SHIVAM SHARMA

Huge congratulations to Dr. Shivam Sharma on defending his PhD thesis titled "Detecting and Characterizing Harmful Memes"! 🎓 A proud moment as he becomes the 6th PhD graduate from our Lab. Now at @ukplab TU Darmstadt as a postdoc! Wishing you continued success, Shivam! 🚀👏

🌟 𝐀 𝐍𝐞𝐰 T𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 -- 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 🌟 I am excited to share the release of my new textbook, 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘴 (#LLMs) -- Perhaps the first textbook on LLMs. Target Audience: 👉 Students/beginners, Looking for a structured starting point to learn LLMs 👉 Teachers, planning to offer a course on LLMs 👉 Industry professional, seeking to deepen their understanding of LLMs Explore the Book: 🔗 Book Website: tanmoychak.com/llmbook/ 📑 Table of Contents: tanmoychak.com/llmbook/toc.pdf 🛒 Available on Amazon: amazon.in/dp/936386474X/ Enhance Your Learning Experience: 👉 Slides & Lecture Videos: Chapter-wise resources -- lcs2-iitd.github.io/ELL881-AIL821-… 👉 Exercises & Solutions: Practice with detailed chapter exercises (solutions available on request). 👉 Upcoming @nptel_official Course: Starting January 2025! Preview here: onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_cs45/pre… Book Endorsement: 📖 Foreword by Prof. Tim Baldwin @eltimster 👏 Endorsements from Prof. Iryna Gurevych @IGurevych and Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya #LLMs #Textbook @iitdelhi @WileyIndiaPL @lcs2lab

👥 Ming Shan Hee @mingshanhee, Shivam Sharma @shivam6891, Rui Cao, Palash Nandi @Palash8472, Preslav Nakov @preslav_nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty @Tanmoy_Chak, Roy Ka-Wei Lee @SRoyLee 📌 Paper: aclanthology.org/2024.findings-… youtube.com/watch?v=HC7Mmh…

Come check out our EMNLP'24 poster on Advances in Hate Speech Moderation! We dive into how #LLMs and multimodal models tackle hate speech across text, images, and videos, addressing detection, debiasing, and counter-speech! @mingshanhee @shivam6891 @preslav_nakov @Tanmoy_Chak

LLMs are changing the game - but at what cost? Our perspective paper in @NatMachIntell reveals how AI “hallucinations” can spread misinformation. Discover the truth about keeping AI honest. Paper: rdcu.be/dRFy0 🔍🤖 #AI #LLM #FactChecking #Misinformation #TechEthics

#ACL2024 Who need those sub-par lunchboxes when you learn more about memes! Find us at Findings Poster Session 4 from 12:15pm today as we present our work - MemeMQA: Multimodal Question Answering for Memes via Rationale-Based Inferencing @shivam6891 @preslav_nakov @Tanmoy_Chak

We are in Bangkok for #ACL2024NLP! 🌟 @Tanmoy_Chak and his PhD students @shivam6891 @anwoy_ @_themessier are presenting three papers. Catch us at the conference! 🧑‍💻 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2405.10548 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2405.11215 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2406.03953 #NLP #LLMs #CSS #Research #Bangkok

Attending #ACL2024 with three of my PhD students -- @shivam6891, @anwoy_ and @_themessier. Will present three papers. See you in Bangkok. @aclmeeting @lcs2lab @iitdelhi

@RoxanaDaneshjou Hello, Dr Roxana. My PhD background spans the areas of NLP, Social Computing and Multimodality. With additional experience in the healthcare domain, I've recently worked on evaluation frameworks for precision treatment. I am interested in the specified post. Kindly DM.

Come join us at Stanford! I'm looking for a postdoc with experience in LLMs. Must have PhD in CS, EE, or related field. Experience with prompt engineering and LLM evaluation. If interested, respond here, and I'll DM where to send your CV and references. 85-90k salary range.

A workshop in Lucknow in 2019 was conducted by a ‘disinformation expert’ named Tina Lee. Incidentally, the workshop was against ‘far-right disinformation’ – and Ms. Lee is a self-proclaimed ‘far-left’ activist! (3/n)

MemeMQA: Multimodal Question Answering for Memes via Rationale-Based Inferencing. arxiv.org/abs/2405.11215

More: checkthat.gitlab.io Code: gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/… Data: checkthat.gitlab.io/clef2024/task4/ Reg: …ef2024-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationFo…

🚀 Dive into the world of memes with #CLEF2024 CheckThat! Lab's Task 4! Identify heroes, villains & victims in memes across languages 🌍. Visit checkthat.gitlab.io/clef2024/ for more. @clef_initiative @Tanmoy_Chak @preslav_nakov #Meme #CulturalAnalytics #checkthatlab2024 #CLEF2024

@zwhe99 @aclmeeting @ReviewAcl Thank you for spotting this! The PDF field should not be in the form. The #ACL2024 PCs already asked the OpenReview team to remove it, but it may take a couple of days to be solved. We suggest you wait a couple of days since the deadline for commitment is on April 20th.

We are hiring Research Associates, Postdocs and PhD students at @lcs2lab @iitdelhi. Please check out the positions and apply. shorturl.at/hnuNR

@iitdelhi MS/PhD application portal is open (deadline: Oct 27 at 4 pm IST). If you are interested in working with us at @lcs2lab, please apply at home.iitd.ac.in/pg-admissions.… Read the FAQ before applying: tanmoychak.com/PG_Admission.p… Feel free to DM/Email for any queries.

A cat co-authored a scientific paper in 1975, when his owner, a physicist named Jack H. Hetherington, decided to add him as a second author to avoid changing the plural pronouns in his manuscript. The cat’s name was Chester, and he was given the pen name F.D.C. Willard, which stood for Felix Domesticus, Chester. Willard was also the name of Chester’s father. The paper was about atomic behavior at different temperatures, and it was published in Physical Review Letters, a prestigious physics journal. Chester’s co-authorship was revealed when Hetherington sent some signed copies of the paper to his friends and colleagues, and included the cat’s paw prints as his signature. The story became widely known and amused many people in the scientific community. Chester even published another paper as the sole author in 1980, in a French popular science magazine. He died in 1982, but he is still remembered as the first and only cat to have authored a published scientific paper.

In #ACL2023NLP, we will present 3 full papers in main conferences: 1. Multilingual ICL with prompt alignment arxiv.org/abs/2305.05940 2. Controlled counterspeech generation arxiv.org/abs/2305.13776 3. Meme contextualization arxiv.org/abs/2305.15913 @aclmeeting @lcs2lab @iitdelhi

🧵[1/3]🔍 Unmasking misinformation! Join CLAIMSCAN'23 @ #FIRE2023, a shared task on characterising claims in misleading content. 2 sub-tasks: Claim Detection & Claim Span Identification. 🔗lcs2.in/CLAIMSCAN-2023/ Stay tuned for more! #CLAIMSCAN23 #FIRE23 #MisinformationDetection