🎉 Belated Happy New Year 2025 & Happy Lunar New Year! 🐉✨

We’re kicking off the year with SheffieldNLP's latest research, accepted at NAACL, ICLR & ECIR!

Stay tuned for a thread summarizing our published work! 👀

[Prompt:] Write an epic rap battle between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on East versus West. [Prompt:] Good job. Add 8 Mile vibes. [Prompt:] Cool. Now make Donald rapping in the style of Snoop Dog and Xi in the style of Eminem.

ChatGPT 🔥 - DeepSeek❄️

Help! Looking for two emergency reviewers for an ARR December 2024 paper on topic modelling. Please msg me if you can provide a review by tomorrow 🙏

Synthetic calibration data (for pruning and quantization) generated by the LLM itself is a better approx of the pre-training data dist than "external" data.

Really cool work by Miles (@mileswil.bsky.social) and George (@soon1otis.bsky.social) to be presented at #NAACL2025

arxiv.org/abs/2410.17170

We're hiring! Looking for a Lecturer (~Assistant Prof.) at the intersection of #NLProc and computational social media analysis (i.e. computational social science)

Info and how to apply:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI664/l...

Wrote up my first piece of PhD work last week! 🧵

Summarization via LMs is great at extracting info from documents, but how does summarization look in sensitive settings where privacy-preservation is essential?

Short answer: LMs are poor privacy preservers.

Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2412.12040

Findings:
❓ Privacy-preservation at inference-time is really underexplored!
🔍 LMs struggle to prevent PII leakage in their summaries.
👩‍⚖️ Human evaluations reveal privacy risks that metrics may overlook.

Paper w/ @naletras.bsky.social and Ning Ma
Cc. @sltcdt.bsky.social

We invite nominations to join the ACL2025 PC as reviewer or area chair(AC). Review process through ARR Feb cycle. Tentative timeline: Review 1-20 Mar 2025, Rebuttal is 26-31 Mar 2025. ACs must be available throughout the Feb cycle. Nominations by 20 Dec 2024:
shorturl.at/TaUh9 #NLProc #ACL2025NLP

Participated to a #EU "Survey on Simplifying Applications in EU Grants", I clicked to receive my response by email, it required CAPTCHA obviously. After a few failed attempts, I managed to receive it. Glad that it didn't ask me to provide detailed KTPs, TRLs and a 27B-6.

Great to have Joe Stacey today for his talk on atomic inference for interpretable NLI! 🚀🌺 Breaking tasks into atoms for transparency + outperforming baselines was inspiring. Loved his insights on robustness—and a fun trip to the Christmas Market after! 🎄✨

Cass and I are looking for a #PhD student to work on multimodal LLMs @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social.

This is a fully-funded scholarhsip (including stipend), open to home and international candidates.

Deadline: 29/1/2025

Please spread the work!

#nlproc

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The author response period of @ReviewAcl is way too short (this time during a weekend). We defo can do better by extending it for more meaningful discussions.

This perhaps would mean a smaller number (e.g. 3 or 4) of longer ARR cycles but it’s still worth it #nlproc #naacl2025

Our paper (w/ Bill, Dimitris and Daniel) crossed the 1000 citations mark. While citation count as a metric only partially captures the true impact of a paper, it still indicates how influential this work was at the intersection of law and NLP 1/n

A huge thank you to Xiting Wang (Renmin University of China) for an insightful talk! 🌟🌺
Her talk on explaining large & small language models and uncovering safety risks through Concept Activation Vectors was very interesting and truly inspiring. 🚀
scholar.google.com/citations?us...

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Hello #nlproc world