Lucia Specia

I personally tested this for hours and this AI assistant is amazing. For you non-coders this is a game changer. I built an entire match-3 game in minutes with this!

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@British_Airways is the biggest shit show airline I've ever used, by far. All that can go wrong will: flight is delayed, can't check in online, can't change seats (even in business), food is terrible, we wait an hour to get a slot in its own terminal, then bags won't arrive....

The Department of Computing at Imperial College London is the top-rated Computer Science and Informatics department for research in the UK according to REF2021. 1/2 #computing #STEM

Great news! The workshop will run during NAACL 2022 and we have a call for papers up! The focus of this year's workshop will be on the online abuse in areas and languages that are underserved by language technology. Find our CfP here: workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp

Excited to announce our shared task on "Explainable Quality Estimation" (explainable reference-free evaluation metrics for MT) in the Eval4NLP workshop @ EMNLP 2021. The submission deadline is September 1, 2021. Please consider participating! eval4nlp.github.io/sharedtask.html @emnlpmeeting

Professor and founder @BjoernSchuller presents his work how machine learning can be used to detect COVID symptoms from speech. Join us on the livestream eventbrite.com/e/bjorn-schull… #AI #DataScience #MachineLearning #ML #ArtificialIntelligence #NaturalLanguageProcessing #NLP #COVID19

⚡️ Our Second Call for Papers is Out ⚡️ Submissions are due on February 8, 2021. Submit your exciting #NLProc work, and get a chance to hear our guest speakers @lspecia and @adinamwilliams

@GeorgRehm You'll do a much better job :-)

Exciting news: in 2021/2022 I have the honour of serving as the new secretary of EACL, taking over from @lspecia – quite a pair of shoes to fill! #eacl #acl #nlp #nlproc

Congratulations to @feralvam and Chiraag Lala who had successful PhD vivas today and yesterday! My two last @SheffieldNLP students. Very proud!!!

Listed as STEM influencer in Ireland :-)

@wilkeraziz Very kind, @wilkeraziz :-)

Back in engineering school, I think 2007, @lspecia visited my institute in Brazil. That’s when she told me about this thing called phrase-based MT. Her mentorship began with an internship in 2009. Then PhD from 2010. And postdoc in 2014. I’d say that’s pivotal!

Looking forward to presenting our work on unsupervised QE w/Shuo Sun, Lisa Yankovskaya @fblain @guzmanhe Mark Fishel @nikaletras @VishravC and @lspecia at #emnlp2020 We will be happy to chat at Q&A today 16Nov 16UTC Paper: mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.116… Video: virtual.2020.emnlp.org/paper_TACL.199…

Thanks @lspecia for the very interesting keynote talk today at #EAMT2020! It was super cool to learn more about unsupervised QE and how it can be used for evaluating MT for gisting!

MLQE-PE: A Multilingual Quality Estimation and Post-Editing Dataset arxiv.org/abs/2010.04480

@bastings_nlp @coastalcph @raquel_dmg @rensbod @wzuidema Congratulations, great work!

'I feel a combination of optimism and relief that AI will make us better translators but not obsolete,' says @KatyDerbyshire at the close of 'Translators: Robots in Disguise'. Big thank you to Katy, Duncan Large @bcltuea and @lspecia for their talk on #AI and #LiteraryTranslation

@delliott Thank you!

#emnlp2020 was my first experience as an Area Chair. I worked as hard as I could to read all the papers and to engage the reviewers in post-rebuttal discussion. But in the end, only 9% made it into the Proceedings, while 14% made it into the Findings.

Does using #MachineTranslation reduce errors in literary #translation? Expert @lspecia answered our questions about latest developments & current status of #AI in the field of translation! Check our website for a lot more on the topic: Goethe.de/uk/AITranslati…

@eltimster I had the opposite for a paper on multilingual models (English, Estonian, Romanian, Chinese, Sinhala & Nepalse): "As an empirical paper for QE, only using similar European languages are not so convincing. Studies on both similar & distant language pairs, are more convincing."

tfw a reviewer criticises a resource paper in a lang other than EN on the grounds that "why bother when there is a similar resource for English" and "why not evaluate using a resource which is only available for English" ... how did we get here #NLProc?