Vered Shwartz
@VeredShwartz
Assistant Professor @UBC_CS & @VectorInst working on Natural Language Processing. Book: https://lostinautomatictranslation.com/. 🦋: @veredshwartz.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce that my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies", will be published this summer by Cambridge University Press. I can't wait to share it with you! 📖🤖 cambridge.org/core/books/los…
I just finished listening to the audiobook of "Empire of AI" by @_KarenHao (highly recommend!). The copyright statement in the credits explicitly mentions it's not allowed to use the book for training AI. I love it and will ask my producer to do the same 🙂
I just published "This book will not be used to train LLMs": lostinautomatictranslation.com/blog/this-book…
📢 Check out the accepted ACL 2025 papers from the UBC NLP group! We look forward to presenting them in Vienna! #ACL2025 #NLProc
If you're up early enough, I'll be speaking there at 8:40 today 😃
Join us at NewInML@ICML25 Workshop — today at 8:30 AM in rooms MR 211-214. Explore cutting-edge research, meet amazing new voices in ML, and be part of the community! 🌐 newinml.github.io #ICML2025 #ML #AI #NewInML
I just published "This book will not be used to train LLMs": lostinautomatictranslation.com/blog/this-book…
Come see our poster!
Presenting this work with @adityachinchure at #CVPR2025 today: 🖼 Poster #304 📍 ExHall D 🕥 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM We investigate how VLMs handle unexpected events, focusing belief revision, and robust video understanding. Stop by if you are interested!
Some of us are in Nashville for #CVPR2025! 🎸 Today we are at the @vlms4all workshop about building geo-diverse VLMs (room 104E, all day), where our GlobalRG benchmark is one of the shared tasks - @bhatia_mehar will present the results. 1/3
Starting in 10 minutes - we have an exciting line up of talks, posters, and a panel! Join us at room 104E. 🌍
Our VLMs4All workshop is taking place today! 📅 on Thursday, June 12 ⏲️ from 9AM CDT 🏛️in Room 104E Join us today at @CVPR for amazing speakers, posters, and a panel discussion on making VLMs more geo-diverse and culturally aware! #CVPR2025
🗓️ Save the date! It's official: The VLMs4All Workshop at #CVPR2025 will be held on June 12th! Get ready for a full day of speakers, posters, and a panel discussion on making VLMs more geo-diverse and culturally aware 🌐 Check out the schedule below!
Correction: the talk will happen at ICICS 146. See you soon!
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
Simple example for how errors can creep into our papers through LLM use: I had a statistic for 2020. I googled the same statistic for 2023. AI overview tells me the statistic for 2023 & provides a link to support the claim. The link is to a 2023 article citing the 2020 statistic.
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
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!
*SEM 2025: Direct submissions deadline is now EXTENDED to June 13, 2025! *SEM will be co-located with EMNLP in Suzhou, China. It will be a hybrid event, virtual attendance possible (more info on this will be posted later). Full CFP: starsem2025.github.io/cfp #NLP #NLProc
🚨 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