🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight! This week's pick is “A novel unsupervised contrastive learning framework for ancient Yi script character dataset construction” by Bi, Sun & Chen. 🧠 New unsupervised method for better ancient Yi script datasets. 📖 Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀

📢Life update📢 🥳I'm excited to share that I've started as a postdoc at Uppsala University NLP @uppsalanlp.bsky.social, working with Joakim Nivre on topics related to constructions and multilinguality! 🙏Many thanks to the Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG for making this possible.

🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight! This week's pick is "Do Prompt-Based Models Really Understand the Meaning of Their Prompts?" by Webson & Pavlick. 🧠 The authors ask whether modern LMs truly “understand” the instructions in prompts. 📖 Let’s discuss! Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀

🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight! This week's pick: "Modern Models, Medieval Texts: A POS Tagging Study of Old Occitan" by Schöffel et al. 🧠 Old Occitan exposes LLM struggles in POS tagging and points to tips for low-resource languages. 📖 Let’s discuss! Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀

🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight! This week’s pick: "Fantastically Ordered Prompts and Where to Find Them" by Lu et al. 🧠 Prompt order matters—a lot. This paper shows why and offers an unsupervised fix using entropy. 📖 Read it and let’s discuss! Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀

🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight! This week’s pick: "How Likely Do LLMs with CoT Mimic Human Reasoning?" by Bao et al. 🧠 CoT prompting can improve LLM reasoning—but does it mimic how humans think? 📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts! Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀

@uppsalanlp.bsky.social and Språkbanken CLARIN are represented today at Svenska Språkets historia 18 #ssh18uu by @sstymne.bsky.social and Eva Pettersson

We just announced a new position as assistant professor / biträdande universitetslektor (BUL). For more information visit: uu.varbi.com/se/what:job/...

🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight! This week, we’re reading "Why do language models perform worse for morphologically complex languages?" by Arnett et al. 📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts! Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀

🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight! This week, we’re diving into "Leveraging Mandarin as a Pivot Language for Low-Resource Machine Translation between Cantonese and English" by Suen et al. 📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts! Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀

🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight! This week, we’re diving into "Uncertainty Modelling in Under-Represented Languages with Bayesian Deep Gaussian Processes" by Ubaid Azam et al. 📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts! What stood out to you? Let's discuss! Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀

We have several open PhD positions (4-years, fully funded) at the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, both in Computational Linguistics and other language subjects. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Ahmed will be presenting at virtual COLING today!