Aline Villavicencio
@AlineVillav
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Director @UniExeterIDSAI @UniofExeter | #NLProc professor | Fellow at @turinginst | affiliated with @SheffieldNLP
University of Exeter (UK)
Joined February 2015
I recently delivered a session on "How to choose an advisor" targeting graduate students starting their programs. A tldr on this: 1. Look for shared common interests 2. Figure out their work style 3. Understand the Lab culture 4. Look into the track record of their advisees
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Really delighted to advertise a fully funded PhD opportunity with @rswilkens and I to work on Interpreting Language Representations in LLMs. UK home and international candidates invited to apply. More details on
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The most fun image & video creation tool in the world is here. Try it for free in the Grok App.
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Congratulations to @EdwardGowSmith on passing his #PhD #viva with minor corrections! Huge thanks to his supervisor @AlineVillav and his viva examiners Professor Dr Hinrich Schütze (@LMU_Muenchen) and @NafiseSadat (University of Sheffield)!
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Check out CoNLL CfP below. It will be co-located with ACL (July 31-Aug 1) and the deadline is in a month from now (March 14). Direct submissions only. Non-archival submissions also accepted!
CoNLL 2025 Call for Papers 😀! #CoNLL2025
https://t.co/t3VJqyUixj 🔴 Co-located w/ ACL 2025 (July 31 - August 1) ⚪️ This year CoNLL will only accept direct submissions (ddl: March 14 2025) ⚫️ CoNLL will accept both non-archival and archival submissions!
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We have two affiliated fully-funded 3.5 year #AI #PhD studentships in #spoken #language #technologies available for Sept 2025 start! ** Apply now! Deadline: 13 Apr 2025 ** https://t.co/JKWV5UqQVo
#speech #nlp #nlproc #research #sheffield
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🔥The #AmericasNLP25 machine translation shared task features two new languages!🔥 Wayuu is spoken in Colombia and Venezuela. It is part of the Arawak language family. Awajún is spoken by the Aguaruna people in northern Peru and belongs to the Chicham language family. #NLProc
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Consultation closes at 11:59pm on 25 February 2025
The UK government AI and Copyright Consultation opens today. We want to hear from a wide range of voices. Respond to the consultation to share your views. [Link]: https://t.co/0Aq3JNwyTp
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Now available in the Computational Linguistics index! https://t.co/uoxtQ5VB0t
#NLProc
direct.mit.edu
Abstract. Idiomatic expressions are an integral part of human languages, often used to express complex ideas in compressed or conventional ways (e.g., eager beaver as a keen and enthusiastic person)....
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💡Thrilled to share our paper "Investigating Idiomaticity in Word Representations", coming soon in Computational Linguistics! Dive into idiomaticity in LMs, with insights from my amazing colleagues @Wei_He1 Tiago K. Vieira @carolscarton, Marco Idiart & @AlineVillav #NLProc
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📢 Training data for Task A and B (English setting) out now! https://t.co/nbmC4GImay
semeval2025-task1.github.io
AdMIRe - Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation
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📢Now recruiting: Remote-only Turing Data Study Group 📅 20 Jan–7 Feb 🕘9–5 📍Online ➡️ https://t.co/xqUu2dzM7i Join challenges on decarbonisation, energy assets, shallow gas detection & reducing car miles, from ADViCE, @BritGeoSurvey, @CentreDice & @ScotRail. #AI #NetZero
turing.ac.uk
What are Data Study Groups?These are intensive 'collaborative hackathons' hosted at the Turing, which bring together organisat
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Really looking forward to @SemChangeMWE project workshop. Many thanks to Sabine Schulte im Walde and Filip Miletić for wonderful invitation to discuss Multiword Expressions. Work with Marco Idiart Wei He @SLTpickard @mi251m @drsphelps @EdwardGowSmith @_gucciiiii @carolscarton
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It's back-to-school time and so here's the Fall '24 release of draft chapters for Speech and Language Processing!
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Looking for a PhD studentship? Come work with us:
exeterbrc.nihr.ac.uk
Exeter Biomedical Research Centre
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📣 #PhD APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN! 📣 Offering an opportunity to work with world-leading researchers, have access to state-of-the-art facilities and contribute significantly to cutting edge translational research. See info here: https://t.co/N6xPhtPDgX
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🗓 Em parceria com o Departamento de Letras da UFRN, iremos promover, entre os dias 29 de julho e 2 de agosto, o 1º Festival de Humanidades Digitais. 🔎 Saiba mais em: https://t.co/mYRoKn57Xx
#MetrópoleDigital #HumanidadesDigitais #Tecnologia #Humanidades #IMD #UFRN #IMDUFRN
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Do you want to dynamically test the quality of embeddings? Introducing MTEB Arena, where the best of the best wins :). Please vote on the best models. Incredible effort by @Muennighoff and the MTEB team. Thanks to sponsorships for open science by many including @ServiceNowRSRCH
Launching the 1st Arena for Embedding Models: MTEB Arena🏟️ Vote @ https://t.co/6saOXUU9Ul ⚔️ 15 Models: @OpenAI @Google @cohere @Voyage_AI_ @JinaAI_ @SFResearch @nomic_ai E5 GritLM BGE.. 3 Tasks: Retrieval/Clustering/STS Deep dive with me on embeddings & the arena👇 🧵1/13
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🛠️How can we advance representations of non-compositional expressions in large multimodal models?🛠️ We call for innovative and diverse research submissions to improve understanding and accuracy in handling idiomatic language. Let's push the boundaries of current models! 📷
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🌟 How do large multimodal models perform on idiomatic expressions? 🌟 Current models often struggle with idioms due to their non-compositional nature. Advancing representations of these expressions is crucial to avoid errors in downstream tasks. 🧠📊 #MultimodalAI #Idioms #NLP
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That's a wrap! Thank you all for coming to the 3rd #cardiffnlpworkshop. It's nice to see so many old and new faces every year. Top speakers and wonderful people, perfect environment to think about NLP!
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