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Anna Rogers
@annargrs
Associate professor @ITUkbh: LLM interpretability, generalization, AI & society. Co-editor-in-chief @ACLRollingReview. Blog: hackingsemantics.xyz
Copenhagen, Denmark
Joined September 2018
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    📢 AI 'news' are easy to make and hard to detect! Did you know that there's already 1K+ scammy LLM-powered 'news' sites? In #ACL2024 paper led by @gpuccetti92, we show that such 'news' are too easy to produce (even beyond English) - and nearly impossible to detect 'in the wild'.
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    ❌"NATO expansion to the East" ✅ "Eastern Europe leaving the ex-empire" The NATO frame makes it about Russia vs NATO, denying agency to Eastern European countries. The fact is: they've all been jumping the Soviet ship for decades, at the first opportunity. It's kinda clear why.
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    Have you been drowning in BERT papers? We have. So... the first ever... Primer in BERTology is out! arxiv.org/abs/2002.12327 We survey over 40 papers on BERT's linguistic knowledge, compression, architecture tweaks, multilinguality, and more! With OlgaKovaleva & @arumshisky.
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    📢 tech & ethics folks: I've collected 🧵 of pointers to official statements and discussions on what the big tech has done/should do for 🇺🇦 war. Again, this is not just about 🇺🇦: what we do now sets precedent for the future. Comments, updates & corrections welcome! /1
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    Here's a summary post on problems with huge models that dominate #NLProc these days. I put together several different discussion threads with/by @yoavgo, @jaseweston, @sleepinyourhat, @bkbrd, @alex_conneau, @SeeTedTalk.
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    🥳🍾 It's official - I'm a tenured associate professor! This job is incredible luck and privilege, and @ITUkbh is an amazing place to work at!!! More PhD student and postdoc positions will be announced soon.
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    A belated blog post for our BERTology EMNLP paper (by Olga Kovaleva, Alexey Romanov, yours truly and @arumshisky). My favorite experiment in this work is showing that for most GLUE tasks BERT works pretty well even *without pre-training*!
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    @chrmanning at #EMNLP2023 to #NLProc PhD students, who are having an existential crisis over LLMs: Aeronautics students do not build Boeings for their PhD theses. They do smaller models - and still make meaningful contributions. There's plenty of such opportunities for us too.
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    Life update: I'm now an assistant professor at @CPH_SODAS! Very grateful to be in the right place to learn from all those psychologists, anthropologists, social & political scientists - all the people who actually know what we're baking into NLP models, apart from language.
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    🎈 #NLPaperAlert: Changing the World 🌍 by Changing the Data 🗃 arxiv.org/abs/2105.13947 A soul-searching piece that made it to ACL 2021: - how NLP resources affect the world - what does it even mean to 'work in NLP' - how we can make better use of our subcommunities. /1
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    Will reviewers now ask "where's GPT4?" We propose a #BenderRule-like rule: That which is not open & reproducible* can't be a requisite baseline hackingsemantics.xyz/2023/closed-ba… w @b_niranjan @LeonDerczynski @JesseDodge @alkoller @SashaMTL @MaartenSap @royschwartzNLP @nlpnoah @strubell
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    > ChatGPT was more empathetic than humans 🤦 No it wasn't! It produced text that humans, unaware of its origin, interpreted as empathetic. Dear journalists, I know that tweets are short, but these language shortcuts do matter in how public perceives LLMs. It's not just jargon.
    Researchers pittted ChatGPT against genuine doctors, using actual patient questions. ChatGPT was more accurate and more empathetic. By a lot. HT @adamcifu jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
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    The study itself claims in its section on Limitations that “the additional length of the chatbot responses could have been erroneously associated with greater empathy; and evaluators did not assess the chatbot responses for accuracy or fabricated information.”
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    Personal news: I'm moving to Copenhagen! Excited to join the interdisciplinary team of political scientists, psychologists, anthropologists, economists, and computer scientists at @CPH_SODAS. I'll be working on both core and social NLP topics.
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    New paper📜: What Can We Do to Improve Peer Review in NLP? arxiv.org/abs/2010.03863 with @IAugenstein TLDR: In its current form, peer review is a poorly defined task with apples-to-oranges comparisons and unrealistic expectations. /1