I had a lot of fun working with @esalesk on a project that's been cooking for a while: "Robust open-vocabulary machine translation from visual text representations".
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Matt Post
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Matt Post
@mjpost
Machine translation research for big tech and big academia and director of the @aclanthology. Tweets here are mostly personal.
- Replying to @tomflood1This is powerful but I don't like watching this without some kind of a warning or a note about the fate of the kid and the cross guard.
- Fort Armistead is easily one of the creepiest places I've visited in Baltimore. It's remote, blighted, filled with trash, and contains idling cars with shirtless old men inside—and that's during the day. Who was there at 1:30 AM with a handheld camera pointed at the bridge?
- Biking to school with my daughter this morning, I'm thinking of all the things that have to go wrong in order for humans to voluntarily form huge lines like this to save their young adult children from the tiniest bit of walking.
- Took the kid down to Fells Point for a birthday party. First time with a kid in the new St. Lo bike lane, a wonderful experience. Nice work @BmoreCityDOT!
00:00 - I was the one who disabled these papers (in my role as @aclanthology director) in response to a request from the EMNLP chair(s). The issue has now been referred to the ACL Executive Committee and in the meantime I have re-enabled them. What follows is an explanation.If you're looking for our recent paper on model editing on the ACL anthology and cannot find it, it's because it has been taken down without cause or due process. The paper is still available on arXiv, feel free to read it there. arxiv.org/abs/2310.11958 aclanthology.org/2023.findings-…
- Rode home a bit ago from the Inner Harbor. I had not been on Central Ave since the bike lanes were finished. They are so wide and luxurious I felt like royalty—or at least like a first-class citizen of the street.
- Replying to @mjpostOur approach is to replace the standard (subword-segmented text) embeddings with "visual text" embeddings, computed from a rendered image of the raw text that is sliced into overlapping, horizontal windows, akin to ASR.
- It's hard to overstate what a difference the (pictured) Maryland Ave protected bike lane makes. I will go a few blocks out of my way to use it, especially when I'm with my kids. Make biking safer for us and you won't have to be behind me in traffic!Baltimore has been lapped on this cost effective approach to urban road design that saves lives & improves livability. In a city with poverty, low access to cars, and poor transit options there’s a way to get people mobile and leaders fail to implement it. thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tran…
- I cannot believe how cumbersome and awful the ARR submission form is: page after page of irritating questions. It's as if someone surveyed the American health care and university reimbursement systems. I guess I should be grateful it's not run by Concur.
- Some should tell Mark Steedman the tech has caught up with his email obfuscation.
Has anyone ever done a study to see whether listing your email handle (AT) school (DOT) edu actually reduces spam? - I just had my first terrible driver encounter on my bike commute. She laid on her horn as she approached me on Bellona (just west of York). After a polite fact-based verbal exchange, she parked ahead of me and pepper sprayed me through her passenger window as I rode by.
- ift.tt/HRMJh2z Escaping the sentence-level paradigm in machine translation. (arXiv:2304.12959v1 [cs.CL]) #NLProc
- Replying to @danushman and @BoenauI love how you blame the cyclist for a bad driver reacting poorly to a situation. Driving faster than you can react, and swerving instead of breaking, are strong signs of a poor driver. Clearly training and licensing requirements need to be raised.
