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Australian human rights organisations have written an open letter to the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Melbourne to raise concerns about restriction of protests on campus and surveillance of staff and students via the wi-fi network

“The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy, and throughout history students and staff at universities have been at the forefront of driving positive social change – from standing up for marriage equality and climate action to organising against mandatory conscription during the Vietnam War.”
- Sarah Schwartz, Legal Director, Human Rights Law Centre

amnesty.org.au/university-of-m

Amnesty International Australia · University of Melbourne urged to drop repressive anti-protest and surveillance policiesThe University of Melbourne is being urged to abandon policy changes that restrict staff and students’ right to protest and permit the widespread

ICYMI: Professor Eduard Hovy of Melbourne Connect at #UniMelb will deliver a free public #lecture as part of #ALTA2024.

Generative #LLMs: How they work and where they are heading

📆 5.30pm - 6.30pm AEDT,
Monday, 2nd Dec 2024

📍 Birch Building Innovation Space,
35 Science Road, #ANU, #Canberra

anu.edu.au/events/alta-2024-pu

Huge thx to Defence Australia, Google, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Commonwealth Bank, UniMelb, #ANU School of Cybernetics, School Of Culture, History & Language

We're delighted that Professor Eduard Hovy of Melbourne Connect at #UniMelb will deliver a free public #lecture as part of #ALTA2024.

Generative #LLMs: How they work and where they are heading

📆 5.30pm - 6.30pm AEDT,
Monday, 2nd Dec 2024

📍 Birch Building Innovation Space,
35 Science Road, #ANU

anu.edu.au/events/alta-2024-pu

Huge thx to Defence Australia, Google, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Commonwealth Bank, UniMelb, #ANU School of Cybernetics, School Of Culture, History & Language

We're delighted that Prof Eduard Hovy of #UniMelb will deliver a free public #lecture as part of #ALTA2024.

Generative #LLMs: How they work and where they are heading

Interested in #GenAI, #RAG, #NLP or related areas? In #Canberra? This is a must-see!

Tickets are free and now available via the link below (choose "Public Lecture Only").

📆 5.30pm - 6.30pm AEDT,
Monday, 2nd December 2024

📍 Birch Building Innovation Space,
35 Science Road, #ANU Campus

events.humanitix.com/alta-2024

While you're thinking about what to submit to the Call for Problems for the #ALTA2024 Shared Task (link below), we're sharing with you the 2nd-place winner of the #ALTA2023 Shared Task, where participants distinguished between #LLM-generated and human-generated text.

Here, Yunhao Fang of #UniMelb used #fineTuning and #EnsembleModels to achieve accuracy of 99%

🔗 Call for Problems for Shared Task: alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls

🔗 Paper: aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.1

ALTA 2024CallsALTA 2024 Calls

In the lead up to #ALTA2024 in December at @ANUResearch, we're featuring interesting papers and talks from #ALTA2023

In this paper, Steven Nguyen at #UniMelb, Daniel Beck at #RMIT and Katja Hölttä-Otto also of #UniMelb work on the novel task of cognitive #empathy.

Using paired sentences from #design interviews and #NLP techniques, they show similarity of vectors from an #LLM is a promising approach in this space.

aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.1

ACL AnthologyPredicting Empathic Accuracy from User-Designer InterviewsSteven Nguyen Fataliyev, Daniel Beck, Katja Holtta-Otto. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association. 2023.

In the lead up to #ALTA2024
we're highlighting excellent talks and papers from previous ALTA events.

This paper, from Vlada Rozova, Jinghui Liu, and Mike Conway at #UniMelb from #ALTA2023, applies #NLP to help solve problems of ambiguity and complexity in #medical #clinical data.

This paper also formed part of the informative #tutorial series at #ALTA2023.

aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.2

ACL AnthologyNatural Language Processing for Clinical TextVlada Rozova, Jinghui Liu, Mike Conway. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association. 2023.

I am on #Mastodon since 2018 and never did a proper #introduction since I am not really into social media. It turns out this platform helped me enjoy sharing stuff online. So there it goes.

I was trained as MD, and did my PhD in Australia at #Unimelb funded by the Brazilian government. In 2018 I go back to a much worse #Brazil (the neofascist movement was in its peak), tried to join two universities there a couple of times, but my interests didn't align with theirs.