Tom Pickard

🎓🇬🇧🇵🇹 Exciting times, with @SheffieldNLP in #LxMLS2023 @istecnico. 🌟 Learning from the best in the field and networking with fellow #NLP enthusiasts. What a great experience! Grateful for this opportunity! Sheffield thanks for sending us. Lisbon thanks for having us.

Not peer-reviewed, conflates accountability with abuse and ignores one of the most substantial aspects (race) altogether. Imagine pretending @HackneyAbbott just ... doesn't exist. Am incredible example of how ML and AI "research" can propagate harm and contribute to propaganda.

(Alt text: a Tunnocks Caramel Wafer wrapper. The text reads "More than 7,000,000 biscuits made and sold every week.")

Interesting to include both "made" and "sold"; I'd say either one entails the other, no?

I suppose Tunnocks *could* be giving away millions of delicious caramel wafers every week (or simply throwing them straight in the bin), or perhaps doing all their yearly manufacturing in one glorious day, steam rising from the machines and operators of Glasgow.

Huge thanks to @MartinBisiker, Founder & Trustee of the Legasee Educational Trust (@Legasee_Archive), for introducing the work our #Cohort 3 students have been doing with Legasee to apply advanced #SLT to support richer archive #search and #discovery. slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-2022

Dall-E doing Dali in the style of Dali is rather enjoyable!

Final recruitment round for our fully-funded #CDT #PhD studentships closes soon! Want to do #AI research on speech or written language? Learn #NLP / #NLProc, #speech proc, #linguistics, #ML, and #acoustics? Join us! Apply now! Deadline: 6 May 2022 slt-cdt.ac.uk/apply

A couple of months in I'm greatly enjoying this, the current and previous cohorts are great people to work with and the programme is fascinating. Come join us! #NLP #SpeechProcessing #PhD #PhDposition

Will Facebook's NLP division now be called MetaTextual?

Logically in partnership with @apcoworldwide are today publishing a new analysis of climate misinformation and the impact COVID-19 has had on these narratives. (Thread)

@DrClaireH Looks like something similar is a component in this misinformation detection system: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum…

Could #AI technologies for processing #speech or #written #text / #language help your business? Want to leverage insights and value from existing documents or speech interactions? Our new ‘SLT Consultancy Hub’ can help you - for FREE! Find out more: slt-cdt.ac.uk/slt-hub/

Join us for the next Women+@ DCS seminar A piece of cake or a hard nut to crack? How well can computational models understand (idiomatic) languages? Speaker: Prof. Aline Villavicencio Tuesday 12 Oct. 2pm sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/about/even…