Lea Frermann

1/ Caregivers teach infants how to speak by correcting errors. Child: "I goed to the park" Caregiver: "I went to the park" Can models do this too? Read our recent paper on reformulation in image captioning: arxiv.org/abs/2501.04513 w\ @AbendOmri @leafrermann @GabiStanovsky

We won an Outstanding Paper Award at #ACL2024NLP for our efforts to bring some order into the field of media framing research. Massive congratulations to my wonderful colleagues @YuliaOtmakhova and Shima @shinyemimalef 👉 frermann.de/dataFiles/Medi… 👉 github.com/julia-nixie/aw…

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with us on media bias/narratives. It's a 2.5 year position, starting 01/2024. Feel free to reach out via email with questions. Applications are due by Oct 25: jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/914195/…

This work was done under the supervision of @leafrermann and @eltimster: 📰 #MediaBias might be subtle, but it leaves its mark in the #Framing of an article. Hence looking at both is of major relevance. In our survey, we found three main characteristics in Framing: 👇🏽

We are building a National Climate Policy Database with @MCFunimelb - calling on Australian businesses, organisations, and governments to submit their climate plans and reports: bit.ly/3s9XXgN #ClimateAction #policy #datascience #datacollection pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/mappi…

Fully funded joint @HebrewU /@unimelb PhD position! Work with @AbendOmri and @leafrermann on cross-lingual #MachineLearning and #NLProc. Based in Melbourne, with a planned 1-year exchange to Jerusalem. Details: jmjphd.research.unimelb.edu.au/2020/09/22/sca… Happy to answer questions via email!

Happy to share that our paper "Screenplay Summarization Using Latent Narrative Structure" w/ @mlapata, @frank_e_keller and @leafrermann is accepted as a long paper to #acl2020nlp. We identify an optimal sequence of scenes and construct video summaries of CSI episodes. Example:

We're hiring: one 2-year postdoc position (go.unimelb.edu.au/c4gr) and 2 fully-funded PhDs (go.unimelb.edu.au/4tgr) to work on project with Trevor Cohn, @leafrermann, and me on fairness for #NLProc

More press coverage for Frermann et al's paper on solving crime drama with NLP: theregister.co.uk/2017/11/02/39_…