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ALTA<p>We'll shortly be announcing our Shared Task for <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2024</span></a>. </p><p>In the meantime, we are sharing the 3rd-placed winner of the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2023</span></a> Shared Task, which was to distinguish <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a>-generated from human-generated text. </p><p>Here, Ahmed El-Sayed and Omar Nasr of the Arab Academy for Science and Technology use an <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ensemble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ensemble</span></a> approach of many models to perform well on both the dev and test sets. </p><p><a href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.20/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.2</span><span class="invisible">0/</span></a></p>
ALTA<p>While you're thinking about what to submit to the Call for Problems for the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2024</span></a> Shared Task (link below), we're sharing with you the 2nd-place winner of the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2023</span></a> Shared Task, where participants distinguished between <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a>-generated and human-generated text. </p><p>Here, Yunhao Fang of <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/UniMelb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniMelb</span></a> used <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/fineTuning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fineTuning</span></a> and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/EnsembleModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnsembleModels</span></a> to achieve accuracy of 99%</p><p>🔗 Call for Problems for Shared Task: <a href="https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>🔗 Paper: <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.19.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.1</span><span class="invisible">9.pdf</span></a></p>
ALTA<p>While you consider submitting to the Call for Problems for the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2024</span></a> Shared Task (see link below), we'd like to share with you the winner of the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2023</span></a> Shared Task, which involved distinguishing <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a>-generated from human-generated text. </p><p>Here, Rinaldo Gagiano and Lin Tian from <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/RMIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMIT</span></a> use a fine-tuned <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Falcon7B" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Falcon7B</span></a> model with label smoothing, yielding an accuracy of 99.91%. Well done!</p><p>🔗 Call for Problems for Shared Task: <a href="https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>🔗 Paper: <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.18/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.1</span><span class="invisible">8/</span></a></p>
ALTA<p>In the lead up to <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2024</span></a> in December at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ANUResearch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ANUResearch</span></a></span>, we're featuring interesting papers and talks from <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2023</span></a></p><p>In this paper, Steven Nguyen at <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/UniMelb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniMelb</span></a>, Daniel Beck at <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/RMIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMIT</span></a> and Katja Hölttä-Otto also of <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/UniMelb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniMelb</span></a> work on the novel task of cognitive <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a>.</p><p>Using paired sentences from <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> interviews and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a> techniques, they show similarity of vectors from an <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> is a promising approach in this space. </p><p><a href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.14/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.1</span><span class="invisible">4/</span></a></p>
ALTA<p>In the lead up to <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2024</span></a> <br> we're highlighting excellent talks and papers from previous ALTA events. </p><p>This paper, from Vlada Rozova, Jinghui Liu, and Mike Conway at <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/UniMelb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniMelb</span></a> from <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2023</span></a>, applies <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a> to help solve problems of ambiguity and complexity in <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medical</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/clinical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clinical</span></a> data. </p><p>This paper also formed part of the informative <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/tutorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tutorial</span></a> series at <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2023</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.23/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.2</span><span class="invisible">3/</span></a></p>
ALTA<p>In the lead up to <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2024</span></a>, we're highlighting excellent talks and papers from previous ALTA events. </p><p>Here, listen to a <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Keynote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Keynote</span></a> presentation from <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2023</span></a> by Professor Heng Ji from <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/UniversityOfIllinois" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfIllinois</span></a> Urbana-Champaign, speaking to the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/SmartBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmartBook</span></a> - an <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> prophetess for disaster reporting and forecasting. </p><p>In this insightful talk, Professor Heng shows us how <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a> techniques provide better decision making tools. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuju3Fzz4Tk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Tuju3Fzz4T</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/IR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IR</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/InformationRetrieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InformationRetrieval</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/TopicSummarization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TopicSummarization</span></a></p>
ALTA<p>We're delighted to announce that the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> papers from the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ALTA2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2023</span></a> Workshop in <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Melbourne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Melbourne</span></a>, <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> last year are now available on the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ACL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACL</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Anthology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anthology</span></a>: </p><p><a href="https://aclanthology.org/events/alta-2023/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aclanthology.org/events/alta-2</span><span class="invisible">023/</span></a></p>
Kathy Reid<p>Earlier this month, I attended and presented at the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ALTA2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2023</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a> conference in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Melbourne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Melbourne</span></a> - here are my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/notes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>notes</span></a> from the workshop. </p><p><a href="https://blog.kathyreid.id.au/2023/12/10/alta2023/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.kathyreid.id.au/2023/12/1</span><span class="invisible">0/alta2023/</span></a></p><p>📷 Gabriela Ferraro, used with permission</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/alta2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alta2023</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/DatasetDocumentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DatasetDocumentation</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/RightTheDocs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightTheDocs</span></a></p>
Kathy Reid<p>This week I was delighted to present the paper "Right the docs: Characterising <a href="https://aus.social/tags/voice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voice</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dataset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dataset</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentation</span></a> practices" at the Australasian Language Technology Association 2023 Workshop <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ALTA2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2023</span></a>, joint work with my doctoral supervisor, Dr Elizabeth Williams.</p><p>The audience questions were insightful, and a big thank you to Dr Gabriela Ferraro for the lovely photo. </p><p>It was my first time at <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ALTA2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALTA2023</span></a>, and it will be held in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Canberra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canberra</span></a> at <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ANU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ANU</span></a> next year - a delightful and welcoming community. Thank you for the opportunity! </p><p>You can read the full proceedings on the conference website: <br><a href="https://alta2023.alta.asn.au/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">alta2023.alta.asn.au/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>and I'll publish my notes from the conference as a blog post shortly. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BERT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BERT</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPT</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GPT4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPT4</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a></p>