Alane Suhr
@alsuhr
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I guess everyone stayed here. I like language, birds, cats, trains, buses, long walks, cities, and other things š» "vulnerable road user" opinions mine
Oakland, CA
Joined February 2017
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Update: I'm super excited to join
@Berkeley_EECS
in July 2023 as an assistant professor!
Until then (starting in September), I'll be a Young Investigator at AI2 in Seattle hosted by
@ai2_mosaic
:)
Looking forward to diving more into language use/interaction/computation etc.!
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Organizing a virtual NLP house party with Daphne Ippolito and
@RishiBommasani
this Saturday evening (EDT). Weāll have themed Zoom chat rooms with a Slack workspace to coordinate. DM or email me for calendar/Slack link, and share it with any and all NLP/CL friends and colleagues!
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Officially leaving Seattle today! I had a really wonderful year at
@allen_ai
@ai2_mosaic
@uwnlp
and will miss so many friends and colleagues, both human and avian. Attaching some photos in this thread.
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Excited about this, and congrats to Aayush and Conrad! I had embargoed my dissertation for ACL anonymity, but it's available directly here: (link is a direct download to ~10MB pdf)
āReasoning and Learning in Interactive Natural Language Systemsā by
@alsuhr
:
#ACMAwards
#computing
#research
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I'll match up to 2k USD in donations to Queer in AI / oSTEM -- just email/DM/post your donation receipts and I'll get back to you! š
Queer in AI needs financial support to run our grad app aid program. We are currently running on a very limited budget and we have many more applicants than we can support.
You can donate to us via Paypal. Visit this page for more details:
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For those at
#acl2020nlp
: if you would like to join an *unofficial* virtual ACL zoom party Wednesday evening EDT, join the
#unofficial_acl_virtual_party
channel on RocketChat!
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Q&A session for our paper on cross-database semantic parsing is later today in sessions 14A/15A!
Our paper pushes evaluation of cross-database semantic parsing systems, and uncovers some of the generalization challenges of this new setting:
#acl2020nlp
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Organizing another virtual NLP party, tomorrow (8/15) at 8:00pm EDT! DM me for details.
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Next installment of the ViGIL Workshop -- vote in the workshop survey and follow our new workshop account for updates!
Introducing the 4th Visually Grounded Interaction and Language Workshop! Our highly interdisciplinary event will push the boundaries of language grounding systems. Have a look at our speakers and vote for us in the EACL-ACL-EMNLP-NAACL Workshop Survey!
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Pepper and Patrick are very happy in Oakland :)
California friends: these cats still need to be adopted, and the foster is willing to drive anywhere in California. So even if you're in the Bay Area, would you consider adopting these two cats? They really need a home. Please help keep them out of a shelter.
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I'll be at ACL in Toronto next week! I've reserved a number of 15 min slots in my calendar for planned meetings; use this link to book: and I'll reach out to coordinate day-of. Happy to chat about research, academia, language, etc.
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Yes! A language agent is an _agent_ that _uses language_ by generating and understanding it in the context of a situated interaction with another language agent. We are all language agents!
We were really excited to have
@karthik_r_n
from
@princeton_nlp
join us today to give us the good oil on the future of language agents in the age of Foundation Models!
#NLProc
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Happening now!
Organizing a virtual NLP house party with Daphne Ippolito and
@RishiBommasani
this Saturday evening (EDT). Weāll have themed Zoom chat rooms with a Slack workspace to coordinate. DM or email me for calendar/Slack link, and share it with any and all NLP/CL friends and colleagues!
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@vlachos_nlp
@emnlp2019
It's not on the website yet, but I got a reply from the organizers earlier today: the poster boards will be 1m width x 2.5m height and they suggest using A0 portrait posters.
@jmhessel
@yogarshi
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@yoavartzi
I have thought about the widespread integration of LLMs into products like Word as a perverse experiment in language change. The tools (nearly all of which are software) we use to produce planned language will not only be stuck in a specific time period,
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Seattle has some very sweet birds, including my neighborhood friends (last 3 photos). Last photo here includes Bird Bird, the only crow I ended up learning to recognize because of its beak, which lives in my neighborhood.
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@ani_nenkova
@RishiBommasani
Yep! I think it went well! We are thinking about having a more regular get-together (e.g., every 2 weeks or something).
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Happening in about an hour (8:30pm EDT)!!
For those at
#acl2020nlp
: if you would like to join an *unofficial* virtual ACL zoom party Wednesday evening EDT, join the
#unofficial_acl_virtual_party
channel on RocketChat!
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Targets closing because of "crime" is so ridiculous. I live on top of the one in Oakland that's closing. They regularly board up completely intact windows. No idea why, except to make it seem like they're getting broken into often?
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Seattle also has some very wonderful scenery! It's a nice place to wander around and explore.
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@yoavartzi
but also in a specific style, and more terrifyingly under the control of a small number of powerful companies.
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@seb_ruder
@paarulakan
@iatitov
@jkkummerfeld
Seconding
@jkkummerfeld
, I think ATIS is the only text-to-SQL dataset that requires date/time understanding. We have the original context-dependent SQL version with date/time expressions (email suhr
@cs
.cornell.edu for access)
@boknilev
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@emilymbender
@daphneipp
... but my impression from catching up with and meeting people at ACL this year is that people seemed really excited about an additional community forum to Twitter. I think, for slightly different reasons than outlined above -- not as a permanent/neverending conference chat...
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@universeinanegg
(btw, would be interested to chat with you about this in more depth at some point! partially from an HCI perspective, in that I'm not sure how often people using these tools actually care about minor details like accuracy in spatial relations or counts of things)
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@srush_nlp
Perfect example of the impossibility of successfully forcing language to "fall in line"
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@TaliaRinger
@Tacticsos
I always travel with a P100 respirator, which cuts out 100% of smells (in addition to nearly guaranteeing I won't get COVID from other people on the plane)
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@marty_with_an_e
@tallinzen
I just found a slightly simpler way to get to the login page and remembered this Tweet. If you go to you'll get the login page without having to go through a conference page first. No idea why the login isn't at itself.
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@yoavartzi
It was supposed to be a jab at my typos! There was a disclaimer inserted at the very end from ProQuest that any typos are my fault, not theirs :)
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Target is an awful company but this particular one is a great convenience. It brings a lot of foot traffic to the neighborhood, and as someone who has to go to the pharmacy really often, living on top of a CVS is a lifesaver.
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@seb_ruder
@paarulakan
@iatitov
@jkkummerfeld
@boknilev
To clarify: by "requires" I mean that it's necessary for many examples. Other datasets likely also require it, but not in as many examples. I think the Advising dataset also contains a number of date/time expressions?
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@universeinanegg
perhaps also quantifiers? kind of intersects with other things (e.g. negation, counts) and I haven't tested it in a while but I doubt there's consistent precision wrt. something like "all"
also, specific compositions (see attached)
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@angelamczhou
@allen_ai
@ai2_mosaic
@uwnlp
They're trying!!
You might like this person's videos: they live around LA and film a lot of local wildlife
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At 17:00-18:00 and 20:00-21:00 GMT // 13:00-14:00 and 16:00-17:00 EDT. Authors: myself,
@mchang21
, Peter Shaw,
@kentonctlee
!
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@sarahwiegreffe
I'm looking for a roommate if you (or anyone else) are still looking! I already booked a two-bed room at the Marriott
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@xwang_lk
And some evidence that for us human language agents, the processes of understanding and generation aren't quite neatly separable:
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@sarameghanbeery
@fgvcworkshop
@EarthVisionWS
Any extra binoculars or monoculars? I knew I should have brought mine!!!
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@seb_ruder
@paarulakan
@iatitov
@jkkummerfeld
@boknilev
We used for parsing the date expressions in ATIS.
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Missed by about 5', but only because after swerving a few times they swerved away down E Main.
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@slouching_mags
Margherita Andreani! () she shot our wedding and I also got professional headshots from her a couple months ago. She's really fun!
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@emilymbender
@daphneipp
I agree the feel would end upĀ different than ACL's RocketChat (probably slower and leaning more social), and maybe would end up quiet unless some community members actively participate early on...
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@emilymbender
@daphneipp
... but more of a way to feel connected to the community in a way that Twitter doesn't facilitate (due to Twitter's public, permanent, and less synchronous interface, and many of the other points like topic-specific Slack channels that
@daphneipp
mentionedĀ above).
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@srush_nlp
I use Motion (not Notion). I have been wanting software like this since middle school. If you like time blocking, try it out. I can't recommend it enough
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@universeinanegg
Yea, but I think what I mean though with this specific example is fidelity in visualizing specified part-attribute relations. Like a blue bird with a black head is different than a black bird with a blue head.
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@elan_learns
@melaniesclar
There's other related work that studies how framing questions in different ways with equivalent underlying semantics can also result in very inconsistent behavior:
Though if the underlying semantics change, we'd want model to change to reflect that
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@nsaphra
@srush_nlp
Yeah same, sitting this one out for the same reason as having to use my phone for anything is awful
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