InDeep principal investigator Arianna Bisazza was recently awarded a Vidi, a prestigious personal grant funded by NWO. The project is starting in February 2024 and aims to improve language modeling for low-resource languages, taking inspiration from child language acquisition insights.
Arianna Bisazza, together with Jirui Qi and Raquel Fernandez, was awarded an Outstanding Paper Award at 2023 EMNLP and a Best Data Award at the GenBench Workshop 2023 for the paper Cross-Lingual Consistency of Factual Knowledge in Multilingual Language Models
And, also at the EMNLP conference, InDeep PhD candidate Hossein Mohebbi received together with his supervisors Grzegorz Chrupała, Jelle Zuidema, and Afra Alishahi the Outstanding Paper Award for Homophone Disambiguation Reveals Patterns of Context Mixing in Speech Transformers.
Read the award winning paper here.
Following the launch and media storm on ChatGPT , several InDeep members worked hard to inform the general public about developments in AI and NLP.
InDeep members Arianna Bisazza and Gabriele Sarti were among the presenters in the event “An Evening with ChatGPT” by the GroNLP group, an open event about risks and opportunities of new language technologies. You can watch the presentations of Arianna Bisazza and Gabriele Sarti, or go the full event and see the slides.
And project leader Jelle Zuidema appeared in various Dutch popular media to comment on developments, including the tv program Nieuwsuur, and national newspapers NRC and Volkskrant, and in ‘An Afternoon with ChatGPT’ at the University of Amsterdam, modelled after the Groningen initiative.
Computer says no, but why? NWO published in February 2022 a feature on the InDeep project in their magazine, with quotes from Jelle Zuidema, Ashley Burgoyne and Jurjen Wagemakers (Floodtags).