

Dr. Teresa Lynn
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@cigilt
Head of NLP Research Engagement @MBZUAI , Irish language technologist, computational linguist, Gaeilgeoir, semi-Aussie, Fulbright Scholar, she/her





The Embassy of Ireland in Abu Dhabi continues to closely monitor regional developments and advises all Irish citizens resident in the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait to register them and their families on our Citizen’s Register at citizensregistration.dfa.ie




We were pleased to welcome the Irish Minister for Transport and Minister for Climate, Energy, and the Environment, @DarraghOBrienTD, to MBZUAI, alongside H.E. Alison Milton @IEAmbUAE, Irish Ambassador to the UAE. Discussions with Prof. Ian Reid and Dr Teresa Lynn @cigilt focused on AI’s role in climate and environmental research, and opportunities for collaboration between MBZUAI and Irish institutions.











#MBZUAI’s faculty, researchers, and students are presenting their academic research with 19 accepted papers at the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (@naaclmeeting), which is held in Mexico from June 16 to 22, 2024. The papers cover various topics, including reasoning, factuality, confidence estimation and calibration, cultural awareness, and psychometrics of LLMs, as well as various aspects of dialogue, speech, machine translation, and multilingualism. This achievement demonstrates our dedication to advancing natural language processing (NLP) research and highlights the growth of our specialized NLP department.




🚨 New Dataset Alert 🚨 We are excited to release the SAMER Arabic Text Simplification Corpus, the first manually annotated parallel corpus for Arabic text simplification targeting school-aged learners. To appear at @LrecColing! #LRECCOLING2024 arxiv.org/abs/2404.18615 (1/n)



Do LLMs understand the subtle language involved in mansplaining situations? 🤔 Well, not really... LLMs can usually detect mansplaining if explicitly asked, but not otherwise. 👩🔬Work led by @comuni_carla 📜Corpus with 886 mansplaining stories Paper: huggingface.co/datasets/carla…



