“Linguistically-motivated” techniques for data augmentation sounds good on paper, but is it worth the cost?

Excited to be presenting my work with @teaywright.bsky.social at #COLING2025 next week in Abu Dhabi! Find us in poster session 6/E on Jan 22nd (11 AM in the atrium). Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.17427

There’s no conspiracy to make tech products worse by AI in things, AI is just very immediately and clearly productivity enhancing to the people making tech products in a way that it isn’t necessarily to the people using them.

Randomly stumbled on an arxiv paper where im pretty sure the listed affiliations are false, what would you even get out of that?

Been reading a lot of old-school finite-state automata papers for a project It is so refreshing to read an interesting, colorfully-written paper that isn’t hyperoptimized for reviewer preferences

I have very mixed feelings on the current era in tech—I started a PhD because I thought LLMs were pretty cool, but I absolutely cannot stand the disingenuous hype, insane competitiveness, and slop features that have since come with them

Can RAG+LLM systems help boost small models for rare languages? Find out in “Boosting the Capabilities of Compact Models in Low-Data Contexts with Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation” by Bhargav Shandilya and @alexispalmer.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2410.00387

Adding my love letter to arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01315 Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning by Andrew Patterson, Samuel Neumann, Martha White, Adam White JMLR 25 (2024) 1-63 #ReinforcementLearning These aren’t the heroes we deserve, but they are the heroes we need.

I’m a big proponent of an accumulating reviewer score (complementary to h-index). I think people would absolutely care about optimizing it even with no concrete incentive.

I feel like reviewers often expect short papers to be long papers condensed into 4 pages. They should really be a venue to showcase focused and incremental work.

Interested in ML open source? There’s a great list for you

Python typing is great until you want to use any package ever

Just got ICL surgery (implantable lenses) and on one hand, modern medicine is incredible, but on the other hand seeing your eye get sliced open is terrifying

Arxiv should have a comment section

Just remade my personal website (michaelginn.com) with pure old-school HTML/CSS, and it’s honestly all you need

If you're an NLP researcher and haven't made it into either Starter Pack yet, please let me know! We're over halfway full at this point 😧 go.bsky.app/JgneRQk

Attending emnlp virtually and seeing emails about the social event

Since the original NLP researchers starter pack is full, I've started a second one! Please let me know if you'd like to be added (assuming you're not in the first one). go.bsky.app/JgneRQk

Has anyone made a starter pack for NLP/CL people doing linguistically-motivated research?

In five minutes, I’ll be presenting (virtually) about teaching LLMs to help with endangered language documentation! aclanthology.org/2024.finding...

3️⃣ Can we teach language models to gloss endangered languages? Virtual Poster Session 1 - 12 November 2024 at 15:45 ET aclanthology.org/2024.finding... cc @mginn.bsky.social @alexispalmer.bsky.social #EMNLP2024

Don’t forget to come check out the hottest new thing in interlinear glossing @ EMNLP, Tuesday 2-3:30

📢 Check out the lineup of papers our students will be showcasing at #EMNLP2024 in Miami next week! 🌴 We'll be presenting new work on morphology, Q&A, and narratives.🔍

Come find Lindia at EMNLP to hear about our work on automated interlinear glossing!