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evanmiltenburg.bsky.social
Assistant professor in computational linguistics/nlp. Interested in research methodology, ethics, multimodality, and accessibility.
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i know people are coming here for catharsis and that's fine but when you are done screaming please pick something you can do that will help people and do it. you don't accomplish anything by rolling around in the fear all day

submitted 41 days ago • 59 comments

I'm looking for the current best Vision & Language models that can be run on a modern laptop, ideally through LMStudio. I currently have Qwen2.5-VL 7B and LLaVA 1.5 7B. Any others I should consider? #NLP #NLProc #ML #AI

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I recently answered a question for the Dutch "AI helpdesk" on the future of LLMs: ikhebeenvraagoverai.nl/answers/wat-... Interesting exercise to write a short answer in plain language. I really enjoyed this! At the same time it's hard to provide a nuanced answer in ~1000 words. I hope it's useful.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

What is a good pointer for a lecture/tutorial about the empirical process of LM/NLP/ML solution development? Rather than the technical details of models, optimization, etc. Basically, how to work with data, evaluation, measure generalization, overfitting, etc.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure how documents like these (i.e., reports on community matters) should be published. I just went for ArXiv, at least for the first version of the report, but there should be a place to make these kinds of documents more findable.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Good news everybody! You have an extra 7 days to prepare you submissions for #INLG2024! Please let everyone you know know! The new deadline for Friday, 7th of June 11:59 PM AOE! inlg2024.github.io/calls.html

submitted 278 days ago • 0 comments

Do you have experience writing ALT-text or any other image descriptions for accessibility purposes? (On BlueSky or elsewhere.) Please fill in our survey! URL: tilburghumanities.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share widely! #a11y #accessibility

submitted 282 days ago • 1 comment

New #NLProc paper on the evaluation of task-oriented dialogue systems: arxiv.org/abs/2312.13871 This took a while to complete (#slowscience), but it was really nice to be able to contribute to the paper.

submitted 437 days ago • 0 comments

I’m interested to learn more about science and technology studies (#sts). What is the best place to start? I’ve found this book by Sergio Sismondo: www.wiley.com/en-in/An+Int... Is that the recommended starting point or should I look elsewhere?

submitted 551 days ago • 1 comment