Abigail Walsh

📢 *CLTW 2025 Final CFP - 1st November* 📢 The 5th Celtic Language Technology Workshop Co-located at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi has extended the #CfP deadline until 1st November 11.59pm AoE. Long and short papers welcome. See cltworkshop.github.io for more info. Bígí linn!

9.05: Harish Tayyar Madabushi @harish delivers a compelling keynote talk "Every Time We Hire an LLM, the Reasoning Performance of the Linguists Goes Up"; what linguistic information is really captured by LLMs? 💡🤔

Popping out of social media retirement to post a little ciao from #LREC_COLING_2024 in Turin, it's been half a day and already my head is bursting with new ideas! Join me for a coffee break if you're around 😊☕

@cigilt @dcucomputing @AdaptCentre @fosterjendublin It's been a joy to work alongside you both @cigilt @fosterjendublin, I've learned so much from you. It was wonderful to see you both today at my final PhD milestone. Ní neart go cur le chéile! 💪🇮🇪✨

Team Foster-Lynn were immensely proud today at the #DCUGraduation of our amazing PhD student Abigail Walsh @AnEihe @dcucomputing @AdaptCentre @fosterjendublin What a wonderful privilege to be part of her journey in becoming an expert in Irish NLP 🙌🏻👏🏻 🇮🇪

A Ghaeilgeoirí, cabhraigh linn tuiscint níos fearr a fháil ar an gcaoi a n-úsáidtear an Ghaeilge ar na meáin shóisialta trí pháirt a ghlacadh inár staidéar ceistneora ar thvuíteanna as Gaeilge. Lean an nasc anois: forms.gle/cvg4FLXKrQ9j2q… GRMA #Gaeilge

The ELRC White Paper is now available online! 📢 lr-coordination.eu/sites/default/… See the Country Profile for Ireland for more on the #Irish public sector and our work to improve Irish language data management and the use of translation technology. #machinetranslation #Gaeilge #AI 🇮🇪

A snippet of what we'll be discussing at the European parliament next week. @tarfandy "Language Technology is not equally developed for all European languages, and there are very few dedicated nationally financed programmes addressing LT." sciencemediahub.eu/2022/11/02/pro…

Forbairtí spéisiúla á roinnt anseo inniu ag foireann @AdaptCentre - seoladh eStór estor.ie & Eoin Ó Droighneáin @DeptCulturelRL ag rianú an bhealaigh maidir le Plean Digiteach don Ghaeilge agus spriocanna earcaíochta na hearnála poiblí i leith na teanga. #oidgael

Interesting points raised at panel at #eSTÓRLauch #SeoladheSTÓR, including how best spread awareness of value of eTanslation and sharing resources. Panel members Teresa Lynn, Jane O'Connor, Micheál Ó Maolruanaidh, and Eoin Ó Droighneáin share their expertise

Join us on 8th Nov for a European Parliament STOA workshop where we’ll be discussing the digital future of EU languages…

I'm looking for an enthusiastic #PhD student to supervise in collaboration with @amelija16mp. The candidate will study #MT #Evaluation as part of the @AdaptCentre and @DcuSalis in @DCU. Please, RT! Deadline 14 October. Apply here: lnkd.in/giYKBn4u

Also want to give my thanks to my examiners Aline Villavicencio @AlineVillav and Brian Ó Raghallaigh @oraghalb for their excellent insight and suggestions offered during my viva. I am very lucky to have had two experts such as yourselves sharing your time and knowledge with me!

Wow, what a day! Would like to say a big GO RAIBH MAITH AGAT to my supervisors Teresa Lynn @cigilt and Jennifer Foster @fosterjendublin for their support and direction all throughout my PhD journey. 1/2

@_SheilaCastilho @Jossmo That spot is a good luck charm!

@Jossmo @AnEihe That's what I told her! 😂

I'm delighted to announce that, from today, I am back in @DcuSalis, but this time as an Assistant Professor! I’m thrilled to be back where everything started! Looking forward to working with the amazing staff, while continuing to work with the @AdaptCentre in @DCU! #xl8 #MT

@_SheilaCastilho @DcuSalis @AdaptCentre @DCU I can wave to you in your new building!

@AnEihe @DcuSalis @AdaptCentre @DCU My sunny spot is all yours now 😉

100% endorse this: I just signed the @PhdsPcau petition to @SimonHarrisTD to implement a minimum stipend of €28k for all PhD researchers to match the stipends of new proposed PhD research positions. #FairPayForPhDResearchers Sign here bit.ly/3clFMQD via @UpliftIRL

@cigilt @multiword @fosterjendublin @DCU @AdaptCentre Thanks Teresa! It's been an exciting two weeks! 🤩

Another proud supervisor moment. 📢 Well done @AnEihe Abigail Walsh for 1. submitting your PhD thesis last week and 2. Promoting your great work so well at #LREC2022 @multiword 👏🏻👏🏻 lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lr… @fosterjendublin @dcu @AdaptCentre

@AdaptCentre very well represented during the whole #LREC2022 conference, and of course, during the amazing gala dinner last night! @amelija16mp @cigilt @AnEihe @jamesarbarry @LaurenNiChasaid

@RTomMcCoy @tallinzen @grushaprasad This is something to aspire to!

@tallinzen @AnEihe Fun fact: I have a stuffed animal walrus on my desk that @GrushaPrasad gave me in honor of all the walrus sentences

Some of my favourite illustrative examples at #acl2022nlp at the #insights #negativeresults workshop demonstrating human generalization abilities, credit to Tal Linzen @tallinzen and his animal-loving colleague