Alexander Hoyle (@miserlis

Alexander Hoyle

926 posts

Alexander Hoyle

@miserlis_

Postdoctoral fellow with @ETH_AI_Center. CSS + NLP. Previously CS PhD @umdcs, intern at @msftresearch and @ai2_allennlp.

Joined May 2011

Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Oct 29, 2021
What happens when a field targets one metric while ignoring real-world concerns? Our new #NeurIPS (spotlight!) paper asks "Is automated topic model evaluation broken?" arxiv.org/pdf/2107.02173… with @Pranav__Goel, Denis Peskov, Andrew Hian-Cheong, @psresnik, @boydgraber 1/15
Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Nov 15, 2023
Accepted to EMNLP! "Natural Language Decompositions of Implicit Content Enable Better Text Representations" with @styx97 @pranav__goel @psresnik This project is what I'd hoped to do when I began my PhD: a new method for computational social science arxiv.org/abs/2305.14583 1/12
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Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Oct 7, 2024
Happy to announce that I've started as a postdoctoral fellow at the @ETH_AI_Center! It's an interdisciplinary position where I'll be sitting across both NLP and social science groups. Thanks to all who helped bring me here! (yes, the photos are cherry-picked for good weather)
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Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Aug 2, 2024
Passed my defense yesterday! I am so grateful for the many people who helped me along the way, in particular my thoughtful committee @boydgraber, @AaronSchein (not pictured), @mmazurek_, Kris Miler, and of course my wonderful advisor @psresnik
UMD CLIP Lab
@ClipUmd
Aug 1, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Alexander Hoyle (@miserlis_), who successfully defended his Ph.D. today! Hoyle develops computational methods to analyze latent constructs -- the vocabulary over which theory operates -- from natural language data.
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Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Jul 24, 2024
very rude of @MohitIyyer to come as I am leaving! UMD is very lucky to have him (again). Congrats!
UMD Department of Computer Science
@umdcs
Jul 24, 2024
.@UofMaryland's CS dept is welcoming eight new tenure-track faculty members! With expertise in cutting-edge areas, they'll boost our academic & research capabilities. Welcome aboard! 🐢📚 Read more: go.umd.edu/Hires24
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Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Sep 15, 2020
Very pleased to have the first paper of my PhD accepted at #emnlp2020, "Improving Neural Topic Models using Knowledge Distillation"! Joint work with @Pranav__Goel (equal contribution) and @psresnik. Explanatory thread below (1/6)
Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Dec 6, 2023
I’ll be in Singapore at #EMNLP2023 this week presenting our work! (sadly, I’ll be missing @rupak_53, who had visa issues) Please don’t hesitate to say hello! (Also, I’m on the market, so really: don’t hesitate 😁)
Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Nov 15, 2023
Accepted to EMNLP! "Natural Language Decompositions of Implicit Content Enable Better Text Representations" with @styx97 @pranav__goel @psresnik This project is what I'd hoped to do when I began my PhD: a new method for computational social science arxiv.org/abs/2305.14583 1/12
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Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
May 24, 2023
just made the arXiv deadline, so might as well advertise! "Making the Implicit Explicit: Implicit Content as a First Class Citizen in NLP" it's *definitely* a work-in-progress but we're very excited about it so far alexanderhoyle.com/assets/pdf/Dec… w/ @rupak_53 (EQ) @pgoel @psresnik
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Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Jun 14, 2022
Very excited to be starting my summer internship in the FATE group @msftresearch this week, working with @o_saja, @narnouraf, and @hannawallach !
Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Dec 8, 2023
@emnlpmeeting can we please move posters into a larger location? This is ridiculous
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Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Nov 4, 2023
To give advice counter to my chosen path, here's my best argument against a PhD in CS/AI: If you are good enough to get into a PhD program, you are good enough to get hired as an engineer in big tech. My math puts that at a diff of >$500k saved over 5 yrs, or >$2M in retirement
Michael Saxon
@m2saxon
Nov 4, 2023
As PhD application season draws closer, a tip: Unsolicited career advice can come from a need to self-justify the advicegiver's own choices (could be accurate or cope!) Keep this in mind before taking anyone's (especially earlycareers like me) too serious! Think for yourself
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Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Dec 9, 2023
Scrolling through Twitter in bed? Put on some pants and come on down to our poster, starting at 9 am! I'll reply to this with the exact location We think there are broad applications for our framework, so there's plenty to discuss :)
Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Nov 15, 2023
Accepted to EMNLP! "Natural Language Decompositions of Implicit Content Enable Better Text Representations" with @styx97 @pranav__goel @psresnik This project is what I'd hoped to do when I began my PhD: a new method for computational social science arxiv.org/abs/2305.14583 1/12
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Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Aug 23, 2023
yes. the low quality reviews have gotten seriously out of hand the emergency review I wrote with a 24-hour turnaround for a clear reject paper is as long as all six reviews my submissions received *combined* we're putting our careers in the hands of people who don't give a shit
Arkadiy Saakyan
@rkdsaakyan
Aug 23, 2023
Reviewers with a large number of egregious reviewer guideline violations have to be banned from submitting to the conference venue for n years.
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Alexander Hoyle
@miserlis_
Nov 17, 2023
Thank you for having me! It was a pleasure
MilaNLP
@MilaNLProc
Nov 17, 2023
For our weekly @MilaNLProc lab seminar, it was a pleasure to have @miserlis_ presenting "Social Science as a Problem Space for NLP". #NLProc
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