Computational Linguist, NLPer. You create the path as you walk it.
Joined February 2011
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Mel Mistica retweeted
A great start for @UniMelb_NLP in 2026. Our team will present a few works at #EACL2026 this year ✌️. Check them out:
#EACL #NLP #AI
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Mel Mistica retweeted
27 Oct 2025
Our research fellow, Kemal Kurniawan (sigmoid.social/@kmkurn), will be at @EngagementAust Award as finalists for the category "Excellence in Community Engagement" for the project "Employing AI for Equity to Legal Access in Australia" (with @undergoer, @jhlau_, and @eltimster)
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Mel Mistica retweeted
CALL FOR PROBLEMS FOR #ALTA2024 WORKSHOP
Tasks should be related to a #language #technology task, with #data able to be distributed to participants at low- or no-cost, and should be fun!
📆 Submissions by Fri 7 June 2024.
✉️ shared-task@alta.asn.au
alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls
ALT #ALTA2024 Call for Problems for Shared Task
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27 Apr 2024
Check out our recently published open access paper in Behavior Research Methods. Great project. Wonderful team. @MDAP_Unimelb
26 Apr 2024
Do you collect autobiographical memories? Would you like an automated scoring tool to reduce all those hours of human scoring? Download our natural language processing model, recently published in Behavior Research Methods
link.springer.com/article/10…
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Mel Mistica retweeted
Such a great start of #ALTA2023! Tutorial on "NLP for Clinical Text" by Mike Conway, Vlada Rozova, and Jinghui Liu!
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🏡#ALTA2023 Offers $88/night accommodation at Queen's College (Nov 29--Dec 1): alta2023.alta.asn.au/venue
⏰The deal finishes this Friday at 3pm!
✨Be quick, booking is available at trybooking.com/CJBRB
#MelbourneNLP #NLProc #Melbourne
💫#ALTA2023 (29 Nov-01 Dec) Registration is now open: alta2023.alta.asn.au/registr…
🔥Students attend for FREE!
General price is A$150 (the ticket also covers the ALTA Dinner & admission to Melbourne #NLP Meetup!)
🔥We also offer 50 rooms (3 nights;$88/night) at Queens College #NLProc
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Mel Mistica retweeted
Join us for a special NLP Meetup for @ALTA 2023 @melbconnect on Wed Nov 29, 4.30pm to 7.30pm, with two wonderful speakers @ehovy and @Lamb_Mich
Meetup inc refreshments and networking!
Full details and register: meetup.com/melbnlp/events/29…
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Mel Mistica retweeted
🌟 Join a special NLP Meetup at #ALTA2023, Melbourne Connect!
🗓️ Featuring speakers:
Eduard Hovy: NLP expert, Exec Director @MelbConnect
Michelle Lamblin: Suicide prevention researcher @Orygen_Aus
🔗 Register: In-person: go.unimelb.edu.au/jy3s Online: go.unimelb.edu.au/iy3s
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Mel Mistica retweeted
🔥#ALTA2023 Happening next week!
Only a few spots left, do not miss out: alta2023.alta.asn.au/registr… !
💫Students are always free!
💫Dinner at Stomping Ground!
#NLProc #NLP #Melbourne #MelbourneConnect
💫#ALTA2023 (29 Nov-01 Dec) Registration is now open: alta2023.alta.asn.au/registr…
🔥Students attend for FREE!
General price is A$150 (the ticket also covers the ALTA Dinner & admission to Melbourne #NLP Meetup!)
🔥We also offer 50 rooms (3 nights;$88/night) at Queens College #NLProc
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Mel Mistica retweeted
🔥Awesome speakers at Melbourne #NLPMeetUp (co-located with #ALTA2023): Ed Hovy and Michelle Lamblin
Join us on Wed 29th at 4:30pm AEDT: meetup.com/melbnlp/events/29…
#MelbNLP #NLProc #Melbourne
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15 Nov 2023
A collab with @altanlp & Melb NLP Meetup! As part of #ALTA2023 we're having a Meetup so folks in academia and industry can rub shoulders! @ehovy and @Lamb_Mich will be talking about GenAI and gaps in NLP Wed 29 Nov 4:30pm the Studio @melbconnect @UniMelb: meetup.com/melbnlp/events/29…
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6 Nov 2023
Apply the first joint PhD program between @UniMelbMDHS and @engunimelb @UniMelb w/ @_c_hitchcock and myself. If you're interested in investigating the utility of LLMs to elucidate the memory-based mechanisms driving PTSD please apply before COB 24 November for a fully funded PhD
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Mel Mistica retweeted
💫#ALTA2023 (29 Nov-01 Dec) Registration is now open: alta2023.alta.asn.au/registr…
🔥Students attend for FREE!
General price is A$150 (the ticket also covers the ALTA Dinner & admission to Melbourne #NLP Meetup!)
🔥We also offer 50 rooms (3 nights;$88/night) at Queens College #NLProc
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Mel Mistica retweeted
26 Jul 2023
🎓📚Working on Languages ∩ Machine Learning? Planning for a PhD? I am looking for PhD Students! Check my research areas: kat.academy/research.html
Interested? Send me your CV research proposal!
Fig. 1: Harvesting letters in preparation of language modelling. Circa XV cent #NLProc
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Watch how this 11-year-old boy reacted to seeing a bus driver racially abused in NSW.
For the latest news, visit trib.al/NT6045T
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27 Mar 2023
Please register below. There's an amazing panel and places are limited!
This week join us for 'Applying for academic specialist promotion' with Reeva Lederman @wendywchapman @kateycoleman @DrTrishCampbell @DrNatHannan @Pillai_Pri
Fri 31 March, 11am, inc lunch & networking. Women-focus but all welcome.
Register eventbrite.com.au/e/applying…
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Mel Mistica retweeted
Academic specialists! Want practical advice to apply for promotion? Panelists Reeva Lederman @wendywchapman @kateycoleman @DrTrishCampbell @DrNatHannan @Pillai_Pri can help! Fri 31 March, 11am, inc lunch & networking. Women-focus but all welcome.
Register eventbrite.com.au/e/applying…
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Mel Mistica retweeted
Check out the co-authored chapter with MDAP's @undergoer on the cross-disciplinary topic of Environmental Narratives published this month!
15 Dec 2022
I have 2 co-authored essays in this book. 1: topic modelling & close reading of Landscape Character Assessments w @undergoer, Tim Baldwin, and Graham Fairclough. 2: multi-scalar analysis of gender differences in 2 corpora of nature writing w Ben Adams ubiquitypress.com/site/books…
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