Siyan Sylvia Li ✨
@Sylvia_Sparkle
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1st year PhD @columbianlp • Prev @stanfordnlp @GeorgiaTech • Weird Little Guy Academic • NLP, Dialogue Systems, Education • Caffeine Gremlin 🩷💜💙
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🌺Education chatbots should be *empathetic* and encouraging!
Announcing EDEN, a spoken conversation partner for English learning. Through a user study, we find that certain design choices that make EDEN more empathetic correlate with higher resilience for language learners!🧵
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🌟嗨大家好！我们是哥伦比亚大学自然语言处理实验室！我们现在在开发一个可以提供语法反馈和鼓励式反馈的英语学习聊天机器人，想要征求大家在设计方面的宝贵意见！
大家也可以在Google Form 里报名参加我们的聊天机器人试用！
✨麻烦各位多多转发！谢谢！
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📣✨ I'm starting my PhD
@columbianlp
in the fall! I will be working with
@Zhou_Yu_AI
and Dr. Julia Hirschberg on dialogue system applications in mental health, education, and healthcare!! I'm very excited and thankful for everyone who has supported me along the way :)
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In a conversation, you should ideally say things. But when should you say those things? And how can you teach a model to know when to say those things?
I am super hyped to present our paper at
@sigdial
2022! This is joint work with
@AshwinParanjape
. 🧵
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Coming to a Findings of EMNLP near you: GPT-3 fails to demonstrate a structural understanding of noun compounds once we remove some lexical clues in our prompts.
Joint work with Riley Carlson and
@ChrisGPotts
. Paper link: 🧵
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I'm FLABBERGASTED TO TELL Y'ALL that I'll be starting a Master's at Stanford in the fall!! Still gonna apply to PhDs in a year though!
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Hi, I made a thing: . This is for people who signed up for arxiv daily emails and just want the relevant papers without going through the full email!! It is not hosted publicly just yet, you would need to set up Google text to speech and run locally :)
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I will NOT be at
#ACL2023NLP
next week and will experience severe FOMO, and the
#1
reason why I will be wailing into the void at some point next week is that I HAVE a Canada visitor visa I just don't have a valid visa for U.S. reentry 🙃.
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How can I learn to NOT be an anxious mess throughout the entire PhD application cycle? Genuinely asking.
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I have so much anxiety over the grad school decision process that at this point I'm tempted to just open a Twitter poll and get Twitter to decide where I'll be spending the next 4-6 years of my life for me.
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Any university would be extremely fortunate to have John as a faculty member!!
I'm on the faculty market!
My goal is to build language systems that we understand deeply through discovery and by design, so we can precisely control them and treat their failures.
Let's tackle this grand challenge of science and engineering together.
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Saving this for like 5 months later
Fyi if you're a PhD student, you can get up to $1k in Google Cloud credits:
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Should I change my publication name from Siyan Li to Li Siyan so that it says Siyan et al instead of Li et al? I do already have some publications under Siyan Li though so there may be some issues with consistency.
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I have worked at the startup over the summer and it was an absolutely fantastic experience!! Would recommend!!!
Hi friends! I’ve been busy working on a health tech startup, and we’re looking for our founding ML engineer. If you're passionate about building at the forefront of AI and are looking to make an outsized impact in healthcare, DM me!
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Reasons why I want to do a PhD, inspired by my networking event today:
1. I want to be a professor so I kinda have to get a PhD
2. I like going to school, like, a lot
3. Research is a jolly good time
4. MOST IMPORTANTLY, I still get to be a "student" and won't need to mature
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Looks like I didn't need to apply to all of those PhD programs since I have a Turing Award in my bag already two years ago.
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🌞Hi all! We are recruiting Native Mandarin speaker participants for an English-teaching Chatbot user study! Please retweet so that this post gains more visibility. Here's the informed consent form for the study:
✨各位好！我们的英语教学聊天机器人现在处于面向公众的实验阶段。聊天机器人会在谈话过程中针对严重的语法错误进行反馈。我们的语音聊天机器人支持：
1. 不同的话题
2. 聊天机器人说的话会有中文翻译
3. 反馈个性化
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Me in 5 years
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I reviewed a paper that I gave a low score to. The other reviewers gave higher scores so we discussed. I was willing to increase my scores (to 2.5), but didn't make changes / respond since I wanted to see if we can reach a better agreement. Today the authors withdrew :(
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I arrive at DC tonight at around 7 pm for the Creative AI workshop at AAAI tomorrow!! If anyone is in the area we should hang!!
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✨各位好！我们的英语教学聊天机器人现在处于面向公众的实验阶段。聊天机器人会在谈话过程中针对严重的语法错误进行反馈。我们的语音聊天机器人支持：
1. 不同的话题
2. 聊天机器人说的话会有中文翻译
3. 反馈个性化
🧵
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Me in hopefully 4 years
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As a Chinese living in the United States, both candidates not directly answering the China relationship question is honestly tiring, irritating, and terrifying. Wow. That was not reassuring at all.
Unrelated note, PLEASE MUTE PENCE.
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I'm the weird little guy
every lab has a weird little guy. if you don’t think your lab has one, then you’re the weird little guy
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I forgot to RSVP to the CMU Open House lol. Too late to arrange faculty meetings now but I will still get to network with the students which is a plus. Still, really can't believe that I forgot?
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Hi all!! Please retweet to help reach more native Mandarin speakers learning English! We are developing a chatbot for English education that can provide grammatical and empathetic feedback for the users :)
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Link to my SIGDIAL talk video is available!
In a conversation, you should ideally say things. But when should you say those things? And how can you teach a model to know when to say those things?
I am super hyped to present our paper at
@sigdial
2022! This is joint work with
@AshwinParanjape
. 🧵
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@LrzNeedResearch
Because Li is an extremely common last name and citations don't always make it immediately obvious which Li they are talking about.
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Does anyone know if NAACL workshops will still have anonymity periods? Since NAACL is ACL there shouldn't be right...?
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@mark_riedl
Idea: instead of an AI lyrics generator, just write code to give lectures and deep fake your face into the video.
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And finally, a perfect SNL clip that describes and motivates this work. I have gotten back to re-watch this on multiple occasions during the past year. (N/N)
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Absolutely devastated that I slept through my 3:30 am alarm and missed my virtual poster presentation... My sleep has gotten too robust.
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Sci-Fi is this Sir Ian McKellen and Fantasy is this Sir Ian McKellen
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I'm SO SO SO SO SO SO happy for Mark!!!! TOTALLY ABSOLUTELY DESERVED!!!
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Me: okay maybe it is time to check Twitter now.
*5 minutes later*
Me, crying and having a crisis: bad idea.
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Ah yes, Work-life Balance, something I joke about not having but still would love to have some day.
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So excited for you my friend!!!
Excited to share that I'll be joining the
@blei_lab
at Columbia for my PhD and thankful to receive the Provost's Diversity Fellowship! Very grateful for my mentors & collaborators at UNC (
@Mohitban47
,
@uncnlp
,
@CSS_Science
) and Meta, and for the support of my friends & family :)
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@boknilev
@naaclmeeting
I managed to avoid it by getting my advisor to register for the workshop paper I'm presenting at (but advisors can only be tied to up to 2 papers), but yeah this is awful :(((
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@Yangyixxxx
你好！谢谢你提出这些意见！对，我非常同意并不是所有的口语场景都需要语法反馈，我自己在日常生活中也是，这是很因人而异的！我个人觉得初学者可能会更加有需要收到这些实时的语法反馈！😊
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What am I doing with my internship rn, you ask? Well just being more and more certain that I prefer academia.
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The parser would extract your relevant papers and convert them to AUDIO!! It's your nice little curated audio book of papers!
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@boknilev
@MichalShur
Community, 30 Rock, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, The Glory, Brooklyn 99, Midnight Mass
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Happy New Year from the hotel I'm quarantining in in China because of customs safety regulations. There are a lot to look forward to in 2021 and I am so very excited!!!!
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Best way to spend quarantine time: drink booze, do code, while playing all of
@mulaney
's Netflix specials while reciting them from memory simultaneously.
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How do I NOT be a raging workaholic? I find myself unable to stop unless someone explicitly tells me to. Academic Twitter pls help.
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@Yangyixxxx
还有一个我觉得比较有意思的方面是，人们在面对聊天机器人和在面对英语老师的时候心态是否一致。我采用口语场景进行语法反馈的原因有一部分也是因为想要模拟平时的教室环境（虽然还是蛮不一样的）！
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@TuhinChakr
As fellow PhDs we must sustain the constant attacks to keep each other in check lmao
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I might be basing my plan for going back to Tech to visit friends on John Mulaney's tour dates, a.k.a. September 16th to 19th.
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I have a fucking panic attack every day
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For people slightly less risk-averse than I am and have valid F-1 status, you can definitely use automatic revalidation!!!
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@Diyi_Yang
@rajammanabrolu
EY SAME and I still actively produce fan fictions to prep myself for proposal writing
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To do grad school while satisfying my need for a pet while hopefully living alone I'm adopting a Build-A-Bear Raccoon wearing a Dr. Who outfit.
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#MyNameIs
Siyan and it means "aspiring to be a great and knowledgeable person" in Mandarin. My English name is Sylvia and it means "goddess of the forest". The former I can try my best to be, but the latter might be a bit hard.
I've been waiting for this for a while.
#MyNameIs
Prithviraj and it means "Earth King" in Sanskrit. A hard name to live up to but at least, hopefully, one day our names will be normalized
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@LrzNeedResearch
And it is definitely some effort to go about changing the citation name hence why I'm initiating a discussion !
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I would need to know cybersecurity if I wanna be Danny Ocean in this day and age so it looks like I can't rob casinos to buy a mountain of plushies.
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We instead formulate this as a continuous problem, Lead Time to Initiation prediction. Given an event horizon (2 seconds in this work), an ideal model would produce the following predictions. (2/N)
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@mark_riedl
@ICatGT
@cocoweixu
@alan_ritter
@Diyi_Yang
@deviparikh
@DhruvBatraDB
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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@AstroKatie
@GalaxyKate
I always address someone as "Dr." if they have a PhD (medical settings are different, I am only talking about academia here) because the person who earned the PhD really deserves to have all their hard work acknowledged.
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@lucy3_li
I low-key want to host a Standup comedy for CS PhDs workshop and hire actual standup comedians to teach us how. When I'm in New York I'll look this up lmao.
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@mark_riedl
@ladognome
@lcastricato
It's okay, I am more of a hand sew person anyways since I don't have money / luggage space for a sewing machine.
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@MirowskiPiotr
Hi! I'm the improvisor who asked questions at AIIDE. I would like to follow up with some questions: (1) what context exactly is fed into the chatbot during the show? (2) if the GPT2 is only trained on some movie script corpora, where would the comedy come from?
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@colinraffel
@_AlecJacobson
Percy Liang's class on Developing and Understanding Large LMs (CS 324) at Stanford uses this format! I took this class as well, it is very interesting to see different perspectives on the same paper!
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各位好！我们的聊天机器人现在处于第二轮公众试用阶段，如果感兴趣的话请填写这份参与实验同意书：
非常感谢！
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We got there lmao
“Your work isn’t very novel. Riedl et al. works on stuff like this"
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With Valentine's Day coming up and me seeing a lot of my friends finding their other halves I've been pondering if I should find a partner or just marry academia.
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