Abigail Walsh
@AnEihe
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Postdoc researcher at the ADAPT Center, Dublin City University Researching Irish language technology, fascinated with multiword expressions
Joined January 2013
📢 *CLTW 2025 Final CFP - 1st November* 📢 The 5th Celtic Language Technology Workshop Co-located at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi has extended the #CfP deadline until 1st November 11.59pm AoE. Long and short papers welcome. See https://t.co/2Sp2UxkmZN for more info. Bígí linn!
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9.05: Harish Tayyar Madabushi @harish delivers a compelling keynote talk "Every Time We Hire an LLM, the Reasoning Performance of the Linguists Goes Up"; what linguistic information is really captured by LLMs? 💡🤔
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Popping out of social media retirement to post a little ciao from #LREC_COLING_2024 in Turin, it's been half a day and already my head is bursting with new ideas! Join me for a coffee break if you're around 😊☕
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A Ghaeilgeoirí, cabhraigh linn tuiscint níos fearr a fháil ar an gcaoi a n-úsáidtear an Ghaeilge ar na meáin shóisialta trí pháirt a ghlacadh inár staidéar ceistneora ar thvuíteanna as Gaeilge. Lean an nasc anois: https://t.co/Sfl9nnxtIn GRMA #Gaeilge
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The ELRC White Paper is now available online! 📢 https://t.co/aJbxSAIF7b See the Country Profile for Ireland for more on the #Irish public sector and our work to improve Irish language data management and the use of translation technology. #machinetranslation #Gaeilge #AI 🇮🇪
language-data-space.ec.europa.eu
The ELRC initiative focused on the collection and provision of language resources and aimed to improve the quality, performance and language coverage of eTranslation, the European Commission’s...
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A snippet of what we'll be discussing at the European parliament next week. @tarfandy "Language Technology is not equally developed for all European languages, and there are very few dedicated nationally financed programmes addressing LT." https://t.co/3bM5h3P0OT
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Andy Way exclusive interview: a big imbalance persists between the five most spoken EU languages and the remaining ones.
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Forbairtí spéisiúla á roinnt anseo inniu ag foireann @AdaptCentre - seoladh eStór https://t.co/5LeUSzndGh & Eoin Ó Droighneáin @DeptCulturelRL ag rianú an bhealaigh maidir le Plean Digiteach don Ghaeilge agus spriocanna earcaíochta na hearnála poiblí i leith na teanga. #oidgael
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Interesting points raised at panel at #eSTÓRLauch #SeoladheSTÓR, including how best spread awareness of value of eTanslation and sharing resources. Panel members Teresa Lynn, Jane O'Connor, Micheál Ó Maolruanaidh, and Eoin Ó Droighneáin share their expertise
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Join us on 8th Nov for a European Parliament STOA workshop where we’ll be discussing the digital future of EU languages…
🗓️8/11 Workshop on digital #language equality 👉Info & free registration: https://t.co/82kwcdYRbN 🎧Article & #podcast: https://t.co/JQLOFrZc75
@jordisolef @tarfandy @YanaToom @cigilt @barbara_plank @GeorgRehm @lk_june @AdaptCentre EU-funded @EuroLangTech project #AI #STOAevent
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I'm looking for an enthusiastic #PhD student to supervise in collaboration with @amelija16mp. The candidate will study #MT #Evaluation as part of the @AdaptCentre and @DcuSalis in @DCU. Please, RT! Deadline 14 October. Apply here:
Looking for an exciting #fullyfunded #PhD #Studentship in #MachineTranslation? Find out how you can aim to #contribute to define which #humanevaluation #metrics will better handle #translations performed at a #documentlevel: https://t.co/7j9fSpngP1
#phdstudent #joinourteam
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Also want to give my thanks to my examiners Aline Villavicencio @AlineVillav and Brian Ó Raghallaigh @oraghalb for their excellent insight and suggestions offered during my viva. I am very lucky to have had two experts such as yourselves sharing your time and knowledge with me!
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Wow, what a day! Would like to say a big GO RAIBH MAITH AGAT to my supervisors Teresa Lynn @cigilt and Jennifer Foster @fosterjendublin for their support and direction all throughout my PhD journey. 1/2
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100% endorse this: I just signed the @PhdsPcau petition to @SimonHarrisTD to implement a minimum stipend of €28k for all PhD researchers to match the stipends of new proposed PhD research positions. #FairPayForPhDResearchers Sign here https://t.co/tfLicqqmZ9 via @UpliftIRL
my.uplift.ie
We all deserve dignity, respect & fair pay where we work no matter what path we choose in life. That's why I'm calling on Minister Simon Harris to implement a minimum liveable stipend for all PhD...
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@AdaptCentre very well represented during the whole #LREC2022 conference, and of course, during the amazing gala dinner last night! @amelija16mp @cigilt @AnEihe @jamesarbarry @LaurenNiChasaid
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Some of my favourite illustrative examples at #acl2022nlp at the #insights #negativeresults workshop demonstrating human generalization abilities, credit to Tal Linzen @tallinzen and his animal-loving colleague
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Margot and Barbara's insightful comments on the importance of metrics other than IAA when assessing the quality of resources @ #acl2022nlp #insights #negativeresults: task & inconsistency types, annotation process, data collection, content, all factor into description of resource
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The best way to understand how to serve the language community's needs is to talk to members of that community! Not all language community's needs are ubiquitous.
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Really appreciate the honest discussion of the real life challenges of NLP 4 low-resource and endangered languages at the "Supporting Linguistic Diversity" panel @ #acl2022nlp. @cigilt tells of how we might help serve these language communities by applying our own unique skillset
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Really enjoying @aclmeeting as my first in-person conference in ages, the excitement and ‘highschool reunion’ energy is real 😂 #ACL2022 #acl2022nlp
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