Dr. Jean Carletta has been awarded the 2021 Association for Computational Linguistics 25-year Test-of-Time paper award for Assessing Agreement on Classification Tasks: The Kappa Statistic, Computational Linguistics 22 (1), 1996. In this paper she intervened to correct a common but misleading statistical practice. As a result, her field began to require assessments of how variability … ACL 2021 Test of Time Award
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Can Language Models be Weak Annotators We are happy to have Phong Le, from Amazon, talk on Teams on Wed 3 March at 12 noon on Teams. Abstract Deep language models e.g. BERT and GPT3 are the breakthrough in Natural Language Processing in the last 3 years. Being trained on massive raw text data, they … Seminar – Phong Le, Amazon – 3rd March 2021
The second school seminar on 5th November at 2pm, on Teams. If you do not have the Teams link available please contact the organiser, Ian Gent. Dimensionality Reduction in non-Euclidean Spaces Richard Connor Deep Learning (ie Convolutional Neural Networks) gives astoundingly good classification over many domains, notably images. Less well known, but perhaps more exciting, … Seminar – Richard Connor – 5th November
Congratulations to School Manager Alex Bain, who completed the Virtual London Marathon on Sunday 4th October. Alex runner number 7584 has completed five London Marathons (5 years in a row). Alex, t-shirts and medals are pictured below.
The work on deep learning based understanding of ancient coins by Jessica Cooper, who is a Research Assistant and a part-time PhD student supervised by Oggie Arandjelovic and David Harrison has been chosen as a featured, “title story” article by the Journal Sci where it was published in a Special Issue Machine Learning and Vision … Learning to Describe: A New Approach to Computer Vision Based Ancient Coin Analysis
Congratulations to Zoë Nengite who has been awarded The Principal’s Medal in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and exceptional activities within the University and the wider St Andrews community. The Medal is awarded to students who have both excellent academic accomplishments and those who have inspired and supported their peers and who have often undertaken … Zoë Nengite awarded Principal’s Medal
Congratulations to Hui-Shyong Yeoi, who successfully defended his thesis last month. The virtual viva was convened by Dr Uta Hinrichs with external examiner Professor Stephen Brewster from The University of Glasgow.
Congratulations to Fearn Bishop, who succesfuly defended her thesis last month. The virtual viva was convened by Dr Alice Toniolo with external examiner Dr Petra Isenberg from from the AVIZ group INRIA, Saclay Île-de-France.
MANAGING OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS ON GITHUB — SUCCESS FACTORS AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS As a part of my, Julia Seeger’s, MSc Dissertation in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews I am looking for volunteers for an interview. This interview is a part of a research project focussed on success factors and … Open source contributors sought for an interview