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🎉 🎉 so proud to work on this with all of you, and a big thanks to @UncertaintyInAI for this honor 😊
Proud advisor moments at #UAI2022 today!
My students Anthony Sicilia @asicil96 and Kate Atwell @katwellll recieved the best paper award. In this work, that's in collaboration with Seong Jae Hwang, we propose the first PAC-Bayesian adaptation bounds for multiclass learners.
📣 Seeking Deaf Community Insights on Sign Language Technologies
@malihealikhani and I are surveying DHH individuals around the world to amplify global perspectives on sign language technologies.
🌟For each participant, we will donate $5 to the World Federation of the Deaf
🔗 Survey Link: lnkd.in/gia89M6y
The survey is available in multiple languages, including English, Español, Français, 中文 (繁體/简体), Türkçe, فارسی, العربية, हिन्दी, and 日本語.
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🚨Call for Papers!
🌍We're thrilled to announce the CFP for the 4th NLP for Positive Impact Workshop at #ACL2025!
📅ARR Deadline: Feb 15
Direct Submission: March 2
sites.google.com/view/nlp4po…
🦋We're also on BlueSky! @nlp4posimpact.bsky.social
✨Starter pack go.bsky.app/TAy4tYf
Looking forward to presenting our work, Studying and Mitigating Biases in Sign Language Understanding Models, @ EMNLP this Thursday at Poster Session F 📈 aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-… 🧵
This work was done in collaboration with my co-authors, @malihealikhani and @DanielleKBragg, and we conduct an in-depth analysis of bias in sign language understanding models, with a specific focus on models trained on the ASL Citizen dataset
Would love for people to stop by, and to connect with folks interested in social bias in NLP, accessibility, ethics, or sociolinguistics 😄 if you’re attending EMNLP and would like to meet up, feel free to reach out!! I’ll be attending the main conference and @conll_conf
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When Malihe Alikhani joined Khoury College last year, she brought a talented team of AI researchers with her. Now, powered by its mission to design equitable language tech, that team has made its mark at an Amazon competition.
@malihealikhani @asicil96 @katwellll @Merterm
Super proud of our team for placing third, especially in our first year of the competition!! 🎊 🎉 say “Alexa, let’s work together” to try out the bots from each university team!
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We won the third place in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Competition! 🎉🥉🕺💃 Our bot is the first multimodal task-oriented dialogue bot which has sign language instructions!! 🤟 You can try it out by saying “Alexa, open isabel bot”
Congrats to the #AlexaPrize TaskBot Challenge 2 winner: Team TWIZ from @FCTNOVA! The team will take home $500k for earning first place in the challenge, which addressed one of the hardest problems in conversational AI. amazon.science/alexa-prize/t…
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We've made it to the Alexa Taskbot International Competition finals! Our team has pioneered tailored Alexa experiences for overlooked communities by innovating workflows around generative models and combining the cognitive science of language use with domain adaptation tools.
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We're thrilled to share our progress in our passionate endeavor to democratize information access and make conversational AI more inclusive. We have made it to the semifinals of the Amazon international taskbot competition. Proud of this enthusiastic and strong team of students!
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I’m excited to share that our team ISABEL at @SciPitt has been selected for the #AlexaPrize TaskBot Challenge 2! Learn more about the challenge on the @AmazonScience website: amazon.science/alexa-prize/t…
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We are excited to be part of the #AlexaPrize TaskBot Challenge 2, and we look forward to building the next generation of inclusive and collaborative multimodal conversational AI systems!
Announced today, ten university teams from around the globe have been selected to participate in the #AlexaPrize TaskBot Challenge 2—competing for the $500,000 prize by addressing one of the hardest problems in conversational AI.
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As PhD application deadlines approach, we are super excited to announce cs-sop.org, created by @zhaofeng_wu @alexisjross @ZejiangS💻
cs-sop.org is a platform with statements of purpose generously shared by previous applicants to CS PhD programs
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ALT A figure showing the layout of CS-SOP.ORG: On the left side it writes: A platform for sharing CS PhD statements of purpose with future applicants. Created by Zhaofeng Wu, Alexis Ross, & Shannon Shen. On the right side it includes a screenshot of the website.
Meaning preservation under style transfer is often a challenge, and offensiveness transfer is no exception. In our #COLING2022 paper, we find that using discourse features improves content preservation by a substantial margin without increasing offensiveness
For those interested in learning more, our paper, APPDIA: A Discourse-aware Transformer-based Style Transfer Model for Offensive Social Media Conversations, can be found here 🎊 aclanthology.org/2022.coling…
A big thanks to my coauthors, @Sabit_H64 and @malihealikhani 🙌🥳 For those interested in seeing our video, it can be accessed here! underline.io/events/360/sess…