UBC NLP Group
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The NLP Group at the University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Joined February 2022
Congrats to @AmirAbaskohi, @AmrVarRamesh, @careninigiusepp and co-authors - their paper "AgentAda: Skill-Adaptive Data Analytics for Tailored Insight Discovery" received an outstanding paper award at the REALM workshop! 🎉👏 #ACL2025NLP
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Congrats to Shruthi Chockkalingam, @SoheilAlav63685, Raymond Ng, and @VeredShwartz for receiving an outstanding paper award at the SICon workshop! 🎉👏 #ACL2025NLP.
🏆 Congratulation to our second Outstanding Paper winner — “Should I go vegan: Evaluating the Persuasiveness of LLMs in Persona-Grounded Dialogues”
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Congrats to Muhammad and co-authors for receiving the best resource paper award! 🎉👏🏻.
Thrilled to announce that our team has won the "Best Resource Paper Award" at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)! 🏆. This recognition for our paper, "Palm: A Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse Dataset for Arabic LLMs,"
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We are excited to host Niket Tandon from Microsoft Research, Bangalore (ex AI2) for a talk on “Parametric Approaches to Inject Domain Knowledge in LMs”. Join us:. 🕛 July 10, 1:00 - 2:00 PM.📍ICICS X836. @UBCLangScis @CAIDA_UBC
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On Friday, June 13 (5-7 pm at 202 A-C), @VeredShwartz will participate in a panel discussion about the role of communities in shaping ethics in AI and CV at the "Building Inclusive Communities in Computer Vision" social. 3/3.
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On Sunday, June 15, @Sahithya_Ravi and @adityachinchure will present their Black Swan benchmark for reasoning about surprising events in videos (10:30 - 12:30 Poster Session 5 @ ExHall D). 2/3
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Some of us are in Nashville for #CVPR2025! 🎸 Today we are at the @vlms4all workshop about building geo-diverse VLMs (room 104E, all day), where our GlobalRG benchmark is one of the shared tasks - @bhatia_mehar will present the results. 1/3
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Correction: the talk will happen at ICICS 146. See you soon!.
We are excited to host @hideaki_joko from @informagus for a talk titled "Let’s FACE the Evaluation of Conversations that Go with the Flow". Join us on Tuesday June 3 at 11 am at ICICS x860! @UBCLangScis @CAIDA_UBC
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We are excited to host @hideaki_joko from @informagus for a talk titled "Let’s FACE the Evaluation of Conversations that Go with the Flow". Join us on Tuesday June 3 at 11 am at ICICS x860! @UBCLangScis @CAIDA_UBC
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Great food, even better company. UBC NLP’s potluck brought together flavors and stories from around the world 🌎 Thanks to everyone who joined and shared a dish!
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Congrats to Shenran Wang, Changbing Yang, Michael l Parkhill, Chad Quinn, @chrishammerly and @lukeZhu20 - their paper "Developing multilingual speech synthesis system for Ojibwe, Mi’kmaq, and Maliseet" won the best theme paper runner-up at #naacl2025! 👏🎉
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Postdoc Position(s) in NLP with a focus on HealthCare to address key limitations of V/LLMs when applied to large text corpora (e.g., clinical data).Partnerships with BC Ministry of Health and Provincial Health Services Authority .If interested contact: carenini@cs.ubc.ca.
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RT @VeredShwartz: I'm recruiting for two fully-funded positions for an NLP project in the legal domain:.- MSc/PhD student: Apply here by De….
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RT @VectorInst: A day of inspiring NLP discussions and connections at yesterday's Future of NLP Workshop, co-hosted by Vector & @UBC_NLP. T….
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We're excited to see you all tomorrow! 🤩. The event will be in UBC Robson Square in downtown (800 Robson St, Vancouver, near the ice rink ⛸️) so make sure you don't accidentally go to the main UBC campus 😃.
🚀 Excited about the future of NLP? Join us for the Future of NLP Workshop!. 📅 Date: Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024.⏰ Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM.📍 Location: UBC Robson Square, Theatre C300. 👉 RSVP by Dec 3 to secure your spot: Organized by @UBC_NLP & @VectorInst
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You can also apply to @UBCLinguistics to work with @lukeZhu20, @isabelpapad and @mageed: You can even have supervisors in both departments! 😃.
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