UBC NLP Group

@UBC_NLP

NLP Group at the University of British Columbia Profs. @careninigiusepp, Raymond Ng, @VeredShwartz

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Joined February 2022

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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · May 2

Congrats to Shenran Wang, Changbing Yang, Michael l Parkhill, Chad Quinn, @chrishammerly and @lukeZhu20 - their paper "Developing multilingual speech synthesis system for Ojibwe, Mi’kmaq, and Maliseet" won the best theme paper runner-up at #naacl2025! 👏🎉 aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-sho…

UBC_NLP's tweet image. Congrats to Shenran Wang, Changbing Yang, Michael l Parkhill, Chad Quinn, @chrishammerly and @lukeZhu20 - their paper "Developing multilingual speech synthesis system for Ojibwe, Mi’kmaq, and Maliseet" won the best theme paper runner-up at #naacl2025! 👏🎉 aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-sho…

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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · Jul 24

📢 Check out the accepted ACL 2025 papers from the UBC NLP group! We look forward to presenting them in Vienna! #ACL2025 #NLProc

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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · Jul 8

We are excited to host Niket Tandon from Microsoft Research, Bangalore (ex AI2) for a talk on “Parametric Approaches to Inject Domain Knowledge in LMs”. Join us: 🕛 July 10, 1:00 - 2:00 PM 📍ICICS X836 @UBCLangScis @CAIDA_UBC

UBC_NLP's tweet image. We are excited to host Niket Tandon from Microsoft Research, Bangalore (ex AI2) for a talk on “Parametric Approaches to Inject Domain Knowledge in LMs”. Join us:

🕛 July 10, 1:00 - 2:00 PM
📍ICICS X836

@UBCLangScis @CAIDA_UBC

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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · Jun 16

UBC NLP & Vision at #CVPR2025. Vision, language, and everything in between.

UBC_NLP's tweet image. UBC NLP &amp; Vision at #CVPR2025. Vision, language, and everything in between.

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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · Jun 3

Correction: the talk will happen at ICICS 146. See you soon!

UUBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · May 30

We are excited to host @hideaki_joko from @informagus for a talk titled "Let’s FACE the Evaluation of Conversations that Go with the Flow". Join us on Tuesday June 3 at 11 am at ICICS x860! @UBCLangScis @CAIDA_UBC

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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · May 30

UBC_NLP's tweet image. We are excited to host @hideaki_joko from @informagus for a talk titled "Let’s FACE the Evaluation of Conversations that Go with the Flow". Join us on Tuesday June 3 at 11 am at ICICS x860! @UBCLangScis @CAIDA_UBC

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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · May 30

Great food, even better company. UBC NLP’s potluck brought together flavors and stories from around the world 🌎 Thanks to everyone who joined and shared a dish!

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UBC NLP’s potluck brought together flavors and stories from around the world 🌎 Thanks to everyone who joined and shared a dish!

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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · May 22

🚨 Talk Alert! We’re excited to host Shashata Sawmya (MIT) on May 29 @ 11AM (ICCS 246) for a deep dive into mechanistic interpretability in LLMs — from emergent features to UTune. Don’t miss it! 🧠 #NLP #LLMs #AI #Interpretability #UBC

UBC_NLP's tweet image. 🚨 Talk Alert!
We’re excited to host Shashata Sawmya (MIT) on May 29 @ 11AM (ICCS 246) for a deep dive into mechanistic interpretability in LLMs — from emergent features to UTune. Don’t miss it! 🧠
#NLP #LLMs #AI #Interpretability #UBC

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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · Jan 31

Postdoc Position(s) in NLP with a focus on HealthCare to address key limitations of V/LLMs when applied to large text corpora (e.g., clinical data) Partnerships with BC Ministry of Health and Provincial Health Services Authority If interested contact: [email protected]

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Vered Shwartz@VeredShwartz · Dec 11

I'm recruiting for two fully-funded positions for an NLP project in the legal domain: - MSc/PhD student: Apply here by Dec 15 - cs.ubc.ca/students/grad/… - Postdoc: Apply here: forms.gle/CvrdRu7684Sijn… (no strict deadline but I will review applications as soon as they come in)

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Vector Institute@VectorInst · Dec 11

A day of inspiring NLP discussions and connections at yesterday's Future of NLP Workshop, co-hosted by Vector & @UBC_NLP The workshop brought together leading researchers who shared remarkable insights: • Vector Faculty Member @VeredShwartz opened the day with an energizing…

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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · Dec 10

We're excited to see you all tomorrow! 🤩 The event will be in UBC Robson Square in downtown (800 Robson St, Vancouver, near the ice rink ⛸️) so make sure you don't accidentally go to the main UBC campus 😃

UUBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · Nov 22

🚀 Excited about the future of NLP? Join us for the Future of NLP Workshop! 📅 Date: Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024 ⏰ Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 📍 Location: UBC Robson Square, Theatre C300 👉 RSVP by Dec 3 to secure your spot: docs.google.com/forms/d/1rhVnI… Organized by @UBC_NLP & @VectorInst

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Peter West@PeterWestTM · Dec 3

I have multiple MSc/PhD openings in my lab at @UBC_CS! Come discover the hidden capabilities/limits of LLMs, e.g. how to learn from, guide, and understand the outputs of models. See my website (bio) for more details. cs.ubc.ca/students/grad/… Apply by December 15th! Also...

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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLP · Dec 6

We are absolutely thrilled that @hila_gonen will be joining the UBC NLP group as a faculty member! 🤩

HHila Gonen@hila_gonen · Dec 5

Extremely excited to share that I will be joining @UBC_CS as an Assistant Professor this summer! I will be recruiting students this coming cycle!

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