Maria Leonor Pacheco

I'm ded #NAACL25

We have a faculty panel about to start at San Miguel at 10:45am. See you there!

Faculty panel:
James Martin, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Graham Neubig, Lu Wang

#NAACL2025

Session?

Are you presenting? If yes, send pointer and I'll find you!

I'll be at #NAACL25 all week, reach out if you'd like to catch up!

My phone keeps thinking that my Spanglish texts are in Filipino and keeps asking me if I want to translate them. I thought we'd reached super intelligence.

It had worked well for me in the past, but this time it was very weird. I agree with you! If the review form was designed to treat it as a revision and embrace the continuity of the assessment it would help with this problem. Wonder how we could bring this to the attention of the ARR chairs.

Yeah, I was wondering if it could be that. I think the quality of our papers (and def. the ones in my AC batch) varied considerably in quality, yet score distributions were way too uniform. Maybe with the rubric requiring explicit recommendations, reviewers are less likely to take a stance?

This ARR cycle, we resubmitted 4 papers addressing (meta)reviewer feedback. They all got lower scores than they had before (requesting same reviewers), and all had the exact same borderline scores (~2.5). All papers in my AC batch (about 16) also have the same borderline scores. It looks very odd.

love that the thumbnail a picture of @tuhinchakr.bsky.social

I need an emergency reviewer for a paper on language to logic translation, anyone available to do it? #NLProc

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A group of us came together to challenge the dominant narrative of AI research - paper out today. We posit that “AGI” is as nebulous to define as its supposed benefits, and we argue that principled scientific, engineering and societal needs should drive AI research instead. Read 👇

What is the difference between 2 (substantial revisions) and 3 (major revisions) in the ARR meta-reviewer form? Why do we keep both of these?

Our workshop has been extended till Feb 20. We are looking forward for your papers at NAACL's Queer in AI workshop.

I'm going to print this out and hang it in my office.

I have seen some anti-peer-review takes on here, and, believe me, I understand the frustrations, but I would urge caution before doing or publicly saying anything too drastic. We live in age rife with misinformation and anti-intellectualism—not everyone wants academia to survive

We are excited to welcome David Rothschild, Senior Principal Research and Economist at Microsoft Research, to Rutgers. David will discuss an ongoing project using LLM and Human-in-the-Loop coding to label news in near-real time. www.cs.rutgers.edu/news-events/...

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My biggest accomplishment yet is having @realblucifer.bsky.social follow me.

Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack?

Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented!

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add me? :)

Doctor of Philosophy in Information Studies (PhD) - College of Information (INFO) This doctoral program prepares students to address the hardest social and technical problems of today and tomorrow.

📣 I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at the University of Maryland College of Information.
Consider applying if you're interested in language, society/politics, and computers!

Deadline Dec 3: ischool.umd.edu/academics/ph...

And pls share with anyone who may be interested!

I don't now about this whole ARR response period over the weekend 😅

Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.

Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎

Apply by December 15th!

Add me? :)

If you're still at #EMNLP2024 check out this work by first year PhD student @rohan-das.bsky.social. Our main idea is to look at media framing through the chains of events they choose to highlight

✨I am on the faculty job market in the 2024-2025 cycle!✨

My research centers on advancing Responsible AI, specifically enhancing factuality, robustness, and transparency in AI systems.

If you have relevant positions, let me know! lasharavichander.github.io Please share/RT!