Computational Linguistics Lab @ QMUL; language, meaning, social media, web searches, dialogue systems, creativity, mental health,...
Joined April 2020
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Computational Linguistics @ QMUL retweeted
10 Jun 2022
📑new paper on the generalisability of abusive language detection models and the role of slurs and profanity in training!
💭non-abusive swearing and implicit abuse are often confusing for models. _how_ do such biases come into play?
💡open access on:
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Computational Linguistics @ QMUL retweeted
6 Apr 2022
Nice blog post @BBCRD by @QMCompLing 's very own Iacopo Ghinassi - read about his work in topic segmenation #NLProc
EECS PhD student, Iacopo Ghinassi, has been working with @BBCRD to explore ways to segment and annotate media content without direct human effort.
The project is part of the DAME doctoral training programme sponsored by the BBC.
Read here: bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2022-03-ar…
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Computational Linguistics @ QMUL retweeted
5 Jan 2022
#NLProc come work with us at @QMCompLing, @QMCompLing, we have multiple Postdoctoral openings. 2 PDRA position in @embeddiaproject and SoDeStream (sodestream.github.io/) projects
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21 Dec 2021
Postdoc research positions in NLP, dialogue modelling, social data science with us at @QMEECS:
21 Dec 2021
We're recruiting 2x postdocs at @QMEECS to look at social decision making in the @ietf and user generated content moderation in the @embeddiaproject qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it… @mpurver @Ignactro @Pat_Healey
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Computational Linguistics @ QMUL retweeted
16 Dec 2021
Queen Mary's Professor Shalom Lappin from @QMEECS comments on the case for regulating big tech in this article for @guardiantech 👇
16 Dec 2021
Scared about the threat of AI? It’s the big tech giants that need reining in | Devdatt Dubhashi and Shalom Lappin theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Computational Linguistics @ QMUL retweeted
12 Nov 2021
A snippet from our programme on December 8th:
@mpurver from @QMCogSci, @QMUL and Marko Pranjić from @trikoder will present a #comment #filtering and #hatespeech detection demo.
Don't forget to #register!
#embeddiaconference
embeddia.eu/conference/
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We (with @AmaniAbumansour and @arkaitz) have a survey paper on automated fact-checking published on Language and Linguistics Compass! Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…🤩
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30 Jun 2021
(1/5) New ACL paper out now: Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution, Gan, Chen, Chang, Purver, Woodward, Xie, Huang: improving Text-to-SQL robustness via a new dataset, input data augmentation and adversarial training arxiv.org/abs/2106.01065 #NLProc
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30 Jun 2021
(4/5) Now we can test how much substituting in synonymous material affects state-of-the-art models. Accuracy drops dramatically!
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30 Jun 2021
(5/5) We then propose two approaches to improve robustness: MAS augments input data with synonyms to increase lexical variation during training, and ADV uses adversarial training. Both are pretty effective at improving the performance. See the paper for more detail:
Excited to shared our binary step-by-step approach that achieves substantial improvements over the baseline!🍻 No extra data or huge models required!😆
26 Apr 2021
🔵 We (w/ @XiaZeng2) participated in the SCIVER scientific claim verification task at NAACL / SDP.
Here's the paper describing our approach! 👇
arxiv.org/abs/2104.11572
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Computational Linguistics @ QMUL retweeted
21 Apr 2021
We have an opening for a lecturer in #NLProc to work with us at @QMEECS @QMCompLing -- apply by 20th May & help spread the word!
webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/…
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Computational Linguistics @ QMUL retweeted
3 Dec 2020
Congratulations to Morteza Rohanian and Julian Hough, on their COLING 2020 Outstanding Paper: "Re-framing Incremental Deep Language Models for Dialogue Processing with Multi-task Learning"! @QMCogSci
coling2020.org/2020/11/29/ou…
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3 Dec 2020
Congratulations to Morteza Rohanian & Julian Hough: new incremental dialogue work announced as a COLING 2020 Outstanding Paper: coling2020.org/2020/11/29/ou… aclweb.org/anthology/2020.co…
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3 Dec 2020
Congratulations to our own Morteza Rohanian and Julian Hough for an outstanding paper award at @coling2020 🥳
coling2020.org/2020/11/29/ou…
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10 Nov 2020
New #NLProc book from Prof Shalom Lappin, "Deep Learning and Linguistic Representation": routledge.com/Deep-Learning-…
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Computational Linguistics @ QMUL retweeted
6 Oct 2020
We're guest editing 2 special issues:
OSNEM SI on Detecting, Understanding and Countering Online Harms (deadline 15th Nov)
journals.elsevier.com/online…
PUC SI on Intelligent Systems for Tackling Online Harms (deadline 4th Dec)
springer.com/journal/779/upd…
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