Jonathan K. Kummerfeld

This is an exciting new workshop at CHI that I will be at! Deadline for submissions is one week away.

Do you have ideas for the future of reading?

Submit a 2-4 page paper to the CHI workshop I am co-organising! (deadline Feb 12) “Science and Technology for Augmenting Reading"

chi-star-workshop.github.io

🚨 @jkkummerfeld.bsky.social from our school is organising "The 23rd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association" to be held between 26/11/2025 - 28/11/2025 at #USyd @sydney.edu.au

Open to Students, academics, and industry working on NLP

To register: alta2025.alta.asn.au

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Why DeepSeek's AI leap only puts China in front for now - 360 Commentators are right to say DeepSeek’s new AI chatbot is a game-changer but don’t take all the hype about China now dominating the field too seriously. The knee-jerk reaction to the release of Chine...

A few thoughts on why DeepSeek's ideas are likely to lead to more use of AI (and hence demand for chips), not less

I found the episode very interesting, and am curious whether you would be open to having someone on from a CS/ML background to give a perspective on the same question? (e.g., an NLP academic based in CS) Of course, I realise the podcast is *ling*thusiasm, so that may not fit with your approach :)

With the debate over peer review going strong, what other classic topics should be revived here?

vim vs. emacs?
spaces vs. tabs?
Star Trek vs. Star Wars?
The Oxford comma?

The joke’s on both of you - the post is already available on an open access server!

More broadly, part of the philosophy of ARR is that we will change / improve, including via community feedback (lots of changes have happened since it started).

We are just one corner of AI though :)

In the case of this survey, it was advertised to all ACL members, all authors and reviewers in ARR, and on social media, so hopefully we got a representative sample. I haven’t seen the results yet, but am very curious!

If you want to help improve peer review, we are looking for a new Co-CTO for ACL Rolling Review!

Requirements:
- Post-PhD
- Experienced with Python (including command line use)
- Time commitment of 3 hours a week on average (but note that you are not expected to review while serving)

Contact me!

You forgot to remind people - we are hiring!

Maybe we are doing too good a job of teaching computational thinking and so their minds have become entirely discrete

Integration by parts is definitely in the Australian high school curriculum, but maybe only for extension mathematics? Should be covered in first year calculus though

(And now I will return to my usual NLP posting… :D)

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The key missing feature for me at the time in other apps was the ability to change the timer without unlocking the screen. So I made an app with a widget to let me do that.

Another approach would be to give people a list of words and ask them to rate them as plausible continuations, but that seems hard to do at a statistically meaningful scale

True, as people will go for the most likely thing, and virtually no one will choose an option that we all agree is plausible but unlikely.

I also do this as a game in my first lecture of semester - I say a phrase and the whole class has to shout out the next word

I would expect a linguistics paper somewhere that has done this (possibly with a restricted vocabulary)

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LaTeX: bringing people and software packages together since 1984

Also curious about this!

Ziwei Gu on X: "Excited to share our new #chi2024 paper, "An AI-Resilient Text Rendering Technique for Reading and Skimming Documents", w/ @IanArawjo @ke_li_2021 @jkkummerfeld @roboticwrestler! https://t.co/sVtTa8WUci (1/11) https://t.co/kReuCZIRQx" / X Excited to share our new #chi2024 paper, "An AI-Resilient Text Rendering Technique for Reading and Skimming Documents", w/ @IanArawjo @ke_li_2021 @jkkummerfeld @roboticwrestler! https://t.co/sVtTa8WUci (1/11) https://t.co/kReuCZIRQx

On my way to CHI! Excited about both papers I contributed to (links go elsewhere, sorry!):

An AI-resilient summarisation method
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Finding ways to look at 10s-100s of LLM outputs at once
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If you will be there and want to meet up, let me know!

EMNLP 2024 - Miami! (Nov 12-16)

Fascinating keynote on fallacies in benchmarking by Adina Williams (ai.meta.com/people/adina...). Short version: in our excitement about LLMs we shouldn’t forget scientific principles of evaluation (I’m definitely going to check out the stack of EMNLP papers Dr Williams is an author of!)

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