@uppsalanlp
We are the #nlproc group at Uppsala University! We focus our research on computational modeling of natural language and practical applications involving natural language processing (NLP). https://www.uu.se/en/department/linguistics-and-p
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick: "In-Place Test-Time Training" by Feng. et al.
📖 LLMs can't adapt their weights at inference time. In-Place TTT fixes this by repurposing MLP blocks as "fast weights," enabling dynamic updates without retraining from scratch.
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🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick: “Neural Morphological Tagging for Nguni Languages” by Marquard et al..
📖 A study on neural morphological tagging for Nguni languages, showing strong results for task-specific neural models in low-resource settings.
Let's discuss! 🚀
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's paper: “Large Language Models are Interpretable Learners” by Wang et al.
The authors introduce LLM-Symbolic Programs to combine LLM reasoning with rule-based structures to produce interpretable models.
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📢 Open positions at the department of Linguistics and Philology! 📢
Postdoktor i språkdokumentation och språkbeskrivning: lnkd.in/d2jmHaPZ
Postdoktor i global filologi: lnkd.in/dKipcg7p
Postdoktor i flerspråkig språkteknologi: lnkd.in/dAkSY6tW
📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
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🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick: “AI-LieDar: Examine the Trade-off Between Utility and Truthfulness in LLM Agents” by Su et al.
🤖 How should LLMs balance being helpful and being truthful in multi-turn interactions?
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🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick is “A novel unsupervised contrastive learning framework for ancient Yi script character dataset construction” by Bi, Sun & Chen.
🧠 New unsupervised method for better ancient Yi script datasets.
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📢Life update📢
🥳I'm excited to share that I've started as a postdoc at Uppsala University NLP @uppsalanlp.bsky.social, working with Joakim Nivre on topics related to constructions and multilinguality!
🙏Many thanks to the Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG for making this possible.
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick is "Do Prompt-Based Models Really Understand the Meaning of Their Prompts?" by Webson & Pavlick.
🧠 The authors ask whether modern LMs truly “understand” the instructions in prompts.
📖 Let’s discuss!
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🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick: "Modern Models, Medieval Texts: A POS Tagging Study of Old Occitan" by Schöffel et al.
🧠 Old Occitan exposes LLM struggles in POS tagging and points to tips for low-resource languages.
📖 Let’s discuss!
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🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week’s pick: "Fantastically Ordered Prompts and Where to Find Them" by Lu et al.
🧠 Prompt order matters—a lot. This paper shows why and offers an unsupervised fix using entropy.
📖 Read it and let’s discuss!
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🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week’s pick: "How Likely Do LLMs with CoT Mimic Human Reasoning?" by Bao et al.
🧠 CoT prompting can improve LLM reasoning—but does it mimic how humans think?
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
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@uppsalanlp.bsky.social and Språkbanken CLARIN are represented today at Svenska Språkets historia 18 #ssh18uu by @sstymne.bsky.social and Eva Pettersson
We just announced a new position as assistant professor / biträdande universitetslektor (BUL).
For more information visit:
uu.varbi.com/se/what:job/...
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week, we’re reading "Why do language models perform worse for morphologically complex languages?" by Arnett et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
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🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week, we’re diving into "Leveraging Mandarin as a Pivot Language for Low-Resource Machine Translation between Cantonese and English" by Suen et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week, we’re diving into "Uncertainty Modelling in Under-Represented Languages with Bayesian Deep Gaussian Processes" by Ubaid Azam et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts! What stood out to you? Let's discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
Can you add us? @uppsalanlp.bsky.social
Please consider joining us in Uppsala! The conditions for PhD students in Sweden are excellent, with good work-life balance, salaried positions, paid leave, et.c. All positions are fully funded, for 4 years.
There are also positions at the departments of Scandinavian Languages, English, and Modern Languages: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Several positions in Computational Linguistics or other language subjects, for PhD projects related to linguistic diversity. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
1 position in Computational Linguistics with a specialization in Scandinavian Languages, working with @sstymne.bsky.social and David Håkansson on a project about language change and non-fictional texts. Knowledge of a Scandinavian language is required for this position. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
We have several open PhD positions (4-years, fully funded) at the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, both in Computational Linguistics and other language subjects. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Ahmed will be presenting at virtual COLING today!