Lara J. Martin | @laramartin.net
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Teaching computers to tell stories, play D&D, and help people talk. Assistant Prof @UMBC. Tweet about 👩💻🤖🐕👩🏫🏳️🌈🎮♿. Tweets are my own brain vomit.
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Joined April 2009
I am a guest editor for a @IEEETxnOnGames special issue on LLMs and Games! If you have any work at the incredible intersection of fields, please consider submitting by December 1!
Reminder: if you have a paper on LLMs and games (such as video games, board games, etc), we have a special issue for you to send it to! The journal is @IEEETxnOnGames, the deadline is December 1, the editors @SentientDesigns, Roberto Gallotta, @MatthewGuz, Lara Martin and me.
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The always-amazing #In2Writng workshop will be at #NAACL2025 @naaclmeeting this time! #NLProc #HCI Paper deadline: Feb 28, 2025, AoE (no extensions!) Come submit your cool work! More: https://t.co/FoYXkFf4vJ
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As much as it was fun watching this reel (in the comments) I now better understand that #AIart and #writercommunity taking issue with what’s going on with AI being able to create character specific voicelines through AI-powered character imitation.
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ngl working with @lucy3_li is one of highlights of my career 🥹 few have such amazing breadth of work from technical NLP/ML to cultural analytics 🌎 get Lucy in your department!!
Hi friends, colleagues, followers. I am on the faculty job market! I am a PhD student @BerkeleyISchool + @berkeley_ai. I work on NLP, and I believe all language, whether AI- or human-generated, is ✨social and cultural data✨. My work includes: 🧵
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IEEE Transaction on Games (ToG) is having a special issue on #LLMs and #Games, which I am a guest editor for! Papers are due December 1! More information here: https://t.co/im5Lu5fi5z
#ChatGPT #procgen
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I'm excited to host the Wordplay Workshop tomorrow at #ACL2024! https://t.co/kpPtHaMYrg My co-organizers and I have pulled together a great line up of guest speakers + come check out the amazing poster presentations from work in language & games!
wordplay-workshop.github.io
Official website for the Wordplay Workshop at EMNLP 2025. Exploring interactive narratives, text-adventure games, and AI agents in language-based environments. Join us in Suzhou, China, November...
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First Microsoft, now Google are failing to meet their climate targets, citing AI's electricity use: "Rather than declining, [Google's] emissions grew 13% in 2023 over the year before. Compared to [...] 2019, emissions have soared 48%." This is what we should be concerned about,
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Hello community, we are looking for a few emergency reviewers to help reviewing some papers within 2 days. Please email us at wordplay.workshop.organizers@gmail.com to let us know your OpenReview account if you are willing to help! Thanks!
Wordplay has been by far my favorite workshop on all things language agents, games, and interactive NLP since we started it in 2017. This time we'll be co located with ACL in Bangkok! Call for papers: https://t.co/TFpO8rLYPF
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So proud to have hooded my first five PhDs today: @tuvllms, @kalpeshk2011, @simeng_ssun, @mrdrozdov, and Nader Akoury. Now, they're either training LLMs at Google, Nvidia, and Databricks, or staying in academia at Virginia Tech and Cornell. Excited to watch their careers blossom!
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We are very excited to announce our new work: "Word2World: Generating Stories and Worlds through Large Language Models" [ https://t.co/hwnWkK3S3G]. All the thanks to my supervisors Dr. Steven James and Prof. @togelius. Word2World is an LLM-based text-to-env, game-design system.
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Happy to share that I just put our D&D FIREBALL ( https://t.co/mNIM4ExagU) data up on HuggingFace🤗! https://t.co/DqQ7TDBrHL It's a cool dataset that I'd love to see more people using. It contains structured state information and narrative to help make D&D-playing AI!
huggingface.co
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I'm excited to co-organizing the WordPlay workshop at #ACL2024. You still have 3 weeks to prepare your submission and papers accepted/undersubmission to other venues are welcome! Look forward to seeing you in Bangkok!!
Reminder that there's only a couple more weeks (May 31) until the deadline for the Wordplay: When Language Meets Games workshop at ACL in Bangkok!! Submit all your papers on language agents, simulations, narrative, AI for games, and more!!
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Reminder that there's only a couple more weeks (May 31) until the deadline for the Wordplay: When Language Meets Games workshop at ACL in Bangkok!! Submit all your papers on language agents, simulations, narrative, AI for games, and more!!
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🏳️⚧️📱Participate in a design workshop for trans technology! Design future technologies with members of the trans community! 📼🏳️⚧️screening survey: https://t.co/kFOsf29tl0
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Very excited to finally put out my work on #AAC (communication accessibility) devices for autistic adults. Working with masters student Malathy Nagalakshmi during my postdoc at Penn, we did a deep dive into how AAC can be improved from both society & tech. https://t.co/Md1Xh1Nic6
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High-tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) has been rapidly advancing in recent years due to the increased use of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, but many of these...
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I'd also like to commend @zhuexe for getting the NSF's GRFP! The folks at Penn are on 🔥fire🔥!
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We've got a new study comparing AI directors, please take part and help spread the word! Info in images below and in follow-up tweets.
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ChatGPT plays text games at the same level as KG-A2C, an RL language agent I made 5+ years ago with ~5 million params. They're puzzles that need perfect reasoning over thousands of steps in language A surprising result & a limitation of LLM agents rn👇 https://t.co/541QKxx3DO
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Our work "This Land is {Your, My} Land: Evaluating Geopolitical Biases in LMs" has been accepted to NAACL 2024 🇲🇽! TL;DR LLMs are inconsistent across languages & prompts can amplify/mitigate this🌐 Paper https://t.co/53GIOmAMaw Code https://t.co/ISNPAIgcW5
@samarhdr @upennnlp
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Sometimes I get confused why people don't cite a relevant paper of mine in their paper. But I get even more confused when people cite a paper of mine that doesn't seem relevant at all.
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