Upcoming tutorial at ACL 2024 on Automatic & Human-AI Interactive Text Generation tutorial with Yao Dou Philippe Laban Claire Gardent. Stay tuned :) arxiv.org/pdf/2310.03878

I've successfully defended my PhD! 🎓Really appreciate my advisor Alan Ritter Wei Xu for everything throughout this journey🥺. Huge thanks to my amazing committee Ming-Wei Chang kartik goyal Hexiang (Frank) Hu 🚙I'll move to CA and join @NVIDIA as a research scientist next month.

🚨 We all complain a lot about reviewers/ACs/SACs in the ML/NLP community.   But why not look at the data to see what’s going on? I found some crazy statistics about who is doing/not doing this service in the *CL community. 😱 orionweller.github.io/blog/2024/revi… 🧵

In 1996, Georgia Tech's campus served as the heart of the Olympic Village — where athletes lived, journalists reported, and visitors from around the world gathered for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Tech also served as the venue for swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water

New technologies allow us to tackle old problems. Georgia Tech teams, led by the college, are applying that lesson with large language models (LLMs)—programs that generate text from human prompts (e.g. chatbots)—and other technologies used to study human language. Tech's

Curious about the latest in automatic and human-AI interactive text generation? Join us at our #ACL2024 tutorial tomorrow! 🐘 Philippe Laban, Claire Gardent, Wei Xu, and I will cover: 1️⃣ Evaluation of LLM-generated text: from BLEU to reward models and LLM evaluators. 2️⃣

Thanks for everyone’s enthusiasm for our ACL 2024 tutorial on text generation! A full house (tutorial is currently happening) —

Excited to be in Thailand ☀️😎 🌺🥥 to attend #ACL2024! If you run into my PhD students from Georgia Tech NLP group - Yao Dou Yao Dou, Tarek Naous Tarek Naous, and Jonathan Zheng Jonathan Zheng, please say hi! 👋 Please also say hi to my other collaborators!

I am forever grateful for my PhD advisor Ralph Grishman, who kindly and generously supported me through much difficult times. He is the reason I am where I am today ❤️ He is a role model of not only being a great researcher with a long career but also being a good human being.

Congratulations to my PhD student Tarek Naous Tarek Naous for winning the Best Social Impact Award at #ACL2024 conference! 🎉🎉🥳 (together w/ Michael Ryan Alan Ritter)

Upcoming #NLProc conference deadlines post-#ACL2024 / #ACL2024NLP ! - #EMNLP2024, Miami: ARR Commit by Aug 20 🌴 - #COLING2025, Abu Dhabi: Submit by Sep 16 🕌 - #ICLR2025, Singapore: Oct 1 🌏 - #NAACL2025, Albuquerque: ARR Oct 15 🌵 - #ACL2025, Vienna: ARR Dec 15 🎻

Here is a biography I wrote about my PhD advisor Ralph Grishman, who recently won the ACL ACL 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award -- along with some history of Information Extraction research. 👉 cocoxu.github.io/files/Biograph… #ACL2024nlp