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"Lost in Automatic Translation" is finally out!
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Vered Shwartz
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Vered Shwartz
@VeredShwartz
Assistant Professor @UBC_CS & @VectorInst working on Natural Language Processing. Book: lostinautomatictranslation.com. 🦋: @veredshwartz.bsky.social
- I'm thrilled to announce that this fall I will be joining the University of British Columbia CS department @UBC_CS as an Assistant Professor!
- My landlord and I are exchanging ChatGPT-generated emails negotiating the rent increase. I wish we could just let ChatGPT negotiate with itself and report the decision to us.
- I just published Tips for Writing NLP Papers link.medium.com/uBPPpR5yiCb I wrote it for my students so I don't have to sound like a broken record (and edit papers for the same issues over and over again 😃). But some of you might find it useful too.
- Last 2 days on Twitter: work 90hr weeks! See on who published the highest number of first-authored papers! Dear junior NLPers, please ignore this nonsense. Choose quality over quantity and have something other than work in your lives.
- Shout out to the guy who came to yoga class, fell asleep in the first pose, and slept through the entire 1 hour class.
- If you run "pkill -f bert" and you were training one model with BERT and one with RoBERTa, then you kill two berts with one stone.
- The slides for my talk "Everything you wanted to know about ChatGPT (Except for what OpenAI doesn't tell us)" are available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1DbyuDK…. I used it for both a guest lecture in an applied ML class and for a talk for non-CS audience.I finally prepared a comprehensive slide deck about LLMs for people outside the field, so I kindly request everyone to stop releasing tools and papers so that it stays up to date. No GPT-5 please 😁drive.google.comChatGPT.pdf
- Hinton's talk at #ACL2023NLP has many good points, but it bothers me that he criticizes researchers that say LLMs don't understand language as being non scientific, while he himself sees every anecdote as a proof that LLMs understand language. Science needs more nuance.
- Pumpkin carving with (part of) the UBC NLP group! I carved what scares me the most these days 😃
- Sometimes I'm really impressed with the progress of NLP. Other times it's 37°c and a search for a cooling device on Amazon returns heaters.
- The ARR policy requiring a qualified author (3 main *CL papers) to review 4 papers per submission makes it impossible for junior faculty to submit papers. I have 9 students, only 2 are qualified reviewers. I will need to review 16 papers in this cycle to avoid desk rejects. 1/2
