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I was reading a preprint from this week and I noticed, upon closer inspection, that 41/49 of the citations are from 2023--. It seems like the observation we made in 2020 (aclanthology.org/2020.acl-mai...) is becoming even more extreme in 2025.

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Finland is making a significant investment in the future of machine learning / artificial intelligence by hiring 20 professors (at various levels) www.ellisinstitute.fi/ellis-instit...

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🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭-𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬? (arxiv.org/abs/2502.14132) Fact-checking agencies have come under intense scrutiny in recent months regarding their role in combating misinformation on social media.

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We now have a form for postdoc applications: forms.gle/tiydAChgV1wL... I am looking at candidates on a rolling basis, so while there's no deadline, there's an advantage of throwing your name in the ring earlier than later

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I've noticed a trend that Ph.D students are not finishing industrial internship projects before they return to university. Instead of the internship project being abandoned, it is completed during university time, sometimes paid for by tax payer-funded projects. Does anyone else see this happening?

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Can Large Language Models THINK and UNDERSTAND? The answer from cognitive science is, of course, lolwut YES! The more interesting question is CAN TOASTERS LOVE? Intriguingly, the answer is ALSO YES! And they love YOU

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Announcing our Multilingual Multimodal Exams initiative in collaboration with @cohere.com. We aim to collect MCQ-format exams for a challenging new multimodal benchmark. Submit 1000Qs for high/mid-resource, or 500 low-resource languages to be eligible for co-authorship.

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During my time in the SIGGEN board, we received a request from the @aclmeeting.bsky.social executive board to create an overview of dual use issues in Natural Language Generation. In response, I carried out a survey. The results are here: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06636 Feedback is very welcome.

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I am looking for emergency Area Chairs and Reviewers for the Language Grounding Track at the February 2025 ARR cycle. If you volunteer, then you will have no duties during the regular reviewing period. Emergency review: 18th to 26th of March, 2025. Emergency area chair: 7th to 11th of April, 2025.

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Does anyone know where you can find the findings of BabyLM 2024?

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Residual connections are 🔥, right? Wait, so why do we only use them to skip 1 layer? Not only Lucas Georges Gabriel Charpentier & David Samuel checked it. They found that this provided huge gains - winning the babyLM challenge🍼 arxiv.org/abs/2311.02265

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Interesting talk by Tal Linzen at LSD this morning that included a surprising result about how much syntax can be learned from smaller corpora, such as CHILDES or Simple Wikipedia aclanthology.org/2023.acl-lon...

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