Laurie Burchell
@very_laurie
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Postdoc at Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann. I do data wrangling for under-served languages.
she/they 🌈
Joined August 2019
PhD on language identification vibes
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🤗 @HuggingFace’s most impactful contributors you should follow [January 2025] : https://t.co/93lSKxGgxk 🏛️ Top 10 Model downloads: 👏 @jonatasgrosman , @MaziyarPanahi , #Bingsu , #thenlper , @bartowski1182 , @intfloat , @ZhiyuQu_ , @very_laurie , @vikparuchuri , @LPapariello
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I had a great time in Prague! 🍦
@OndrejBojar @prajdabre1 @zouharvi @esalesk We continued with great talks by @RicardoRei7, @julius_gulius, @onadegibert, @josephnlp, @very_laurie, @khetamalsharou, and @Lam19Tk. Thanks for coming to Prague 🙌. ➕ Throughout the week, people worked on 👉7 🤩 exciting hacking projects.
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The MT Marathon continues on its third day! We already had great talks by @OndrejBojar, @prajdabre1, @zouharvi, and @esalesk 👏 and a poster session with 10 posters 🖼️. Today, we continue with more talks, and of course, the week-long hackathon continues with interesting projects.
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I am a doc! 🥳 Thank you so much to my amazing supervisors Adam Lopez and @tetraduzione who guided me and supported me tirelessly through the PhD!
Congrats to Dr. @andreasgrv who just defended his #PhD thesis on unargmaxability and constraints in deep learning, examined by Vlad Niculae and @driainmurray 🎉 A pity you could not (yet) see Andreas' beautifully designed thesis! In the meantime, some pics from the pre-viva 👇
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8/39 languages complete 🏁 Vietnamese, Portuguese, & Amharic are all over 1/2 way done! 🎊 German, Indonesian, Sinhala, Turkish, Nepali, Swedish, & others have progress, but will need more help to cross the finish line before our Friday deadline! 🏃 https://t.co/Rbhc8p7MOe
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📢Don't waste your last and only chance to submit an abstract to MT Marathon ( https://t.co/O4AcLnJdLs) 🏃! It would be a real shame if you're there with nothing to present, now wouldn't it? 😢
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The @EdYoungWalkers returned to Tiree this weekend despite the ferry cancellations. Great to see them keen to tackle some more beach cleaning & we also did a shoreline survey where we found a Red Hamburger Seabean. Thanks for all your efforts folks! @SCRAOnline @NatureScot
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It's Doctor Laurie now 😎 I passed my viva with minor corrections! Many thanks to my examiners @bensagot and Peter Bell. Here's my view of the end of the pre-viva talk :)
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So proud to announce that No Language Left Behind (NLLB) has officially been published by @Nature—this was years of hard work from a really dedicated group of researchers. I'm also so honored to be a part of the editorial team for this one. LET'S GO TEAM!
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Nature - Scaling neural machine translation to 200 languages is achieved by No Language Left Behind, a single massively multilingual model that leverages transfer learning across languages.
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can I put memes in my pre-viva presentation
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Currently preparing for my viva and finding this weirdly affirming ✨
The real story being every project that ends up being published https://t.co/aZNmws2NNY
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@LrecColing has arrived! We will presenting our work on how we built the HPLT datasets! 📅 Friday 24th of May ⏰ 9.20h-9.40h 📍Room Londra ⌛️Session D3-S1-R3 - Multilinguality, Machine Translation, and Translation Aids II
We will be presenting the HPLT datasets HOW-TO and insights at @LrecColing in Torino. Paper already in https://t.co/JiXooVNzvz:
https://t.co/iPlRX7Cfj5.
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The April 2024 main crawl is out! 🥳🚀📚 With this release we hope to go back to our monthly crawl schedule as opposed to a bi-monthly schedule. Please do let us know if you have any feedback! And happy data crunching! 🧑💻
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I know EACL was last month, but at least I did (eventually) do it😶🌫️ Read our paper: "Code-Switched Language Identification is Harder Than You Think" https://t.co/bD4dQMcvBX
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More parallel data from @ParaCrawl 👏
Hi there, three new Bonus ParaCrawl languages have been just released: - English- Azerbaijani - English-Tajik - English-Armenian Go to the ParaCrawl website, scroll down to Bonus Languages (Low-Resource), download your preferred version:
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All done for today! This is starting to get a bit complicated...
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Last thing we learn to do is toggle. Delighted we do this with `red.toggle()`
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I press one button and the yellow light comes on, two and the green lights up
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