Miguel Ballesteros

@gregd_nlp Congrats Greg!

📢I'm joining NYU (Courant CS + Center for Data Science) starting this fall! I’m excited to connect with new NYU colleagues and keep working on LLM reasoning, reliability, coding, creativity, and more! I’m also looking to build connections in the NYC area more broadly. Please reach out if you're interested in chatting! This move comes after 8 years working with incredible students and collaborators at UT Austin. Thank you to everyone who supported me in my first academic appointment; I look forward to continuing our collaborations but I will miss you! (and the breakfast tacos!)

@pywirrarika @WilliamWangNLP It is good!

@migballesteros @WilliamWangNLP Looks good. Let's go today for some tacos at one of the best taquerias in the city.

Had street tacos in Mexico City and now I’m questioning if any taco I’ve ever had in the US was even trying to be legit. #NAACL2024 🤣

@pywirrarika @WilliamWangNLP maps.app.goo.gl/c6AkSmHrg9Sov9… I don't know if this is street tacos or not, but they are the best tacos I've ever had

@migballesteros @WilliamWangNLP had you already street tacos? :o

@eduardo_nlp If you find it, send me one plz

I don't have any stickers on my laptop. But this one is tempting.

ACL has removed the anonymity period. This means that ACL submissions can be posted and discussed online at any time, although extensive PR is discouraged. aclweb.org/adminwiki/imag…

@zehavoc @xavier_nlp Yeah I saw that, but your question was about academic climate in Spain :)

@migballesteros @xavier_nlp I just checked number of native speakers in la Hispanidad :)

Hey @carlosgr_nlp, and NLP Spanish pp, do you happen to know why there has been so little work, back in the days, in the constituent parsing of Spanish ? Can't find much besides @gchrupala, Cowan & Collins and ours own. Maybe in Spanish only? Should I dig the SEP proceedings?

@zehavoc @xavier_nlp Spain doesn't have 436m people

@migballesteros I think @xavier_nlp did something before his PhD on spanish morphology but I'll check, thanks. I don't understand why a language spoken by 436 millions native speakers is not more visible in NLP. Academic climate in Spain ?

@zehavoc I do not, but I would look into Carreras' work

@migballesteros you were more of dependency parsing guy but maybe you know?

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Happy to be part of this blogpost from @AmazonScience

@mdlhx @zehavoc @JoakimNivre lol

@zehavoc @JoakimNivre @migballesteros "such extremities" 🤣🤣

Hey dependency parsing people, im struggling to find the first work that used predicted lemma as features for statistical dep parsing. Any idea @mdlhx ?

@zehavoc @mdlhx @JoakimNivre @carlosgr_nlp may know

@mdlhx @JoakimNivre before I come to such extremities maybe @migballesteros knows?

@zehavoc @mdlhx @JoakimNivre If I remember correctly the lemma was already annotated in the corpora, and when it wasn't, we did not use it

@migballesteros @mdlhx @JoakimNivre that makes me think that you were running a independant classifier for each of your morph features in maloptimizer, right? how did you handle lemma for OOV back then?

@stats_feed I'm pretty sure I have seen higher in Spain

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@katemargatina Congrats, and good luck Katerina! amazon.science/publications/d…

🎊 I'm excited to present my @AmazonScience internship paper "Dynamic Benchmarking of Masked Language Models on Temporal Concept Drift with Multiple Views" tomorrow at #EACL2023!☀️ ✏️ arxiv.org/abs/2302.12297 ✒️ aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main…

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Very curious to see if the results of this paper can be replicated.