On my way to Bozen-Bolzano for this exciting event 🚃 In strada per Bolzano per questo evento speciale 🚆 Auf dem Weg nach Bozen für dieses speziale Event 🌄 *last but not least:* Afn Weg ins Lond eini für a gonz an extrigs Event AI and languages, multilingualism, low-resource and dialects 😍🥳 @unibz_news aixia2024.events.unibz.it/pu… Looking forward to see #NLProc colleagues and friends there! 🥳
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Barbara Plank retweeted
📢 Exciting opportunity at @LMU_Muenchen! We're hiring for a Junior Professorship (W1) in Information and Language Processing Using AI Methods 🗓️ Apply by: December 12 🔗 Details & Application: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting…
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Barbara Plank retweeted
🚨 In 2025, @emnlpmeeting will take place in Suzhou, China from Nov. 5-9!
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Cool, so as the workshop officer I can offer some more context (we have a blog post on this coming out soon as well)
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Find us at #EMNLP2024 🌴- @MaiNLPlab group picture 📸 @CisLmu @LMU_Muenchen
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