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It was my pleasure to work within such an amazing team!! I truly appreciate all the help and support 👍🥳 Love our lab and #uncnlp team forever!!

Congrats, Mohit Bansal (@mohitban47) & Cynthia Sturton for their promotions to the rank of associate professor with tenure, effective July 1. Your leadership & contributions to the academic community propel us forward. unc.live/2Z3vL15 #UNCNLP #hardware #security @uncnlp

Check out our work on automatic curation of MOOC discussion forums for identifying student posts expressing urgency and/or confusion. It'll be presented at EDM 2020 next week. Congratulations to Faeze Brahman, Nikhil Varghese & Suma Bhat! Link: tinyurl.com/y82kmep5 #UNCNLP

See more result details & qualitative visualizations for important features before vs after applying the BoW-orthogonality projection at --> PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2005.04732 Code/data publicly available: github.com/owenzx/Lexical… #NLProc #ACL2020nlp #UNCNLP @aclmeeting

(4) forcing user predictions on all inputs, so performance is not biased toward overly specific explanations. See qualitative analysis of explanation success/failure in Sec6 Pdf: arxiv.org/abs/2005.01831 Code: github.com/peterbhase/Int… @aclmeeting #acl2020nlp #uncnlp #NLProc #XAI

Our work on learning web-based tasks from NL instructions & demonstrations will appear at #acl2020nlp. Joint work with @Skiminok, Nebojsa Jojic and Chris Meek at MSR @MSFTResearch. Also from #UNCNLP @unccs at ACL : multiple papers from @mohitban47 and @snigdhac25's groups

Congrats to my students for their #ACL2020 long papers: 1) Chao Zhao's work on text generation achieves a 4+ BLEU improvement on the WebNLG dataset (@zhaochaocs) 2) Alex Rinaldi's work on interpretable model for predicting depression from clinical interviews #acl2020nlp #UNCNLP

**Topics = eval explainability, lex dataset bias robustif, human+model-in-loop advers, novel videoQA temporal data+models, memory-recurnt coherent transformer. Preprints+code coming v soon! (some already available) Also congrats to @snigdhac25+@shsriva for more #UNCNLP papers🙂

Congrats to our awesome students+collaborators for their 6 long #acl2020nlp papers** (#silverlining for students in these tough times)!🙂 +BIG thanks to PCs @natschluter, @Tetreault_NLP, Joyce, & the full reviewers+ACs+SACs @aclmeeting team for huge effort! #UNCNLP #ACL2020 1/2

Congrats again @HaoTan5 (and Katherine+Yi+Ariah) for the @Bloomberg PhD Fellowship in Data Science!! Some nice photos and quotes in this new article below, including the one with @MikeBloomberg 😀 @UNCNLP @UNCCS @TechAtBloomberg  #NLProc #UNCNLP

Thanks to Prof. @Dirk_Hovy for visiting us and giving this very interesting talk on "Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do About Them"😀 (video recording coming soon) cs.unc.edu/event/nlp-ml-c… dirkhovy.com/index.php #UNCNLP #NLProc

Join us for an important+exciting talk by Prof. @Dirk_Hovy next Wed Oct23 (11am, FB141) on: "Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do About Them" & ping me if u'd like a meeting😀 cs.unc.edu/event/nlp-ml-c… Other upcoming talks: langvisml.web.unc.edu #UNCNLP #NLProc

PDF: arxiv.org/abs/1909.05803 Code: github.com/jiangycTarheel… (Coming soon) #UNCNLP #NLProc #emnlp2019

Congrats to @HaoTan5 for being awarded the @Bloomberg Data Science PhD Fellowship!! And great meeting you, @MikeBloomberg!! 😀😀 (also, thanks to everyone at @TechAtBloomberg for organizing the fun event) #NLProc #UNCNLP @UNCNLP

Well done to @mohitban47 and his @uncnlp students for their 5 papers accepted for @emnlp2019! #UNCNLP

Happening now at #ACL2019_Italy Hall4 (Session 5E: Visual and Multimodal Question Answering): Hyounghun Kim @khsquared presenting "Improving Visual Question Answering by Referring to Generated Paragraph Captions"! 🙂#UNCNLP Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1906.06216

Happening now at #ACL2019_Italy Hall6 (Oral Session 4B: Q&A 1 Multi-Hop): @YichenJiang9 & @NitishJoshi23 presenting "Explore, Propose, & Assemble: An Interpretable Model for Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension"! 🙂 #UNCNLP Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1906.05210 Code: github.com/jiangycTarheel…

Happening now at #ACL2019_Italy Hall5 (Oral Session 3E: Vision, Robotics, Multimodal, Grounding, Speech): Hao @HaoTan5 presenting on "Expressing 2-Image Visual Relationships via Language"! 😀 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1906.05226 Data (coming v. soon): github.com/airsplay/Visua… #UNCNLP

Our #UNCNLP Group Outing and New Year Welcome Celebration at @VecinoBrewing!! 😀

Congrats, Mohit Bansal (@mohitban47) & Cynthia Sturton for their promotions to the rank of associate professor with tenure, effective July 1. Your leadership & contributions to the academic community propel us forward. unc.live/2Z3vL15 #UNCNLP #hardware #security @uncnlp

Happening now at #ACL2019_Italy Hall5 (Oral Session 3E: Vision, Robotics, Multimodal, Grounding, Speech): Hao @HaoTan5 presenting on "Expressing 2-Image Visual Relationships via Language"! 😀 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1906.05226 Data (coming v. soon): github.com/airsplay/Visua… #UNCNLP

Some of our recent group outings with folks that are staying back this summer! 😀😀 #UNCNLP #boba #cha #snowice #bandidos #summeroutings

Happening now at @ACL2019_Italy now Hall1+3 (Oral Session 3F: Machine Learning 2) --> Ramakanth Pasunuru @ramakanth1729 presenting on "Continual and Multi-Task Architecture Search"! 😀 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1906.05226 Code: github.com/ramakanth-pasu… #ACL2019nlp #UNCNLP #NLProc

Our new @ACL2019_Italy paper: "Explore, Propose, & Assemble: An Interpretable Model for Multi-Hop RC" (represents divergent evidence chains as a 'reasoning tree') (cc @nitishjoshi23* @YenChunChen4 @mohitban47) Pdf: arxiv.org/abs/1906.05210 Code: github.com/jiangycTarheel… #UNCNLP

Happening now at #ACL2019_Italy Hall4 (Session 5E: Visual and Multimodal Question Answering): Hyounghun Kim @khsquared presenting "Improving Visual Question Answering by Referring to Generated Paragraph Captions"! 🙂#UNCNLP Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1906.06216

Happening now at #ACL2019_Italy Hall6 (Oral Session 4B: Q&A 1 Multi-Hop): @YichenJiang9 & @NitishJoshi23 presenting "Explore, Propose, & Assemble: An Interpretable Model for Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension"! 🙂 #UNCNLP Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1906.05210 Code: github.com/jiangycTarheel…

Happening now in Nicollet B/C (Session 8B: Machine Learning): @UNCNLP undergrad @AlexGuoHan presenting on "AutoSeM: Automatic Auxiliary Task Selection and Mixing in Multi-Task Learning"! 😀 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1904.04153 Code: github.com/HanGuo97/AutoS… #NAACL2019 #UNCNLP #NLProc

Happening now in Nicollet A: Hao Tan (@HaoTan5) presenting on "Learning to Navigate Unseen Environments: Back Translation with Environmental Dropout" 😀 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1904.04195 Code available now: github.com/airsplay/R2R-E… #NAACL2019 #UNCNLP #NLProc

If you are at @RealAAAI today, check out @HaoTan5's talk (oral session7 "Language and Learning" Sunday 2-3.30pm Royal) on "Source-Target Inference Models for Spatial Instruction Understanding" #AAAI18 #NLProc #UNCNLP (arxiv.org/abs/1707.03804)

Congrats to our awesome students+collaborators for their 6 long #acl2020nlp papers** (#silverlining for students in these tough times)!🙂 +BIG thanks to PCs @natschluter, @Tetreault_NLP, Joyce, & the full reviewers+ACs+SACs @aclmeeting team for huge effort! #UNCNLP #ACL2020 1/2

Here is most of "me" (i.e., @UNCNLP) in a photo 😋 --> Impromptu group outing for some bubble tea + snacks to enjoy this awesome weather! 😀😀 #UNCNLP #boba #cha

Congrats to @UNCNLP team (w/ students @easonnie & haonan) for achieving 1st rank in the exciting @EMNLP2018 #FEVER (Fact Extraction and VERification) shared task: fever.ai/task.html (paper+code coming soon) @vlachos_nlp #NLProc #UNCNLP #EMNLP2018

Thanks to Prof. @Dirk_Hovy for visiting us and giving this very interesting talk on "Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do About Them"😀 (video recording coming soon) cs.unc.edu/event/nlp-ml-c… dirkhovy.com/index.php #UNCNLP #NLProc

Hi #AAAI2019 folks, hope you came to my spotlight talks today morning. I am now ready with my 2 posters on compositionality-sensitivity and fact-verification -- please come chat!! 🙂 arxiv.org/abs/1811.07033 arxiv.org/abs/1811.07039 #AAAI19 #UNCNLP