Computational linguistics research @QMCogSci, co-founder @chatterboxco, teaching interaction design @QMIxD.
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Matthew Purver retweeted
📑new paper on the generalisability of abusive language detection models and the role of slurs and profanity in training!
💭non-abusive swearing and implicit abuse are often confusing for models. _how_ do such biases come into play?
💡open access on:
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Latest issue of @cs4fn magazine - how to make computers out of rope, wood and custard cs4fn.blog/cunningcontraptio…
Nice blog post @BBCRD by @QMCompLing 's very own Iacopo Ghinassi - read about his work in topic segmenation #NLProc
EECS PhD student, Iacopo Ghinassi, has been working with @BBCRD to explore ways to segment and annotate media content without direct human effort.
The project is part of the DAME doctoral training programme sponsored by the BBC.
Read here: bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2022-03-ar…
@QMULSciEng
Matthew Purver retweeted
What could happen if GPT-4 is your waiter? GPT-4 cannot recognize clarification requests.
“On the importance of dialogue act recognition, and the inadequacy of lexical features” thoughtsofhumans.com/wp-cont…
“On the importance of dialogue act recognition, and the inadequacy of lexical features” thoughtsofhumans.com/wp-cont…
2 postdocs in NLP / comp soc sci @QMEECS - deadline 21st Jan 2022 i.e. the end of next week!
We're recruiting 2x postdocs at @QMEECS to look at social decision making in the @ietf and user generated content moderation in the @embeddiaproject qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it… @mpurver @Ignactro @Pat_Healey
Looking for something new for the new year? We're recruiting postdocs in NLP/computational social science for dialogue and interaction at @QMCompLing @QMCogSci - deadline 21st Jan:
We're recruiting 2x postdocs at @QMEECS to look at social decision making in the @ietf and user generated content moderation in the @embeddiaproject qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it… @mpurver @Ignactro @Pat_Healey
Funded PhD studentships @QMEECS available in a range of areas including NLP for conversational agents, interaction, mental health analysis and games: eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-stud… #NLProc #PhD
Matthew Purver retweeted
Postdoc research positions in NLP, dialogue modelling, social data science with us at @QMEECS:
We're recruiting 2x postdocs at @QMEECS to look at social decision making in the @ietf and user generated content moderation in the @embeddiaproject qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it… @mpurver @Ignactro @Pat_Healey
New work from @QMCompLing @QMCogSci:
(1/5) New ACL paper out now: Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution, Gan, Chen, Chang, Purver, Woodward, Xie, Huang: improving Text-to-SQL robustness via a new dataset, input data augmentation and adversarial training arxiv.org/abs/2106.01065 #NLProc
Matthew Purver retweeted
We have an opening for a lecturer in #NLProc to work with us at @QMEECS @QMCompLing -- apply by 20th May & help spread the word!
webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/…
Matthew Purver retweeted
New research job in the Cogsci group building an application to enhance mental health conversations.
webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/…
Run your own dialogue experiments with our new @QMCogSci toolkit:
Entirely new version of text-chat based toolkit for online dialogue experiments using Telegram built by Greg Mills! @QMCogSci @QMEECS @mpurver. Open-source and downloadable at:
cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/diet/
Join us at @QMEECS - PhD studentships for next year now open for applications, see here for details: eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-stud…
Matthew Purver retweeted
Congratulations to Morteza Rohanian & Julian Hough: new incremental dialogue work announced as a COLING 2020 Outstanding Paper: coling2020.org/2020/11/29/ou… aclweb.org/anthology/2020.co…
Matthew Purver retweeted
Deadline extended to Wednesday November 4th!
Join us for a two year project @QMUL @QMCogSci on developing #NLProc methods for monitoring Alzheimer’s through language, mobility and sleep data (Wellcome Trust funded MEDEA Project). Collaboration with Cambridge, UCL, @turinginst. tinyurl.com/yxthvsgf. Deadline 28/10/20
Matthew Purver retweeted
Join us for a two year project @QMUL @QMCogSci on developing #NLProc methods for monitoring Alzheimer’s through language, mobility and sleep data (Wellcome Trust funded MEDEA Project). Collaboration with Cambridge, UCL, @turinginst. tinyurl.com/yxthvsgf. Deadline 28/10/20
This year's @intelsensing Summer School is online and includes a multimodal data task - registration free (but mandatory) here: cis.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/school20…
Matthew Purver retweeted
Our new TACL paper on context-dependent sentence acceptability modelling is out: doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00315 #NLProc