It's official now! I'm feeling very honoured to have been appointed full professor at
@DIKU_Institut
@koebenhavns_uni
, making me the youngest female full professor in Denmark ever.
Good research comes from a place of calm, and from dedicated, prolongued focus. If you're constantly panicking and trying to jump on every small research trend, you have already lost. The best researchers I've worked with seemed to have all the time in the world to discuss ideas.
I'm happy to now officially share that I'll be a (tenured) associate professor in
#NLProc
@DIKU_Institut
from next month onwards 🎉🥳
Thanks to my wonderful collaborators, students & mentors over the years who've helped me get this far -- here's to more good work in the future 😃
I’m pleased to announce my new role as head of the newly established
#NLProc
section at
@DIKU_Institut
@uni_copenhagen
Want to work with us? We have several open PhD positions:
Have you ever wondered how you could increase your happiness and well-being as an academic? I certainly have. I've written a blog post with some suggestions, backed up by psychology research.
#wellbeing
#mentalhealth
#academiclife
Comments welcome 🙂
Having a
#Wikipedia
bio is often seen as a measure for notability despite well-known biases in Wikipedia bios.
In my new blog post, I examine the relationship between notability, research impact, gender & institutional affiliations of
#NLProc
researchers
I successfully defended my higher doctoral thesis on Monday, earning the title of Doctor Scientiarum 🎉🎓
You can read the thesis "Towards Explainable Fact Checking" here:
Many thanks to the committee members
@lspecia
& Iryna Gyrevych
@christian_igel
!
Big congratulations to Associate Professor
@IAugenstein
who defended her doctoral thesis this week on explainable fact checking👏 We don't quite understand how you found the time to do this on top of everything else😲 What an achievement!
@CopeNLU
#NLP
#FactCheck
#misinformation
📢I'm currently looking for paid PhD interns in the areas of fact checking and explainability 📢
Distance or on-site internships both possible. Minimum length 2 months, 3 months preferred.
Email me for further details if interested 🙂📧
@CopeNLU
#NLProc
#ML
#misinformation
#XAI
📣 Looking for a PhD position? 10 PhD fellowships are available via the Danish Data Science Academy
Caveat: applicants need to have graduated from a 2-year MSc programme by the time of application
Deadline: 20 March 2022
Get in touch if you're interested!
📜I've just completed my
#acl2021nlp
paper reading marathon (main conference, findings, and workshop proceedings) -- here are my personal (highly subjective) highlights:
#NLProc
Big news — I finally set up my own
#NLProc
research group at
@uni_copenhagen
! It has a Twitter account (
@CopeNLU
) and a website:
If you’re curious about joining us, you can read more about why and how to in this blog post:
Hello, world! We're a Natural Language Understanding research group lead by
@IAugenstein
, at
@DIKU_Institut
@uni_copenhagen
We're interested in
#ML
research on learning with limited data, and
#NLProc
tasks such as fact checking, knowledge base population & question answering.
I am looking for 2 PhD students to join
@CopeNLU
to work on explainability & stance detection, funded by a
@DFF_raad
Sapere Aude fellowship.
Deadline: 31 Jan 2021
Start date: 1 Sept 2021
Project info:
Job ad:
#NLProc
#ML
#XAI
I'm absolutely thrilled to have been awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant on 'Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking (ExplainYourself)'!
Read more about the project & how to join the team here:
@ERC_Research
#ERCStG
#factchecking
#XAI
@CopeNLU
📢 The ERC's 2022 Starting Grant competition results are now revealed. Over €636 million to fund the best ideas of younger scientists.
Find out who, where and why 👉
🇪🇺
#EUfunded
@HorizonEU
#FrontierResearch
#ERCStG
Would you like to work on blue-skies research in natural language understanding in a top-ranking NLP research group in one of the happiest countries in the world?
@CopeNLU
is looking for prospective PhD students and postdoc for a start in autumn 2021.
#emnlp2020
#NLProc
I'm super happy to announce that I've received basic research funding from
@DFF_raad
to work on the relationship between gender bias & stance detection across languages
I'll be hiring a PhD in Copenhagen
@CopeNLU
, co-supervised by
@ryandcotterell
#NLProc
Super happy that "Multi-Hop Fact Checking of Political Claims" was accepted to
#ijcai2021
! 🥳
Well done to Wojciech Ostrowski, whose MSc thesis this paper is based on, as well as to
@rnav_arora
and
@atanasovapepa
Preprint:
#NLProc
#ML
📢Looking for a PhD fellowship in
#XAI
#ML
#NLProc
#IR
? We have a position available for a start in Spring 2023. The successful candidate will be supervised by my colleague Christina Lioma and me
@DIKU_Institut
Read more & apply:
#PhDposition
PhD student post conference deadline: how nice, I can finally sleep.😴
PI post deadline: I have four more deadlines this week. Also, I have to organise exams this week and my inbox is a war zone. 😅
Hang in there, everyone!
#ACL2021NLP
#NLProc
Really happy to have been admitted as a member of the Young Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 🔬📝😊
Looking forward to interesting discussions about research (+politics) with other young researchers from different areas
#dkforsk
Would you like to do a PhD with me
@uni_copenhagen
? 28 Marie Curie PhD fellowships are available at our faculty. Apply by 1 October & name me as advisor:
Master's degree or equivalent qualifications needed. Informal enquiries welcome!
#NLProc
@coastalcph
Interested in a PhD position in
#NLProc
? I'm still looking to hire one student on my
@DFF_raad
Sapere Aude project on explainable stance detection.
Deadline: 9 May 2021
Start date: 1 Sept 2021
Project info:
Job ad:
#NLProc
#ML
#XAI
It's Copenhagen! 🇩🇰
I've never owned a car and honestly wouldn't know what to do with one. Broad, dedicated bicycle lanes mean it's pleasant to cycle everywhere in the city (including to the airport, which I have on occasion) & there's a well-functioning public transport network.
🗣️📜 I'll be defending my habilitation thesis / doktordisputats on "Towards Explainable Fact Checking" on 6 December from 13. Everyone is welcome to attend, in person or remotely 🙂
Preprint:
#NLProc
#dkforsk
@DIKU_Institut
I am so proud of all my advisees and collaborators for preserving their passion for research during a pandemic and producing such high-quality write-ups of their research projects.
Thanks for putting your trust in me as an advisor, it means a lot. 🤗
#NLProc
#emnlp2020
@CopeNLU
Massive congrats to all lab members on their
#emnlp2020
papers! 7 out of 11 submissions were accepted; a lab record 🥳
The papers are on
#factchecking
,
#XAI
, domain adaptation, transfer learning, QA and improving peer review.
#NLProc
⤵️
Is there anyone in my network who'd be interested in relocating to Denmark for a faculty position (asst/assoc/full prof) in
#NLProc
(ideally
#BioNLP
)? We'll likely have upcoming opportunities, for which I'm compiling a list of potential candidates. If so, send me an intro email.
For years, deep learning has been the dominant way to help machines sense and perceive the world around them. But some argue that deep learning is hitting a wall. Why? Because it lacks everyday common sense.
Thanks to everyone who came to my
#ECIR2022
keynote on "Accountable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking"!
If you missed it, you can find the (extended) slide deck here:
#factchecking
#XAI
#NLProc
"Reasons to accept:
The study is novel and interesting.
Reasons to reject:
The work presented is not really novel."
I'm not normally one to rant about reviews, but this takes the biscuit. Thanks,
#acl2021nlp
reviewers.
I'm happy to share that I will serve as a SIGDAT* officer for the next three years, initially as Vice President-Elect. Thanks to everyone who voted for me!
*the ACL special interest group which organises
@emnlpmeeting
#NLProc
I feel truly honoured to have received a
@DFF_raad
Sapere Aude Research Leader fellowship on 'Learning to Explain Attitudes on Social Media', which will allow me to do blue-skies research & expand my research group
@CopeNLU
Want to join the team? See
COST Action accepted as main proposer! A truly multi-national project with 23 partners.
"We are happy to inform you that proposal Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation was approved by the COST Committee of Senior Officials."
#NLProc
#ML
🇪🇺
Is starting a PhD in
#NLProc
#ML
on your list of New Year's resolutions?
You can now apply for an open-topic Marie Curie TALENT scholarship again, deadline 13 Feb, start date 1 Aug.
Feel free to contact me if you're interested in a PhD with me as advisor.
I don't know who still needs to hear this, but putting in more hours at work != more output. Here's a plot of how productivity declines for additional time spent at work.
So, working longer hours -> dimishing or even negative returns.
Source:
I will be recruiting PhD students for a start in autumn 2024 via the
@ELLISforEurope
PhD call; application deadline: 15 November.
Successful candidates will join
@CopeNLU
as well as
@AiCentreDK
More information about the PhD programme:
#NLProc
#XAI
I am really excited to announce that I have been awarded a small grant by the Copenhagen Centre for Communication and Computing to restart the Copenhagen
#NLProc
meetup, covering expenses for 6 speakers this autumn and winter. Stay tuned for updates!
I've been relatively silent about the war in the Ukraine so far, because I've found it hard to find the right words to express my feelings. This should go without saying: I deeply condemn Putin's action -- there is no excuse for invading a sovereign democratic country. 🧵
Re-posting this due to popular demand. Do not aim to work 90 hours a week. I repeat, do not aim to work 90 hours a week.
#AI
#ML
#dlearn
#NLProc
(if you've not seen it yet, check out this thread: )
I don't know who still needs to hear this, but putting in more hours at work != more output. Here's a plot of how productivity declines for additional time spent at work.
So, working longer hours -> dimishing or even negative returns.
Source:
Dear mobile phone manufacturers,
Please stop increasing the size of your devices. This systematically disadvantages women, who tend to have small hands, and have to put up with trousers with tiny pockets.
Sincerely,
A busy professor who just wants to type with one hand
#feminism
#naacl2018
paper "Multi-task Learning of Pairwise Sequence Classification Tasks Over Disparate Label Spaces" (IA,
@seb_ruder
,
@soegaarducph
) preview: we investigate MTL and label transfer for sharing between different strongly related NLU tasks
#NLProc
Massive congrats to
@atanasovapepa
for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Accountable and Explainable Methods for Complex Reasoning over Text”! 🎉🍾🎊
Proud to have been your supervisor.
Thanks to
@christian_igel
@iatitov
@kbontcheva
for serving on the committee.
@CopeNLU
We are looking for a PhD student with interest in explainable NLU to join
@CopeNLU
and the
@ERC_Research
project ExplainYourself
Application deadline: 1 Feb 2024, start: autumn 2024
More info:
Apply here:
#NLProc
#XAI
#factchecking
I'm extremely grateful to the Hartmann Foundation for honouring me with the Hartmann Diploma Prize. The prize is awarded to younger people who are expected to make a valuable contribution to Danish society.
"A Diagnostic Study of Explainability Techniques for Text Classification" (
@atanasovapepa
J Grue Simonsen, C Lioma
@IAugenstein
) presents a framework for evaluating explainability methods. Findings: gradient-based explanations perform best across tasks & architectures
#emnlp2020
📣 Interested in joining my research group
@CopeNLU
? Several positions available:
- 1 PhD & 1 postdoc on explainable fact checking
- 2 PhD positions on bias detection (1 with me as main, 1 as co-supervisor)
- Further PhD & postdoc positions in an open call
Details ⤵️
#NLProc
#ML
Making my way through the
#acl2021nlp
proceedings, one Americanism that really rubs me the wrong way is to say that a paper introduces a method to "solve" a
#NLProc
task (at an accuracy of well below 100%).
I guess we can all stop doing NLP research then if you've solved it?
Happy to hear at the ACL business meeting that CL journal will adopt a strategy similar to TACL. There'll be a standing reviewer pool, a 7-8 week reviewing turn-around for short vs. long papers, and optional ACL conference presentation.
#acl2019
#acl2019nlp
#NLProc
I am so sick of application portals. Why do you need to know the postal code of my place of birth? Why are you telling me I've "not filled in all required fields" even though I have? Just let me send you a PDF as an email attachment, please.
It's been a long year.
Who else has been procrastinating on recording their
#acl2020nlp
talks? I find the prospect of recording a 45 minute invited talk in one go (no pause button, no way to edit the recording afterwards) pretty daunting -- especially as it will be publicly available afterwards.
New
#NLProc
paper preprint 📝, in which we present MoLE (Mixture-of-Experts w. Label Embeddings)
👷unsupervised out-of-domain prediction of user-defined labels
🔧parameter-efficient
🚀sizable performance gains in an eval on 16 stance detection datasets
#eacl2021
people: would you like to see a never-before-seen* talk on adaptation to unseen domains & labels**? Then come to my
#AdaptNLP
WS invited talk tomorrow, 20 April 11:30 CET!
*apart from by my cat, who was not impressed
**pun fully intended
#NLProc
📣 Looking for a PhD or postdoc position in
#ML
#NLProc
#XAI
for autumn 2023?
2 positions still available, deadline 24 May:
- PD in Human-Centered Explainable Fact Checking:
- PhD in Fair & Accountable
#NLProc
:
@quillis
@piaingold
#naacl2018
paper "Multi-task Learning of Pairwise Sequence Classification Tasks Over Disparate Label Spaces" (IA,
@seb_ruder
,
@soegaarducph
) preview: we investigate MTL and label transfer for sharing between different strongly related NLU tasks
#NLProc
I'm looking forward to serving as
#emnlp2020
Diversity & Inclusions co-chair. Given the new virtual conference format, this won't be easy.
If you have any ideas for how *ACL D&I could be improved, what worked or didn't work well at
#acl2020nlp
, please share (publicly or via DM).
Slides of my
@jhuclsp
invited talk on "Learning with limited labelled data in NLP: multi-task learning and beyond" are available online:
#NLProc
#ML
#dlearn
Thanks to
@egrefen
for his great
#eacl2023
keynote!
Some take-aways:
- LLMs struggle to grasp pragmatics
- data quality and diversity are key to LLM performance
- open-ended RL can help with automatic data selection
#NLProc
How to stand out as a professor
👩🎓Say yes to all supervision requests
📊Author 1+ paper a week
🤑Get all the research grants, even outside your area
🐦Build a personality cult around yourself rivalling Elon Musk's
🤐Don't talk to your PhD students, after all, you already pay them
How to stand out as a developer
🌳 Have a GitHub profile with a solid green contribution chart
💻 Write your own programming language
😴 Stop taking breaks, they're a waste of time
📚 Learn every programming language
🗣️ Don't focus on soft skills, you talk to computers not humans
A bit over a week left to apply for PhD positions in
#ML
#IR
#NLProc
@DIKU_Institut
for a start in autumn 2022.
PhD topics include: interpretability, overparameterisation & generalisation, Web & Information Retrieval
Apply here by 19 May:
Interested in joining my research group
@CopeNLU
? The Marie-Curie TALENT PhD program welcomes applicants for a start in Spring 2020 -- 25 open-topic fellowships at the
@uni_copenhagen
Science Faculty available.
Read more:
Deadline: 1 Oct 2019
#NLProc
The list of accepted
#emnlp2018
is now online:
Looks like a great program!
As usual, some creative naming going on there. I'm particularly intrigued by the paper with the title (I kid you not): **
#NLProc
Looking forward to the opening of the new
#AI
Pioneer Centre, to be headed by
@SergeBelongie
and based at
@DIKU_Institut
. With a DKK 352,4 million (approx. €47 million) investment for basic research, this is the largest funded AI project in Denmark so far
"MultiFC: A Real-World Multi-Domain Dataset for Evidence-Based Fact Checking of Claims" accepted to appear at
#emnlp2019
! Super happy that this joint work with the IR lab at my department made it in. See some of you in Hong Kong 🙌
#NLProc
@DIKU_Institut
@CopeNLU
If you missed my talk at the Typ-NLP workshop on language representations vs. typological KBs today, you can check out the slides here:
A huge thanks to my collaborators!
#acl2019
#acl2019nlp
#NLProc
Good morning,
#naacl2018
!
@haldaume3
and I are creating a directory of members of underrepresented groups + supporters in
#NLProc
as part of the
#BIG
initiative to broaden participation within ACL. Add your information to join here:
#WiNLP
#WiNLP2018
🚨 Reminder that I'm still looking for a PhD student within
#NLProc
#ML
#XAI
-- the deadline is in a bit over two weeks.
If you're attending
#eacl2021
and have questions about the position or just want to say hi, feel free to ping me on 🙂👩💻
Interested in a PhD position in
#NLProc
? I'm still looking to hire one student on my
@DFF_raad
Sapere Aude project on explainable stance detection.
Deadline: 9 May 2021
Start date: 1 Sept 2021
Project info:
Job ad:
#NLProc
#ML
#XAI
Are you looking for a faculty position in
#ML
?
@DIKU_Institut
is hiring on all levels: tenure-track (), associate () and full professor (), no restrictions on ML sub-field. Come join us in beautiful Copenhagen!
In Seoul for
#GlobalFact10
🇰🇷🐯
Looking forward listening to interesting talks and mingling with fellow
#factchecking
enthusiasts. Come say hi if you’re around ☺️
That’s a wrap for
#eacl2023
! Thanks to
@vlachos_nlp
and conference cat (secret programme chair
#3
) for the excellent collaboration. Was nice to see so many attendees enjoying the conference this week, and have some time to do the same.
#NLProc
Welcome to
#eacl2023
! The main conference programme is about to kick off with the opening session followed by the first keynote by
@egrefen
on “Going beyond the benefits of scale by reasoning about data”
#NLProc
@vlachos_nlp
@amoschitti1
As part of
#emnlp2020
, we (the Diversity & Inclusion chairs) would like to call for expressions of interest to host affinity group socials. Please fill in the following form to express your interest:
#NLProc
@emnlp2020
@cbrew
I've always regretted not having attended LxMLS as a PhD student, since it's a very high-quality and probably the most established
#ML
#NLProc
summer school in Europe.
I'm super happy that I've been invited to attend as a speaker instead this year 😃
On my way to Singapore for
#EMNLP2023
-- looking forward to seeing many of you there!
Come find me if you want to chat about research, positions
@CopeNLU
, food, 🥋, and more ☺️
#NLProc
Periodic reminder: I maintain the BIG
#NLProc
Directory. Consider signing up, or use it as a resource for hiring, finding invited speakers and more!
#Coling2018
The first version of the BIG Directory of members of underrepresented groups and supporters in
#NLProc
if finally live! Check it out + join here:
Thanks to
@haldaume3
,
@WiNLPWorkshop
and many others for helping to make this happen!
#acl2018